CNABESS

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1. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   CNABESS replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   Cell phones. Leaving the room during pt. care to answer the phone and chat for 10 minutes. Or worse, having that danged phone up to your ear the entire time you are caring for someone. Put the dang phone away until you are done! This pt. and I do NO...

2. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

   CNABESS replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Relations

   going into a pts. rm. and fluffing sheets and pillows does NOT count as patient care. That pt. still needs help w/ ADLs. Do not count on his lack of short term memory to save you, especially when I went into his rm. 2 minutes after you left and found...

3. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   CNABESS replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   My niece is married to a man who is deaf from birth. He has a 75% hearing loss. His mother says it is because she went out to a july 4th celebration while she was pregnant, and the fireworks across the river were "so loud it ruined his eardrums". And...

4. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

   CNABESS replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Relations

   To JADELPN, as a CNA, I thank you. I work with fantastic nurses on my rehab unit and NEVER hear, "thats for the aides to do". They are all brilliant and well educated people and so willing to help when I need it. With the exception of 1 or 2 shameful...

5. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

   CNABESS replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Relations

   I wish you knew how smoothly things are running these last few weeks since you have been on leave for surgery. So much gets done and everyone seems to do their job and not mind. Nobody even misses you because you are so lazy and useless when you are ...

6. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

   CNABESS replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Relations

   PS. Our shift is 3p-11p. Do not announce at 10:15 that you have to go because you forgot to do so and so for your invalid husband. We all see him picking you up in his little sports car.

7. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

   CNABESS replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Relations

   You are lazy and a waste of time and space at this hospital! How dare you go into pt. rms. and change the tv. channel to your own preferred show, then have the gall to sit and watch it! All the while we are all out here running our collective tushes ...

8. What do I do about nurses who think my job is worthless?

   CNABESS replied to onlyj's topic in Relations

   OH Man! Please, please, please come to work with me. I would love to have you stay with the gentleman furthest from the nurses station, fall risk, insists he can get up and go to the bathroom on his own, because he isn't in much pain from that fractu...

9. What do you guys think is more stressful, working at a SNF as an LVN or as a CNA ?

   CNABESS replied to futurenurse310's topic in Geriatric

   As a CNA I can honestly say it would be the LVN. Why? Because when you are the nurse "everything" is you fault. It is a lousy truth, but still a truth. When something goes wrong it goes up the ladder from the CNA to the nurse, and down the ladder fr...

10. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    CNABESS replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

    You filthy old man! You say awful things to the nursing staff about your wife(while she is sitting right there) and then proceed to grab my behind while I am attempting to transfer your 265lb. Jabba the Hutt frame into the lift. Then giggle about it ...

11. Long term CNAs out there, not going immediately into nursing?

    CNABESS replied to radicalsenseofhope's topic in CNA/MA

    I have a degree in a completely unrelated field, started nursing school many years ago, did not finish because my first son was born and was sick. I stayed home and had another child. Never wanted to go back to work. I LOVED being a stay at home mom!...

12. Okay, who *loves* their job, and why?

    CNABESS replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in General Nursing

    I am CNA in a busy rehab hospital. We have lots of hips, strokes, cardiac rehab, brain injury, some SC injury, some just in need of reconditioning after serious illness and weeks in the hospital (wound vacs and PEG tubes). My job is pretty low key,...

13. remember when...

    CNABESS replied to kjpstmb's topic in Humor

    Oh, and rectal temps. EVERYBODY in the facility had to have a rectal temp. done for vitals. Young, old, did not matter, no temp but a rectal temp was accurate. Man, I am glad we have better equipment today!

14. remember when...

    CNABESS replied to kjpstmb's topic in Humor

    As mentioned on another, similar thread Yes, white uniforms, and they better be crisp and ironed! White stockings under your skirt, and those ugly nurse mates oxford shoes. Even as a NA and a student nurse, we were expected to look "professional and ...

15. remember when...

    CNABESS replied to kjpstmb's topic in Humor

    I am sorry. It was meant to be funny in a very facetious way. The reason things are truly funny is because they are true. I am certainly not belittling any of the people I have had the privilege to help take care of over the years. I hope nobody read...