Typical Day?

anniev · May 8, 2006

I love nursing I am in LTC I am responsible for passing the meds to 25 residents and all their tx I am in contact with the Dr. and or their offices I send them out to outside appt with their paper work. I notify the family of any changes. I transfere the residents to hospital , I will call the hospital and give a nurse to nurse to ER and fill out transfere forms.I am constantly doing assessments. I supervise my stna's. I work with therapy staff PT, OT,ST,also resorative nursing we also work with dietary and MDS. I fill out behavior grids ,document in the NN and know your incident reports. We do our own respitory theray so all those mini nebs and postural drainage you get to do too. Now some days are great some days are very busy but you will never hear me so " Oh My I have another 2 hours to work " I say "I only have 2 hours left!" I wouldn't have it any outher way. high energy is always great but you just seem to find it and there is always the benifits,,,you get to hold some hands, hear a story of their life, know their families, ease pain, show respectand get to love some people that you would have never known had you not got this great chance to be a nurse,,and they pay you wow!!!!!!!!!:roll

**NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN** · May 8, 2006

I work in an assisted living. It's alright, but pretty boring. I get to work at 7am. Look to see if there's any new orders that came in during the evening, go and do all the insulin. There's 9 diabetics. Then I take care of any other paperwork that might be going on. Do treatments, assess residents with complaints. Oddly enough there's not too many. Then I sit bored waiting for the clock to speed up. Do noon diabetic checks. Go to lunch for two hours. Come back, stare at the clock some more while trying to find more stuff to do. Then, I do the 5pm diabetic checks, go home. Look at the paper for a more interesting job.

My job before this one was at chino prison and really boring, I had 5 patients, and each of them had about 3 meds that I needed to pass for the whole 12 hour shift. I watched the clock a lot there too, but it was worse.

It's quite a range depending on where you work.

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · May 8, 2006

I do weekend double shifts (2 16-hour shifts) at a nursing home; in addition, I work per diem at a small psychiatric hospital.

A 'typical' day at the nursing home involves passing medications to about 20 residents. The med pass times are 6:30am, 9:00am, 11:30am, 4:00pm, and 9:00pm. I need to do blood sugars and blood pressure checks prior to the medication pass. I also do simple treatments (wound dressings, nebulizers, preventive ointments, siderails up, HOB elevated, aspiration precautions, etc.). My paperwork involves medicare charting, skin assessments, resident data sheets, coumadin logs, diabetic flow sheets, and behavior monitoring flow sheets. If there's a change in a resident's condition, I'll phone the doctor and have them sent to the hospital.

A typical day at the psychiatric facility involves preparing and passing meds to recovering alcoholics and drug addicts in the adult unit. About 80 percent of the patients receiving treatment in the adult inpatient unit are there to recover from some type of chemical dependency. As an LVN I do virtually no charting at this facility since the RN does the lion's share of the paperwork.

waters! · May 8, 2006

am keeping this short!

i work in a childrens hospital and it is fun! all i can say is a typical day is NEVER EVER boring!!

bon149 · May 9, 2006

I work in LTC and I work every weekend 10 hr shifts and then every Mon a 10 hr shift ( my choice by the way) What other job can you find where they work around your life. 10 hours is never enough, I always have more to do than will fit in that shift. I love it. The patients are wonderful. Even the woman who asks me the same question every 10 minutes, and there is a guy who breaks into song at random moments....we also do rehab so our patients run the gammet. I wish my rn (or any one for that matter) could do all the charting, it is the worst part! But it has to be done. We all work together and somehow we get all the work done and give our patients the time they need to just to talk with us. I went into nursing to help pay the bills while I went to school to be something else...I'm still a nurse. LPN working on RN but if I never finish I have to say I have been one lucky person. Continually learning and getting paid to do it.

I wouldn't give it up for anything......okay if I won the lottery I might cut back my hours but not completely!