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  1. LTC geri chairs

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to Neats's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Sounds like this is a dementia resident who does not want to be showered....or doesnt understand what is happening to him/her. I think you first should do some investigating as to why the resident is...

  2. AM PM Med Pass

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    60 residents on a med pass....my staff would freak! They think they're overloaded

  3. Doesn't It Make You Want To Scream, part two

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Does make you wonder where people's common sense goes sometimes doesn't

  4. I'm back!!

    LTCRN4LIFE posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    and I need advice! I am a new DNS...year and a half.... tell me when does it feel like you have this "under

  5. I'm back!!

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I am at my 2nd building......when I first went there I walked into clean up of Survey and for the first couple of months the state was there every week...on old stuff....but they got a G tag and I had...

  6. Doesn't It Make You Want To Scream, part two

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I'm with ya on this one.....and some days I too think "What the H...?" Just go back and work the floor and be done with it....Go home and not think about it all the time......and then I pull myself up...

  7. Gaining experience

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to savoytruffle's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I agree and share your confience. They will look for that. Be kind, polite and

  8. Checklist for Nurse Manager

    LTCRN4LIFE posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I am looking to develop a checklist for new Nurse Managers that is a guideline to tell them what they are responsible for. It is so hard to include everything this position does. Please help me make a...

  9. New Nurse Manager/Supervisor

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to idobelieve's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I'd say it depends on what you have to do. How many Skilled? Do you have to attend all IDT meetings? Wound Rounds? Staffing?

  10. Most effective Recruitment Strategy

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Thank you all for your input. So far I have set up a Conference complete with Lunch.....4 Speakers....Vendors and now to get the word out. Am planning on doing a mailing and inviting the local...

  11. Most effective Recruitment Strategy

    LTCRN4LIFE posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    What have you done in your recruitment efforts for Licensed Nurses that you think was most effective at bringing in new

  12. Correct me if I'm wrong

    LTCRN4LIFE posted a topic in Orthopedic

    In my world (SNF Rehab/LTC) we must get all people who fall off the floor with a Hoyer. I cringe when I see post surgical hip pts in a sling...with their hip bent beyond a 90 degree flexion. Correct?...

  13. Most effective Recruitment Strategy

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Well really it depends on what the Nurse needs. Usually they get 5 shifts of orientation though I have done more if it was

  14. AM PM Med Pass

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Census 120 full. 4 units....30 residents per unit. Other facilities in my area have done it and it is okay. The reasoning is...not everyone takes their Vitamin at 8a, or 7a or 9a every day. If they...

  15. Is this Safe? Census: 45 / ID Bands: 0 / # of Nurses: 1

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to carriebarton59's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I once worked in a facility that sent a resident to the ED for an eval. The ED looked the resident up in their EMR by the hospital number on the bracelet and treated and medicated the resident....

  16. Most effective Recruitment Strategy

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Yes I have done that but most people have in their mind what they want and few choose SNF/LTC right out of the gate...its a tug of war with the local hospitals and most do Preceptorships for the new...

  17. Culture Change in a Secured Dementia Unit

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to ClearBlueOctoberSky's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I have done this too and my first thoughts when reading your post before you said it were: If your not careful you are going to have weight loss...first....next comes Pressure Ulcers.....Contractures...

  18. Most effective Recruitment Strategy

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Yes but I am also in a small area. I have done the online and newspapers. We have a large referral bonus and we are going to send flyers out to all Nurses in the area. I am thinking about a Job Fair...

  19. AM PM Med Pass

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I once saw the terms of how to change this....I need to get back on the hunt for

  20. AM PM Med Pass

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    We give the Synthroid at 1100 and Coumadins at 8p for the same reason you list...but the idea behind the am and pm is the daily meds that are once a day or BID can be scheduled for am and pm then you...

  21. Nurses Day

    LTCRN4LIFE posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I am not combining CNA day with Nurses day in my facility. Instead I am going to meet with each group seperately and promote the idea that we have a day where the CNA's honor the Nurses and in Sept...

  22. Nurses Day

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to LTCRN4LIFE's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Yes. I guess I gave the wrong impression. It has been the history of my experience that they combine the days. For the nurses who have endured much longer and more stringent programs of study and are...

  23. should a RN be a med tec for a LPN

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to nowim clean's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I am reading this with my chin hanging down at the responses you are getting and asking myself ?? Where is CapeCod Mermaid to set the record straight? Oh a sigh of relief when I see the appropraite...

  24. Difficult families

    LTCRN4LIFE replied to HurricaneCasRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    33 years in Nursing has given me hundreds of difficult families and I have to say the way I deal with it works for me and I will never change....but to each his own.....when I get a new patient and...

  25. Taking the leap~~Nervously

    LTCRN4LIFE posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    For years I have wanted to do this....I have done most all management positions in LTC but never the DNS. I know this is going to be stressful but I function best with too much on my slate. However,...