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  1. Getting everyone else to sign their books

    MrsStraty posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    how the heck do you do it? As you know I am on day 5 of my new job as a new unit manager at a LTC facility/Sub Acute Rehab and the biggest issue I see are the gaps. How do you get the nurses who give...

  2. Resigned Nurse Manager position today...

    MrsStraty posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    and boy do I feel 100% relieved! I have been toying with the idea for a few months now. I have been a Clinical Nurse Manager for 9 months now at a LTC and boy does it suck! I am responsible for...

  3. Resigned Nurse Manager position today...

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Oh Thank you thank you! My shoulders have instantly stopped hurting. I feel it was the right decision, although I feel bad for my residents, all of whom I know adore me and think I am the best thing...

  4. Why can't doctors just "TELL" their patients the TRUTH!?!

    MrsStraty posted a topic in Oncology

    Hello. I just started to work on an Oncology floor/BMT floor. I work at a VERY large teaching university/medical center. We take everything when no one else will. Anyhows, my mother died last year of...

  5. Looking for new daily assignements and care directive tools

    MrsStraty replied to changeseeker's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We use Resident information sheets, which the CNA's get a sheet for their group everyday. They are updated by myself, the unit manager a few times a week. Also on the assignments sheet they jot down...

  6. Getting everyone else to sign their books

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    There is nursing shortages EVERYWHERE, including the hospital setting. Still, nurses need to be held accountable for not signing their MARS and TARS! I just found one med error where a resident did...

  7. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I just accepted a position as an RN Unit Manager in a LTC/Sub Acute Rehab unit. I start next week. I am very excited as this is my 1st management job. I have worked acute care for 3 months and for the...

  8. Getting everyone else to sign their books

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It is not the multiple documentations.......It is signing for meds that you give that I am having the biggest issue with. There are far too many gaps on the MARs and that should not be. If you give...

  9. Getting everyone else to sign their books

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thank you. That sounds great, maybe I'll try

  10. Getting everyone else to sign their books

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Don't laugh....what is

  11. Getting everyone else to sign their books

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I really want to implement a way to make sure that everyone signs their mars and tars but I'm afraid it will be like stepping on toes of people who have been there for years. I might have to resort...

  12. Need help drawing labs from PICC line

    MrsStraty replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Alwats flush PICC lines with 20cc of NS. You flush 10cc with regular central lines.

  13. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    WOW! Thank you Daytonite, what a post, you summed it all up for me and it was great. I have my job description now and you were right on point. Where do I find these seminars for 1st time managers? On...

  14. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have worked LTC almost my whole career, which began when I was 18 and I am now 35! I know ALL about LTC and their troubles and how desperate they are, but I also KNOW that LTC facilities need people...

  15. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That is exactly how I am coming into the job, thinking I can make changes, we will see. I am truely excited and I can't wait to start on Tuesday. I hated the acute care setting and I am just so...

  16. New Job as RN Unit Manager

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yes I heard about the paperowrk thing.....and guess what I LOVE paperwork, I know I'm an oddball! I have worked LTC throughout my whole life, much of it as a CNA, and I left the acute setting to...

  17. Quit my 2nd nursing job in Oncology!

    MrsStraty posted a topic in General Nursing

    I quit, just like that because the place sucked. A big huge medical center and 2 weeks ago I had a patient nearly code and he really needed O2, and guess what no friggen O2 thingys to put in the wall...

  18. MDS Coordinator salaries

    MrsStraty replied to Nascar nurse's topic in MDS Coordinator Information

    I currently work in a hospital setting and have only been licensed a year now, but on Wednesday I am interviewing for a RN NUrse Manager job at a Sub Acute Rehab/ LTC facililty which will start me at...

  19. Caring for a neutropenic pt

    MrsStraty replied to evergreener's topic in Oncology

    I too work on BMT unit and we start Vanco and Fortaz at the 1st neutropenic fever, right after the blood cultures are drawn that is. We culture anything that can be cultured. We have the no fresh...

  20. IV push ativan...please help this student!:)

    MrsStraty replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    NEVER inject air into a Tubex, which is how our Ativan, Demerol and most of our Morphine comes! I guess I had to learn the hard way. We have prefilled 10 cc syringes and I let out 3 cc's of NS then...

  21. Why can't doctors just "TELL" their patients the TRUTH!?!

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Oncology

    :lol2: It helped immensly. Thank you for your reply. I did cry infront of the family and they knew why I cried, I was sad for them and I missed my mother. The other night I found one of my mother's...

  22. Why can't doctors just "TELL" their patients the TRUTH!?!

    MrsStraty replied to MrsStraty's topic in Oncology

    Well thank you all for the replies. I have heard some nurses say that the docs DO tell some patients the truth but the pts are in denial and so is the family. Also in my original post I was talking...

  23. Meeting with the BON tomorrow

    MrsStraty replied to mismissy69's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Dutchess County NY and my investigator was from the Port Chester office in Westchester, NY. The investigator had to clear me and all was well with the BON. I had felony charges of Grand...

  24. Meeting with the BON tomorrow

    MrsStraty replied to mismissy69's topic in General Nursing

    Good Luck tomorrow. What state are you in? I had to go through a Moral Character review also and I live in NY. I never had to go meet the BON personally, and I just faxed them all the info they...

  25. Leaving Sub-Acute Rehab/LTC for Oncology

    MrsStraty posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just graduated in May and for some reason was scared to go to the hospital but I have been working in a Sub Acute Rehab/LTC facility for the past 4 months and I have 40 res. to do med pass to plus...