SO am I the only one who loves LTC?

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Yeah, parts of it bite, but I really love my old ones, and the younger ones who are stuck with us, the demented ones, the incontinent ones, the cranky ones, the MRs who love everyone, the quiet LOLs who string beads -

I help make people happier. I can't fix them but I can heal some hurts.

You go.

Specializes in LTC, Med-Surg, GP Office.

Our facility is LTC-SNF and I absolutely love it. It's a wonderful place to work. I love the residents and my co-workers. I've been a nurse 23 years. I've worked mostly LTC, but also home health, hospital & doctors office. LTC is by far my favorite place to work.

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Specializes in LTC.

I do love it, there is that little feeling everyday when I go into work going "yay!" but I don't want to make it too much because then my luck my night will be chaos.

I love the little old ladies who smile and say hello when they walk(or wheel) by in the hallway. I love when I walk into a patients room and either them or their relative says 'Oh good you are working tonight!." I love their stories that they tell too.

I love the dementia patient who I have to have ice cream with every night(yes I get an ice cream for me too from the pantry.. it was one of my ways to get her to take her meds because I crush them to beyond powder and mix them in extremely well, then i put it in the little freezer in the med room until she agrees to have ice cream.and when she says no.. I ask if later she would like it and I hope to god she says yes and I make her promise because its "special" ice cream)... shes the cutest little thing but she can be a really PIA lol

Not even two months and I could sit here all night writing what I love about where I work.

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).

I love getting the ladies nails painted and doing their hair if there's downtime, their faces just light up.

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Specializes in LTC.
I love getting the ladies nails painted and doing their hair if there's downtime, their faces just light up.

The beauty salon comes during day shift so their hair and nails are all pretty when I get in. I tell them how pretty their nails and their hair looks and the smile on their face is priceless

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Specializes in LTC, Disease Management, smoking Cessati.

No Sue, I love the elderly population the ones who live in another world and all. They are the keepers of the wisdom! And if by chance they share one day, I like to listen!

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Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

My first job was in LTC. It was fifteen years ago, and I remember it as if I left yesterday. I loved it. Just thinking about it now makes me smile.

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You go.

Okay, I will. I've been in LTC for twenty years. I've seen the progression from the dismal restraint-dependent lockdowns of yore to LTC as it is today, and I'm very happy with the freedom residents have now. I love the residents and I love the care.

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Specializes in being a Credible Source.
Why ugh? Seriously.
Because I don't have the personality to cope well with many of the issues that have accompanied the SNFers.

That's precisely why I so admire those of you who not only choose that work but for whom it's actually a labor of love. I've seen firsthand (both in my CNA training and at the SNF attached to our facility) too many nurses who seem bitter about where they work and bitter toward their residents.

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Specializes in Neuro, Cardiology, ICU, Med/Surg.
Because I don't have the personality to cope well with many of the issues that have accompanied the SNFers.

That's precisely why I so admire those of you who not only choose that work but for whom it's actually a labor of love. I've seen firsthand (both in my CNA training and at the SNF attached to our facility) too many nurses who seem bitter about where they work and bitter toward their residents.

I'm with ♪♫ in my ♥. I do admire those of you who do this work. I don't have the patience for it. We have a special medical team that gets assigned to patients who "are at risk for lengthy hospital stays due to psychosocial reasons." I love the people on this team, but often the patients we care for who are under their care are the most challenging. These are patients who might have lived independently prior to admission but lost significant functionality and are not safe to discharge home. Many stay in our unit for months awaiting placement in a facility that will take them or that their insurance will cover or whatever. They are usually medically stable, but need a lot of assistance and/or close observation for safety. Our unit is the only one that lacks PCAs in the hospital and thus doing things like 1:1 feeds, and responding to bed alarms gets tiresome for days on end with the same patient without the benefit of nurse's aides. I am an acute care junkie.

During nursing school, I shadowed for a day in the ED, thinking I'd like it, and I found that one doesn't have the time to develop a relationship with the patient and thus was surprised that I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. I found that I like med/surg because you generally do get to develop relationships with patients, but that they don't tend to stick around for too long. The length of the relationship is just right for me. :yeah:

Bless you, Suesquatch and others who do and love LTC for what you do. I hope I am blessed to find myself in a place staffed by people like you when my time comes.

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Our unit is the only one that lacks PCAs in the hospital and thus doing things like 1:1 feeds, and responding to bed alarms gets tiresome for days on end with the same patient without the benefit of nurse's aides.

Gah. I couldn't stand that, either. But then, I hated being a floor nurse in LTC as well, so there's that.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.

I too am another one that loves LTC! God truly has placed me in my position. He rearranged my life so that these Elders became basically my only friends for 3 years while juggling school, kids and work. This all happened as a result of a job change for my husband. It has truly been a blessing for me.

Overwhelmingly, the ONE thing that makes me love it so much is that once you are past 85 or so you just say what you mean and mean what you say - it's a beautiful thing. Wouldn't want to do anything else . . . although there are those days just like everyone else where I would love to "run screaming from the building" :uhoh3:

We need more nurses who will choose this as a career and not "just" a place to grab a shift while finishing their RN or waiting on "that dream job".

Love, love, love the wonderful, caring CNA's that I work with :yeah:

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Specializes in lots of different areas.

Count me in on loving it :) Some days are hard, but I do love my residents :)

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