sarah.e.foley

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1. Is this pay too low?

   sarah.e.foley replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Technicians

   I work at an acute care hospital in the med/onc unit, was hired with no experience starting out at 13.37 an hour with 1$ differential each for nights and weekends. If we work an extra shift we get a 3.75$ differential for picking up, and if we work a...

2. How to get my foot into the Women's Specialties door?

   sarah.e.foley posted a topic in Technicians

   Hey all! I am a CNA, working at an acute care hospital as a PCT (already cross trained for accu check and EKG, working on getting my phlebotomy license this summer) in a Med/Onc unit. I love love love my co-workers (night shift peeps rock!) but ...

3. What's the weirdest baby name?

   sarah.e.foley replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   My senior year of high school, there was a rumor going around that some English teacher was calling role the first day of class (with a bunch of freshmen) and called out "Lah-ahh?" for a name on the sheet spelled "La-a"... A prissy, little twerp rais...

4. How did you get your hospital job???

   sarah.e.foley replied to stigrl's topic in Technicians

   Persistence IS key! I graduated my CNA program last June, and IMMEDIATELY started applying for jobs- didn't get one until OCTOBER! I applied to just about every LTC, hospital and rehab place in the county. I'd never had trouble finding a job before, ...

5. Been working as a PCT for almost a year... go from 0 write ups to TWO within a month.

   sarah.e.foley replied to Spikey9001's topic in Technicians

   First of all, I feel bad that you work somewhere like that and are CLEARLY being made an example of. I work in a Med/Onc unit, and though we are VERY focused on patient satisfaction too, we would NOT get written up or suspended for what happened to y...

6. Who is responsible to check the emergency cart?

   sarah.e.foley replied to tony2020's topic in General Nursing

   Where I work, a med/onc unit at a hospital, the crash cart (or code blue cart) is sent down to stat stores after each code incident/emergency and a new full one is brought back up with a "lock tag" on it (you have to break the seal to open the cart d...

7. Is it normal for them to just let us take care of the pt's on our own??

   sarah.e.foley replied to Brannray's topic in CNA/MA

   I felt the same way, basically the whole time during clinicals in my CNA course. We were in a med-surg unit at a hospital. Our class took half the patients, and the hospital CNA took the other half- we did not shadow anyone. My teacher would pair us ...

8. From Home Health to the Hospital

   sarah.e.foley replied to WannaBNursey's topic in CNA/MA

   I agree with northernguy! Here at the hospital I work at, patient satisfaction scores, team work and time management are all KEY. Explain to them how you are good at time management already; tell them how you will be good at taking care of so many mo...

9. CNA now or wait for nursing school

   sarah.e.foley replied to jbhvbc's topic in CNA/MA

   I live in Illinois, so I can't give you advice about the Alaska job situation, but here there are always plenty of night time CNA jobs available! Don't forget, hospitals are an option too- don't just look at LTC facilities.

10. Don't know if I should take this job....

    sarah.e.foley replied to missie1's topic in CNA/MA

    I agree with the others, that though this will take some sacrifice, in the long run this will help you in the job market. For most places you need some experience if you want to get hired into a full-time position right off the bat- it's an unwritten...

11. Chasing after alarms. What do you do?

    sarah.e.foley replied to vc01ca's topic in CNA/MA

    First of all, 26:1 with how many nurses. just that one? I don't work in LTC, I'm at a hospital, but if we are short a PCT and have to have that many patients, there are atleast 6 nurses around! So if you don't have many nurses either, that's even wor...

12. CNA working on phlebotomy cert... raise in my future?

    sarah.e.foley replied to sarah.e.foley's topic in CNA/MA

    We are having a lot of changes lately with supervisors on nights, so many times we only have a relief charge, and I didn't want to ask our PCS manager because I didn't want to sound... greedy? I didn't want her to think that I'm doing it just for the...

13. CNA working on phlebotomy cert... raise in my future?

    sarah.e.foley posted a topic in CNA/MA

    I am currently a CNA working in a hospital (on a Med-Onc unit) and I am going to be taking classes to start on my phlebotomy certification this summer. In my hospital, if you want to work in the ER or a Mother/Baby unit you are required to be trained...

14. 6 patients at once? How do you do that?? Any advice?

    sarah.e.foley replied to RN0302's topic in New Nurse

    Hey girl :) Congrats on graduating! I myself am not yet an RN, I'm a tech (CNA) working on RN liscense... at the hospital that I work at here in IL (Medical/Oncology unit) I am on night shift, and often times the night RNs (who work 7p-7a or 11p-7a) ...