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Hello, Can anyone who currently works for manorcare tell me if your printable shift to shift paper with pt names and their room numbers has been taken away? They said it was a corporate doing and we are given a blank sheet and it only lists room num...

I understand what your saying but this rule should apply to everyone across the board in our facility however supervisors have a very similar printed paper with more detailed info that they update on the comp and give to the oncoming supervisor. We w...

I'm not sure who came up with this rule its either corporate or our DON has a bug up her butt. They tried the Hippa card but written or printed it's still the same info.

Hello, I'm a newer nurse with one year of experience, I do have 8 years of prior phlebotomy experience. I would like to find a course or facility that will take me on & train me to place lines. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, I responded to to a code yesterday at my facility and while doing chest compressions I noticed the patient had a IJ I the right side of their chest. I later learned the patient was a diabetic with a blood glucose of below 30 and I remember see...

My assignment consists of 30-34 patients and I'm the only nurse on this assignment. -2 med passes -At least 10 sugar checks -1 patient that needs a dressing changed twice my shift -3 IVs - 1 manual peritoneal dialysis exchange - many prn pain pills...

I've looked all over & I can only seem to find resumes for new grad nurses. Can someone help me out with my resume. I have 1 year experience in a skilled rehab nursing facility. Do I need to use a objective? Name & Address Experienced Regist...

I'm in desperate need of help with redoing my resume, at this point I'm willing to just give up and pay someone. I write something down it sounds good and then I realize that my resume is bland with just about every boring resume tip someone can come...

A year ago it was all LTC and then we transitioned the 1st floor to skilled and believe me I know this sounds crazy but none of us really know what type of rehab facility their classified as because they use several different terms this is how they a...

10 patients and 1 admission sounds like a dream to me lol even on other shifts the nurses still have 20 per assignment.

I haven't considered using a cover letter and to be honest with you I don't know much about them. If creating one would improve my chances of getting out of my current work situation then I'll gladly try to do one. Any tips or advice? I work in a ski...

Did anyone ever have a supervisor that was 100% well known to be very very untrustworthy? Tonight I had a patient with a very low bp and I called MD who said send him out and the supervisor wanted to speak to the MD before I hung up. Before I know it...

I called to have the unavailable med delivered. I did manage to get him sent out and turns out he had a GI bleed.

Recently our DON refuses to staff us with 3 Rn's for our newly opened Med bridge unit but on the daily printed schedules they have 3 Rn's listed (1 for each of the 3 halls) but they will write on the schedule "desk nurse" or "cancelled " I'm fairly n...

I'm currently looking for a new job but for now I'm stuck at a facility that brags about their new renovations and upgrades that they have spent money on in order to meet strict requirements to be able to accommodate patients who have a higher acuity...

Thanks to all who answered my question. Yes the numbers they post daily look good and it's a shame they get away with it. Heck I had a resident with a wandergard bracelet get outside using the emergency exit door in the pouring rain last week. Tha...

When I started at this facility (not a hospital) 1yr ago the floor was ltc and within the past month they moved all of those patients to another floor and made us a Med bridge floor. We were told we would be getting more acute patients except vents.

When documenting that during oral care of a patient who is npo I observed what appeared to be areas of ulcers on a patients upper and lower gums (this was not documented by other care givers nor was it mentioned in daily shift report from the previou...

Usually I relieve the same RN everyday & during report she tells me that she can't remember if she gave one of the resident's IV antibiotic's that morning. She had to think about it for a minute or two & then she said no I didn't give it. The...

At first I liked the job until I saw some major red flags (or what I thought to be red flags and I ignored them thinking what do I know I'm a new RN & maybe all LTC places were this way). A major incident happened yesterday when I came in for my ...

I was at the bedside when she last assessed the patient that's how I know, I'm the one that told her he needs to go out NOW.

This is the culture of the facility, things happen & either get swept under the rug or covered up. Systoly a new job at a place where their not so corrupt and sneaky would make things easier if I didn't have to worry on a daily basis that someone...

Hello, Recently a co-worker of mine went to the supervisor several times about a wound on a resident's foot that was getting worse with a foul smell and discharge. The wound was being treated with medihoney, the supervisor told her not to worry about...

Hello, I recently passed the nclex and I've been job searching for about 2-3 weeks now and no responses at all. I'm so discouraged I worked my behind off in an advanced Rn program and most job ads want previous experience. I have past experience of a...

Hello, So I put my resume on the site and I like the idea of being able to see what employers have viewed my resume but the only problem is I keep getting the same staffing agencies accessing my resume. Anyone else come across this problem? It's so a...