LTCnewbie45

My dilemma....came in to relieve dayshift nurse....to whom did not carry out an order given to her by physician to put fluids on a patient for dehydration. DON knew it had not been done and said nightshft could do it. Order given 3 pm. This is serious med error......on that nurse but DON blamed me ?????? Im confused........

Just gave my 2 week notice with LTC and going into a state facility. Looking forward to it. Never worked in it but always up for new adventures and advancement. Talked to many that work in it and they love it. I hate leaving the residents. Worry about them all the time. Always go back in for my 3-12s nightshift to find more flagged charts for Falls, p/u, uti, dehydration and etc......) Always the same daynurse and aides they occur with. I only have 3 cnas at night with 60 and 2 chg nurses. They blame it on census BUT when a cna calls in the Nurses taking call has to come in and pull the 8 hour CNA shift (yes they have to pay us our salary). So the census (which means #$) is BS. We do have certain CNAs that call in all the time, caught sleeping, walk away from their assigned residents and will even cuz out the nurse in charge (written up x10) BUT still employed (DON excuses it). Life is too short and I worked too hard for my license (yes got co-workers that will try to set ya up for the fall) SO I am moving on. Things do happen for a reason and I am not ignoring it this time. Accepting I can't make people change I can only change the situation.