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  1. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everyone, I'm in SERIOUS need of advice, please. I started a nursing home supervisor job in the summer of 2017 and, even though I've been a charge nurse in my 22+ year career, this supervisory...

  2. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I agree with you 100%!!! I've worked at this facility since last summer (2017) and I've only written people up 5 times (one of those 5 was the same nurse twice because she keeps "forgetting" to...

  3. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, Davey. I appreciate your comments. I can get choked up when I think of how these folks rely on US to help take the best care possible of them. What if it was THEIR mom or dad or grandma? I...

  4. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    I've only done write ups a few times on around 5 people since I've worked there. I was looking at patterns and only recently discovered this "rash" of dressings not being done last week. The write...

  5. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your lengthy reply. Much appreciated. First, let me be clear that I don't sit in the office and play. I have many hats that I wear at this facility and none of them require playing....

  6. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. I'm one of 3 RNs that work at the facility. 1) DON 2) ADON 3) RN Supervisor/Wound Care (me). An RN has to be in the facility for at least 8 hours 7 days a week... and since none of use wants...

  7. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    There are 3 RNs that work in this facility. The rest of the nursing staff is composed of LPNs and CNAs. An RN has to be in the building at least 8 hours each day of the week. I work 4 10-hr shifts...

  8. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for your reply. They do have all of the supplies that they need. There's a wound care cart but I'm the one who mainly uses it as I have to assess approximately 25 wounds once a week... and...

  9. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your reply. Yes, that was stressed when the corrective action was done: pre-charting before you have actually done the task. It was stressed with each of the individuals multiple...

  10. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    I've only done a few corrective actions on people since I've worked there because I didn't really know the staff or have a feel for how they worked/did their jobs. I had spoken with the DON and the...

  11. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    YES! We discussed the falsification of documentation last week when each of the 4 nurses was written up over documenting that they did the dressing changes yet they weren't done. Again... they just...

  12. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    I communicate with the DON constantly about this kind of thing... She's fully aware of what's going on and she's supportive of the corrective actions that we are doing. The thing is... our facility...

  13. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    Yes... That may come to pass... as the corrective actions are "Verbal warning" then "written warning" then "final warning"... I'm learning... so there might be a warning before the final warning......

  14. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    There are no VALID reasons ever given as to why someone in particular is not doing their job. There just isn't. It's like talking to a 5 year-old, honestly. Trying to find out why they stole a...

  15. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    The dedicated staff for the dressing changes is the LPN on that hall. She (or he) is the medication and the treatment nurse all in one. As far as the application of heel protectors, use of pillows...

  16. Nursing Home Supervisor challenges with WOUND CARE

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    As mentioned, the LPNs tell me that they "forgot" to do the dressing changes and "meant to go back and do it but then got busy and forgot." That's what I got from all of the LPNs that I did...

  17. New to being an RN Supervisor

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Nurse Management

    Very cool idea. Will run this buy the Director of Nurses.

  18. New to being an RN Supervisor

    ShimmaShimma0304 posted a topic in Nurse Management

    I'm really lost at where to even begin to create INTERESTING inservices for my CNAs and LPNs. I work at a nursing home and would like to not be the "boring educator." Yes, I can show some videos and...

  19. New to being an RN Supervisor

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Nurse Management

    Several of them said they wanted more teamwork so I printed out a bunch of stuff on that. I would like to maybe make it a discussion type of thing... I can read some excerpts from articles and maybe...

  20. New to being an RN Supervisor

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Nurse Management

    Funny you mention that. My new boss gave me a stack of little pieces of paper where she had done that very thing. Team work was a biggie, then there were things like wanting to know how to interact...

  21. New to being an RN Supervisor

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Nurse Management

    Thank you SO much!!! I have browsed through YouTube here and there and ran across some 3 and 4 minute things but I'll keep digging. We have some videos in our office that aren't too lengthy but the...

  22. Why I'm leaving nursing

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in CA for awhile and the taxes are high and cost of living is high too. I think it balances out. Yes, you can make less in Louisiana but most would prefer to live in CA, right? LOL LA has a...

  23. Why I'm leaving nursing

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, I know. The students we see at my hospital... The nursing students... they stand at the desk and are barely in the patient's rooms. They are apparently above giving AM care/baths. I'm appalled...

  24. Why I'm leaving nursing

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

    How FABULOUSLY written and spot-on. Wow. I wish I could articulate this well. Bravo on your insight. 100% correct. The news is vomit-inducing... I agree. I'm an Independent as well... So is my...

  25. Why I'm leaving nursing

    ShimmaShimma0304 replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

    I hated home health for exactly that reason... Them riding your butt about hurrying... Yet they would schedule patients 45 min to an hour drive apart.