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Resident's family was visiting. His daughter was very obese....500lb range. She needed to use the bathroom and the CNA if she would help her wipe. CNA came to me to ask if she had to do this. I said no but would talk with the daughter and let her know we couldn't do this. I spoke to the daughter and told her as nicely as I could that "I am sorry this is not a service we provide for family members"....she was so disappointed and her mother was upset....well what are we going to do?"...the mother proceeds to think over their dilemma and then asked for a pair of gloves and said to daughter "guess I have got to do it, get in there and lets get it over with".......

No words, but wow....what a powerful story! Thanks to "Justin" for making this little boys life so much richer.

Just recently we had a resident that took a sudden turn for the worse and family decided to keep her comfortable. So next day family comes in spends a few minutes with the resident. As they were leaving they told the staff, "we trust that she is in good hands, call us when she passes" I don't know what type of life this lady led and I am not passing judgement....but I was floored. Thankfully she passed peacefully the next day.

Considering that I work in LTC, not surprised at some comments. But one night I finished doing LLL blood sugar and she was waiting for a CNA to get her ready for bed. So I had a few minutes and did her HS care, lotion, powder ect. Get her PJ's on and she whispers "You're just trying to kill me, kill, KILL, KILL" Then went on to holler repeatedly "I'm dying"

In addition to all of the above, I would next time he touches you in a loud voice say "You have one second to take your hands off me or I will knee you in the groin, Do you understand?" and follow thru with it. Make sure your co-workers know so that you are never left alone with or near him.

Adding my prayers for restored health and healing for Esme!

4yo Johnny vomited once at about 3 hours ago, now running around the ER happy as a lark! Police take handcuffs off young lady and instructs her to sit among the general population of the ER, informing that "you will sit in that chair and not threaten to harm yourself or anyone else, do you understand?"

Had a diabetic that had a BKA and the surgical wound became infected and mult complications. Gentleman wouldn't allow surgeons to a above knee amp. So we were doing daily dressing changes pulling the skin flap up over exposed bone, skin flap was literally hanging. Tissue had literally rotted away from bone. It was nasty. Finally he allowed the AKA and healed well, went home and learned to walk again with his prosthesis.

Another thought---we just had a resident have labs and her WBC was 20.7 and I first thought infection....then dug deep into her medical records and found she had CLL.

A nurse manager is going to want names of people that are not following protocol. Once you open that can of worms then it is difficult to get the lid on. How are you going to respond when NM says and just "who left meds on the cart unattended?" Then it backs you into a corner and make you look bad when you say you are not willing to disclose that info. I remember having those same feelings when a new grad thinking....that' not how I was taught". It might be better to ask a curious why then report to the manager.

What ever works for payback.....

don't worry about the OR they see that more than you know. I wonder if once you start to do dressings your self if you handle it just fine. Do you have any warning you are going to faint, if so pre warn others so they can be alerted.

Yes, they acted a bit overboard. More helpful would have been a nice note asking you to use X product on his lips instead of the TAO.

I tease my co-worker for being late and we can laugh about it. She tries to be on time and she has even shared that she was up on time and then started puttering in the house and one thing led to another and she is 15-20 min late. The funny thing is she lives less than a mile away from work, me 25 miles away.

I got a call from school one day and the secretary was like "your son had an accident" I am like is he ok, does he need emergency care? It was like pulling teeth from a cat to get correct info from her. It would have been more helpful for her to say. "Your son needs a change of clothes, he didn't make it to the restroom in time" Geesh!