ShelbyaStar

Hi there. i am just starting my journey into nursing and am looking into different programs and options. I am interested in Osh Kosh's accelerated program as I already have a BS in Animal Science and don't want to waste a lot of time. It sounds like...

I'm a new nurse that started working at this facility in July. Census has been hanging around 40 and I work nights. Acuity is not super high, most of my time is spent giving PRN pain meds and dealing with behaviors, and on some other random tasks tha...

This made me laugh because I'm an LTC nurse that would never do any such thing, though I can see why some would. Incidentally, I was recently a L&D patient coming in for potential preeclampsia concerns, crying because I was worried about my preg...

I meant to update this thread and didn't get around to it. The plot thickens. I did call in the next day (I think?). The nurse that would have supposedly taken my shift answered the phone. I told her I wouldn't be coming in that night and she said s...

Thank you all. Sometimes some validation via internet is very nice to have! To update, last evening I texted the scheduler to ask what this plan was. He said sorry, New Nurse would pick up. I immediately asked if her number was in the phone list sinc...

What shift do you work? I am relatively new as well and started on evenings. It was too much! Days are busy, but at least there are people around to ask questions to. I frequently worked by myself on evenings and it was so crazy, a lot of times I wou...

When I started nursing school I had the idea I was interested in L&D or being a school nurse. I knew I DIDN'T really want anything to do with ER or surgery. Still pretty much following these same lines, though I've also realized I think that I'd...

I started on evenings and hated it. Switched to nights and like it much better, but I don't think it's sustainable over the life of a career. It works for now. It is hard to stick with- on my nights off I end up falling asleep and then screwing up my...

You don't internet much, do you. This is kind of the tone that i see as very normal across the many forums I've participated in since I was 14 years old. Horse ones, nurse ones, wedding ones, baby ones, general interest ones. People tend to be prett...

Yes, planning on getting some and surrounding myself soon, especially now that I work nights! I've been meaning to look into this. Thank you for the kind thoughts.

Wow. I'm a new grad with an ADN and got offered $26/hr from one LTC facility, the same from an agency, and $28/hr plus retention bonuses from the LTC I did go to work for. That's crazy. I watch job sites a lot and it's rare to see jobs post their wag...

Proof of income to go buy a house. We attempted to go through the process in the past but the banks don't like part time income and wouldn't even count it, even when I was working two part time jobs with way more hours than I currently work. Still in...

I think it's pretty well established that healthcare workers are at a little bit higher risk of suicide than others, though I wouldn't call it a trend, and I think this tends to address doctors more than nurses. I saw an article the other day about v...

As others said, you aren't going to lose your license unless you are doing something seriously dishonest or negligent. TBH, you'll make a lot of mistakes and so will everyone else, but mostly it'll be missing giving someone a Senna or something like ...

This does sound like a lot to me. At my facility we utilize TMAs quite a bit but it wasn't unusual for me to be the only person on one floor that could do meds or anything for 20 patients, and then I'd have to go to another floor to do insulins and o...

I think it is a good route to take, and am doing the same myself, though I just have my ADN and therefore didn't have a great chance of getting hospital work. Some say that once you start working in LTC you get stuck there and hospitals won't want yo...

No matter what, an error was made. Even if the newer patch fell off, that would mean it was put on without removing the old one. Still a problem. Management lashing at you over it is a big problem- as others said, what exactly else are you supposed t...

I think it's great that you're happy where you're at! I wish that was the case for more people in LTC, myself included. Too many glorify the hospital setting I think. It sounds like you gave it a try and prefer LTC. Why worry about it? And you're so ...

Do not clock out before your work is done. This isn't legal. I am required to be clocked in even for the dumb monthly computer trainings that my work requires. Staying an hour or two after a shift is pretty normal- I stayed later than that many times...

I do best with an open ended system, so the report sheets at my work are fine with me. They have each patient's name with three columns that are meant for the three different sheets, but I just right all over as needed. I do agree it's helpful to wri...

I work in LTC, aka the land of paper charts, so... FOR THE LOVE OF GOSH PLEASE PUT THE CHARTS BACK ON THE SHELF WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM. I'm not even a particularly tidy person myself, but I hate coming on a shift to charts sprawled all over the ...

I'm curious if there's any thoughts on as to whether the business model impacts the quality of care. There's a lot of threads here discussing good vs bad LTC facilities. Do you think it's better to work for a small facility, one owned by a larger cor...

I'm a new nurse that took a LTC job. I can't say I've experienced working elsewhere, though my clinicals were at some pretty good hospitals. As much as I would've liked to have worked at a hospital, many of the new grad positions I saw were only par...

Everyone finds something that works for them, so this is what I did when I was on top of things. I did the readings most of the time. We had Pearson's online text mostly, so I would have that open and make flashcards on quizlet as I went. Then I'd g...

I passed it as well! Good luck everyone! It felt really hard and confusing at the time, but looking back it's like WTH was that? Not a ton of content. Glad I didn't waste my time memorizing a bunch of little things, or waste money on a bunch of diff...