What kind of LTC resident will you be?

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When I have to go to a nursing home, I don't think I'll be a pleasantly confused LOL. I would be the one who tries to sneak cats into the facility.

And--since the information about how to turn off a door alarm is now lodged in a part of my brain that dementia would take time to erase, I'll be the facilities escape artist.

How about it---what kind of LTC resident will you be in the future?

Specializes in Hemodialysis, Home Health.
I expect that I'll be known as a lovable, old codger. Opinion about everything and convinced that everyone wants to hear it...

:rotfl: Me too! Me too !!! :D

And definately the one who's always into some sort of mischief, :innerconf ....breaking the rules at the NH, convincing others to have wheelchair races down the halls.... :chuckle

Just let me have my propellor beanie and my laptop and I'll be happy as a clam. :p Won't give 'em no trouble at all !

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Specializes in Multiple.

I'm gonna be one of those old dears who is a real know it all and tells the nursing staff about the good old days! I will be the one causing trouble and mayhem - all I can say is, the poor poor nursing facility!

Wish there was an avatar with a grey haired old lady in a wheelchair racing around, cos that would be me! :innerconf

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i will definitely be crotchety and non-compliant.

4 pt restraints w/scheduled haldol (intramuscular, of course)

and i'll still defy the authorities.

i'll be the kind you'd love to hate, but just can't.

kinda like i am today. :)

leslie

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.

Mark me down as "Crotchety and non-compliant". I don't know where I inherited this bull-headed streak in me... but boy sometimes when I dig in my heels, I just don't budge.

:uhoh21:

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But I still like you...

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

pleasantly confused

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

I will be pleasantly noncompliant, and will most likely be a sundowner. I might have occasional flare ups of crankiness.

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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.
Just for funsies -- what do you think you'll be like when you're old?

Will you be alert, oriented X3?

Will you be crotchety and noncompliant?

Will you be pleasantly confused?

Or maybe demanding and critical?

Confused and combative?

What kind of Oldster do you see yourself becoming?

Well...depending on what age person you ask, I'm already OLD! :rotfl: So, I guess I'd have to say that when I'm "OLD" according to MY definition of "OLD".............I "Will be alert, and oriented X3"....thank ya veddy much! :dncg: :w00t:

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Specializes in ICU/CCU.

...Probably hanging from the chandeliers tangled up in my oxygen tubing smoking a cigarette...

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Corrections.

I have a feeling that I am going to be pleasantly confused because I already am part of the time.....now what was I doing before I sat down at the computer???? Oh yeah cleaning....ugh- ugh- ugh!!!!!

I don't know if I want to go to a LTC....please....let me stay at home and go out sleeping.....

Sonya

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Specializes in ER.

Crotchety and eccentric, and I hope I have a roommate just like me so we can gang up on the staff.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I'll probably be the kind who won't let anyone do ANYTHING for me because I've been an LTC nurse!!

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