JenLPN001

I have always worked LTC and I enjoy it. Yes it can be stressful and yes we're always understaffed but for the past 4 years I have worked for a family owned facility that specializes in Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. It is challenging to sa...

Had a resident once tell me to go to hell. Without thinking, replied "I'm already there"

OMG I know that man!!!!!!!!! I kid you not, we've got a resident, very HOH, dementia, has pulled his cath out with balloon inflated so many times that he looks like a split hot dog (ok bad visual but anyway...) and that's what he says ALL the time an...

I went over to Amazon and got a really good pulse ox for about $30. There are so many different companies and styles and I really haven't heard any negatives about reliability of any particular type. Believe it or not, you can get relatively inexpens...

I started my first year of PN school during my last year of high school, through a vo-tech program. Had a pre-test which was basically just common sense and a bit of math, but then again, we're talking about back in 1987 so I'm sure things have chang...

I graduated LPN school in 1989, in Virginia. At that time, phlebotomoy could not be taught in the LPN program but we all took a course in it about a week after graduation. Believe it or not, haven't stuck a vein since.

Hey, where are ya? Our facility can definitely use an experienced LPN! Several actually... Oh and after 30 years, who WOULDN'T be overwhelmed at times? Sheesh, seems to me there would have been some alternative that could have been figured out rathe...

I've gotten that same attitude from people for years. Had more than one family member say to me "are you an LPN or are you a REAL nurse?" AAARRRGGGHHHH!!! I decided to make fun of it though. See, obviously RN = Real Nurse, therefore LPN must = Learne...

I work in an Alzheimer's/Dementia facility. Every one of our 60 residents has some type of dementia diagnosis. We allow our residents to "age in place" so we have a very broad spectrum of cognitive ability represented. Our Administrator is an insomni...

"I told 2 squabbling 80 + yr olds to "GO to your room, if you can't get along". (I work LTC.) Then I remembered, not only was that probably NOT appropriate for me to say, but they are in the SAME room!! LOL" OMG did this one night last week!! Next t...

This was my Facebook status yesterday.... Dear Friday, Please be nice to me. The rest of the week has made me want to scoop my eyeballs out with a melon baller. Sincerely, Me and dang it.... Friday didn't listen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where I work we had a resident who had such bad urinary retention for so long that upon hospitalization, the top of his bladder was even with his navel. Had him come to our facility and he was constantly pulling on his cath and ended up pulling it ou...

I work for a small, family owned Alzheimer's/dementia facility. We have our little fights between shifts, but nothing major. I think that even if you counted kitchen and housekeeping staff, we don't even have 50 people total. Our Administrator is als...

I've seen a few full codes on hospice at our facility. Usually it was because although the family is accepting that the resident is nearing end of life, they're not fully ready to totally let go. There's also a lot of guilt involved too. They feel th...

Raise your hand if you had to look "raise" (this usage) up in the dictionary before replying to this thread

Oh to run them down and feel that THUMP THUMP of the wheels going over top of their bodies.......................... oh sorry, was daydreaming there!! We've had a wife pound.. and I do mean POUND on the window of our nurse's station and that was the ...

Here in VA we have CNA/Med Techs. I personally work with 8 of them and they are well trained, knowledgeable and know when to ask for help or to have a question answered. They did not start out as med techs, they were chosen by US to recieve the addit...

Gotta preface this by saying I work in a 60 bed, privately owned ALF that is 100% Alzheimer's/Dementia care. We don't have unit clerks, but we do have an administrative assistant who answers the phones, pushes the button to let visitors in and out, e...

Working in an ALF, unit clerks are like a mythical creature... we've all heard of them but never seen one! But I don't care if you're God himself... you sleep on the clock, you get shown the door!! If our administrator was the one giving the boot, yo...

This actually happened several years ago but figured I'd ask how others would handle it. I was working on a skilled unit in our local hospital, typical day, nothing special happening. Was approached by a patient's family member and asked, "Are you an...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh sometimes I have to thank the owners of my facility for not going paperless!!! I swore to never again complain about writer's cramp or sore fingers when I started working there.... and after almost 4 years I haven't! I think it's ridicu...

I can only speak from the way things are at the places I've worked. When I worked hospitals, there was usually a separate HR dept and from what I have gleaned is that it's ok to call..... ONCE... and I wouldn't necessarily call to "check on the statu...

Well I'm lucky in a way.... no RN to "dis" me. In a way it sucks though because it's kind of nice to have someone else to go to on occasion but that's ok. Normally the only RNs I have contact with are with one of the hospices we work with and they ar...

Agree to disagree? How about agree to agree? You nailed it! I work in an Alzheimer's facility and there are days (evenings in my case) where we're lucky to be able to keep our "strippers" from doing a strip tease in the dining room, get everyone fed ...

This thread makes me wonder about the thoughts of the nurses involved in my mother's "frequent flyer" days. Of course, everyone will say her situation was "different" because she was FINALLY diagnosed with liver cancer 2 months before she died. We di...