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  1. Describe good and bad CNA's you have seen

    pixie120 replied to gardie's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    You need to talk with your charge nurses and the manager of that unit and then the DNS/DON if you don't get relief. WHen I was an aide, I always talked with my supreriors on this stuff, this is real...

  2. Careplans and Quarterlies

    pixie120 replied to txdon's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    THe MDS nurse should be hearing this in the am nursing meeting/PPS/MDS meeting when the telephone orders are all reviewed by the IDT/DNS/MDS/RCM's. ABO T.O's should go to infection control nurse who...

  3. Careplans and Quarterlies

    pixie120 replied to txdon's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Census? MDS is very techical, "just anyone" cannot do it, it requires training and proficiency. Quarterlies are shorter but he careplan still has to be updated, as do all the assessments: restraint,...

  4. New Orientee Ticking Me Off

    pixie120 replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    exactly and when the "middle person/supervisor" attempts to provide leadership, use supposed delegated authority, then a lot a hand slapping goes on, especially in ltc. it has always seemed to me that...

  5. New Orientee Ticking Me Off

    pixie120 replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, let me clarify which battles, hill and war. With regard to the specific care giver "reading a book", unless it were a pattern, I would choose another hill to die on, IF I was the OP. With...

  6. Grace days (thru 10/31/-2011) 5 day, 14 day

    pixie120 posted a topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    So... until the shorter Grace days take affect, 5 day: can it be done AFTER the 8th day? say, on the 9th? for the 14 th? Grace days are until what day? 30 day and 60 day, same

  7. Grace days (thru 10/31/-2011) 5 day, 14 day

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Thanks very much for the update, appreciate

  8. Morning PPD/Medicare meeting

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    Thanks for the advice. Surprizingly enough, the Administrator here is a little miffed at me for pushing this constantly, not sure why, just that i seem to be upsetting the apple cart as it were. Glad...

  9. DNS/DON question

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    The whole team of MDS nurse's have very little experience, one just learned and is doing (freaking out as sheisdoing it), the 2nd is a little better, barely understands and a 3rd understands and has...

  10. DNS/DON question

    pixie120 replied to pixie120's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    If you don't have the minutes, you can't enter them in the MDS. The fact that we know there are minutes, is at the heart of the issue here. If we don't submit MDS's by the due date, we default. It...

  11. Bullying

    pixie120 replied to Nittybelle's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You know, I am always amazed at this particular job duty description (which i am apparently unable to see in anyone's job description?): "Attack all the other staff so my mistakes are so shiny bright....

  12. Wound Dressing

    pixie120 replied to agrj's topic in General Nursing

    OK, all/everything (every single thing we do as nurses, to patients) requires an MD order (this can be part of formal, written facility/unit protocals, standards of care and actual MD orders) AND...

  13. New Orientee Ticking Me Off

    pixie120 replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    All I can say is, Don't sweat the small s..., pick your battles, win the war, not the

  14. Do you need a license to practice as a RN or can you just how proof of passing NCLEX?

    pixie120 replied to ilove's topic in General Nursing

    Please give me the rationale, in 100 words or less, for why the number of questions on NCLEX decides how good/bad a nurse is. NCLEX is a national test, formula set for the most likely average nurse to...

  15. Oxygen Question

    pixie120 replied to Hoosiernurse's topic in General Nursing

    SO...the correct answer is, at report "THis is what I did, and...you can,on your next 8 hours, do what you want to do". End of

  16. Should this be reported??

    pixie120 replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

    Also, why are you (OP) assuming the "other state" wouldn't have the brains to figure out what her license in another state has on it? SHe can't just show up in a new state without accounting for where...

  17. Pct refused delegation

    pixie120 replied to Manatee111's topic in General Nursing

    I always chart whatever happened out of the ordinary in the patient chart (without pointing fingers) but "RN emptied colostomy,....." then in my own private files at home to document what the issues...

  18. Should this be reported??

    pixie120 replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

    OK, so what is your actual question? If the nursing board already knows, what is the

  19. Should this be reported??

    pixie120 replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

    seriously, i hear so much he said/she said during the course of any given conversation, that i simply take all that i hear with a very large grain of salt. lots of misconceptions out there about...

  20. Nurse pressing charges

    pixie120 replied to Girlygirl69's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Just so it's out there, I believe in tolerance, respect and forgiveness. We tolerate a whole slew of things, and we should tolerate a whole lot more. This issue is not clear-cut,. black and white,...

  21. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

    pixie120 replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah, how come I gotta tell everyone my personal business? I seriously get offended by that mentality. I am very social, we can hang out, drink coffee, or not, eat together or not, but I do NOT want...

  22. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

    pixie120 replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    :yeah::yeah:

  23. What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

    pixie120 replied to SharonH, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    YEp, once suspended and investigated for "verbally abusing a resident's daughter's friend" during a care conference. Tee hee. Needless to say, I didn't return after I was cleared. After all ...I was...

  24. What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

    pixie120 replied to SharonH, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ok, this was not when i was a nurse, and it was on my evaluation, when i was at the sheriff's department. i smelled musty, and apparently took my showers in the evenings rather than the mornings. the...

  25. What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

    pixie120 replied to SharonH, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    OK!! face time with new administrator because of "the look(s) on my face". Not any particular look, looks or timeframes, I guess that I just plain HAVE a face, that has a look on it,