Yarra

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1. worry about job

   Yarra replied to chadash's topic in CNA/MA

   YAY! Congratulations! I KNOW how much it sucks waiting to hear back about a job. I usually end up with no fingernails by the time they call!! :smiley_aa

2. how many patients do you have

   Yarra replied to The Bell Jar's topic in CNA/MA

   I work noc at local hospital. 50 bed med/surg, mostly elderly awaiting LTC admission, or there from LTC for surgery. I would say 75% Elderly/LTC/HH and 25% middle age surgical pts. We have two aids at night. So one aid to 25 pts. Sometimes, if we are...

3. Can someone help me re nursing assistant?

   Yarra replied to yangkchoua's topic in CNA/MA

   As I had told you in a previous post of yours... ...it depends on the facility you are looking into working for. Here in Texas, I easily got a job at the local hospital, with NO Nurse Aid experience. There are NA's at my hospital that are not certif...

4. Can someone help me re nursing assistant?

   Yarra replied to yangkchoua's topic in CNA/MA

   Here in Texas, you can work in a hospital as a nurses aid/assistant with no training required. Granted, this is the more difficult way to go, it is the way I chose. You learn a lot, and feel a bit overwhelmed at times, but you don't have to fork ove...

5. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   Yarra replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   I am not sure of your relationship with this patient, or i this patient might get on your last nerve. But if I EVER found out a nurse had callede me a Beached Whale, you bet I would make some heads roll. I can't believe you would refer to someone in...

6. Is this true?????

   Yarra replied to gitterbug's topic in Humor

   All I can think about it getting splinters from the popsicle stick! REGARDLESS of the duct tape!

7. Wearing scrubs home??

   Yarra replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

   What has me confused are the people that take great precautions to wipe, disinfect, bleach, their shoes which they remove outside, in the garage or a mudroom. I understand that shoes might as well be the most contaminated thing to come out of a hospi...

8. Im Moving

   Yarra replied to danigirl58's topic in Texas

   Ok, now this is getting scary. :uhoh21:

9. Im Moving

   Yarra replied to danigirl58's topic in Texas

   Mom? Is that you?? :roll My mom said the EXACT SAME THING to me when I moved back to Texas from the East Coast. How funny! I am serious, the EXACT SAME THING. She is a notorious shade parker! No matter that we now have to walk in blazing hot sun and...

10. Im Moving

    Yarra replied to danigirl58's topic in Texas

    Where in Houston are you moving to? Do you already have a place lined up? What part of Canada are you coming from. I lived in Calgary for a spell. GOOOOOOOD LUCK with the humidity. You couldn't have PICKED a hotter and more humid time to come! I was...

11. Moving to texas

    Yarra replied to crowbar13's topic in Texas

    Austin it GORGEOUS! If you are the outdoorsy type, you will love Austin. It is very expensive though compared to cost of living in other TX cities. It is SO cheap to live in Houston. I know in North West Houston, where I was born and raised. You can ...

12. CNA salary

    Yarra replied to HisTreasure's topic in CNA/MA

    Yeeeahh, about that..sorry. *smirk* I said 84 hour work week, I ment "pay period"! 36 hours one week, 48 hours the next. Sorry. :)

13. CNA's: allowed to do _WHAT_ by law?

    Yarra replied to Yarra's topic in Texas

    Thank you for this! So working nights. 7p to 7a in Med/Surg, what can I expect? There will be no meals. There MIGHT be baths at the begining of my shift, I am unclear about this right now. I am asking, as when I interviewed, I was interviewing for th...

14. CNA's: allowed to do _WHAT_ by law?

    Yarra posted a topic in Texas

    Hi! I am a new member here, and just got hired on at ETMC in Athens as an NA. I will get my CNA cert in a short while and was wondering; What kinds of things are CNA's allowed to do, by the state of texas, in a Hosptial environment? For example... I ...

15. CNA salary

    Yarra replied to HisTreasure's topic in CNA/MA

    Wow. I need to move where ever ANY of you guys are living. I work in small town-rual Texas, 10,000 people or so. I just got hired on at the big hospital in my area, and I make, hold your breath...6.15 an hour as a NA. I will work nights and get a 15...