When I read your post I knew you were working in a nursing home. What is happening to you is not all that uncommon. My advice to you is to make a decision as to whether these people are being more of...
NebbyLPN replied to nurse_wannabe's topic in Geriatric, LTC
The DON probably means that the CNAs have buffaloed the other charge nurse to looking the other way when they do wrong things because she's so friendly with them. It's OK to be friendly, but there are...
i cannot believe the "battered syndrome" mentality i have just read by many of the people answering this post. :angryfire would you all stand there and take a punch from your husband, wife, boyfriend,...
I would think that you would want to be picking patients that fit in with what you are studying in class and those who will need procedures done that are kind of on your "to do"
This is probably not going to sound real nice to some people reading this, but I'll say it anyway. About half the nursing homes I worked in had the night shift getting up patients before the day shift...
i just wanted to reply to comments about unions. i've worked in a hospital where the nurses were in unions (one for the rns and another for the lpns). while they may protect someone's job they will...
NebbyLPN replied to crystalclear's topic in Geriatric, LTC
I worked in nursing homes for years. There are some patients who are troublemakers and will call the state to make a complaint at the drop of a hat. It doesn't mean your in trouble. The state has to...
NebbyLPN replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC
How can he prove it? Never heard of any nurse going to jail for something like this. The son is full of hooey. I think any case he tried to file would be laughed out of the