r/nursinghome

i work in aged care as an AIN, and i also do medications shifts as well. today i didn’t check that levedopa carbidopa 100/25 morning dose was already administered by the RN from the webster pack, i accidentally popped out the tablet from next day and once the resident took the tablet, i realised that i have made a mistake i immediately told the manager about it and they called a meeting and i went and the manager told me it comes under a SIRS and it is a big mistake i should have checked before. I’m so concerned if anything happens to the resident i’ll be in a big trouble. i’m feeling so guilty right now i can’t eat and neither i can sleep.

I’m a new RN Unit Manager for a rehab/skilled floor at a facility. My friend helped me get the job, as she’s a cart nurse on the LTC floor, and I just left an ADON (RN) job, and I have been a supervisor my entirety of my 6 years as an LPN.

I’m working on cleaning up, getting rid of old paperwork that is useless, outdated and needs to be updated. This weekend I brought home the blank copy book to clean it up, it had years-old stuff and multiple plastic sheets of the same copies. Condensed that down nicely. I also plan on bringing in snacks, pens, food etc for my floor, as it helps boost morale. I’ve been here for two weeks, my first week the state was in, and my second week was my first full week on the floor, the second day I was on the cart.

I’ve also already made new report sheets for the nurses, and I am working on the CNA assignment sheets tonight.

Any tips from nurses, CNAs, and other nursing management? This is my first time running a single floor, as I ran the entirety of the facility I was an ADON at.

Thank you! 😊

I hope this is okay but, if you good sit down with a professional in the long-term care field such as the nursing home or assisted living that pretty much ran the day-to-day operations. What would some of the questions be for them? If one of your loveLoved ones are living in one what is the biggest challenges for you as well as your amazing Angel loved one

I’m a student and just started my clinical rotation at a long-term care facility. I am completely overwhelmed by how much information we have to know for each person. Room numbers, dietary restrictions, who needs a mechanical lift, who prefers their tea with exactly three sugars at 4 PM... my brain is fried. I use Anki and flashcards for my college exams, but how do you guys memorize all this practical, fast-moving stuff on the floor without mixing up patients?

Last weds I had a nurse come to me and ask me to get a patient out of another patients bed. ( I work in memory care) so i did. I said come (patients name) on let's get out of [ patients name] bed she said no im not doing it. I reached my hand out and she took it but jumped up out of her bed after kicking at me and tried to knock a tray out of my hand..slapped me and punched me in the back..I said stop hitting me and got out the door. A family member was visiting the patient across the hall and reported me saying I was screaming at the patient. Also said I put a non verbal patient to bed and said patient was saying I got to go to the bathroom...I did put patient to bed but she never said a word. Patient got right back up and was walking around. Nurse told me to put her to bed before she fell down because of her meds I told her she won't stay and she did not. The family also said that I woke a patient up in the dining room saying you can not sleep in here. And that the patient was screaming your hurting me.. they also never came out of the family members room they were visiting so they didn't even know who the 1st and last patient event was. 2nd its a alzheimers unit and patients do and say things all the time. In the end I got suspended while they investigate me. They called me yesterday and want me to come and recreate what happened. I have been looking for a job since the day they suspended me and have found another job in a new nursing home that pays me 25.00 an hour while I now make only 17.50. I love where I am but it breaks my heart that as good as I am to these patients I get accused of something they know I would never do. The nurse and other cna back there said they heard nothing. . The only ones who saw what was going on with the 1st patient were other memory care patients. Im still suspended and im not sure what to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated please..

My MIL has been in the hospital for the 3rd time since March. She had hip surgery due to a fall and then put in SNF. While there for 3 weeks + she developed an infection in the hip and had to go back into the hospital to have tissue removed. Then she went back in the SNF and they just noticed that she has an extra 40 lbs of water weight in her body. She's back in the hospital again. She keeps developing issues in the SNF due to what seems like neglect. I guess they are not held accountable for any of this.