NurseQT

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    Falls

    The SNF I work at staffs primarily with LPNs, especially on PMs and nocs. Back in the spring the DON decided that anytime there is a fall and there are no RNs in the building that the LPN needs to...
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    legal mandation length (illinois)?

    And this is why I absolutely despise mandatory OT policies. I have never worked at a facility, except my most recent employer that had a mandatory OT policy. Had I known about the policy it probably...
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    what are the conservatee rights in SNF?

    In the state of WI we cannot force a patient/resident to take medication, we cannot hold them down, trick them, or hide the medicine in food. It is still a person's right to refuse their medication....
  4. Wow... This article could have been written about my older brother! His story was almost exactly the same except he didn't have a fever, he had an unrelenting cough and was sent home from the clinic...
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    Flu Vaccines. A Hassle?

    You know what's annoying and a hassle? Being placed on a vent and ECMO and being airlifted to hospital 4 hours away. You know what's also a hassle? Having to plan a funeral for a loved one who died...
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    Ebola here in Dallas USA

    I know the incubation period is about 2 weeks, is a person contagious during that period? Scary to think how many people he/she has come in contact
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    Ebola here in Dallas USA

    I just read that the first patient has been diagnosed in America... Scary
  8. Just wondering how many of you night nurses attend monthly nurses meetings that are scheduled in the early afternoon when you worked the night before and are scheduled to work the night of? I...
  9. Has anyone else done this? A year ago I was let go from a facility, I had just had my 5 yr anniversary the week prior and had worked at a sister facility for 5 yrs prior to starting at this facility....
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    Narc Count Disaster

    I've worked places where the med tech could not give the narcs without the nurse first doing a pain assessment and than unlocking the narc box. I've also worked places where the floor nurse and the...
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    Employee abuse?

    I have found myself in that same situation more than once sadly.. We had one resident that was extremely combative and every time we reported the behaviors to the social worker she's laugh it off!...
  12. Not only should each and every employee abide by the company's absence policy the EMPLOYER should have to aside by it as well! Two perfect examples: I received a written warning for my 5th absence two...
  13. I have to clarify.. My supervisor left that day because she was against my termination and refused to take part in it. She was in the DON's office that Monday trying to get me my job back . After the...
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    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    I was never diagnosed with CFS but I was diagnosed with depression and have suffered from fatigue for years. I always felt like I was wearing a lead suit, simple tasks were exhausting for me. Folding...
  15. As far as I know an employer is legally obligated to furnish a copy of a former employees record/file upon their request. State of WI law says the employer has 7 business days (I think) to turn over a...
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    How Many Night Nurses Attend Meetings?

    Our monthly education meetings are set up with three different times (6am, 1pm, and 3pm) so everyone has a chance to go. The nurses meetings are only a one time deal, no multiple meeting times...
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    Narc Count Disaster

    I've always learned that two LICENSED nurses had to do the count at change of shift. Med techs and nurse techs ate not licensed and there fore cannot sign off on a count at shift change. The nurse...
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    Down time

    I work nocs and have a lot of down time, I always bring my Kindle to work and read when I'm not busy. It keeps me out of the circle of gossipers yet keeps me entertained at the same
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    glimpses of the afterlife/nde

    I cared for a patient about a month ago that one night complained she was unable to sleep because of all the people in the room... It was only her and the other night nurse in the room. The nurse...
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    Mourning

    I would hate to know my caregivers DIDN'T mourn my passing after I'm gone... Every human life is precious and deserves to be mourned. You wouldn't be a compassionate nurse if you didn't mourn a death...
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    How Many Night Nurses Attend Meetings?

    I just realized I completely butchered a sentence in my initial post!!! It should have said "once that meetings over I have to go pick up my
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    get kicked off because of med error

    I think that ultimately the instructor is partly to be blame or should be held responsible. I have never heard of an instructor not being there with his/her students during clinicals! I know in the...
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    Falls at shift change...

    At my facility our shift times are 6-2, 2-10, and 10-6. There is no overlap time between shifts. Last night I worked 10-6 and was the only nurse on for the entire shift. It gets unbelievably busy in...
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    Crazy Night Last Night!

    So last night at midnight, the CNA yells from down the hall that she needs a nurse, rush down to the very last room on the hall to find our lil 78 lb resident on the floor, part way UNDER her bed,...
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    Crazy Night Last Night!

    I had something like that happen too! The CNA found the resident on the floor, on his hands and knees, his bed was up in the highest position! He had gotten a hold of the bed control and up he went......