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I've been working at an LTC facility for approximately 6 months now. I have only been a nurse for... approximately 1 year and I came from home care to this facility. Over the past few weeks there have been an increasing amount of complaints brought t...

I'm pretty sure you can go anywhere once you have some experience under your belt. My aunt has been a nurse for over 30 years and according to her it doesn't matter where the experience comes from as long as it's experience. You might have to take ba...

CHEER UP! Hello everyone, one year ago I posted a topic on here fretting about failing the NCLEX twice in a row. I am here to give some chin-up advice to those who may be in the same boat. First of all, allow me to introduce my situation. Throughout ...

The only way I could ever see this as justifiable is if your company has a policy to not hire it's own patients. But to not hire someone due to a disability is not right...

It depends on what you need to learn before the test. Kaplan is useful for people who have the content down but need more practice with test taking. Hurst is better for people who need more content. (I did both.) Neither is better than the other and ...

Good luck! :)

Be patient. It took me a few months to finally get an interview. Apply everywhere and don't be picky. Right off the bat everyone is looking for people with experience and you don't have that yet. Get a job where you can and stick it out for a year th...

Unfortunately it is necessary. I have to do this daily and I'm not even in a hospital, I'm in LTC. You want to catch s/sx of infection as soon as possible. You need to know if a wound becomes open again, if they are bleeding, inflamed or puss-filled....

Mandated flu vaccines and smoking are not comparable. Flu vaccines are to prevent the spread of the flu to the residents and other staff. My smoking off campus does not affect my patients or other staff.

My favorite nurse to work with is an elderly gentleman. He's former military and after that he worked for GM. When GM crashed a few years ago he took up nursing. He's in his 70s now and been nursing for at least 10 years. He's great! It's never to la...

Our CNAs have been reporting a mouse in our facility for months now but no one else ever saw it so no one believed them (these two specifically complain a lot and aren't known to be the most honest about their complaints and some of their stories wer...

I'm a BSN graduate... it took me 8 months to find a job even WITH a BSN.

To be honest I never wanted to be a nurse. Ever. In my wildest dreams, never. I never wanted to do patient care, I never wanted to deal with bodily fluids, medications or the responsibilities of keeping people alive. I don't deal well with stress and...

This would be wonderful! Especially for new grads (not unlike myself). We all need support systems whether we're new or experienced. Anxiety is HUGE in nursing and one of the best ways to help with it is to talk with other people who feel it as well....

I understand having to call other departments. I do it all the time in LTC but I also understand that those departments get busy and backed up as well. Orders don't always get turned in properly or with proper notice and things slip through the crack...

I know you probably have preferences as to what yu want to do, but if you can't find a job why not search for other things like LTC? There's tons of jobs out there for nurses in long term care settings because new grads seem to think it's "not for th...

I put in applications everywhere and I work in LTC now. I didn't think I'd like it at first but I had to pay the bills somehow. Once I got in there it was just fine. I talked to my charge nurse and supervisor about my goals in the future and they bot...

Hello, my name is Elizabeth and I have been a nurse for a little under a year now. I have been thinking long and hard for months now about what I want to do from here, debating between getting an MD or a DNP degree. My aunt is a nurse practitioner w...

I work LTC with hospice residents. There are always patients that will stick with you. Having emotional connections with patients isn't always a bad thing! Assess the situation and know where your emotions lie. Find a good way of dealing with these f...

I work in LTC and I have a resident who is constantly calling for her recently deceased husband (who, by the way, passed away in the same room as her). We don't tell her her husband passed because in ten minutes she'll ask where he is again and it wi...

I know we're not supposed to do this and I don't know what youre nurse's patient load was, but sometimes we don't have time to wait for a resident to leave the dinning room. THAT SAID yuo should NEVER give a resident g-tube medications in the dinning...

I don't mind helping my CNAs but sometimes they get angry with me for not helping them. For instance, I was in the middle of medpass at my facility (mind you there is me and 2-3 CNAs with approximately 32 residents to care for on every wing) and I as...

It depends on where you are working. At the facility I work at some nights I would be able to study and some nights I would not. The majority of the time you're still on your feet moving all night. If you're in a hospital then it depends on your unit...

I'm just worried that any classes I take won't count. For instance, when I got into the nursing program at EMU they only counted the pre-requisite classes when calculating your GPA. All other classes were excluded so this GPA was different than the o...

My suggestion is, if you know nothing about nursing, is to go and shadow a nurse at a hospital or a facility. Many people don't really know what a nurse actually does before they get into the program and can become overwhelmed at the responsibilities...