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  1. Polypharmacy-When is it too much??

    psychgeribuff replied to psychgeribuff's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thank you all for posting your thoughts and opinions. During a monthly meeting I brought up this issue to my DON and medical director. The doctor agreed and said she had been thinking about...

  2. Frustrated and burned out rookie nurse. Please advise!

    psychgeribuff replied to Veronica.c's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    Wow sounds like its time to find a new position. Don't get me wrong LTC is difficult and challenging but my colleagues take care of our pt and we are a team. In the future when you apply at a job...

  3. Staffing on C&A inpatient psych unit

    psychgeribuff replied to alb402's topic in Psychiatric

    I worked at an psych icu/geriatric unit. We had 14 beds. Our ratio was 2 nurses and two mhs/ca to 14 pt. Below 12pt is 2 nurses one mhs/ca. Hope this

  4. Taking off for illness

    psychgeribuff replied to tracyRNBSN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Glad you are feeling better and goodluck with the job hunt!! I dont know about leaving employment hx off your resune, hopefully they dont discriminate due to your

  5. Attitudes of nurses who don't work in ltc

    psychgeribuff replied to lauriepat's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Mom of a one year and lpn. You are not a lowly lpn. I am an RN and have learned so much from lpns in ltc. I think you areamazing and very skilled people. And I feel lucky to get to work with the...

  6. LTC Charting: A Beginner's Guide

    psychgeribuff replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Love this article thank you for posting/writing

  7. Afraid patient incident will go to court

    psychgeribuff replied to Rncaligirl88's topic in Nursing Career

    It sounds to me like you did everything you could. You contacted two different physicians several times and they made the final decision for this patient. The renal failure is not a result of...