Vonique

My unit coordinator came to me yesterday to tell me that the social worker complained to her that she saw one of the residents taking his medication without me present. What she didn't know is that I was right outside the room and just about to go ch...

Is there a rule/law/guidance/statute that dictates how many showers a week a resident should get? At my nursing home we have to give 2 showers a week to each one but my Dad is in a nursing home in another state and he practically has to beg to get on...

Update: Thanks everyone for all your comments and suggestions. Things have worked out well. I never had to call the DON as my dad has been getting his showers every week, as scheduled. It turns out I didn't have to worry after all (but who doesn't wo...

I know its a bad idea to resist arrest but this situation is so outrageous and you can see/hear/feel this poor nurse's fear and even terror. I was feeling it just watching this video. I don't blame her for screaming and resisting. I would have done t...

Well my sister is dealing with it cause she lives in the same state as the nursing home (15 minute car ride), but she is hesitant like me to complain. Cause so far he has had pretty good care. My sister is going to contact the ombudsman but we don't ...

I have always thought being a DON is a hell job and would never even consider putting myself through that in a million years. I see what the DONs at my facility go through and they never last more than a couple of years. One time we went through four...

I don't see what the point is in insulting other nurses or specialties unless it is just to get a response (however negative) and also attention. At my LTC we do trachs, central lines, and other things seen in ICU and/or MedSurg, plus a million other...

Are there any older nurses out there from the 70s and 80s who remember an old foot care treatment for diabetics, or anyone with really dry feet, that came in a green liquid? When I first started out as a nurse I worked in a nursing home and we use to...

I like that idea!

Yes yes yes! That's it!! I can stop wracking my brain now.....thank you!!!

I'm nostalgic for the old days . Remember when they had levels in long term care. Level 1, 2, or 3??

I'm so sorry CapeCodMermaid. I really didn't know what I was talking about and I apologize. I only read one post of yours and jumped to conclusions, which were wrong. But after my post I began reading more and I realize now you are definitely not par...

"I will agree that some LTCs need to increase staffing, but where do you propose the $$ will come from to pay for it?" How about sharing some of the PROFITS that these greedy nursing home owners make and some of these administrative personnel who...

GHGoonette, interesting leadership styles you pointed out. I think I remember learning about those in college. I guess they would all work in certain situations as long as a basic healthy respect for the employees were maintained. What a difficult th...

I was a little amazed when the staffing coordinator, at my new employee orientation last month, came in after being introduced to us and immediately started scowling at us that she never accepts call ins, especially on the weekends, and that if someo...

In some ways I think it might be harder to be a supervisor and occasionally have to take the cart because you never get a chance to get a routine, plus you are responsible for everything everyone does or doesn't do. I was a supervisor in a 200 bed fa...

"Borrowing" meds from another resident is wrong so I can see why she was upset when the trainer did it, but at the same time, if you take the time to go through all the steps (circling with explanation, calling pharmacy, writing incident report, call...

Totally agree with RealityCheck1. Why do we put up with it?????? Think about it. If every single nurse out there refused to do it, then what? "They" would wake up and smell the coffee and change things.

I'm so sorry that your first job out of nursing school had to be this one! It sounds like the job from HELL. It's amazing what is expected out of one human being and everyone acts like it's okay. Even though we all complain no one does anything about...

You don't seem to find that kind of teamwork lately, it seems. I had an administrator once who would be seen after a snowstorm side by side with the janitors and maintenance folks shoveling snow and doing whatever needed to be done. And I myself have...

I give out a lot of Exelon patches at my nursing home. I mean every other resident gets one, and yet I have never seen anyone actually improve. In fact, I've never seen any changes whatsoever in anyone I've ever put one on. I know they are used for A...

who claimed that I refused to put a resident on the bedpan. She was walking by me and told me a certain resident told her she needed to have the pan and I said, "Okay, I will get her aide." I spotted the aide around the corner and just a few moments ...

Agree. On the one hand, I understand she was concerned for the resident, and I love that about her, but in addition to jumping to the wrong conclusion, such actions cause dissension and resentment among staff, and just generally a mistrust that whate...

Yes, exactly! I've had those "administrative nursing" jobs where you put in all the time with no extra pay, and the minute you need time off you get asked to prove what you've been doing that justifies it. Hello???? How about I worked 60 hours last w...

I am an RN and love working LTC on the med cart. Everyone thinks I'm strange. I don't know how many times I hear, "Well you are an RN, what are you doing in a nursing home??" And I can just about hear them thinking, "And why isn't she at the desk ins...