travel50

travel50

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  1. skilled charting

    travel50 posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    How many times a day do you do chart on skilled residents? Obvioiusly, any time there is a problem or more often when something is being closely monitored. But for a resident who is stable, how...

  2. Technology question

    travel50 posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    What are PDA's? I am in a master's program and keep hearing about them. I live in a rural area which means we are the last to get new technology. And where I am, the nursing homes are the last of...

  3. Wasting Unused Meds

    travel50 replied to LilPeonNo1's topic in General Nursing

    We have had this come up at my nursing home where I am the DON. I understand and am okay with the nurse who got the med saving the other half in case she needs it sometime during the remainder of her...

  4. Am I burned out?

    travel50 replied to MrRacer98's topic in General Nursing

    I was so burned out after being a nurse for 12 yrs that I quit. I just walked away, saying I'd NEVER work as a nurse again, ever. A yr and a half later, with 6 hungry kids looking at me (and a...

  5. TuTonka wants to know--what keeps you in nursing?

    travel50 replied to Cobweb's topic in General Nursing

    I joke that I work to support my habit which is, as my user name implies, travelling. First I had 6 children. I had always wanted that many. Providing for them required a decent paycheck. Now that...

  6. my experinece last night

    travel50 replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Hope you are feeling much better, and yes, it is comforting to be at work when such things happen. I know one time when I was so sick with the flu, my sister took me to my nursing home where I am the...

  7. need to terminate

    travel50 replied to travel50's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Thanks everyone. I felt better just venting. I actually had followed the protocol. I had found her leaving people wet previously and gave her a verbal warning. She did okay for a couple of months,...

  8. Dog walker?

    travel50 replied to yetanotheramanda's topic in General Nursing

    I am the DON at a nursing home, and we will take a resident and their pet if the pet meets the criteria. However, if the resident is unable to care for the pet, the family will have to do so. For...

  9. Thank you

    travel50 replied to BEDPAN76's topic in General Nursing

    Well, now, if I had time, I'd laugh and cry with you! Trouble is, I am in a rush to get to work...I am the DON at the nursing home. I never get my work done, never enough time, stuff is never good...

  10. I need advice please

    travel50 replied to pretty70's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Certainly I would let the physician know that the new order was not done timely, but I would not have bothered to call and ask her / him if I could use two 25 mcg patches instead of having 1 50 mcg...

  11. What Happened To The Nursing Profession?

    travel50 replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

    I have to agree with the doctor. I am the director of nursing at a rural nursing home. I have some exceptional nurses. However, I recently fired one because she was so stupid....and that is the...

  12. PDA

    travel50 posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    Can anyone tell me what a PDA is? I should know, but I live in a very rural area and work in a nursing home....we are always the last to get any new technology on both counts. I also need to know...

  13. Online Nursing Programs??

    travel50 replied to nikki109's topic in General Nursing

    I am presently doing an online MSN program from Walden University and I think it is very good. Their MSN specialities are informatics, education or leadership and management. If you want to be a...

  14. nursing alcoholism & codependency

    travel50 replied to LoveActually's topic in General Nursing

    My ADON at work is on a state peer assistance program for a drug addiction. I am the DON. She is one of the best people I have ever met. She was so ashamed that she had given up nursing and was on the...

  15. need advice

    travel50 replied to Hubby's girl's topic in General Nursing

    Poor baby goat had the bloat, so here we are on the phone...my nurse is in the barn with her cell phone...and we are trying to help the poor little thing. Goats do not pass gas too well, and they can...

  16. Reality Shock!!!! Please answer a few questions about when you were a new nurse!

    travel50 replied to LoveActually's topic in General Nursing

    You probably have your questions memorized by now, so I will just post answers. 1. 26 yrs 2. First an associate's program. 18 yrs later I returned for the BSN. 3. I was a nurses' aide for 18...

  17. So Happy!!!

    travel50 replied to CRNANUPE_2B's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    CONGRATS!!!!!

  18. need advice

    travel50 replied to Hubby's girl's topic in General Nursing

    Just be honest and tell your supervisor if you have no recollection of such an event. If it was such a big deal, why didn't someone say something about it at the time. If another nurse has such a...

  19. Nasty Patients

    travel50 replied to diane227's topic in General Nursing

    Have a good, cute story from today at work regarding balls. We have this new lady at the nursing home. In her 50's, in b/c of comps after bypass surgery, infected wound, etc. She is A&O,...

  20. Nasty Patients

    travel50 replied to diane227's topic in General Nursing

    Well, TurnLeftSide, that gave me a laugh, which I sorely needed after today. How many times I've seen that "legs bent us, balls hanging out"

  21. Using words like honey, sweety a no-no?

    travel50 replied to bee212's topic in General Nursing

    We have an EMT who often comes to our nursing home when a resident needs to go to the ER. He is so kind and gentle to all our people, but esp. our female residents. He calls them "baby girl", "luv",...

  22. Using words like honey, sweety a no-no?

    travel50 replied to bee212's topic in General Nursing

    We use these terms sometimes at our nursing home, but more often it is Mr. or Ms. so and so. When they are admitted, we always ask them what they prefer to be called. Lots of times they say they...

  23. Respiratory distress syndrome

    travel50 replied to borju1's topic in General Nursing

    My son had ARDS when he was 11. Was admitted to PICU with rocky mountain spotted fever. By the first nite, he became delirious and combative. By the next day he was very edematous all over. His...

  24. Nasty Patients

    travel50 replied to diane227's topic in General Nursing

    We get these type people at the nursing home with some regularity. Last one is a good example. Early 50's, brain injury from a MVA as a toddler (so everyone should feel sorry for him), on the call...

  25. music in the nsg home

    travel50 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Wish I had a video of my residents this week. They were doing karioke (spell?). They were singing, "Gettin' down to business", "House of the rising sun", and "Born to be wild". Several of our...