AuntieNursey

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 calling 3 times a year. And no, I have no idea why she ...

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 my state investigated and found no wrong doing on m...

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 "joy" of working for a small, privately owned facili...

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 it's a part of who she is. There are some careers...

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 because we care about our patients and want to do the...

:lol2: We all have those days.

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 cab?

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 "shudder" factor is off the scale, yeech. Drop a dime...

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 for years and the workplace had a written policy ...

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 consistantly and I feel that I need to insure that I can be...

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

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 loved him after that...right down my back. that wa...

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 is to switch from days to evenings to nights. A n...

[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 of problem employees, and does not expect me to att...

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 usually gag uncontrollably or actually vomit a little ...

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 come and destroy. Granted we're a small facility,...

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 residing in the facility. There are continumum of car...

: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 or personal cups, holders, H2O bottles, whatever....

And you need to truly want to change :trout:

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 their diagnosis and condition(s) and if you can make a...

LOL. No hugs for anyone untill all are pest free !!

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 were arguing one day about who should be in charge ...

"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 penis, only smaller! too funny

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 wouldn't melt in her mouth when any of the docs were ...

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, I'm wrong, it WAS the scariest moment of my life....