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I don't consider these places good places to work. If they have shady, unresponsive human resources departments (that the facility allows) what else is the place like. My experience is they are cold, indifferent places to work.

Maybe it's your location. Some areas graduates have jobs before they graduate.

I would brush it off, because someone has to take charge over the code. If it is a medical emergency, people have to move out of the way, get the equipment without thought to their own feelings. I simply would not care what the LPN said, the child needs immediate attention and that is what is important. To the non medical personnel (teacher), I would make it a point to say it was not meant to be harmful. Easy to criticize someone when you are not responsible for the code.

Did you sign a contract? If so how many years? Besides the baked in contract of having the BSN paid for, you have to sign a contract. Is this correct?

It must be very distressing to hear that. It's wrong all the way around. You have every right to let your employer know that this is not acceptable. He smokes MJ and abuses animals. Imagine what this guy would do to children. I would make a police report and never go back.

You're entitled to your PTO. Call in, only the amount where you don't need a doctors note if that matters, whatever your policy is, get your paid time off. It's their responsibility to get the shift covered especially if you have been treated so poorly. Just say you're not feeling well (because you really aren't), and call in.

A lot of the doctors in LTC probably 100+ patients and are affiliated with many different facilities. They aren't even involved with the patient and haven't seen the patient in months.

Somebody should have addressed the wound. Whichever nurse was assigned for wound care. It sounds like a practice issue and not an abuse issue.

In Texas I've seen in home health, guns just laying on the table when you go to a patients house. But in hospitals or any health facility that I'm aware of, there is a very clear sign outside the door that prohibits carrying a gun inside a facility.

This doesn't sound like the appropriate action to take, to take this patient to the nurse station, and undress a wound. Maybe the administrator or DON was unhappy because you didn't follow the chain of command, file an incident report, etc? Not sure if you called APS that day or after you received a response from your administrator. Not that the administrator is a nurse, but if there's a problem it seems that APS was not the correct agency to call.

Not only test taking, but meet with your instructors and identify why your thinking isn't aligning with the right answers on the tests.

Sounds like an unstable work environment. They are stable patients, but when 1 fall turns into 2, and 2 wounds to 3, a patient turns into a hospice patient, the work adds up. You still have to admit, call MDs, ensure code status and send via 911.

Identify where you are going wrong. I would fix that first before attempting again.

Have you tried dialysis, psych, LTAC, agency or home health? Either that or personal physicians office.

You HAVE to know this is wrong. You are a nurse and they don't teach this in your nursing curriculum. You selected everything but this statement on nursing exams I'm sure just so you could 'pass'. Besides, you're being paid to work at a facility, so this cheap shot should stay far from your disgruntled heart. Sometimes people are blinded by their circumstances. You might have to call in rather than work with the patient. You probably wouldn't say this aloud for someone to hear I would assume.