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Hi all! Question for home health nurses. I hurt my back about one year ago and required surgery. I am going to be cleared by surgeon to return to work but want to preserve my back as much as I can. Is home health low back strain??? I heard from my H...

Hi Nurses, I am in need of some career help. I injured my back badly about 9 months ago lifting a heavy patient resulting in a laminoforaminotomy with distectomy L5/S1. My neuro has hope that I will legally be allowed to return to physical work in t...

Hi there, I am on the hunt to begin something new in my nursing career. I was blessed enough to get three offers this week. I turned down the straight up med/surg unit and am leaning towards working in a hospital on a rehab type floor. (its called sk...

Thanks for your feedback! Just to answer your question Taramb7263, I have already worked Med-Surg for over a year and although I got a great foundation, Med-Surg just isn't for me. I love geriatrics and enjoy working in the less acute areas. I like e...

PS: Even though I said I'm an RN, there is an LPN who has the exact same job duties as I do where I work.

This might be a late response, but thought I'd add here what I do in AL. I am an RN and am called the team leader for memory care. I have 14 residents that I am responsible for and I oversee one or two CNA's who help care for our dementia residents. ...

Hi all: Looking for a little advice from all you great nurses out there. I just started a new job at an assisted living near my home. I previously worked Med-Surg/Oncology but left to find my "niche" because I didn't feel fufilled and came home stres...

Hi Hmellish, I really enjoy my job now. It is a lot of independent thinking. I do feel more autonomous and that is very rewarding. But there are also times(being a newish nurse) that I wish there were more policies and procedures to follow here. It ...

Thanks for all the feed back! My biggest concern is with my memory care residents. They cannot and should not be sent out if possible without a representative/family member with them and their decision making power is of course limited. But when I co...

Being new assisted living facility, I have many questions regarding liability and also difficult POA situations. I am the only RN on staff in the PM at my facility and am the "go-to-girl" for residents living in independent and assisted living quarte...

I work in an assisted living/independent living facility and last night I got an emergency call(I am the only nurse in the building in the evening). So I went to the resident's room and she had fallen and had a skin tear. I cleansed the wound, used a...

Thanks for the response! I think I have used Mepilex before in the hospital I think. Very nice product. Wish we had it, I guess it's too much $$$$ but I will suggest it!

Hi all! hope I can get a little bit of advice from those of you who've worked in long term care. I have a BIG problem. At night, there isn't an RN on staff, and when i attempt:mad: to give report to the CNA's they literally walked away while I was t...

I should have clarified. There is NO RN OR LPN on staff after my shift, so its the CNA that I'm reporting to.

It's odd though because there is NO RN on the shift that I am handing off too. So if I can't get the CNA's to listen to me then there is no one else over seeing the care of the patients and I find that to be unsafe.

Thanks for all the feedback! Feel extremely frustrated that the information I was giving CNA's is very pertinent to their care of the pt's and I was completely unheard. I should not have to assert my position as the RN, that's a given. The DON will h...

Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals is an awesome cook book. The food is fantastic and EASY. Also crock pot is a good idea. I like to buy Bertoli bag's( that italian frozen food) and frozen lasagna with salad for the nights I am working. You can make a big...

Hi All! Are there any gerontological nurse practitioners out there? I've been a nurse for almost two years, and always planned on becoming a NP. Realized I adore geriatrics. Can anybody tell me about your program? how long it took and about where you...

Thank goodness for this post! I just got called by IAN. I had given my bio information in the mail figuring it was free and I could put it on my resume. They really pressured me to give like 700 bucks and then kept down grading to eventually 30 but I...

Thank you so much for the feedback everyone. i am learning so much each day I work. And it is true so true that the nurses role in AL is ever evolving. I know I am lucky to be at a well run facility and I just keep reminding myself that I am not in t...

Just keep practicing is good advice. Also, with the elderly, take off the turniquette as soon as you get a flash. One of the older nurses showed me a cool way to practice. Grab some IV catheters and also some IV tubing. Tape a piece of tubing to some...

Wowzers that sounds crazy, and I too work in AL. Its really not work risking your license which you worked so hard for, or worth hurting a patient. Good luck to you!

Here are some sample interview questions I received. 1. Tell about a time you got in an argument with a co-worker and how did you handle it? 2. Tell us about a time you went above and beyond with a patient? 3. Tell us about a difficult patient? 4. H...

Hi there! I suggest doing practice assessments on everybody you know. Do a head to toe on your mom, dad, bro, sis, boyfriend whatever. Also when doing a head to toe, think of the big systems. 1. Mental status-ask patient for name, hospital name and ...

I totally feel your pain! I thought that after the first year of nursing, the feeling of carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders would end. But for me it didn't. I finally realized that I needed to try something new. To remember why I beca...