I need some feed back please. I am a nurse at a LTC facility. I was told today that I have to be the nurse/aide for 13 residents. Only one can toilet themselves. So this would mean that I would need to give showers, get residents dressed and washed up for the day, toileted, change bedding, give meds, do treatments, write orders, pass room trays, deal with families, deal with doctors, and anything else that is thrown at me for the day. Is this doable?? I am just being a baby? I feel like these resident deserve better. I am only one person.....I can understand doing this for 5 to 6 residents but 13? Any feed back welcome!!
Thanks for all the feedback! It continues to still be a mess at work!! I am currently looking for new employment. I have been going to work and doing what I can.....it is so unfair to the Residents. I have talked to the DON and my unit manager. And all they have been telling me is that they are working on the situation. I have no clue what that means. I also told them if they want the residents showered that I would need help from one on them.....needless to say they have passed it on to the evening aides from another hall. It is so disappointing to be apart of a so called "team" that doesn't give a crap and are to lazy to help out when needed.
This is just so sad. And you know the place hypes up their "excellent care" to families looking for a place for mom and dad. I can't imagine working one day in those conditions. They are "working" on it? What in the world? Just hire a CNA already. Sheesh. If they are too broke to, I wonder what other areas they are skimping on.
I need some feed back please. I am a nurse at a LTC facility. I was told today that I have to be the nurse/aide for 13 residents. Only one can toilet themselves. So this would mean that I would need to give showers get residents dressed and washed up for the day, toileted, change bedding, give meds, do treatments, write orders, pass room trays, deal with families, deal with doctors, and anything else that is thrown at me for the day. Is this doable?? I am just being a baby? I feel like these resident deserve better. I am only one person.....I can understand doing this for 5 to 6 residents but 13? Any feed back welcome!![/quote']
Holy carp... No way! I once did clinicals in a LTC within a VA medical center where the nurses did total patient care, but they only had 5 patients MAX. I could not fathom total care PLUS all the accompanying paperwork/physician shenanigans that go along with it! I'd run the other way and not look back.
I work at a facility in Virginia as a CNA--and there are days when I have 13 residents. It is awful isn't it?
But the Nurses don't do a lot of patient care. They usually just pass the meds and do treaments. So if you are the Nurse and expected to do all of those things by yourself---that is insane and not reasonable at all.
Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
That is patently ridiculous. It's not only too much for one nurse alone, but flat-out dangerous for the residents. If I ever run into this sort of scenario as a surveyor, I will take that facility apart piece by piece.
Specializes in Assisted Living nursing, LTC/SNF nursing.
They are doing that to our 3rd shift since not able to get CNA's hired so "let's just have 2 nurses and 1 CNA". I hate it since most the work falls on the CNA. Then, the next night you may the nurse only and continuity was a problem since you have no idea what was going on with the other residents. They were planning on doing that to 2nd shift but barely are getting by now with CNA staffing (hold overs, come in early, etc) and I heard the nurses say they would quit if that happenedto them but they sure didn't emphasize the dilemma for 3rd shift nurse, like we are different nurses than they are. I don't even like thinking about it. Not a very good way of saving those almighty bucks. Orientation is a joke also.
SleeepyRN
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This is just so sad. And you know the place hypes up their "excellent care" to families looking for a place for mom and dad. I can't imagine working one day in those conditions. They are "working" on it? What in the world? Just hire a CNA already. Sheesh. If they are too broke to, I wonder what other areas they are skimping on.