What kind of LTC resident will you be?

squeakykitty · Nov 1, 2007

Um, what's the Q word?

It's "quiet". It's also guaranteed to cause a difficult shift when said on the floor.

nightmare, RN · Nov 1, 2007

It's "quiet". It's also guaranteed to cause a difficult shift when said on the floor.

OMG we say that too!!If I ever get put into the place that I work they will have to change all the door codes because I will be out of there! I know every inch of that building and after 17 years its sure to have stuck in my long term memory! I will be up all night walking the corridors "checking" on the residents,I will take no BS from any uppity carers or nurses and will have "do not wake at 06.00"and "no I don't want my TV on the cartoon channel"and "shave me and you die!" tattooed on my chest.

squeakykitty · Nov 1, 2007

OMG we say that too!!If I ever get put into the place that I work they will have to change all the door codes because I will be out of there! I know every inch of that building and after 17 years its sure to have stuck in my long term memory! I will be up all night walking the corridors "checking" on the residents,I will take no BS from any uppity carers or nurses and will have "do not wake at 06.00"and "no I don't want my TV on the cartoon channel"and "shave me and you die!" tattooed on my chest.

At the place I worked, they had the codes on how to shut off the alarms writen next to the alarms. You could also disable them with a switch. There is leg alarms for some of the residents, but it only works with the front door. If I was a resident there, I could slip out the door in some of the rooms, or go through the employee breakroom to get out. (And take one of the staff lunches with me).

Sabby_NC · Nov 1, 2007

Hmmmm I WANNA be the dirty ol' lady that pinches all the male bums! :lol2:

flashpoint · Nov 2, 2007

I plan on being the one who watches staff when they key in the code to get into the med room and break room. Once I am in the med room, I am going to write all over the window with the many tubes of peri-cream. If I make it into the breakroom, I am out the door to go to the corner gas station to buy soda and candy. I am also going to steal the charge nurse's keys when she leaves themon the med cart and I am going to steal all of the ativan when she leaves the cart unlocked and unattended. I am going to sleep until at least 1000 and I am going to demand pizza and tacos and hunan beef. I am going to drink nothing but Coke, I am going to splash water in the whirlpool, and I am going to pee in the water fountain and plants! And...I am going to call 911 at least once a week. I can't wait!!!

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nursamy · Nov 2, 2007

OMG, I stopped working at the nursing home 2 months ago. I can't believe I forgot about the "Q" word already!!!:trout:

RanieRN, MSN, RN · Nov 2, 2007

I'll be the one being sent to a geropsych unit, preferably the one I work at currently where I've chosen rm 8 as it stays nice and warm, for refusing medication and being combative with care (no one's wiping my backside other than me :nono: ). Once there, I'll constantly bang on the plexiglass enclosing the nurses' station demanding to call my children to come and get me out. And god help the staff who try to get me up before lunch or give me meds crushed in nasty, unsweetened applesauce.

After the fourth admission, my kids had better remember how many times I've told them they better make sure I'm gorked so I have no idea how crappy my life has become or I'll haunt them.

squeakykitty · Nov 2, 2007

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I plan on being the one who watches staff when they key in the code to get into the med room and break room. Once I am in the med room, I am going to write all over the window with the many tubes of peri-cream. If I make it into the breakroom, I am out the door to go to the corner gas station to buy soda and candy. I am also going to steal the charge nurse's keys when she leaves themon the med cart and I am going to steal all of the ativan when she leaves the cart unlocked and unattended. I am going to sleep until at least 1000 and I am going to demand pizza and tacos and hunan beef. I am going to drink nothing but Coke, I am going to splash water in the whirlpool, and I am going to pee in the water fountain and plants! And...I am going to call 911 at least once a week. I can't wait!!!
:roll:chuckle:smokin::lol_hitti

This is hilarious!! I think I'll call 911 from the lobby phone and tell them I'm being held hostage and they're starving me because they won't give me pizza at every meal.

Dixiecup · Nov 4, 2007

I have a friend who says she wants a tube in every oriface, colostomy, foley, and feeding tube so she won't have to get up and do anything. She will just sit in her chair and have them pour beer down her feeding tube.

Nascar nurse, ASN, RN · Nov 4, 2007

Oh, and I'll be in the room with AC/DC blaring at full volume.

Of course I will have to turn the volume down when the surveyors show up. I what them to hear LOUD AND CLEAR what I've thought about them all me life!

Now please pass me some more pizza.

sassysteph7 · Nov 4, 2007

I like this tattoo....

NO CPR

Put that 300 joules on me and I'll haunt you

I agree it'd be payback time. I can be very demanding and if I didn't get what I wanted, when i wanted it I'd be verbally aggressive and I'd wheel my fat butt into the DON's office turning in the staff.

I'd also demand a shower, atleast, 3 to 4 times a week. To heck with once a week. My hair gets greasy after 1.5 days.

Man I hope I don't live past 70ish and can always wipe my own stuff.

squeakykitty · Nov 5, 2007

I will be the resident demanding that the CNAs practice teamwork on 2 person transfers. If I had to stay in bed all day because I was a 2 person transfer, and my CNA couldn't get help, I would make her coworkers so miserable that they would take a pay cut just to get out of the facility.