gonzo1224

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  1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    "I had an experience that literally changed the way I think about our souls and afterlife. I saw my residents deceased husband standing beside her as she lay on the floor crying from her fall. No one else saw him, not my unit coordinator, my aides,...
  2. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    What you think are hallucinations are, in fact, angels gathering to assist the almost-dead to cross over. It's quite a party -- the trip of a lifetime! Read the book, "Many Lives, Many Masters" by Brian Weiss, M.D. YOU WILL FLY THROUGH THE BOOK IN...
  3. When you have family in such a facility, visit a minimum of three times a week! This is extremely important. The staff knows who has family visiting regularly and will make sure your mom or dad is very well taken care of.
  4. What do you tell people who want to be nurses?

    Become a CNA first and do that work for one year. If you still think you want to be a nurse, then go for it!
  5. 1st Nursing Cartoon caption contest - win $100

    "Doctor, With all due respect, the next time you have to relieve yourself, please use the puppy pads, I mean chux!"
  6. tall nursing scrubs

    Try Sassy Scrubs (sassyscrubs.com). They will customize everything they offer. You can add as many inches as you need, plus they will make scrubs with your own fabric, or you can choose one of theirs! I love that place. The quality is very good.
  7. LPNs/LVNs working in Chicago hospitals

    Thank you so much for all the information!
  8. What do patients say that irks you?

    Father: "When is her stomach going to get back to normal?" And this is said right in front of his wife!
  9. A means to live?

    If it's money you're after, consider finding a job in a law firm. Or, I just saw an advertisement recently that ALDI grocery store cashiers start at more than $12 an hour. :flwrhrts:THis might sound crazy, but write out your greatest wishes on a p...
  10. A means to live?

    Ooooh, you sound like me! I quit my fancy Chicago paralegal job 7 years ago. I was making 56K a year back then. Now I'm a CNA making a fraction of that. Granted, I could afford to make this drastic change. I had almost ZERO job satisfaction befo...
  11. Clinicals in Hospital

    I did my cna class through College of DuPage (COD) in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and all my classes and all my clinicals were at an area hospital. Yes, depending on where you go, you can do your clinicals in a hospital setting.
  12. I gather 46 is too old to be a CNA

    ABSOLUTELY NOT! I'm 50 and have been a tech for almost three years now. The first nine months I was in an assisted living facility. The next year I spent as a tech on the cardiac/stroke floor at a major Chicago area hospital (HARD, CHALLENGING WOR...
  13. Please critique my resume

    Once these hospital jobs are posted, they go fast. My hospital has a policy of interviewing all qualified candidates in the order in which their electronic resume is received. Triple check everything to eliminate typos and misspellings. Whatever ...
  14. Please critique my resume

    This looks really good. If I were applying, I would change the following: CNAs are certified, not licensed, so change it to "certification"; Under education it sounds like you already have your BS in nursing and then it talks about a projected gradu...
  15. What happens when you have that bassinett in tow and a mom cries out that her baby is blue?! Do you abandon healthy baby to work on blue baby? What about the teenage moms who are fresh sections with no support person spending the night? This is a l...