WHAT?? NO med cart and NO nurse's station??

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I must tell you all that I have gone from pure HE** to absolute heaven!! Aside from the horrible physical we had to go through this new job is absolutley the most awesome job I could have asked for. Does anyone else in LTC work in a place where they don't have "units" but households?? Everything is patient centered. There is no nurses station, there is a team room where we can do charting and such, but there is also no med cart. Everything is kept in the patient room. Each room is private and has their own bathroom complete with shower, eah household has a huge living room and kitchen where a homemaker will make supper (thought being that smells increase appetite), we have porches the residents can go out on. I just can't say enough about it!! THe best part...There are only 16 residents in each house!! There will be one LPN and 2 CNAs. That is a great ratio!! I won't be stuck just passing meds...I will actually have time to interact and enjoy our residents. I think it will give me more time to assess and monitor our residents as well!! I am just soooooo excited! Having been at a hospital where the LPNs were treated like garbage to a place were we are treated with great respect and our opinions and thoughts actually matter!! What a world of difference!! I just wanted to share something positive for a change!!

Specializes in Geriatrics.

I actually live in good old farming country of lancaster county PA. The facility is out in the country. The "household" i will be working in will be for skilled care. There is whole other building for the assisted living residents.

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Wow very cool!! Please provide more info!:)

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

*Jealous!*

Seriously, that sounds absolutely heavenly. Enjoy your new position!

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.
http://www.brookestone.com
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wow that sounds like the perfect place to work good for you

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wow what a nice place i am takeing a virtuial tour of this place.

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I work on call for a place similar to yours. But minus the staff. I would love to have the staff ration you have. We have 3 areas on each floor. On days they have 2 nurses and 2-3 aides, on nocs they have 1 nurse and 1 aide. There is 30 pts on total on each floor. The concept is good, and the place is beautiful, but staffing is really really bad

Not that this is a contest or anything, but unfortunately where I work (my dh wants me to resign) the staffing is REALLY bad. It's a home environment, licensed for 6 (we are at max), so, we have 6 Alzheimer's pts and 1 CNA. (No nurse or any other type of help. Just me.)

Not only am I responsible for the care of the pts, I have to cook their meals (from scratch, not pre-made) and clean up after meals as well. I feel that this is truly a dangerous situation and I will post more on this in the LTC forum when I'm a little more coherent. I'm absolutely exhausted working there. :(

Luvmy2angels, CONGRATULATIONS on this wonderful find!!! This sounds like an awesome place to work. Hope you love your new job!!

Go out and celebrate!! :biere:

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