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One of my female residents has recently developed a fungal infection in her groin area. She is occasionally incontinent of urine, but is fully continent of bowels. She has an order for Nystatin powder, which is being applied BID. The resident is n...

I had totally forgotten this website existed until I got an email letting me know there were responses to this thread! I have since left long-term care and now work in a non-patient care position in acute care. Much less stressful, no back issues, a...

Changing a brief with an ostomy is no different than someone without an ostomy, just remember to make a slit/rip in the top front of the brief where the stoma is so that the ostomy bag is not trapped under the brief. A trapped ostomy bag can cause s...

I know it's been mentioned about 8,734,816,349,817,818,273,664 times on this forum already, but family members that stand in the doorway or go stand at the nurse's station instead of encouraging the patient to put on the call light IRK ME TO NO END. ...

When people cuss at me or call me names, I usually bust up laughing, even double over (depending on how funny it was). Don't take everything that people say so seriously. This job is hard enough as it is. Some people think this is rude, but really...

As far as JPs go, the more fluid they collect, the lesser the suction that is applied to the wound. So a full JP will not be pulling very much fluid, while a freshly emptied JP will be pulling a lot more fluid from the wound. If the drains in quest...

I went around and told everyone that would listen how I was "going to be taking my *STATE* boards" like it would be imparting to me some special government clearance or something. Instead, all I got was a trip to a nursing home and a generic certifi...

Sounds like a total b****. She is obviously insecure about herself and asserts her authority upon everyone else to make herself feel better. I have worked with several of them over the past few years. All of the crap they say are really just empty...

Let me put this nicely: SITTING SUCKS. However, if it will lead to a PCT position down the road, then I say go for it. If the facility allows sitters to do patient care, it's usually just minimal stuff: quick bath and bed change, oral care, toileting...

It depends on the number of narcs the resident will be receiving as to when I punch them out. If the person only receives one or two, I'll do them in the order they appear on the MAR. If the person has a BUNCH of them, I save all narcs for last. I...

Is 0900 considered your "heavy" a.m. pass? If it only took you 3 1/2 hours to pass a.m. meds to 29 people, you are doing phenomenally. I wouldn't be any faster myself. I always take my time, especially with the a.m. pass since there is SO MUCH to ...

Wow, I guess you are fortunate!! I had to pass meds in front of a state examiner after my written portion, and they constantly quizzed me with things like "Which of these can you crush?" or "If the resident doesn't want to take all of them right now...

Remember your three MAR checks. When I took the test I did about 20 each time because I was so nervous. I wasn't actually "checking" but merely gathering my thoughts. Even if you are testing at the facility you work at and know every resident by he...

Partners are best, but when we used to have just 3 aides, we came up with a system. At the beginning of the shift, 2 buddied up and got everyone up for dinner, while the third person passed all waters, did the vitals (which were due by 1630), and an...

Fed up with the nurses that think that all CNAs are lazy wicked communists that are secretly planning to overthrow the nurse(s)' power so that we can rule the floor ourselves. Fed up with the ones that think we break every rule on purpose and that w...

To the lady in OT: WHAT IN THE WORLD do you mean you gave a full bed bath to a resident (as part of their rehab), but skipped over their lower legs and feet and saved them for me to do? Yes, I appreciate you helping get someone's bath out of the way...

I hate having the same people to take care of all the time. Float me around, and I'm happy. If I have the same residents all the time, I tend to get a lot more frustrated with them over the smallest of things and get burnt out quickly. One of the ...

We get report sheets. On one side it has the name, gender, age, room number, allergies, list of medical conditions, etc. On the other side there are handwritten comments such as "uses BSC," "up with assist x2," "incont. B&B," "q2h turn," etc. ...

Is it just me or does anyone else on here find it EXTREMELY awkward to run across coworkers when you're not at work? I'm not talking about favorite coworkers, just the ones that you only interact with at work (and even then it sometimes feels like t...

It's those little, "innocent" old ladies that will always surprise you. The more blunt metal objects they are carrying, the faster they seem to run.

Staffing coordinators and central supply managers for hospitals and/or LTC facilities

I'm one, and I guess you could say I'm a seasoned one.

I am an inherent people-pleaser. Work (and LIFE) got so much easier for me when I stopped trying to make every patient 100% happy, 100% of the time. People will complain whether you do things the right way or the wrong way, that's just the way it i...

Me too. :) The reason I posted it and the moral of the story is "Screw what other people say/think about you." I had a funny comment to add about your post but I don't know how to word it without making it sound completely derogatory so I've decided...

I can't share too many details (or risk losing my anonymity), but a few years ago, a coworker abused access to my personal information and used it to spread some pretty serious allegations about me (apparently I was involved in some "quite deplorable...