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Thank you

Harassment lawsuit! If it keeps happening. I won because my supervisor would so call chastise me during conference calls . I spoke with her about it but to no avail. then she called me out in front of my coworkers about not picking up extra shifts on my days off and about getting another job instead of picking up the shifts at the nursing home .Oh and yes I had to get another job

Harassment lawsuit! If it keeps happening. I won because my supervisor would so call chastise me during conference calls . I spoke with her about it but to no avail. then she called me out in front of my coworkers about not picking up extra shifts on my days off and about getting another job instead of picking up the shifts at the nursing home

I work the skilled unit 7pm -7a in a LTC facilityand I have 40 patients. At times. I have help to passing pills from 7p-11pm but this is not the norm. Most times , I work by myself with 3 CNAs

LMAO! Sent my son with Dad to ER with history and they asked him She's a nurse isn't she? LOL

On your days off ,you should be given orientation and get familiar with the paperwork and the med cart which is going to take some days to learn itself. One time during the holidays there was a call out and it took the DON and the Asst. DON on one cart to pass out the pills it took the whole eight hours on the morning shift! LMAO

I don't know about you but I have bills to pay such as rent and utilities and without going back to school Im not going to get a job paying me 23.00/hr. I cant live off of 10.00 an hour so I stay miserable. Where are you working that's not miserable so that I can come get a job? Maybe you havent worked in LTC before this forum is always broadcasting the misery in nursing. I say more of us are miserable than happy and this is because of the politics of nursing and nursing being run as a business and so many other things that arent being talked about but rather swept under the rug Nursing has gone to pot!

I myself started nursing when I was young and naive and didn't have the balls to speak up for myself. I lacked confidence because I was a new nurse and didn't have required the skill set yet to be autonomous so I relied on my "coworkers" to " show" me the ropes . REmember this, Just because every LPN or RN has a license it doesn't mean that the way they do things are the right way to do them. Girl, I tell you that was many years ago, Now I'm a loud mouthed nurse who knows better than take the word of her coworkers that the meds have been given, orders transcribed, the doctors have been called, the tube feedings have been hung and are running, transportation has been confirmed, the lab draw was done, the foley was changed and so on and so on.... You learn to follow up on your coworkers because many times if the mistake isn;t caught on your shift everybody gets written up. This job is a headache but the money is good. You always have to C.Y.A ( Cover your A...) this means making sure the CNAs are doing their jobs properly, your doing what your suppose to do and when you have a meeting with manangement they are going to have a witness and you bring a witness too. Keep your mouth shut don't gossip , tell your business, or get in with the clique. It's no way to to sugar coat nursing and who ever does is lying. Nursing needs its own reality show, with the REAL in it!

If you are a Christian, I believe that you must not stand down because someone denounces Christ. I may not be right but I always pray with my patients, ask God to have mercy on their souls and then ask them if they have taken Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. What is EOL?

You just started in nursing. Get back to me in 2 yrs, if it takes that long for the rose colored glasses to break LOL Hilarious! We're miserable for a reason.

I'm going through hell right now on my job because of politics. Please try to get this poll out there its the same thing Iv'e been saying tor years . Management keeps pushing more and more on us and its unsafe for the patients!

Hi, contact HR first and then if no results corporate. You do not have to interact with anyone other that work related interactions. Right now , Im going through the same thing.

Skiilled patients get charted on every shift. falls=incident report and nurses notes, Falls are charted on 3 days unless there is an injury then we chart until the injury is resolved. Antibiotics until course finished and then s/p 3 days for any adverse reactions. Anybody on report gets charted on until they come off ask what the policies are at your facility , carry a notebook with you until you get them downpacked Soon you'll have a routine

After a week of not sending a patient out (he didn't look good at all ) On change of shift they found him unresponsive and had to call a code. Of course, it was swept under the rug that the nurses delayed treatment

Are both of you in VA sounds like you work at my facility?