CeliaLPN2009

hi all, love this site! i have two years experience as LPN in nursing home with long term care and rehab. when you are in the middle of an admission, taking vitals, full skin assesment, dealing with family, etc. and you are getting paperwork filled out and given to supervisor to round out the entire admission process and have about 20 minutes to go, you get a request from another resident for pain medication what do you do? do you stop the ongoing admission pt. and give your pain med to the other? do you let the other resident know you will be there shortly, finish your admission and then run to the other resident with their pain medication? i had this happen and i know pain is the other vital sign, but my new admit, very nervous, needed more vitals taken, family member asking lots of questions and nervous about her mom. my major concern was the new admits stability at the time, and just to mention my other resident needing pain medication already has two fentynl patches, plus multi-lortabs each pass and family brought in his pain meds from home that he was taking on his own.!!! help! need your input and ideas, was i right to finish with my new admit and have the pained resident wait 20 minutes? - thanks, Celi