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State has now entered our building they started on my day off which makes me think that they are going to be there saturday also kinda weird though I thought surveyers dont do weekends and on top of that they are a FREAKING WEEK EARLY

Jesus all I hear is STATE STATE STATE it is driving me even more crazy then my LTC already makes me. I work 3-11 shift was 7-3 but changed because 7-3 was just way to much for a nurse new to LTC. I do not give a flip about state, am i nervous absolutely, this is a inquiry into how my nursing skills are, do I do my job? absolutely. Is everyone running around like chickens with there head cut off helping me any? NO I already have anxiety issues and they are just making it worse, I just wish that state would come and go already so I can breath!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe your right maybe I should look at it from the business stand point but as a nurse its kinda hard to look at my patients as dollar signs

I work at a multipurpose facility on the LTC floor, I switched fro 7-3 to 3-11 for various reasons, when I switched the administration decided to start a new policy to have us go from three nurses per unit down to two, which would be fine if you know that was not almost 40 patients per nurse, plus all of their treatments, plus documentation of a few of the skilled unit residents we have on our floor. I and other nurses have voiced our opinion to the administrator about this, and he just shrugs us off, not to mention instead of five CNAs we are working with four sometimes three.....REALLY??? And now the families are starting to complain about it and we are catching it from the head boss, literally a week ago I told him and his office that this was going to cause problems, he says we should be able to do everything in the allotted time, I looked at him and asked him if he was ever a nurse or ever a CNA, it is more than passing medication, it is about caring for our residents who are not here because they need a place to stay, they are here because they can not remember if they took their medications or they will fall if they try to shower themselves, we are here for them not for the tiny paycheck or for the little benefits or to sit down and do nothing. My residents need me to be focused on them not on how am I going to get out on time so I do not get wrote up for overtime. All this weekend I was on the Skilled unit good experience for me, but we are supposed to have the more experience nurses on the skilled unit, this is my first facility job, ever, and I have been only working there since this summer. Does anyone else understand my frustrations?

I hate Omnicare Pharmacy with a passion those people drive me to drink between the" we never got any fax" to the one i got yesterday i do not have that resident in my system. EXCUSE ME?????? My resident is not in your system????