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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 he...

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 i...

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 a...

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 tha...

One of my first nursing jobs, I worked with a nurse who called me "snap-back" . I was like "what? what does that mean?" She smiled and laughed---"your skin still snaps back". That was 22 years ago....not so snap back anymore. Yep, I have got som...

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 threa...

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 li...

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?" Th...

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 i...

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 ...

take care of your self and give out hugs and tissues liberally to all.....it will be a rough week and will be thinking of you.

I have managed to not work in one of our blizzards so far, my luck has run out and am working tomorrow. It has been brutal.....but at the same time fun. The boys have shoveled the roof off and then jumped off the roof into the pile! My dad had to ...

Each resident has their own....when they are finished with it, it gets returned to company. Neb txs are all at the same time so that would be very inconvenient if I had to wait for A bed to finish his to give it to B bed, yk?

Yes to all the posts.....I worked Wednesday and I held a lady's hand and comforted her family as she was dying. I had taken care of this precious lady before her cancer had advanced and she had the most wonderful sense of humor to the point of namin...

In addition to above our noc nurses do 24 hr chart checks, making sure all new orders are entered. Monthly summaries. All meds for the whole house(45pts) for 11pm-7am as there is no med tech on the night shift.

That would be nice to have....we have a daily INR for one resident right now and that means someone to draw everyday and run it to a lab---10miles away.

We just recently had 2 residents pass away.....one had been skilled then fell, broke her hip and a very sudden decline....she was skilled even though she was on comfort care. Another was declining gradually and over the course of a month she just fa...

Our social worker makes the decisions on admissions also, taking people as skilled when we can't justify the need for skilled. Taking residents with a history of behavior issues and then saying "they can't be that bad".....umm yes they can/are that...

We have a resident who has been with us a month and she is having a hard time. She has severe anxiety when left on her own(was this way prior to admit). She seeks out staff, other residents, visitors and anyone to stay with her(even in the hallway...