Maremma

We do not have "mandatory" flu vaccines at my work but they do offer and encourage them. If the nurse or aid chooses to refuse the vaccine they must wear a mask while on shift throughout the flu season. That seems like a more than reasonable compromi...

I am a rehab nurse. In our facility we are suppose to have 2 nurses on my unit for both first and second shift due to the high acuity of these patients. Unfortunately more frequently I do not have a partner. I have been on my unit several years and...

Wow that is sad. I wonder if this lady has something like that going on. I actually feel bad for her. I can't begin to imagine what it is like to be the way she is making one enemy after the other burning one bridge after the other. She had NO idea t...

I get "pulled" to work as an aid too. Where I work though it is hardly "fair" and certainly not very smart how they decide "who" is getting pulled. (It is ALWAYS me if I am there that day. If I am ALREADY pulled and they need ANOTHER nurse to work a...

What is the responsibility of a Nursing home/ rehab facility to protect staff from sexual harassment by a patient if the patient is also bipolar with dementia involved? I can no longer take the abuse and asked that this patient either be moved to an...

I most certainly do document everything he is saying and doing. Sending him out is useless. They give him a shot of IM haldol and send him right back. They "can't" admit him. No other facility will take him (or has room for him or whatever). He is v...

I am so sorry this happened to you. I am glad to hear you are doing better. I have just very recently been pondering this type situation and the effects it has on not only the individual staff in an incident but the staff surrounding that person.Thin...

Is it possible that the part time job will eventually go full time? Rather than pick up any extra hours where you are at maybe you could work both jobs to get your foot in the door and as soon as its available switch to full time at the better posit...

Are you sure the license number wasn't also available when you checked with the quick view thing? Mine was immediately assigned. Check your nurse registry website and see if you aren't on there to get the number.

You know when I was in my LPN program every single one of my instructors had said that when the time comes that they or a loved one would need an RN they want one that worked as an LPN first. They said hands down they make better rounded nurses. You...

I am a relatively new nurse. I am working a "rehab" hall (but not always rehab patients) Anyway I have a very sweet lady that had breast cancer metastasize to her bones. She has a port in her chest. She had gone out for her first tx. She has develop...

Wow, your situation is similar to one of our RN supervisors at our facility, except we only have one RN super on the second shift at a time. She was an ER RN for years and now works the 12 hour shifts on the weekends and fills in the one day off duri...

Wow, we aren't allowed to have ANY side rails. Beds cannot be against the walls. We are no longer even aloud to have bed or chair alarms! EVERYTHING is a restraint in our facility. They have cut us off at the knees really so most of our fall risks j...

Well Holy Smokes! Wow I can't even imagine the nerve it took for them to pull that! I sure hope I never wind up as a patient on their floor! I am so sorry that happened to you and I sure hope they get what they deserve for pulling that!

I understand your frustration and desperation but trust me when I tell you that you are better off NOT working that job and still having your license to get another job with than to have gotten that job then lost your license because of it. The first...

Well congratulations becoming a new nurse! I am not a very old nurse myself. I know how you are feeling. I promise you will pick up speed. The most important thing to focus on is accuracy. Speed comes with time. Indeed please do ask for more time i...

Honesty is ALWAYS the best policy! 49 patients? Really? How heavy are the med passes? How many chem sticks? How many g-tubes? How many crushed med patients Etc? Could you REALLY safely and accurately get them all out in the two hour windows (three if...

I attempted to call the oncologist but he was already out of his office. (I work the second shift). Her attending from our facility had referred the issue to the oncologist. (as he does with EVERYTHING concerning her because of her condition) Whateve...

We are having a disaster at my facility with the flu and norovirus right on its heals. We were all confused and upset because quaratine was not implemented fast enough, when it was it was half hearted and then we kept getting admissions who then of ...

Well this topic is certainly a hot one. Quite ironically my facility is still one that does not require the flu shot to maintain employment but for anyone that does not accept the shot must wear a face mask whenever they will be within 5 ft of a pati...

Well geeze! In our facility they have removed all bed and chair alarms. We are not allowed to have them! How do you like that? They said there are complaints (not sure from who, state maybe?) that they are being used as "babysitters" to negate our re...

I was sent to a training seminar this week. "assessment training". Some of this training was the trainer talking about obamacare and what it means to "us". I am wondering how many other facilities are already taking steps to "deal" with the new issue...

I don't mean a provision to build more LTC facilities. I mean some other kind of provision that would provide incentive for facilities to continue to take medicare patients in or increased funding for families to keep their family members at home wit...

Has anyone gone out of the nursing field for work while looking for another LPN job? I am wondering if that hurts your chances of getting a new LPN position as they come open? I am now even more desperate to get out of were I am and preserve my lice...

I am in PA. I have also wanted to be able to do home health care at some point. I used to do that as an aid. I have not seriously thought about that yet because I had to get my magic "one year experience" that is required by all of them around here....