AuntieNursey

AuntieNursey

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  1. No, your mother is not going to "snap out of it", it's dementia and it's probably been going on for quite a while, which you would have noticed it you had actually visited her at home instead of...
  2. Has anyone ever been accused of elderly abuse

    Yes, by a "manager" whom I had found doctoring charts and billing for supplies not used and caught having an affair with another nurse. Thought it would take care of all his problems. But the BON in...
  3. My bad attitude

    I have just quit a job related to the same type of BS. Short-staffing (perpetual), no or negative response from management, lousy raises, and no quality assurance or employee evauation process (the...
  4. er visitors...a funny

    And we SO need to stop judging each other, and those who work in other environments and eating our young. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL NURSE! Regardless of where she works and what she does, she does it because...
  5. er visitors...a funny

    We laugh so we CAN be concerned and compassionalte instead of telling people to take their self-induced psychotic/physical issues back into the community where they will do the most harm. We laugh...
  6. er visitors...a funny

    :lol2: We all have those
  7. Can I help you pack anything? Need a w/c to get you out of the building? Here let me push, can I call you a
  8. Not only abandonment, but lord knows what could have been living on the bed. She didn't know what the room mate had, the possibilities are endless. To put a baby on a dirty bed is inexcusable. The...
  9. Her perfume stinks!!

    YOU stated that upper management has spoken to her, does your workplace have a policy about wearing scents? Don't laugh, I worked with children with D.D. as well as physical and emotional disabilities...
  10. I have never been nasty to a student until now!!!

    My daughter is currently studying abroad in France and because of that, I have my cell phone on and on my person 24/7. My husband and I both work 3rd shift and neither of us are near a phone...
  11. Nurse Phobias?

    The visuals are bad enough, but the audio is always what gets me, and if it's alcohol related, the smell. Gets me every
  12. Nurse Phobias?

    me,too. i did ok, not grat mind you, but ok with my offspring and, very surprising, my husband. most of the time, except that guiness :cheers: spout, that was just nasty. he was very grateful i still...
  13. Entitled Generation

    I think its unreasonale to expect nurses, or any medical staff really or any human for that matter, to work rotating schedules. There have been many studies that reinforce how physically disruptive it...
  14. Entitled Generation

    [Valerie Salva;2614551]If a facility has good working conditions, pays well, treats me with respect, provides the resources needed to do a good job, has mgmt that rewards good employees and gets rid...
  15. Nurse Phobias?

    vomiting. I'm hoping I'll get over it. I actually reflexively gag when I hear the noises. I feel your pain. This one took me lierally years to get past. A patient/resident would throw up, I would...
  16. Borrowing Narcs in LTC, ok?

    Well, I thought I had come across just about everything in LTC, but you got me with this one, Stashing narc's int he DON's office. We are required to keep them in the narc drawer for the pharmacist to...
  17. Told to pee in her depends

    I think you need to read the policies for your facility. Many assisted living facilities have very clear policies about what a resident must be capable of doing for themselves in order to continue...
  18. Drinks in the nurses station...

    :angryfire My "coworkers" started doing the same thing to us 3rd shifters, so I started throwing out everything that was left behind after 1st and 2nd shift. Indiscriminate cleaning- paper, styrofoam...
  19. And you need to truly want to change
  20. Why? You provide professional, caring, empathic nursing care in any environment. You assist them with as much of the medical care and emotional support as you can. LTC folks are so much more than...
  21. LOL. No hugs for anyone untill all are pest free
  22. Not enough attention to BMs in nursing today!

    I work in LTC and we are all about the "poop patrol" It has such an impact on the total body, that you have to pay attention. Just like the story of the rectum that would be king: all the body parts...
  23. "No, I don't want to see your weenie. Not only is it uninteresting, it's the smallest weenie I've ever seen on an adult male!" Looks just like a member, only smaller! too
  24. That's why she's there! She's a great example of a bad role model . During nursing school I also had a similar nurse and she was rude and borderline facetious with everyone, EXCEPT the MD's. Budda...
  25. Silliest thing you ever did after a long shift...

    I once "woke up" passing a car on the highway at 65 MPH after working 3 weekend overnights and going to school from 8a-3p on Monday while in nursing school. One of the scariest moments of my life. No,...