Jaimie.RN

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  1. Does the stress from Nursing follow you home?

    Jaimie.RN replied to Ashley_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, no, because it would destroy my life to keep every burden from work on my shoulders when I come home. After I walk out the doors, I drop the metaphorical load of work off my back and focus...

  2. Are nurse patient ratio's safe with the numbers rising away?

    Jaimie.RN replied to Aubrianna's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    No they don't. I wish everyone would write their legislature and the US legislature about safe staffing. If every nurse was talking, it'd get done, but we have people who say that nurses who don't wan...

  3. Are nurse patient ratio's safe with the numbers rising away?

    Jaimie.RN replied to Aubrianna's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    California hospitals have ratios. I don't think any of the other states do. Which means nurses get stuck with unsafe levels of patients. Where I just quit my job, I was 33 to one on an evening shift...

  4. Ok people, face facts: Staffing in LTC is always going to be outrageous!

    Jaimie.RN replied to southernbeegirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm hoping to get a critical care fellowship position. I can't take LTC anymore. I'm hoping my new position is better but oif the nurses who worked in LTC for years and years are happy with the way it...

  5. Ok people, face facts: Staffing in LTC is always going to be outrageous!

    Jaimie.RN replied to southernbeegirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I don't mind running and working my butt off for my whole shift. However, when I don't have the time to take a set of vitals for a patient or do good wound care or even talk to them for 1 minute,...

  6. Help me get through this!!!! Tough first nursing job

    Jaimie.RN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I feel for you. I had the exact same situation at my job but just got a new job and quit my old job. They stuck me with 33 patients though and no help, on nights where I have no one to call, and the...

  7. Ok people, face facts: Staffing in LTC is always going to be outrageous!

    Jaimie.RN replied to southernbeegirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It's an all 5-star rated medicare facility in Ohio. They hire plenty of nurses because it's private pay for the most part and VERY expensive. I hate to say it but medicare will never fund nursing...

  8. Ok people, face facts: Staffing in LTC is always going to be outrageous!

    Jaimie.RN replied to southernbeegirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Where I was it was't a matter of call-offs, just plain not wanting to pay another nurse to come in so dumping 30+ patients all on one

  9. Ok people, face facts: Staffing in LTC is always going to be outrageous!

    Jaimie.RN replied to southernbeegirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My new job has nurse staffing where no nurse gets over 18 patients in my unit. So I'd say that if you want to wrestle 30+ patients and have not a second to be safe, go for

  10. Ok people, face facts: Staffing in LTC is always going to be outrageous!

    Jaimie.RN replied to southernbeegirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The problem is that staffing is unsafe whether it is the norm or not. If you're willing to take the abuse, have at it. Be my guest. And if there were jobs for new grad RN's in anyplace besides LTC,...

  11. Am I just being a big baby?

    Jaimie.RN replied to mamarhonda's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    60 patients, even non-total care patients, for one nurse is simply a

  12. Another low staffing - am i being a baby- new nurse post!

    Jaimie.RN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The 33 patients they gave me needed more than just a pill and the blankets pulled up. They say "ltc" but those patients are needy. I simply don't have the time to be safe and thorough with that many...

  13. New Grad RN- Drowning in overloaded LTC setting- LOW STAFFING!

    Jaimie.RN replied to Jaimie.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I know automatic machines are a pain, but when you have piece of garbage manuals and no time to do them or patients who fight you or who seize, it gets a little old trying to take manuals. It'd help...

  14. Another low staffing - am i being a baby- new nurse post!

    Jaimie.RN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Well the DON at our facility drives a lexus, has all kinds of horses, ATV's, a huge house. She does NO patient care then tells us "you need to take more patients with less hours and less help because...

  15. Another low staffing - am i being a baby- new nurse post!

    Jaimie.RN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    And I'm sorry. 30 patients is physically too much. Even if it is just a med pass. I just quit a position where they stuck me 7p-7a with 33 patients, 2 aides (they don't do sugars or vitals or anything...

  16. Staff/Patient Ratio - 30 Patients per Nurse

    Jaimie.RN replied to Colima's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    reviving this thread: Am I the only person who thinks that just because "it is the norm" that 30 patients for one nurse (no lpn assistance, and just 2 aides who don't do sugars or vitals) plus no unit...

  17. Another low staffing - am i being a baby- new nurse post!

    Jaimie.RN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    They seem to have tons of money for streamers and decorations and crap for every holiday, too. They can afford to hire another nurse so my life isn't HELL and patients are SAFE. If I didn't see the...

  18. Another low staffing - am i being a baby- new nurse post!

    Jaimie.RN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    All I know is that in an 8 hour shift, a nurse with 30 patients has 15 minutes (with a hald hour break because where I was at, they took your pay for 1/2 hour whether you took a break or not) per each...

  19. "If they really cared about their mom, they wouldn't of put her in a nursing home"

    Jaimie.RN replied to Bruce_Wayne's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I disagree with that because sometimes life doesn't allow you to give up all your time to care for an elderly relative. HOWEVER, with the current state of LTC facilities and extremely poor staffing,...

  20. Another low staffing - am i being a baby- new nurse post!

    Jaimie.RN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I suppose I read wrong, but this is a proposed staffing law anyhow. I think 5 patients to one nurse is fair. i think over 12 is too much and unsafe....

  21. Another low staffing - am i being a baby- new nurse post!

    Jaimie.RN replied to SnowboardRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    In CA in a SNF the law of patient/nurse ration is 5:1. I think patient morbidity and mortality would greatly improve if all states adopted this. All I see in SNF today is NEGLECT. Short staffing is...

  22. New Grad RN- Drowning in overloaded LTC setting- LOW STAFFING!

    Jaimie.RN replied to Jaimie.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I put in my two weeks today and she didn't even want it. Too bad I guess. I already have been hired at another LTC facility where I start tomorrow and have a hospital interview. She was ****** and...

  23. New Grad RN- Drowning in overloaded LTC setting- LOW STAFFING!

    Jaimie.RN replied to Jaimie.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My training was following another struggling nurse for one night then I was on my own. I am so fed up with

  24. New Grad RN- Drowning in overloaded LTC setting- LOW STAFFING!

    Jaimie.RN replied to Jaimie.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My other job just basically offered me a spot on days too. So why stay at this place. Makes me feel like a failure/quitter But I can't do that to myself and I don't want to be the nurse with 30...

  25. New Grad RN- Drowning in overloaded LTC setting- LOW STAFFING!

    Jaimie.RN replied to Jaimie.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I just don't want to work somewhere where I feel I can't give safe care to my patients and I can't be fair to myself. I don't mind hard work, but I don't want to kill myself to do the bare bones...