NuggetRN

We had a CNA once make a call on her personal cell phone while in a resident's room (witnessed by another CNA) to someone telling them to call the facility.... five minutes later after answering this call she runs screaming to the front of the building that her daughter has fallen down the stairs. Not the first time she has pulled something like this, and they still let her go home.

I have locked my keys in my med cart once, on third shift, nobody but me in the building. Gah, texted another nurse and she told me how to get into the supervisors office to get the spare keys... which involved an interesting sort of scavenger hunt for like four different keys just to get in the door, lol. I am forever locking myself out of the med room, we used to have a pretty easily accessible spare key but nurses kept wandering off with it and she took it away (I managed to never do that at least). Can't wait for third shift to lock themselves out and then she has to drive there in the middle of the night : )

My husband gives me crap too, he doesn't think anything about calling off (not that he does it very often). I have to remind him that my calling off will possibly ruin the night of 5-6 other people. I have called off before but it has been for pretty good reasons

My dog birthed six puppies which I helped care for during nursing school! Of course I still lived with my mom so that helped. Then I moved out with two of them three months later, and got married in the middle of a semester. But I am also a little bit insane, and I wouldn't suggest it for everyone!

I was literally just having this conversation with the parent of one of my homecare clients. This is a comfort measure that will not prolong the patient's life

Thank you guys for your encouragement... I am going to apply for the job this weekend/working on it a little bit right now. I have been ridiculously busy these last few weeks. I worked last night and I waited around for some time because I wanted to talk to the director that is currently standing in, but ended up leaving because I have to be at work tonight as well. The day nurse actually went and spoke to her about me (she is one that has been pressuring me to apply) and was met with a resounding "she should definitely apply!" So I think that has really helped and I am just going to go for it!

You are right, it is very business oriented. The ED basically runs the entire facility. There would be a nursing director under me to handle the bulk of the nursing matters, then floor nurses who pass meds, do treatments, etc... The ED would also oversee various other departments such as activities, dietary, maintainance, sales. Obviously a big change from nursing, but would benefit from being looked at from a nurses perspective

I have been asked by my fellow nurses to apply for a position at our assisted living community as the executive director. Our current ED left suddenly last week to take a job at another community within the same company. There is a stand in director currently in the building while the position is vacant. Geriatric nursing is my passion; I have the drive and the desire to make a positive impact in the lives of these people. I want to work at a level where I can help to make decisions and make a difference in day to day workings of the community. This is a job that I see myself doing, and doing well. I am smart and I am driven to learn new imformation. This is what I have wanted to do for as long as I can remember. I have my BSN, and it is my ultimate goal to go back to school and get my masters in business with a focus in gerontology/health administration. The problem is is that this is just coming way too soon! I have worked in this community for four years, only one of which has been as a nurse. So I have one year of nursing experience and three as an aide. My original plan was to be a floor nurse for a while, work my way up, go back to school, etc... This was supposed to take years, not one year! While I am very flattered by the suggestion that I should just go for it, I can't help but feel like the idea of me even trying for this kind of thing is completely insane given my level of experience. I am concerned I will be thrown into something and it will become a giant trainwreck and something I thought I would love becomes something that I hate. I suppose though, that I might as well find out now rather than later if it's something I am going to put my time into. The other piece of information is that the stand in director asked one of our nurses who is an LPN and has been for only a year if he was going to apply for the position. She stated to him that the training would be provided, etc... Tell me what you think... Am I crazy to pass this up, or am I crazy to even think this is something I could go for?