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Things at work have been generally unremarkable.
I have been staying mostly on my unit and on rare occassion I float to the unit next door.
When I was in nursing class I didn't understand what float meant and once it was explained I couldn't understand why so many people hated being "floated'.
Now of course I understand.
Try this on for size: last night they floated me to a unit I had never been on. Unit 1 AND 2. Thats right, the have a position where one nurse covers TWO units!! It's just you, 4 CNA's (if you're lucky) and SEVENTY-SIX residents spread across 2 floors of the building.
Doing rounds should not involve using an elevator!!!!!
I got blindingly lucky though; just as the supervisor was about to drop this abortion in my lap, one of the other nurses walked in even though she wasn't scheduled for a shift. She misread the schedule, thought she was on and drove an hour to come in. So she and I slit the floor and it worked out.
Still, the idea of having 76 residents is to me borderline illegal. We have a 2 hour window for medpass. If you spent 90 seconds doing each persons meds you might stay in compliance, but you know a fingerstick alone takes 30 seconds, to say nothing of logging out narcs!
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School is ok.
Say the shortest pair of happy shorts out in the hallways when I came in. Followed by several mini-dresses. Schools not so bad. :)
Math class is challenging, both in content and duration.
Psych is much more casual. My instructor is being questioned about her role, if any, in a triple homocide that happened here, so she is somewhat distracted. The quizzes that we are supposed to have gotten are being delayed a bit while she gets her story straight is distracted.
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Working in LTC one thing you notice is that people who are settling in for the long haul bring their photos and albums with them. I love looking at the old photos! I love the fashions and I really find it interesting what people valued enough to go through the trouble of taking a picture of.
Early on, when I saw that everyone was bringing in their old photos, I knew that one day I was going to run across an image that would make you say "might not be the best one to hang on the wall". I also had an idea in my mind of exactly what that image would be; and sure enough, I encountered it on Unit 1.
Walked into the residents room, gave meds, engaged in small talk, started looking at the photos on the wall and there was a very nice b&w portrait about 3x5 of her husband in his uniform, SS runes poorly scratched off the photo but their 'ghost' remaining. Knew I was going to find one of these images one day, just thought it would take more time. Ah the stories some of my residents can tell.....
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Halloween approaches. Appearantly my unit and Unit 3 have a fierce competition to outdo each other every year. I was sworn to secrect and then told that my units theme this year is Alice In Wonderland. So far the unit manager will be the Queen Of Hearts. The bleached blonde punk-type day tour norse with all the metal in her ears is going to be Alice. This is actually kind of cool because I know she'll tweak the image a bit and I have a thing for blondes in pinafores, so I may sign up for an extra day tour.
Unit 3 is doing something but I'm not sure what and really don't care. I did notice that in the back of their Med Room was a shopping bag full of styrofoam tombstones. Really, is it a good idea to use fake tombstones as decor in a nursing home? That would be like decorating death row with candy syringes. I can just picture some clod showing up in a Death costume and randomly pointing at residents and saying "You!!".
I have been staying mostly on my unit and on rare occassion I float to the unit next door.
When I was in nursing class I didn't understand what float meant and once it was explained I couldn't understand why so many people hated being "floated'.
Now of course I understand.
Try this on for size: last night they floated me to a unit I had never been on. Unit 1 AND 2. Thats right, the have a position where one nurse covers TWO units!! It's just you, 4 CNA's (if you're lucky) and SEVENTY-SIX residents spread across 2 floors of the building.
Doing rounds should not involve using an elevator!!!!!
I got blindingly lucky though; just as the supervisor was about to drop this abortion in my lap, one of the other nurses walked in even though she wasn't scheduled for a shift. She misread the schedule, thought she was on and drove an hour to come in. So she and I slit the floor and it worked out.
Still, the idea of having 76 residents is to me borderline illegal. We have a 2 hour window for medpass. If you spent 90 seconds doing each persons meds you might stay in compliance, but you know a fingerstick alone takes 30 seconds, to say nothing of logging out narcs!
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School is ok.
Say the shortest pair of happy shorts out in the hallways when I came in. Followed by several mini-dresses. Schools not so bad. :)
Math class is challenging, both in content and duration.
Psych is much more casual. My instructor is being questioned about her role, if any, in a triple homocide that happened here, so she is somewhat distracted. The quizzes that we are supposed to have gotten are being delayed a bit while she
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Working in LTC one thing you notice is that people who are settling in for the long haul bring their photos and albums with them. I love looking at the old photos! I love the fashions and I really find it interesting what people valued enough to go through the trouble of taking a picture of.
Early on, when I saw that everyone was bringing in their old photos, I knew that one day I was going to run across an image that would make you say "might not be the best one to hang on the wall". I also had an idea in my mind of exactly what that image would be; and sure enough, I encountered it on Unit 1.
Walked into the residents room, gave meds, engaged in small talk, started looking at the photos on the wall and there was a very nice b&w portrait about 3x5 of her husband in his uniform, SS runes poorly scratched off the photo but their 'ghost' remaining. Knew I was going to find one of these images one day, just thought it would take more time. Ah the stories some of my residents can tell.....
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Halloween approaches. Appearantly my unit and Unit 3 have a fierce competition to outdo each other every year. I was sworn to secrect and then told that my units theme this year is Alice In Wonderland. So far the unit manager will be the Queen Of Hearts. The bleached blonde punk-type day tour norse with all the metal in her ears is going to be Alice. This is actually kind of cool because I know she'll tweak the image a bit and I have a thing for blondes in pinafores, so I may sign up for an extra day tour.
Unit 3 is doing something but I'm not sure what and really don't care. I did notice that in the back of their Med Room was a shopping bag full of styrofoam tombstones. Really, is it a good idea to use fake tombstones as decor in a nursing home? That would be like decorating death row with candy syringes. I can just picture some clod showing up in a Death costume and randomly pointing at residents and saying "You!!".
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