night owl

WOW! That was mighty powerful and it made me sad too. If I knew how to make one of those videos, I'd use the exact same song only set the pace to Long Term Care showing the old folk lying in bed with no one to check on them for hours, the med nurse in and out quickly so she can get to the next 30 residents, residents sitting in their w/c's all day with people passing by not even bothering to say "hello" or "have a nice day" when they leave, a pt having a nightmare and no one going in the room to comfort him and the list is endless. Yes it's sad, it's very sad and it's hard to make a difference when there's not enough staff to make that difference.

Don't you just love these people? My NM has a doctorate in nursing, but most of the time she doesn't have a bit of sense and it's always her way or no way. One time I said to her, "Don't you feel like writing a book or something???" I just don't get how some people feel that they can try to walk all over you.

When my mom was hospitalized with CHF and after receiving IM Lasix, she needed the bed pan so badly and asked the med nurse to hand her the bedpan from her bedside cabinet. The nurse said, "It's not my job" and walked away with her med cart. Mom had to wet the bed because she had no one to get her the bed pan. Believe me she wasn't incontinent and said she was never so humiliated in all her life. She never told me about it until she was home after about three weeks because she knew I would have had that nurses job!!! :angryfire What kind of nurse would have the gall to even say that to a patient??? Please, get over yourself!

Call the "pantie police", they'll know what to do!

:icon_hug: I'm happy for you too. Best wishes!

At our facility on nights, our UM expects 75% of the residents washed dressed and OOB for breakfast by 0645-0700 and are all expected to be fed by the time day shift arrives at 0730. Our census is 60 when we have a full house, so only a handful are left in bed. Approx 10 residents take themselves to the dining room and the remaining residents eat on the unit either in their rooms or in the dayroom. We usually work with 4 CNAs and 3 nurses.

:yelclap: THANK YOU! :yelclap:

These are absolutely brilliant! Thank you!

I've always had a fear of vomit. In my 30 years in nursing, it has never gotten any better. My biggest fear is having a noro virus run through my facility. It happened about 4 years ago and I'll tell you, it was a living HELL! After day two I had to call out sick not because I was sick, but because I couldn't stand it any more. People were vomiting everywhere and I hope to God it never happens again! When my kids were small and they would get sick, my husband had to take over because I was useless. As a nurse, that's pretty bad and I was ashamed of myself, but thank God for my husband and my savior.

My new pet peeve...people pouring lactulose or any syrupy med over the computer keyboard! When you go to type in your code to log on it looks like this...BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB because the keys stick! I can't stand it!!! Why can't they pour away from the keyboard??? A lot of times we need a whole new keyboard. When we get one, the same thing happens not too far down the road! I placed a sign, "Please do not pour over the keyboard." t.y. But to no avail...:smackingf I give up.

Some do get incentive awards if they keep the budget down... nice big fat bonus checks! But to get them for not providing basic comfort needs??? I will silence myself before it's too late!

That's criminal!!! These people should be locked up! God bless the staff...they are truly angels of mercy!

Hmmm, I KNOW we need time clocks at our facility. We just might be the last place on earth who doesn't have them and I know it would solve many of our problems. Too many problems with people leaving early and still getting paid, people coming in late and not getting docked...it's cRaZy and so ridiculously unfair.

I sure agree to this. Where is the professionalism?

We had a CNA that would sleep every night, snoring louder than any pt. The supervisor who seek him out to ask him if he could do overtime never saying anything to him about the sleeping. Finally she wised up. Caught him sleeping again one night, woke him up and warned him. The second night she asked me to come witness him sleeping and her waking him up. She wrote him up and he was suspended for a week. We tried to tell her years prior to his sleeping, but nothing was ever done. I'm not sure what suddenly provoked her after all these years to finally do something about it. Jacho coming any day maybe and it'll look like they're doing something about certain problems? I don't know. Just before they came the last time a girl was fired for sleeping. It was her third warning, but any time between Jacho visits nothing was ever done. Just a thought.