Where Do You Work?

CBRF (assisted living)

Hi!

I work a private duty case in Illinois caring for a boy that has a rare genetic disorder. I work 3rd shift.

Hi. I work for a home health care agency. I started as a homemaker for a year. Last fall I went back to school and earned my CNA. I like it. It's hard being new with my skills and only having nurses on the phone. It's interesting though.

hospital...on a cardiac/renal floor.

I work in the ED as a Health Care Tech

I work in LTC.

I also work in assisted living..

quick question- do any RN's also work in your facility, if so what is their role?

I also work in assisted living..

quick question- do any RN's also work in your facility, if so what is their role?

when i worked LTC, we did have RN's...they did the same thing as the LPN's, but they were in "charge" when they were there.

Perhaps I can help you with this question, as I am an RN working in assisted living as a Health Services Coordinator.

This is the ALF equivalent of being Director of Nursing in a nursing home. I train, supervise, and delegate nursing tasks (such as blood sugars and insulin injections) to caregivers. I manage residents' care needs and coordinate delivery of services (such as physical and occupational therapies), as well as performing some nursing services myself, such as simple wound care and B12 injections. In addition, I'm considered an assistant administrator, and sometimes act as administrator when my boss is on vacation or out of town. I assist with the development of the resident service plan, do the scheduling, and even sneak in some community outreach and marketing in my spare time.

Oh, yes---I work the floor on rare occasions too!

well now i want to go back and delete my post

we also had a DON that was an RN and we had a staffing coordinator that was an RN, but we also had a few RN's that just worked the floor like the lpn's, but as i said before. when the RNs were there, they were the charge nurse.

thank you mjlrn97 for that informative post!

sincerely,

jay

You're very welcome, jay!

I can't imagine an ALF so large that more than one or two nurses would be needed.........mine's only 42 apartments, with probable expansion to 54 units within the next couple of years. I'm the only licensed person on staff, and I'm in the building 32 hours a week, which is just about right (although I do tend to put in about 40 hours/week just because I like to work at my own pace and spend quality time with the residents and staff). I love my job!

it is a LTC, but not ALF, it's a nursing home with 3 "wings", i believe it has something like 180 residents and provided ST, OT, PT, Rehab. at times, each wing would have an RN and two LPNs.