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hi! i just took up a position at a local nursing home near my house, in which i am the RN2 doing the medication round for 49 patients.

i just finished my div 2 and have never worked at a aged care facility not including my training, i feel 49 residents to give medications is too overhelming and riddiculous to complete and quiet frankly i think its unsafe practice because you can't possibly concentrate for that amount of time! They also want me to do Resident of the day, BGLs (8 residents) and Blood pressure (12 residents) daily including the medication round the 3pm round, the 6pm, 8pm and 9pm.

in my mind i really do want to quit but at the moment i cant really afford to, my mortgage repayment is going up and its uncertain if my partners job will stay steady, i have applied at heaps of other facilities including hospitals but they don't want to employe me as i have no experience beside training, even aged care facilities (beside this facility which is really dodgy)

is this normal in other facilities please share

thanks.

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finah (offline) Joined: Jun 2009 Location: MELB! 3174 Posts: 8	Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:08 pm hi! i just took up a position at a local nursing home near my house, in which i am the RN2 doing the medication round for 49 patients. i just finished my div 2 and have never worked at a aged care facility not including my training, i feel 49 residents to give medications is too overhelming and riddiculous to complete and quiet frankly i think its unsafe practice because you can't possibly concentrate for that amount of time! They also want me to do Resident of the day, BGLs (8 residents) and Blood pressure (12 residents) daily including the medication round the 3pm round, the 6pm, 8pm and 9pm. in my mind i really do want to quit but at the moment i cant really afford to, my mortgage repayment is going up and its uncertain if my partners job will stay steady, i have applied at heaps of other facilities including hospitals but they don't want to employe me as i have no experience beside training, even aged care facilities (beside this facility which is really dodgy) is this normal in other facilities please share thanks.

VIRG03874 (offline) Joined: Oct 2009 Location: Posts: 2	Oct 04, 2009, 01:29 am hello! i would be checking with your nurses board in your area because it sounds like the things they are asking you to do are outside your scope of nursing practice! also div 2 nurses are not to be administering schedule 8 drugs as its a requirement of your nurses board and registration and in line with the poisons acts get advice from the nurses boards or the australian nursing federation! remember if a resident dies because of your incompetencies it will be you facing the coroners court not your organisation

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Giving medications to 49 patients fair or not?