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Had an old woman in the nursing home to vomit in her plate at supper and then proceeded to eat it.

Then show up a year later and complain about everything!!

When nurses notes are put in with holes punched only on one end and the names of the patient no where on the paper. Nurses coming in 15 minutes late (and it's always the same nurse) and you have to give report and we are required to check the MAR behind each other to see if we have left any blanks, which takes another 10-15 minutes. Nurses who are still on the floor with the med cart 30 minutes after their shift is over (and has 15 years experience). New nurses using the excuse, "I'm a new nurse" not to do anything. Nurses who tattle-tell every little thing to look good to the supervisors. Nurses who sit around all day and complain about how hard the work is and has not done any work at all, while you're doing all the work. Customer Service: I worked customer service 5 yrs at a grocery store - Sorry!! The customer is not always right!!!!! Family members complaining constantly about trivial matters, especially when you're behind, short of help and in a rush, and when they just want to "talk" about themselves. Male family members trying to hit on female staff members. It's never the good-looking guys, its always the old, perverted ones. LOL Patients with nurses as family members. They always tell you how to do your job. Family members explaining to you what to do for the patient - like we didn't go to school to learn how to do this and we never worked as a nurse before. We haven't a clue to how to do our job and we need you to tell us. Coming to work and DON "telling" you that you have to do a double when she's had all day to find someone to work that shift and can be prepared to get rest for 1 shift and you've had no rest. Also some nurses never have to work a different shift or day that they are not scheduled. Staff calling in sick because they have a headache, started their period, their husband is sick, their car won't start, etc. Staff having to go home early (and usually only has 1 hr before it's time to go) because they might be pregnant, they have a headache, their husband is sick, etc. Sending a pt to the hospital (I work in a nursing home) early in the morning and the night nurse at the hospital calls and asks if we gave them their AM meds. If we didn't, are you going to double dose? And why call at night. Shouldn't someone had called that morning? :uhoh21: Nurses who are about to go home and tell you how "Quiet" it's been. You know that all H*** will break loose when they leave. And 9 out of 10 times it does. When you send a pt to the ER by physician's orders because the pt is sick and the ER nurse finds out they are DNR and calls you to ask you why you sent a DNR pt to them. The pt wasn't dying, they're sick!! We don't let sick people just lie there and suffer!! EMS and hospital nurses who think that nursing home nurses are ignorant and are beneath them :angryfire . We have hospital nurses come to work in the nursing home and they last less than a week. They say the work is too hard. So before you judge nursing home nurses, walk a mile in their shoes. I personally have never worked in a hospital and I never have said that nurses who work in the hospital are ignorant or unable to do their jobs or are beneath me. Personally I think hospital work would be harder because they get new pt's everyday and don't know how that person is, in the nursing home we basically have the same pt everyday and we know them. The only difference is I have 44 pt's to take care of, usually by myself and I know that a nurse in the hospital doesn't have that many. So please don't judge! Calling a doctor on call (especially at night) and getting chewed out for calling him. That's what you're on call for, and your're getting paid. Having a doctor on call, call you and tell you NOT to call him after 10PM. Yeah Right! I'd rather be chewed out by the doc than be charged with negligence for not calling the doctor when needed. The list could go on and on. The up side to my job is that when I have a few days off, my pts tell me that they missed me and tell me that no one else does it like I do. :) I love my pt's. They are all my adopted grandparents. Even though some of them can get rowdy - and I'm sure grandparents get rowdy too.

Where can I find DHEC policy and procedures for nursing homes. I've searched the search engines and can find nothing on policy and procedures for the nurses, such as only blue or black ink can be used for documentation, residents can only be in their rooms or dining room, etc. I can only find policy and procedures for setting up a nursing home, nothing for nurses in particular. We had "Mock DHEC Surveyors" come in and they had a "bucket full" of new policies and procedures that we knew nothing about and I'm wondering where they got them from. I didn't get to talk to them personally, because I would have asked them. Thanks.