Pros
Average Starting Pay for an LPN. North Shore facility looks good superficially. Most of the Residents are wonderful human beings.
Cons
One LPN nurse caring for 53 patients all night long. This includes a wing of Hospice Patients. Constant struggle to obtain basic supplies. Micro-management in the extreme, yet never any management support. It took over two months of requests to simply get an oxygen tank filled. The nearly empty tank on the crash cart had the incorrect regulator, which would provide insufficient oxygen to patients in an emergency. After two months of my complaints, this was also replaced. Management in an attempt to save money, Forbid the nursing staff from covering bed sores due to the cost of a the dressings. At least until they became severe. Forbidden to chart a bedsore as such. "Open Area" to avoid the perception of neglect. When I complained about the facility not supplying new nasal cannula tubing sets so they could be changed out weekly, I referenced that the tubing set of one of my residents was so old and yellowed, that it was rigid and cracked. Management response: Discontinue her nighttime oxygen requirement. Told by management, when they refused to order pain and anxiety meds for my dying hospice patient, "Those meds are over a hundred dollars a bottle. We weren't sure she would make it through the night." She did, she lingered for a few days. Fortunately, I was able to make several trips to the E-Kit nightly to obtain single dose vials of these meds, in order to ease her suffering. When I documented the deterioration of one of my other resident's condition, such that he could no longer walk to toilet at night. My Nurse Manager forbid my staff and myself from using a "Sit to Stand" for his transfers. Ignoring the reports of the Nursing Staff, she noted, "He transfers just fine" I could go on and on describing my six months in Hell, but suffice to say, Work here at your own Peril.