I was working in the ED one night as a Tech when we had admitted a man in his 40's for obs there in the unit. His monitor started beeping because his pulseox was reading O2 sats were in the mid 80's. I went into the room to check it out. The pt was f...
I just wanted to say thank you for posting this question OP. I noticed how my best friend, who worked with me as a tech, immediately labled anyone who was accepted into NS as stupid an incompetent compared to her. It really hurt when I was accepted i...
I would be willing to work during a pandemic. I don't have a family of my own yet, and as long as that were the case I would have no objections. I would expect my mom, who works as a CNA in a hospital, to stay home to watch my little sisters. If anyt...
WOW! Only 9days left!? That is AWESOME! CONGRATS on making it through! My program is 16mo long; I just finished my 1st week so I have 15mo and 3wks left to go! Not counting down or anything . My first week was pretty easy just doing assessments, vita...
I worry a lot too sometimes . I have already worked for several of the facilities of the company that is paying for my program, and I am still currently working in one. I know some of the nurse managers in the ER, where I would like to work, and they...
A little less than a year ago I had a similar experience. Working as an interpreter I got to go into a room with a very nice woman who had been trying very hard to get pregnant to instruct her on what she needed to do before the doc came in to examin...
I knew when I was 4 that I wanted to work in the medical field. I started my nursing pre-reqs when I was 16 and could dual-enroll in high school and the community college. Life has thrown some challenges at me so there have been times when I had to t...
The first day was wonderful! It was really easy, but I did learn some new things. It was easy in the sense that many of the people have not had previous healthcare experience at all. The instructors explained things in a way that everyone could under...
I had a total giddy feeling come over me when I first posted! I wanted to scream and jump up and down, but I was at work so, of course, I didn't. Thanks for helping me get it out of my system, and especially, thank you for the encouraging words, I kn...
I was trained to be a phleb at the very first hospital I ever worked at after begging to be trained so I could have some pt contact (I was a secretary). My first night that I went up on my own (our runs started at 1am), my very first room, I go in to...
When I first started in a hospital as a phlebotomist a couple years ago I was young, naive, and would never believe such things could happen. I was sent to the ER one day to draw labs on a difficult stick, and as I walked through the ER I saw a stran...