Jenny_07

Jenny_07

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  1. No HS diploma or GED, but is a CNA?

    In my state if you go through a cc you have to have you hs deploma, if u doit private you dont. But i have seen that more and more LTC will not hire with out a hs deplpoma.
  2. Are CNA work schedules generally flexible?

    It depends on on your LTC. I know with mine we have set work schedules IE. 6-2, 2-10, 10-7 and you have to work every other weekend and holiday. The only people that have a flexible work schedule is our on call dept because they sign up for their shi...
  3. You know you are a CNA when....

    When your door bell rings you look down your hall to find a call light. When your at the store and see an old lady fall you run over to help her while yelling for the nurse When you go to your friends apartment and you knock on the door and open whil...
  4. At my LTC a lot of the times the family goes with them, For those who don't go with their familys they get the metro mobility bus to the doc and its up the resident if they want an aid, and which aid they want. It's always the one who works with them...
  5. What have you failed the CNA skills exam for?

    I have a friend whose patient failed hers because she put the bedpan on the wrong way because she let the test admin build up her head and then wasn't watching what she was doing and put it on wrong. and the funny thing is the test admin asked her if...
  6. Do you help the lazy aides?

    I don't do it. I look at it like this, where was you at when i need help doing something? I have my own duties that i have to get done with out worrying about what the next aid has going one.. If you wasn't too busy "hanging" around the nurses stand ...
  7. FED UP CNAS!!!!

    I am so sick and tired of going to work and having to change and toliet all of my Residents because the shift before me was in too much of a rush to get out of work on time. (God forbid you do any work while you are at work). I am tired of having to ...
  8. The reason Why I became a CNA

    As I doing care's for one of my resident she asked me Why I became a CNA and i told her The reason why I became a CNA is because I saw how my grandmother was cared for in a LTC and i want to give my residents the up most care that they deserve and th...
  9. C.N.A vs Medical Assistant

    1. As a nurse Tech you are also doing work with phlebotomy and EkG's along wiht your normal patient care. 2. It varys from state to state. Some states you make more and others you make less. From what i've heard from friends its only like a dollor or...
  10. Funny things your patients have said

    Considering the circumstances i just had to giggle at this. One day as i was running around to get the supplies for one of my residents who was coding, his wife stops me as I head back to the room and says " Ohh He's just faking, he's been talking ab...
  11. Cna code blue protocol

    I commend you for what you did, I know i would have done the same thing. I think that it's so stupied that we as cna's are the ones who are always there with a resident, we know more about that resident then anyother staff that works at the ltc. hell...
  12. Forgot to pull curtain..did i fail???

    They don't let you guys know if you pass that day?
  13. Nursing Assistant's Prayer

    I was looking through one of my old class text books and came accross this and thought it would be cute to post. As I enter into my place of calling, I ask for strenght as I help those in needing. Hide my tears for the sick and aging, And let my smil...
  14. Should I take this job? (CNA)

    Where I live our HHA's have to be certified. they make about the same if not more than cna but thats because they get remiberesed for gas.
  15. what do CNA's do in a hospital?

    Really, I've been told that it depends on what floor you work on. But I've been told that its almost the same as working in LTC but you are able to do more things. As far as sope of practice being in a hospital, We were told in class that in the sta...