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Maybe now is a good time to have DNR tattooed on my chest. Lol.

So, do you care plan the target behaviors associated with antipsychotics? I am in the process of reviewing our care plans to include non medication interventions. Now if the census will stay up so I can have enough staff to implement them.

Since the pt is skilled, I would think supervision at minimum.

I may be wrong, but if they can move around in their wheelchair, then I thought that would be addressed in the locomotion sections. I mostly see 0/0 and 4/2.

Continuing Care Retirement Community. I work at one and it sounded similar since it has apartments.

Is it a CCRC?

I work for a CCRC so I don't receive any outside admissions. Therefore, I have a pretty sweet set up. And our LTC unit maxes out at 24. Its also a private pay facility so charting is at a minimum.

Novant pays slightly more than Carolina Healthcare. CHS starts out at 19.65 per hour. I think 20.19 for Novant. This is the last rates I heard of for new grads. However I work in LTC so the pay is a little more than the hospital.

I live in the Charlotte area.

Settle down, its my facility's policy obviously. I don't work with LPNs anyway. Geez!

NC - no

How long can a facility operate without a DON if she is on FMLA?

Brandon is right that you can't change the ordered dose if it is scheduled and not sliding scale. It's either all or nothing.

I started in LTC after I graduated in May 2011. I made $22.50 an hour plus a shift diff of $1.00 per hour for 7p - 7a. I switched facilities after 6 months and started there at $24.00 per hour. I have now been there for almost a year and am about to ...

I have 18 months experience and I currently make $24.00 per hour on the 7a-7p shift at a LTC facility as a RN.

I am in NC and I make $24.00 per hour in ltc working 7a-7p. I graduated 15 months ago from nursing school. The local hospital starts new grads off at $20.21 per hour plust diffs.

I received 2 days of shadowing and then I was on my own. At my current job, the nurse who was going to train me called in on my first day, the DON had careplan, so I passed meds based on pics in the MAR and by asking CNAs.

You know it's going to be a bad day when the outgoing nurse has her bag packed and is standing at the med cart with the keys in her hand.

It's not just you. I feel doomed too, like I forgot every skill that I learned in nursing school. I do take care of my residents. I just sometimes wish that I could have worked in the hospital. When I have lunch with some of my former peers and h...

I can't even begin to imagine a CNA trimming off skin that wouldn't stretch back. I clean skin tears with normal saline. Apply steri-strips. Cover with Telfa and secure with Kerlix and monitor daily for s/s of infection. I have seen some nurses ap...

I just found out today that acceptance letters were mail today. So hopefully, we will know in the next couple of days.

Just per credit hour in that case.

I took most of my prereqs including A&P I & II before entering. I did however have to take Micro, Nutrition, and a humanities class. However, there are some girls in my class that took everything from PSY, micro,and A&P while taking nur...

My GPA upon entering was 4.0. My ACT score was 23. I enjoy attending there. Have you applied for the fall 10 semester?

I could have wrote this post myself. Especially being an older student, some childish high school behavior gets very annoying.