GhostOfTheSun

GhostOfTheSun specializes in Oncology.

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1. CNA's in the hospital setting

   GhostOfTheSun replied to nurse2b013's topic in CNA/MA

   I don't know what its like in a LTC setting, but in the hospital I work in it is VERY busy. At the most I'll have 8 patients (which isn't that bad). I have to get vitals 3x a day (sometimes more if they're getting a blood transfusion, chemo, etc), as...

2. Dead Patients!!!!!!

   GhostOfTheSun replied to cnabeauty's topic in CNA/MA

   So far in the last week I've had 3 pt's die on me, and we hadn't even got them onto the hospital bed before they died. If you don't like working on the dead then don't work on the Oncology unit. For some reason other units seem to think that we're ...

3. Any tips for working a 12 hour shift?

   GhostOfTheSun replied to Christine90's topic in CNA/MA

   I thought a 12 hour shift would be a long time but it actually isn't. You feel it more once you get home and sit down then you do at work. However, slow days are the WORST.

4. Being called in too much?

   GhostOfTheSun posted a topic in CNA/MA

   So far I've only been a CNA for about a month. Ever since I got out of training I have been constantly receiving phone calls from my boss asking if I could come in. At first it was just one phone call a day. Now its grown to 5. Our job descriptio...

5. I gather 46 is too old to be a CNA

   GhostOfTheSun replied to kellysmum's topic in CNA/MA

   46 is not too old at all. In fact, this one guy I know where I work used to work in Housekeeping for years. Then he became a CNA around......I'd say he was between 45 and 50. Now its been two years and I just saw him wearing nursing scrubs last mo...

6. CNA exam skills part???

   GhostOfTheSun replied to Cherryrizzo's topic in CNA/MA

   I took my state skills exam last week. I had to do Vitals, washing hands asepticaly, peri-care male, partial bed bath, and....shoot, I can't remember the last one. But the nurse that was testing me was pretty nice. She told me that if I felt I mis...

7. Instructor said I'd be good in ICU/CCU/ER units?

   GhostOfTheSun posted a topic in General Nursing

   Currently I'm taking classes to be a CNA (my state exam is on the first of November) but yesterday my instructor was talking with me and he said that he's able to read people pretty good after 25 years of being an RN and he said judging by my persona...

8. Does your facility encourage to work while sick?

   GhostOfTheSun replied to KimberlyRN89's topic in CNA/MA

   I don't think hospitals encourage people to come to work sick, but they definitely will NOT discourage you from doing so. Points, writeups, etc. I work in a very large hospital and I can't tell you how many times I've seen nurses puking into garbag...