lacylynnette

lacylynnette specializes in wrangling old folks.

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1. Staff Ratios at Nursing Homes

   lacylynnette replied to pat8585's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Thats a point as well, at my old facility all the other units had med aides except ours, one nurse and one aide for 20 to 30 patients and that was it, I got outta there as soon as I could! Med aides...

2. Staff Ratios at Nursing Homes

   lacylynnette replied to pat8585's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   At my facility on nights it was up to 34 with 1 cna sometimes. Everyone thinks nights are easy, if they were that easy then they wouldnt have coined the phrase "sundowners"

3. New Grad entering Skilled Nursing

   lacylynnette replied to beat2beat's topic in Nursing Career

   I graduated in January as well with my lvn. I was hired on at a skilled unit on rehab before I even took my nclex. Its a tough job and not for everyone. I was big pregnant, and dealt with combative...