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I am a supervisor & have documentation of one of my nurses not passing meds.....proof, signed on the MARs for routine narcotics given but no narcotics signed out of narc box. Also, copies of med cards from day to day that no meds have been punche...

Thanks to all the nurses that replied. Just a little update: yes, I am a "working" supervisor, always jump in to help but this nurse works 3-11 and once I go home, she sits.....this has been told to the DON also by more than 1 witness. Anyway.......i...

it really irks me when I hear a MA say "I'm Dr so&so's nurse" NO, you are not his NURSE. Yes, he lets you do everything I do but that still doesn't make you a nurse. I have a license, you do not. I do everything a RN does too but that doesn't mak...

My fave nursing bumper sticker........"I'm a nurse, here to save your a$$, not kiss it!" LOVE that one. My fave non-nursing......"I brake for hallucinations" the guy driving it looked like Jerry Garcia :)

Count yourself lucky, where I work, we have 40 pt's, most with IV's, tube feedings, wound vac's etc. with 2 nurses and a unit manager on 7-3 shift, but come 3-11, they drop it down to 1 nurse (and she's usually a new grad that doesn't know any better...

LOL, I used FB to get my point BACK to my boss :) I knew someone on my "friends" would run right back and tell her what I said and I wanted her to know sooooooooooo. But, there is a federal law against firing someone because of "generalize" things...

I'm moving to Los Angeles in the fall and wondering if anyone out there can tell me the employment situation out there for LPNs? Also, does anyone know of any Travel Agencies that hire LPNs for travel/contract jobs? Thanks for any insight y'all :)

WoW!!! Thank you ALL for the info. May be rethinking this relocation thing. LA looks like such a great place to live but you can't live if you can't work. I have an awesome job (aka great pay) right now and as a LPN in FL, I've NEVER had a problem g...

Thanks for the insight. I do have family out there but not family I would stay with I don't think I would move anywhere w/o having a job lined up 1st anyway..........lookin' into the traveler/contractor thing. Thanks again for the info, it help...

2 things I believe in........Keep your friends close & your enemies closer AND a leopard never changes his spots, soooooooo, make nice with this nurse, go apologise that maybe you were mistaken yada, yada and then sit back and watch :) If he's ...

I recently had the same thing happen to me, a "friend" from work reported to my boss some of my venting about my job as a supervisor but didn't get the whole story straight. Needless to say, I no longer "friend" ANY co-workers. Just not worth the has...

DANG! not sure if that was nice or scary???? lol

Yes. I'm a supervisor and have learned by experience...........no work "friends" on FB...........period

Mine is that a male nurse is a "Doctor".....two nurses can walk into a room and if one is male, the patient immediately pays attention to the male nurse assuming he's a doctor........errrrr, he could be a student for all they know and just because he...

Is there no end to your prejudice? "My point is that the LVN or LPN has no authority, experience or ability to run the show." I know this Topic didn't start off about LVN/LPNs but dang! I've been a LPN for 20 years and a Paramedic for 30 and I'm pre...

Say something to your "unit manager" if you have one, that is the U.M.s job, to be a buffer. If there's no UM, speak with the DON, she/he can speak to the director of rehab, who in return can speak to all therapy staff in a "general" way to let them ...

Rude......just straight up R-U-D-E Hope you don't break your neck when you fall off that High Horse yer ridin' :)

1. what is your degree in? lpn, working on bsn 2. what state do you live in? fl (central) 3. what is your job title? unit manager (ltc) 4. how much do you make an hour? 25.66 5. how much do you make a year? 52,000 6. what do you like about your job?...

I chart word for word, verbatum

I have to agree with most of the posts here, you were set up to be fired. There is NO WAY you can get fired for 1 personal altercation that is a he said, he said kind of situation unless they were lookin' for a way to can you, prob due to your pay sc...

Got one better.......had a pt we found in his bathroom with his own needles (brought in by a friend) and he was cooking down his Dilaudid to shoot up right there in the hosp!!! Gives good reason to watch your pt's swallow their meds, huh? BTW, secu...

1st and foremost is to be fair. Always get ALL sides of a story before acting on it. 2nd......TEACH, be willing to teach your staff what/how to do things the right way.....then hold them accountable. I personally make sure my staff know what I excep...

All I can say is, IMO any Mother that kills her kids ain't all there....for whatever reason, something just isn't right. Sad.

Personally, I'd go on for my NP license, but that's me. In no way would I want to be a Dr.....all those long hours, never getting to be home and enjoying the fruits of your labor??? Heck no!!! If you become a Nurse Practitioner, depending on which st...

Exact same thing happened to me once. Got called around 12noon after I had gotten off at 7a by the DON telling me the narc count was off, I told her she needed to talk to the nurse that accepted the keys and took the cart. I had passed the count on t...