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I work on an EDU and do NOT recommend it for new grads. Get med surg experience! You will be doing IVs, NGs, watching labs like a hawk etc on top of behaviors. Not for the faint of heart. And it is not all anorexia/bulemia anymore. There is ARFID, orthorexia, binge eating, night eating and unspecified. And a boat ton of sub abuse to go along with it! Message me if you want more info. I want to add rhat in any given week I am having at least one patient on telemetry, doing numerous EKGs, tons of BGL (we watch for lows!), Lots of edema, numerous IVs for lytes, fluids, we do Ortho BPs 2x/day and are hard core about correction, we will restrain patients for nutrition. We will drop and pull supplement. Lots of legal stuff-conserved, meds against will, feed against will. Big psych issues are borderline personality disorder, bipolar, schizophrenia, OCD, autism...what don't we see! Someone mentioned about adolescents....we see it...but it's the 40 year old ED pt that worries us the most. There are really only 2 units in the country try that take the acuity level as high as this. Lots cut off bmi at some level and are picky about labs because refeeding is not joke.

I work in LTC. I have had 2 codes recently. Neither should have been a full code. I've also seen patients that were compressions only. To me a full code in an LTC (barring the patient being adamant about living) is a failure of nursing. We need to teach this process. The MDs sure don't. Thanks for reminding me to so an advance directive. 38 and DNR please.

This is where I'll take my 25 in long term care any day. No bedside reporting because by 3pm almost no one is in their rooms. As a patient, I would smack any person who woke me up at 6-7am for report. Or less than 12 hours post op for that matter. And I've been a patient ALOT!

All the time. I work in LTC. Our machines, at least as I have seen, are poorly calibrated. We have be up to 30 points off on a SBP. For meds, all are done manually. And I'm only one year out of nursing school, but was a CNA for ages.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was looking for. I had been ill-informed and there was not clear policy regarding this in the facility.

I work in LTC. I am also a 6 months in new nurse. We have many residents that are self-responsible (perhaps some need that reassessed, but they still are their own person). My question is that if someone is self responsible and obtains a bruise/skin tear/etc, is it a HIPAA violation to notified their family. I know who most of my "selfs" are so I ask if they want me to call. I was informed that our policy says that we are always to call family...but again, HIPAA violation??? What about bigger occurrences? Where do you draw the line, at a fall without injury? Medication change?

I'm still waiting. There is ONE guy working in that office now. For the entire state. ONE! He said 3 weeks.

I never got a littman. I have an MDF MD one model and it's great. The only Thing that drives me nuts is the ear pieces wear out-but they are very easy to replace. I do look at Littmans, but I'm glad I don't have to worry about my 'scope growing legs. And I hear everything with it.

I took NCLEX on 7/6, found out I passed via quick results on 7/8-how long until it's posted on Ct Elicense? I need it for school and work.

My grandmother was one of those nurses. She retired in her 70's and I'm sure could run laps around the young ones. I got to spend time with her before she passed and she let me know all about what she had seen. Now I start my career.

When I applied it was a different director with her own admission method. I entered with my BS in A health care area general sciences done and currently in AP1 and micro when applying. My Teas was a 77 I think. I had not taken any classes at STCC. The admin process has changed. I don't know if it's for the better, as this years freshman lost a ton of students first semester. Not it much public speaking. One presentation as a group first semester.

I work at 2 facilities as a CNA. I am also nursing student in my final semester. One of the facilities I work at embraces resident passing. They have a quilt made by the residents for that purpose. Residents are not shuttered in rooms when the passed resident is moved. If we know that certain residents were close to the person we permit them to say goodbye. They leave the same door they went in. The other facility I work at does the exact opposite. I hate it. Residents door is closed. Roommate removed. All residents removed from the hall when passed resident is leaving. No goodbyes. I want to get this facility to change this. To me there is no dignity in this procedure. I feel it shames death. I have also noticed that residents have a harder time understanding what happened. Does anyone know of any pertinent research to this? I am also exploring this topic for my senior project, as i want to work in LTC. What do your facilities do? What are your thoughts?

Clinical starts about 3 weeks into first semester. One day a week for most, a few groups were 2 half days. Lecture is 2 days a week, in the morning. Lab is once a week. Let me know if you have more questions!

I am one of the biggest holdouts of manual lifts. I like that we don't have to charge them and I find they don't break as much. However in terms of patient safety and comfort, electric lifts win. I feel that every facility should have one manual lift just in case. Also, for every 15 lift patients you should have one lift. I work at one place that has more than 30 lift patients in tbe floor. There are 3 lifts and it is wonderful! As far as standing lifts? Electric all the way! And if you have any patient above 300lbs you should have one truly bariatric lift. The other ones may be rated for that much, but IMO the bariatric is far safer.

You can tell pg aide that this one did her job and more through 2 pregnancies. Lifts and all. If she is not put on LD by her MD she should be doing her job. I recommend that you get a copy of the CNA job requirements from your DON. Discuss how the facility goes about correcting lazy behaviors. No precedent? Be kind, but firm. You are a nurse and you know the reasons for what is being done when. Explain that in one sentence and move on. If an aide choose to be disrespectful-direct to supervisor and move on.