wannabe2008

I live in California and have never seen anyone wear a cap. Not even students. All the students I have seen wear white uniforms but no caps or dresses.

Yikes! If those supplies are not already available in the cart and at the nurses station, it probably is not the facility to be working at. They spend the money on that, not you. Just make sure you know where they are even if it means making a lis...

Also age helps alot. At this point in my life, there is very little that stressess me out either at work or home. The big change comes when you realize those problems are not problems no matter how bad they seem. They are just situations. Easy to say...

I found clinicals to be a different kind of stress than actually working on the floor. You have to stress over different things. I used to take it home in school (which I believe can be a good thing if you are a student) but in the field, I close ...

In LTC, it is normal to stay late to catch up on documentation but it is illegal for them to make you do it without pay. I would stay long enough to gather what you need to prove your case, find another job and on your way out the door call the stat...

Alcohol in LTC/SNF facilities is very common. Unlike acute hospitals, the facility is the resident's home. There is alot more freedom as to what they can do. Just ask the MD for an order for x amount of x-kind of alcohol and how often. Put it in the ...

I know this is a really old thread but I still want to say "You can not do a sterile procedure in a non-sterile environment". What you can do is varying imitations of it though. The room, your clothers, the bed and sheets, his clothes, his roommates....

I forgot to add one point that is subjective in my opinion. The state lists the above ratios as minimums but then also says facilities have to have enough staff to provide quality care. They suggest that if a larger ratio of direct care staff is ne...

In California, there isn't a ratio of nurses to patients in long term care. Instead there is a ratio of "direct care staff to patient". AM is 5 to 1, pm is 8 to 1 and noc is 13 to one. The ratio includes nurses+c.n.a. to patient. One nurse with th...

huh? someone asks you for a nurse with another color of skin and they are endangering your staff? are you serious? yikes! i must say people do get pretty crazy when the subject of race comes up.

Uhm... That is not what I was asking for but thanks anyway. Those patients were being abusive not just verbalizing their desire for another color of nurse. By the way, just describing a situation involving a patient without identifying their name ...

The state, federal nondiscrimination laws do not have anything to do with a patient having a preference for a certain color nurse.

I would love to know what hospital is refusing care just because someone is expressing their personal beliefs. That in it's self is illegal as heck. As long as the patient doesn't act on those beliefs in an illegal way, it is their right to say wh...

I think those situations are a good time to politely explain that the nurse of their preference is not available and give them who you have. Tell them that if someone becomes available, they will be assigned to them. Treat them like you would any ...

Oh puleeease! I have had black patients request only black nurses, females reject me for being a male, white and black patients reject filipina nurses. I have seen patients reject nurses just because they didn't like them on a personal level. Wh...

You should do the same thing we do when a patient doesn't want a male nurse like myself. Respect their wishes. That is their right. I have lost count of how many "macho" Mexican guys don't want us male nurses aroung their wife even during birth(whi...

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I wear slacks and a dress shirt to work in a SNF. Yesterday at a CQI meeting someone pointed out that I had blood on my shirt in several places. The results of following and assisting the Wound MD that is working with some of our patients. Honestl...

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It all depends... How do they look in their scrubs?

Hmm. I am trying to remember if anyone I know personaly was asked their GPA.... Now that I think about it the answer is no. I am sure others have had different experiences. I never heard of the interviewer asking about any of my friends penis but ...

If you are down to the final night before the test I dont recommend doing anything except relaxing. Go see a movie, go to sleep early. Do anything except stress or study. Let your brain relax so it will be ready to go in the morning.

So today I brought the CD version of the manual home and I am pretty impressed. You also are able to search on it just like online. I did a search on Start Of Therapy just as a test and was really suprised how well it works!! Searching on the comp...

I am happy to say I don't have to print the manual out because my company buys the hard copy and we get updates for it as needed. The manual comes on a CD also.(the cd comes with the hard copy) That said, I will go back online to the manual and pl...

I couldn't imagine working MDS in a SNF without any SNF nursing experience. It is different than hospitals in so many ways. I started MDS with SNF experience and it allowed me to focus on the specifics of MDS without having to be trained on how SN...