I agree 100%, give the two week notice with a proper letter of resignation. Do not burn bridges. It will eventually one day bite you in the butt. As for your dad, cut that loose, you don't need...
LTC is very rewarding, but has many, many areas that just want to make you pull your hair out!!! As a charge nurse in a LTC facility I can tell you, I have a small handful of CNA's that I can ask to...
I work in LTC, weekend opt. The unit I work on is usually run during the week on days with 2 nurses and 5 CNA's. I work the unit alone with 2 CNA's if I'm lucky. On top of the medicare/medicaid...
a deep subject, no clear answers. i hate to generalize, but women, for the most part are that way. you cannot, or at least i have found this to be true, walk up to another female nurse and say "hey,...
i had the exact situation. clinicals were awful. we always felt in the way, out of place, and crapped on. but once i got out there, my first real ltc job, it was fine, scarry, but fine. all the...
I think this is the case in most LTC facilities. I know it is in mine. I too work 7p-7a weekends. Meds are constantly "unavailable". We aren't suppose to chart that, which is nuts considering it's...
The first Foley!!!! I freaked out.....I think everyone does. But it's easier than it seems. My very first cath in clinicals was on an elderly psych patient who started screaming rape!!!!!! Made me...