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    Sleeping on night shift in LTC

    NurseCard replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It depends on just how often per shift this person lays her head down on the table. Like someone said, if it's an ongoing, continuous, persistent pattern, it probably should be reported because it...
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    Is There Something Wrong With This Report?

    NurseCard replied to AnnaLNA's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yeah, I'm confused. If I'm a medication aide and I've spent all shift giving medication, I don't know that I can be expected to know who all pooped. If I'm the nursing aide, sure. Did this aide...
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    Starting HH job in a little over a week... I've got questions/worries

    NurseCard posted a topic in Home Health

    So as the subject says, I'm starting a HH job in a little over a week. I'm SUPER excited but also I've got many questions and concerns... The insurance stuff... private insurance, medicare,...
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    Resigning from a job before being asked to leave?

    NurseCard replied to JoshuaTree's topic in General Nursing

    Most places that I have worked have that same system of "one write up is a verbal warning, two a written warning, three suspension, four is termination...", but they make it clear that they don't have...
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    Smokers need not apply?

    NurseCard replied to RainMom's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I for one would love to work in a facility such as the one the OP mentioned... and yes I am a non smoker. At the last facility that I worked, people taking too many smoke breaks for too long was a...
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    My interview at a Hospital with the lions

    NurseCard replied to garn12's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Wow... well, I'd never make it there, that's for darn sure. That interview would have made ME feel like crap, and I've been a nurse for ten
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    Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

    NurseCard replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. Just
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    help! boss threatening to charge me w abandonment??

    NurseCard replied to puzzpiece's topic in General Nursing

    On what
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    Another "Should I Switch to Home Health" Post

    NurseCard replied to Elle33's topic in Home Health

    I'm starting a home health position in a little over a week, after 10 years at the bedside in Med/Surge, Psych, and LTC. I'm a bit nervous about such a huge change, but I'm also very excited. I've...
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    Last nail in the coffin of my JOKE of a nursing career...??

    NurseCard posted a topic in General Nursing

    Two weeks ago, I got fired from an LTC job. My SECOND firing from an LTC job. When I got fired from the first LTC job, I managed to pick myself up, dust myself off, and went and did some agency...
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    Online CPR renewal

    NurseCard posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, CAN I get my AHA Healthcare Provider CPR renewed online, and if so how do I go about doing so, and where is the best place, website, to go to get it done? I don't think it's actually available...
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    Last nail in the coffin of my JOKE of a nursing career...??

    NurseCard replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks you all for the replies... I've got a headache the size of Phoenix right now. It's just been a rough day. I had a very discouraging interview this morning and it's really got me down. No one...
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    Fired for the second time... by THE SAME DON.

    NurseCard posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Well, yesterday morning I got fired, yet again... from an LTC, yet again.. by the SAME DON. I feel like calling the corporate office and appealing my firing, seeing if there is any way that I can get...
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    Fired for the second time... by THE SAME DON.

    NurseCard replied to NurseCard's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The first time she fired me was in August of 2011, at one facility. I then worked a while for a staffing agency, about 10 months or so, then got a job at my most recent facility in May of 2012....
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    Random question: Would you wear a $300 watch to work

    NurseCard replied to TXRN44's topic in General Nursing

    I wear my watch to work; in fact I have it on constantly. My mom got it for me; I don't know what she paid for it but I kinda assume it wasn't that much. It's a UofL (Louisville)
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    Have you ever worked at a nursing home that ended up closing?

    NurseCard posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    So, have you, or do you know much about one that did close? I am just wondering how often that it really does happen. I only know off the top of my head, of 3-4 nursing homes in my state that have...
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    Why can't I get a LTC job??

    NurseCard replied to scrublifenurse10's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Too bad you don't live where I am. Facilities are crying for nurses, RN or LPN. The nurses around here just about have the freedom to move from facility to facility as they please. Turnover at my...
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    trach question

    NurseCard replied to greygirl81's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I know my company requires our trach residents to have their entire trach be changed out once a month; it's not something *I* would feel comfortable doing and I'm an RN. Our Respiratory Therapist is...
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    Is night shift healthier for some people?

    NurseCard replied to s0ad's topic in General Nursing

    It is for me... I tried day shift at my current facility and about had a heart attack from the stress of day shift. Nights is much less stressful.
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    Should I be upset?

    NurseCard replied to Rags2Riches RN's topic in General Nursing

    I once drove all the way to an interview only to find out that the position was no longer available when I got there. Fortunately I only had to drive about 45 minutes but still.. things like that...
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    Please, someone tell me how to stay out of trouble and keep my job.

    NurseCard posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    ...... that's all I want to know. I work my butt off at my job, I have 54 residents to watch over, I try to do my best job 99 percent of the time at least... I really do try very hard to get my work...
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    Working Easter anyone?

    NurseCard replied to SnowboardRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's the ONLY Holiday that I've had off in about a year! Had off and enjoyed
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    comfort care?

    NurseCard replied to RN 033's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I just "second" everything that has been said. Liquid Morphine and Liquid Ativan is what this lady
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    I feel like a FAILURE, what do I do now?

    NurseCard replied to petluvr's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    That's not good advice. A potential employer CAN most certainly find out that you were fired, and will disqualify you from employment for not disclosing that you were. I mean, I've been there;...
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    NURSING JUDGEMENT.

    NurseCard replied to fairyluv's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    To be quite honest, the dayshift nurse may not have known about the change in condition. Many factors could have come into play; resident may have slept for a while that afternoon, dayshift nurses...