By Topic: Geriatrics

Browse advice, tips, and support from real geriatrics RNs. Get help with questions about becoming a geriatrics nurse, or navigating day to day work life.

Are there remote or hybrid remote jobs for a 40 yr. experienced RN, BSN to work from home?

Last answered 16 days ago 1 answer

What role does mental health play in the geriatric population?

Last answered 2 months ago 9 answers

I only am interested in employment in Tucson Az.

Last answered 2 months ago 1 answer

What are some tips/tricks to educating my geriatric patients? How can I help them?

Last answered 2 months ago 6 answers

If I want to work in long term care/home health/hospice, should I work in a hospital first to get more experience in acute setting ?

Last answered 2 months ago 9 answers

What is an individual's duty of care regarding communication with the elderly?

Last answered 3 months ago 2 answers

How do you deal with geriatric patients who are always grumpy?

Last answered 3 months ago 23 answers

30 phone calls a day to nursing unit from a daughter in a facility of her own. The phone rings all day. Her father has a cell phone and chooses not to turn the ringer volume up. Distractions are one of the reasons for medication error

Last answered 3 months ago 2 answers

I have 26 residents to one nurse. Is this normal? I feel like it is impossible to provide the care I would want for a family member.

Last answered 4 months ago 11 answers

What are typical medications given as a geriatric nurse?

Last answered 4 months ago 6 answers

Do you feel the problem with the nursing shortage is the ability of companies wanting to train new grads ?

Last answered 4 months ago 5 answers

Are there any nurses out there working in public health, community health, retirement/assisted living? If so, how did you find where you are now? Thanks!

Last answered 4 months ago 10 answers

Are there any entry level, new grad Advance Nurse Practitioner in Adult Primary Care jobs available in Central Florida?

Last answered 4 months ago 5 answers

How do I get back into nursing? Been out of the field for five years. I was a Psych. RN for 35 years. I want to get back into the field again. I'm 61? Too long in the tooth?

Last answered 5 months ago 2 answers

What are the biggest misconceptions about geriatric nursing?

Last answered 5 months ago 13 answers

I've been a geriatrics RN since I graduated nursing school in 2013. I'm interested travel nursing but don't know if I can keep up with hospital setting. Anyone done both? Which was harder? Which did you like better and why?

Last answered 5 months ago 12 answers

I would like to work from home now that I have two toddlers who are not in school yet.

Last answered 5 months ago 1 answer

What age is geriatrics?

Last answered 5 months ago 2 answers

How much should I expect as a board certified Adult Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist with 10 years experience and 30 years as a RN in South Carolina?

Last answered 6 months ago 1 answer

What is the purpose of the geriatrics?

Last answered 6 months ago 2 answers

How much is the salary for new nurses in Skilled facility? The Director of Nursing sent me an email and asking me about it. To be honest, I don’t know what to answer. Place is in Orange County, CA. Thank you.

Last answered 6 months ago 2 answers

What are the best adult gerontology nurse practitioner programs?

Last answered 7 months ago 2 answers

Have any you that are, "retired" , coordinated social security benefits to increase income when social security only allows a maximum earnings of $21,000/in 2024?

Last answered 7 months ago 1 answer

What are some challenges in working with the geriatric population?

Last answered 8 months ago 10 answers

LPN actively for 18 years, also Medical assistant worked for several primary care Physicians and an OB/GYN and assisted in minor surgical procedures, endometrial biopsy, and colposcopy. I unfortunately had to leave a position 2018, What can I do?

Last answered 8 months ago 3 answers