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I've been treatment nurse at a 100bed SNF for the past year, and recently our acuity has ramped WAY up with regards to wounds. We got a well known specialist on staff and now we are getting admits left and right. In addition we have a new DON. Look...

I had been getting the skins early in the morning but now the DON wants me to work the same hours as the rest of the office staff so she has "more accountability" and "knows where I am" (aka, she can't ask me to do things if I'm not there at the same...

See that is the problem. I am not being allowed to delegate anything. Corporate policy is that the treatment nurse must do all skin checks because the charge nurses weren't doing it. I am held responsible if a skin tear gets infected and I have to mo...

I'm confused, what is the difference between the two? Is one track easier or harder? Different pre-requisites? Which has a better reputation? I am considering the LPN-RN track, FYI.

In Texas surveyors ALWAYS look at pain management of LTC patients and, uh, 10 days is NOT ACCEPTABLE anywhere. ONE day is not acceptable for a patient to not receive their pain meds. You better make sure you are charting your ass off about harassing ...

Don't tell anybody how old you are. I became a nurse only weeks after my 20th birthday. I hit the floor and people would make comments about how I was so young to be a nurse and ask how old I was, and I didn't ever tell anybody until my 21st birthday...

I had small stretched ears (6g, 4g) in nursing school, when it was expressly forbidden and our clinicals manager used to talk about how disgusting they were all the time and look at everyone's ears really closely (as close as she could be without bei...

See, though, Muffin139 at least you understand that we are all human, you sound like you are a good administrator or at least try to be...it just gets disheartening when you realize you work for people who seem like they don't care about the resident...

I began my nursing career as a new grad on a medicare skilled unit with over 30 patients. It was horrible. I cried every day after work, lost sleep over my job, considered quitting all the time, wrote up my resignation notice at least once a week. Bu...

I did, but I'm 'tragically unorganized' lol. one of them was only $5. Worth it since my program would send you home if you showed up to clinical without your stethoscope. And now I have a little collection going on: my littman that I bought in nursin...

95 y/o Patient on hospice for lung cancer, inoperable, chemo will not help, hence hospice. Family wants CT scans of the lungs every month. why? "we NEED to see how big the tumor is." because that's not a waste of medicare dollars? we're not treating ...

Oh, this made me cry...

we get to wear colors other than our designated uniform color. i think that's it. lol

Lol I would think the last one would be a line of smaller women saying "Can you help me put the pt in bed" and "Can you help me pull the pt UP in bed" lmao

Our lab is pretty good about stats, usually will come within an hour or two, and we get the results very quickly after that; x-rays / dopplers /ekg take a bit longer, but within a few hours. Our pharmacy is not good with stats. Stats can take 6+ hour...

I have been on the floor as an LVN in a LTC/SNF a little less than a year, this would've been my thought process if it were me: 77 isn't that low, but with these people who have long-standing norms in the 200s, it is unusual. The other VS were ok? Wi...

Well some good news--if your state has Med Aides, you could probably do that too. i know in TX you can get your med aide certification after a short time period as an experienced cna, i bet you would have an easy time with that considering you have t...

There are some serious issues with vo-techs, but the Commuter hit it right on the money. These schools are very appealing to people who are not able to meet the demands and jump through the hoops that regular colleges and universities demand. I know ...

maybe pick up a prn job at a nursing home (they pay more) or a home health gig? that way you get extra cash without possibly overwhelming yourself at your main job.

i carry in a small canvas tote-- My stethoscope An extra ID badge A change purse with quarters and a couple dollars for the vending machine 2 granola bars A bottle of water A CPR face shield A bunch of loose alcohol swabs and some little packages of...

A couple months after licensure and some frantic job hunting I have finally landed a PRN job as a nurse in a LTC facility!!! I have had a couple shifts of 'orientation' so far--meaning, just basically following the nurses around and helping them out...

I've seen charting by dictation done at a facility I had clinicals at...however, I thought their method was unprofessional, as it required the nurses and CNAs to wear headsets and dictate their charting AS they performed procedures--even when walking...

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congratulations tnwdaniels! 3 hours left for me before i start hitting refresh frantically on their website...lol this wait is anguishing...pearsonvue sent me a survey to ask how my testing experience went and i left some comments about how i think ...

just took my NCLEX in Texas. it took me about 45 minutes and the computer shut off at 85 questions...I did the PVT and got the good popup just now, but I only took the NCLEX 2 hours ago. does it matter how early you try the trick or will I still kee...