NebbyLPN

I think you were right. I helps to have another person on the staff as a witness though for your protection. I'd run this whole situation by the DON for an opinion too. The resident may be breaking a rule, putting other staff nurses at risk and th...

Had a confused patient that kept bringing up hockers and spitting them all over everything in the vacinity of him. You just had to be careful of what you touched around him. Had another confused female patient that would insist on standing at the s...

I've only been a charge nurse in nursing homes. When I worked in a hospital there were times when we were short staffed that I was sort of a team leader and working with an RN, but she got into trouble for doing it.

I think it would depend on what your work place says you can wear.

I'm sorry if this is not what everyone else is saying, but your husband has already proven once (when you worked nights) that he wasn't willing to help out. What makes you think he's going to change? I think that the fact that you are even asking for...

Yes, you get paid at your full rate of pay while on orientation. The designation between "orientation" and being a regular staff member is usually one for the accounting people. When you are on orientation you are being educated to the policies and p...

If it's so offensive to hear people using profanity, then it shouldn't be hard for to tell them not to use it when talking to you or just turn and walk away from the conversation. Otherwise, just politely ignore it or tattle on them. That's the way...

I would think this nurse has such a huge lawsuit she could file against the news media that even if she loses her license she won't need to worry about an income.

My LTC facility usually gives a new charge nurse 3 days with another charge nurse and one day somewhere during their first month where they go through policies and procedures, fire policy, other safety issues, etc. After that 3 days of on the unit or...

Hide when you see one of the surveyors coming your way!:roll Call in sick. We know they are in the building because in Ohio they post a notice on all the doors of the building stating that they are present and doing a survey. Tell all your aides to ...

i like working in ltc because i have the same patients every day. it does change, but not nearly as rapidly as the hospital. i like being able to get to know more about my patients and i can do that over days and weeks. when i know a patient's routin...

Control issue. That's the problem here. You can't go around acting like someone's mother no matter what their age. Do that and you reap what you sow. You can't force someone to do what you want unless you have some way to bully them. Sounds like all ...

When you are working in LTC you are not just being a nurse who is passing meds, doing treatments and making patients comfortable. You are also a charge nurse, a supervisor. Being a charge nurse does not involve expecting others to do their work, part...

Actually, aren't emergency care centers considered the same as a doctor's office? They don't really fall under the category of a hospital, more like an ambulatory care center. If that's the case, then I always thought that the doctor can delegate all...

That is the exact same thing I was taught in school. My instructors really stressed getting the needle in quickly like a dart. It works!

my sister clep'd her way through a lot of her pre-requisite classes. she says that the instructions for each clep are right on. there should also be some way to access sample problems to get an idea of what they will be like. she's never done a math ...

You just can't let things go until the last minute for big tests. You should be reading a little bit each day about the test material despite clinicals and care plans. Hope you do OK on your test.

If this were about 50 years ago and your son was my brother, my mother would have hauled off and socked him a good one and told him to get out of the house. However, we can't do that kind of stuff these days. What a terribly, nasty thing for a son to...

The family of a patient in a nursing home gave me a check made out to me for $50 just after he died. He had been quite ill with cancer toward the end. Told me it was to thank me for being so wonderful to him as his nurse. The son who did this was a d...

I think that depending how large the company you are going to work for this is happening in some places. The larger the corporation running the hospital the more likely this will happen. Also, I've heard that certain states seem to be kind of gung ho...

I believe that an expected adverse effect would be one that is known from research. A drug may even be given in order to achieve an expected adverse effect. Now, I'm trying to think of a drug that is given specifically for it's adverse effect. I thin...

You know, this happened to us a couple of years ago too. Someone told us it was probably a bezoar that had come up from the stomach. I like the idea of it being old dried mucus better, but how could it have hung around in the respiratory track for ...

I'd tell if I were you. If the DON is any kind of a DON she'll want to get rid of this RN.

Wow! This brings back memories! Before I went to nursing school I worked as a aide. We never had enough clean linen at night. What we used to do was take the wet gowns during our first round of the night and drape them over a chair in the room so the...

There is such a thing called a shower chair. It's usually a tubular plastic chair similar looking to a commode with wheels on it. I have seen some that are similar to lawn chairs in the way they are made. The patient is then sat in the chair and whee...