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I agree there is much to be learned in LTC and I am not knocking it. However if you are honest many nurses and management look down on LTC staff.

This was my personal experience. I have been an RN nearly 22 years, 13 years in a cardiac ICU. Due to needs of my family I left the hospital went to LTC with acute and long term care rehab. After 4 years situation again changed I wanted to return to hospital nursing many hospitals blatantly stated that my years in LTC had negated all previous experience. GO FIGURE

I worked for the VCU-MCVH sysytem for 17 years, starting as anew grad on North 5,then to Tele SDu, then to cardiac medicine ICU. This was a wonderful place to work, good pay, great benefits. When Iworked there and I believ it still to be so if tyou have insurance thru them and are treated by MCV MDs care is free after minimal copay. My husband had a compund fracture of wrist operated on by Dr Adelaar, he has 95% percent use of it and it cost $20 copay. There is also so much opportunity to learn, to particpate. GO for IT!

Ah Youth WE had white dresses with blue and white pinafores. White shoes, hose no makeup earrings wedding ring only please. One of our instructors measured the hem length with a yardstick.No runs in your hose, no perfume, hair back or in a bun, at least we didnt have to wear our caps daily, but our instructors did. One instructor was ex-Navy nurse you can only imagine her strict ways. On the flip side you always knew who the nurses and student nurse were.

This sound bogus. I moved from East to West last year,my home is vacant because we refuse to give it away in this market. Our insurance co. knows it and has never said anything.

We walk at work The lab tech, the radiology tech, admissions and nurses all walk in groups of 2-3 on our breaks Our facility is a square that you can do laps on. On good nights we can all get 15 minutes cardio walking done We have even tried some zumba type dance

I once cared for a young man 26 years old, 758 lbs. whose mother and girlfriend did everything even feed him We told him he needed to assist us by feeding himself, using his urinal, brushing his teeth, washing what parts of his body he could reach. He informed us he didnt come to the hospital to do work or do our jobs. He quickly got better.

When my Mother was in a LTC where nearly all staff nurses were filipino it was very difficult to communicate my Mothers needs to them. They smile said yes and did whatever. My Mother disliked it because she felt they were speaking badly of her.

When someone passes at our facility, we get 2 RNs to check for signs of death and verify it. We then get a verbal order from MD to pronounce them deceased if they are DNRs only. Otherwise we have to involve local authorities. On our death certificate paperwork we put admitting diagnosis, not cause of death. As you say we are not MDs.

At my facility we cannot access the kitchen refrigerator for food such as sandwiches only snack type stuff. I am also the copier repair person, plumber,tv repair. Also because of reported diversion of lasix we now have 2 nurses to count pyxsis daily??

When we float to L&D it is to care for post partum Moms and babies. we also had orientation to unit and duties. We do not care for laboring Moms. It is good to stretch our horizons especially in this job market, make ourselves more employable.

Where are u located? I work in a small rural hospital am floated to L and D occasionally.

I agree with the previous post. Back in the day if chickenpox,measles,mumps etc came to town, parents exposed their kids for several reasons. 1. all kids could be sick at the same time, it was supposed to be a milder case, also their was a worry about teens getting pox and being sterile. I rememeber when schools had to close because so many kids were sick. Also polio was called "summer fever" and if it came around we couldnt go swimming and had to stay home. Times have sure changed.

I realized that I had been at one hospital too long when the attendings had been the med students that we nurses taught to be docs!! The comment about someone rolling their eyes kills me. A new RN on our unit was sitting at nurses station texting when asked to satrt an IV She replied Now or Later ?????

My husband replied to a job for a position in sales ,they beganto ask for a lot of personal info looked like it was a scam to get info

I had a patients girlfriend come one evening unbeknownst to the staff she was nude under her coatshe proceeded to flash and strip for him??? He was in a coma r/t trauma she thought it might stir him up.

xtxrn You are correct it happened to me. The nurse assigned to orient me in my present position was an agency nurse , who would lose her position when I was oriented. Imagine the orientation I got, self taught

I was glad to see that one person touched on my personal peeve with smokers, the amount of time taken for smoke breaks. We (non-smokers) used to joke that we were going to iniate non smoke breaks

I agree with above post lower tier companies may take you on , raise your hopes and not find you a position or else put you in an unsafe place. Please be careful GOOD LUCK

First always wear gloves, I put a towel below the arm to keep things clean have your flushed pigtail ready pullback and put it on You can put pressure on skin behind Iv catheter But most of just takes practice practice practice Good Luck

It is illegal to ask you to clock and still work I worked for a LTC that said I as PM Supervisor would be penalized if PM staff worked late I would have to get their work done I quit Some people still clock out there from day shift and stay till 5pm because they are scared to lose their jobs STICK UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS

Hey when you get your dino get me one too I like mine autoclaved for tenderness Lord hadnt thought of dial a flows in eons we used to mix all our piggybacks insulin KCl and all wow where did time fly??????

OK now Im going to date myself who remembers metal bedpans and their washing stations if there was an automatic BP cuff we never saw it in nursing school IV pumps were fairly new only used in ICUs Very little was disposable and I do remember slicing off the needle tip Also the practice of jamming an IV catheter in a mattress to keep it safe wonder how many pts got stabbed My how we have changed and it was all because of infectious disease control

First of all no one deserves to be abused( being yelled at) in the workplace, second I have worked on SNF/LTC/LTAC and all had morphine and other comfort drips.Was hospice involved with this resident? We often used sub-q pumps Dont be discouraged all MDs are not created equal some are better than others

Are U an RN if so this pay seems low As I stated I could never pin them down on particulars the two facilities they wanted to place me at 1) did not provide travel expense or bonus 2) didnt even need an interview 3) no housing set up sounded fishy so I ran away LOL