CynicallyVexed

HI I'm fairly new at the SNF I'm currently working at.. (Less then two weeks to be exact) and in the past week the nurse I follow (she works days and I work evening shift) she was constantly leaving me in a hot mess and not wanting to count narcs unt...

I have, she gets majorly defensive and yells at the nurses station that she gives her meds. But the card packets of new admissions that have been there for days and the cards for dayshift haven't been touched state otherwise.

So obviously I work LTC/Skilled facility and the facility itself is nice all private rooms nice furnishings/finishings etc etc, even nursing has computer tars/mars/charts on the med carts.... All the floors have 50 patients. how is it acceptable to h...

My patients never change unless if somebody dies and I get an admit, so I always had the same patients. Which means I remembered their meds. We have computer charting so checking out our mars and tars. During meds I only do meds cause to me those...

i put my notice in today, going to a different facility and I'm going to be trained as a floor nurse while they are opening up their new rebab/skilled area, when that opens up they are going to make me a restorative nurse coordinator. On dayshift tho...

I'm actually an LPN in charge of doing medications/treatments/charting of 50 patients as well as charge nurse duties. Each floor is suppose to have two nurses and four months ago I had a second nurse and I no longer do and some of the other floors th...

As a LPN who has taken on primary nursing roles under supervision of an RN and allowed to do IV therapy/push as long as it wasn't IV insulin or cardiac drugs on telemetry acute and ICU, I would suggest both are at fault. One LPN not communicating the...

anything clear no matter the temp is a clear liquid diet a full liquid diet is anything that is liquid including dairy like ice cream, creamer for your coffee, tomato soup, pudding, ect.

At the last hospital I worked at your RN's would laugh, are DON is insane, on acute care floors they have gave CNA's 10 patients a piece, 8-10 patients for the LPNs, and 5-8 patients for the RNs... RN's Duties : VS, TOTAL CARE (bathes, call lights, ...

I have very little tolerance for drug seekers. In my town several pain clinics have been busted which means more patients in the hospital that are drug seeking... What does our hospital do? Gives anybody that walks through the door 0.5mg - 1mg of dil...

1. Upper management RN's that have lost all realistic aspects of nursing and have forgot what a nurse is and what it's about. 2. short staffing, unsafe patient care ratio and with upper management with their unrealistic expectations 3. FAMILIES that...

I was a new grad in 09, starting salary in a LTC/Skilled 16 on days, 18 on nights... Hospital pay on telemetry nightshift is 14.82 and i'm with a nursing agency now and depending which assignment I take it ranges from 18-20 doctors offices hospitals...

you did the right thing by adm O2 up to 2LNC with out MD order it's within our scope of practice. My next judgement would be asses the lungs, heart and vitals, especially if they are full code. If they were stable I would go ahead and call the DR se...

Unfortunately this is the life of a LTC/Assisted living LPN on nights... If you have medicare/skilled tho you can't have more than 25 in the state of TN, but there is more to come with that than 60 LTC/Assisted living patients... At least they give ...

I'm rather excited that I have interview with them next week, but I'm curious if any of you L's out there work there or have and where at? What was your pay range? I've been in the nursing home enviroment and hospital environment and the current hos...

I've been in the nursing field for a long time, 5 years as a CNA in a hospital where primary care was the thing RN did meds, assessments, NO LPN's, and CNA's did everything the RN wouldn't do that the RN could delegate, VS, I&O's, BATHES, ect... ...

UT is a great hospital to work for, East TN sucks on pay tho, new grads range from 18.50-19.50 for RNs shift diff ranges, benefits are Okay. DEPENDING ON STAFFING, which you will learn in nursing changes often, you will have between 5-8 patients a ...

I put in a three day notice (yes I know two weeks is more acceptable.. but I work in a very hostile environment.) The director of nursing stood there and cussed me for a good minute and then I had a RN nurse manager that likes to degrade people that...

they only check it depending on the strength of the antibotic and the strand of bacteria the resident is fighting.. Also as well if the doc writes Pharmacy to dose then pharmacy will check a recent BMP and creatine levels... And any drug that requi...

Maybe the hospitals have spoiled me? Or Maybe I'm asking tooooo much. But the things I have seen and witnessed with my very own eyes have been disturbing.. And no this doesn't involve patient care.. This involves interactions between staff members an...

I have another job lined up and I start next week with it, but I'm literally too scared to quit my other job. I have been a LPN for less than a year, and before that I was a CNA. the environment I'm in is so freakin hostile though and I feel as i...

slim to none!! hahaha I was a CNA for four years in a level 1 trauma/neuro icu and had to go through extensive training that the hospital provided (which has helped me allot when I became a LPN) and with night shift differential I made 11.20... This ...

It really is unreal the things I have witnessed licensed and certified professionals do in this building. I know over half of them have to be druggies. Which you know I was shocked when I found out that they only do drug test when they suspect, not w...

I do believe you have to have an MD over you looking over the 'consult' cause you are giving medical advice and really MD/DO's, PA, and NP can diagnose and give medical advice, LPNs & RN's do more along the lines of patient education of those dia...

Most state boards will remove your CNA and replace it with your current status as a LPN... At least they did in TN for me. and yes it's bad ju-ju... wouldn't even try to attempt it.