windjmmr

it ridiculous somedays...we have MDS charting.bi weekly psych notes and a monthly notefor the same ...daily abt incident cahrting readmission charting and then you have the incidental charting ..you also have to chart all interventions before you give a prn med to boot.. couple that with the problematic families that you ahve to deal with due to the fact that the front office crews make all of these "interevntions' that you have to doccument on not to mention dealing with some CNAs who you have to watch that they don t hide...then you have to get a med pass out stop in the middle of the med pass to feed patients then finish it..then a tx pass and if you are lucky enuf you have to do incident reports for anything that is found and in our building it can be up to 7 pages of paper work involved..and to boot it you have to be out on time as they will not approve the OT if you stay to finish ...if you stay they will write you up for it..then they wonder why nurses are becoming soured..then you have to hope that theer is no call out for the next shift or they will try to make you stay as well..where are our rights as caregivers when it comes to the safety factor for the caregivers? ( overtired staff)

do nt forget the weekly psych notes either or the Abt notes.. but you know then they want to know why it isn t getting done either...we have to be out on time and they won t authorize OT..unless it s bad situation but it s okay for them to tell you you have to stay after being on your feet for a shift already and also you ve already been awake for the whole day..then they wonder why nurses are leaving the field..the sad part is in my building your raise depends on your evaluation..we do nt get an across the board raise like most places..so if you get a bad eval guess what..i ve seen CNA s get only a dime raise for the work that they do..but the front office crews well they get the bucks for staying under budget...another thing that i d like to see is that they mandate that all Ltc administrators have to be nurses. Then i think at least once a month anyone with a license that is in the front office area they need to do a rotation on the floor and not on 7-3 shift either to see what wedeal with and see if they can get done with what they mandated..(that would be fun to watch)

Sunrock...sooo sorry you had that bad experiance.... i know what that feels like,,, having 33 years in this and lord knows how many I ve orientated... I used to work with someone who absolutely refused to orientate anyone new to the floor and i ll never forget the night i had to orientate a new staff nurse and was sick with a cold that was raging into a fever...but you know what that new employee always remembers that...that i stuck it out for her and to this day she always comes back to me with any questions she has..but i also agree with the dumb assed stuff about write ups.... in the last 3 monts get this... an uppper respiratory infection...then wound up in the hospital with chest pain and it turned out that i pulled some serious chest muscles while we were not staffed right for the workload( funny how they can staff for numbers or acuity when it suits the budget ) prior to that they asked us to take time off and help them out so many of us did that and then they cut our hours for 2 weeks when they were slammed with a few resignations then they restored our hours and we didn t have enuf supplies to do out job... then i go into work with a major cold worked 2 days and the second day i had a raging fever ... i had to finish the 2nd med pass and finally got to go home well needless to say i m home today still with a fever and a md bill...BUT when i go onto work tomorrow i will guarentee i will be hit up with a write up for "excessive" abscenceso it s no wonder wht we leave our jobs...go figure....

something that i ve often thought about i wonder how many of our "bosses" including all ancillary personel check the board sites on the internet to see what they re employees are saying about them...we all konw it s our first right admendment but i often think that they find a way to twist it into something....watch your backs when you post and whatever you do DO NOT go to plalce of employment on a web site and log on to the site.. once they have basic Id they can look around the internet to see what is being said..

get the heck out of dodge!!!!!! always go with your gut instinct...because no one is going to help you in court... most administrative positions will bury their heads in the sand and not aknowledge the problems...no job is worth it!!!!!