MaineNurse67

I am a DON in LTC... am interested in meeting other DONs to share ideas and concerns... Hope to hear from you soon!! Thanks... Tim

I keep reading all the messages posted by everyone in this forum and I have to just keep asking myself... how much of the nursing shortage problems are being caused by nurses themselves?? I feel that each individual is responsible for how they portra...

Peter73... I feel your pain! :) I am up against most of the same issues. Good to know it is no different everywhere else. I just keep trying... have not given up yet! Good to hear from you ALL! Tim

LTC DONs need love, too!! Great to hear from you all! We should start our own website, eh??? Tim

Whew... Things could have gotten real ugly! I know from experience! :) Good luck, Bonster... I am sure you will make a fine nurse! Take care... Peace... Tim

Bonster... as you can see by my posts, I do agree with you... but as I have learned from my experience here... you do have to look at both sides... enough said? Take these experiences here and learn from them. If you are treated a certain way... ...

AMEN! Tim

My biggest issue in the way of retainment is Temp Agencies! I cannot compete with what they pay. Although, they do not provide the stability that a facility does. We have just implemented a corportate policy that any staff that leave us for the agen...

Thanks, Christina... I will keep posting... I have grown quite addicted to the folks on here! Peace.... Tim

Sounds like you are in a pretty tough spot! I understand your reply, but agree with you... that is not fair! It is hard enough to go to work every day... but, having to go in with that kind of stess really sucks! I feel like giving you all kinds o...

Sounds familiar! Same issues as everywhere else, I guess. What kinds of interesting things are you doing for CNA and other nursing staff retention? Anyone with any good ideas should share... we have just set up a CNA clinical ladder program. It h...

I have to agree... Silicone does rock... :) Don't tell... but she is my favorite responder, thus far. Not to mention that she took all that time to write out such an elaborate response. And, with a name like that... who could complain?? You guys...

Well, in Maine, you only have 24 hours to report the incident to the state, so this must vary from state to state. Also, in a past situation, a CNA witnessed an RN inflicting abuse on a resident. The CNA reported the next morning. The facility rece...

I totally agree with OneThunder... I, too, am a DON... an annual evaluation is no time for surprises... there should be nothing on your evaluation that has not been discussed with you previously as an issue, if it is an issue at all!! I am very curio...

Scares the hell out of me. I can remember back in nursing school... I had a couple of old nuns as instructors... NO WAY were they going to allow a man in the L and D! I spent my whole rotation in the nursery! (not complaining... I was only 19 at th...

Hey... I wish more of those rent a nurses would come "scurrying" back to LTC!!! Is there any place online that DONs gather?? Like to chat and vent their frustrations?? Would be nice to have some support from out there in the world! I know we could...

Hey, maybe it WAS PMS! Am I not entitled to a bad day?? Geesh. Anyways... I am a great manager... I promise. To those of you who have responded negatively to this posting... you obviously have not read it all the way through. Read my other pos...

I am glad there are some out there with the need for support! Survey time can be sooooo stressful... something an acute care nurse will never understand. I feel your pain. My survey is due in December. Not looking forward to it at all!!

I agree with all the posts. I was always interested in working with the elderly, as well. I have been in nursing for the past 14 years... worked my way up through the ranks. Started as a CNA... then became an LPN... am currently an RN and the DON a...

You have the right to respond to your evaluation. Give it a few days and re-evaluate your feelings, then sit down and write a response and ask to have it attached to your eval. That is perfectly acceptable. Also, ask for a meeting with your manag...

You will be fine, really. I can remember that feeling soooo well! One thing at a time. You do not have to have all the answers... no one expects that. It does help to know where to go to find the answers, though. I have been doing the nursing t...

I work in a 125-bed dementia facility... so I am well aware of the risk for elopement! We use several different techniques to keep our residents safe from wandering out the doors and out into the world. We have all exits with code boxes which does h...

Sadly, I get along well with my superiors... sure they do things that I don't always agree with, but I do try to see their side. I am fortunate to be able to speak my mind and be listened to... in this job, anyways. In my previous job as DON, I wor...

I took an LPN course back in 1987... the class had the option of continuing on for another year for RN. Well... foolishly, I found a job and then put off going back to school for 8 more years! But, then finally went back to school. Many of my cred...

Move to Maine... we will let you wear any colored scrubs you like! Hee hee... Tim