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    Not paid for working past your shift?

    NurseQT replied to nomadicnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Very illegal! Employers are required by law to pay their hourly employees for every last minute they are punched in and working, this includes working through your meal break. I hope you have kept...
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    The best family!

    NurseQT posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    After 12 years of nursing I think I have encountered the best family, ever!! A couple weeks ago we admitted a lady for a short term rehab stay. The morning after her admission a huge box of fresh...
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    How to handle the impossible assignment..

    NurseQT posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The facility I work at is a 75 bed SNF and LTC nursing home. We have three halls, one of which is the Medicare/Rehab hall, but there are some long term residents residing on this hall. The other two...
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    Refused admission

    NurseQT replied to savoytruffle's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    "I got a call that she saw her name on the outside of the room and got upset. She would not allow the nurses to assess her. She was able to over turn a med cart. She went straight out to the ER to be...
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    Christmas gifts for my coworkers..

    NurseQT posted a topic in General Nursing

    I like to give small Christmas gifts to my fellow nurses, DON, and the primary CNAs who work my wing with me. Since my co-workers have always been women I make sugar scrubs and bath salts and pass...
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    Christmas gifts for my coworkers..

    NurseQT replied to NurseQT's topic in General Nursing

    That's kind of what I was thinking, except since he doesn't drink coffee I could get him a gift card to Subway or even a card for xBox Live points or something like
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    Day nurses who switched from nights, is it better?

    NurseQT replied to tarotale's topic in General Nursing

    I recently worked a full time noc position. I hated it! I always felt tired, worn down, and unwell. Not only that I was always irritated and short tempered, my house was in shambles because I couldn't...
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    Therapeutic Lying With Dementia Patients

    NurseQT replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have always used "therapeutic lying" when it comes to my residents with dementia who would only become distraught if I told them them the truth. We had one sweet little lady who was always looking...
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    Refused admission

    NurseQT replied to savoytruffle's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We have a saying in the facility I work at "once they walk (or roll) in the door they're ours". Before that, even if we've accepted them as an admission, they aren't technically admitted until they...
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    UA/drug test failed

    NurseQT replied to neuron's topic in General Nursing

    Just did a quick google search.. All the sites I clicked on had similar criteria for test times. 5-8 min any time after that the test strips will continue to "turn colors" and can create false...
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    UA/drug test failed

    NurseQT replied to neuron's topic in General Nursing

    Wasn't a CG-MS confirmatory test done? A rapid test will only show negative or positive for said drugs and if there's a positive then CG-MS should be run to 1. Confirm the positive screen 2. To...
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    What does "On Call" mean to you?

    NurseQT posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    At our facility the nurse managers have an On-call rotation (Sun-Sat). We don't seem to have any type of policy for what is required of the manager whose on call... Our weekends are super short right...
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    What does "On Call" mean to you?

    NurseQT replied to NurseQT's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Wrong "on call" Vintage. I don't mean the occasional staff. I'm referring to the nurse managers who are on call during the weekends and during the noc. We are supposed to call them if there's an...
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    Can you live a luxury lifestyle as a nurse?

    NurseQT replied to trustabdy's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend who works as a CCRN and lives a life of luxury.. Owns a brand new Audi as well as her winter car (her husband owns two vehicles as well), she has quite a few Coach handbags, she also...
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    When entering orders, please remember....

    NurseQT replied to RNBearColumbus's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Worked with a nurse that always used "panties" to describe a patients underwear in her charting. "The patient needed a clean pair of underpanties" even when documenting on a male patient! another one...
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    PICC lines

    NurseQT posted a topic in General Nursing

    When administering a med through a PICC (one that's used only once a day) do you draw back blood before flushing the
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    Esme Needs Your Prayers and Well Wishes

    NurseQT replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Get well soon
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    Flu shot reaction???

    NurseQT posted a topic in General Nursing

    We are 2/3 of the way through our 3 Day flu shot clinic at the facility where I work. Today another nurse and I tackled (not literally) all the resident's.. By lunch time we had gotten almost all of...
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    Flu shot reaction???

    NurseQT replied to NurseQT's topic in General Nursing

    Learned something new, I had been taught to aspirate on all IM injections. I'll definitely remember that from now
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    Nina Pham condition downgraded to fair

    NurseQT replied to Red Kryptonite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was just about to add that I think some people were seeing "NIH" and mistaking it for another government agency (like "CDC"), NIH is one of what four hospitals in the US that has the facilities,...
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    Flu shot reaction???

    NurseQT replied to NurseQT's topic in General Nursing

    I did hit the bone on one of our residents earlier in the morning, I think that's why I was hesitant to go too deep with this shot. I've never hit the bone before either so my reaction was much like...
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    Flu Vaccines. A Hassle?

    NurseQT replied to ChooSoul's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Got my flu shot this morning before starting my med pass. No
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    What an awesome feeling!

    NurseQT posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    So this week I went back to work at my previous place of employment after being gone for just a little over a year. Today was my first day back on "my" wing, the wing where I had worked much of the 5...
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    TX RN positive Ebola

    NurseQT replied to FLAlleycat's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Curious as to what the breach in protocol
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    Have you ever called Corporate at LTC?

    NurseQT replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Nope, I've heard people threaten it but they never followed