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  1. RN/BSN to medical school?

    You are amazing. I am on the fence right now between dropping from nursing school for medical school. I am a first semester student atm. But I don't want to get my BS in chem or whatever I choose and then be stuck waiting to get into med school and w...
  2. Nurse and CNA argument at the end of my shift

    Okay Orange Tree, I understand your frustration with that. It can be very annoying. I knew she was busy with a patient's orders/status of a new admission coming in. Although, I came up to her and told her and she told me, "okay, I'll be there in fiv...
  3. Nurse and CNA argument at the end of my shift

    I still feel upset because I know that what they were doing was completely unethical. Yes she was documenting, yet she (pm nurse) was also talking and laughing with the other nurse. And I talked to her BEFORE she started the report. So, the patient h...
  4. Nurse and CNA argument at the end of my shift

    Thanks for the support guys. I really appreciate it. Maybe I just wasn't thinking clearly since I just started the nursing program and have been stressed/limited on sleep. I just feel that I wasn't responsible to put the patient to bed since they ini...
  5. I have been a CNA for about two years. I have never really gotten into it with any nurse before tonight. I got into it with the night nurse and the evening nurse. It was about 10:40 PM. I was doing my last rounds and I was going to put my late-night ...
  6. Feel pressured to do 2 people transfer alone

    Yeah, I talked to the Nurses and other CNA's at my facility and they told me for the stand up lift its fine, but for the hoyer lift, we need 2 people. But back to one of the lifts breaking. I really wouldn't think it would fall onto the aide if the p...
  7. Feel pressured to do 2 people transfer alone

    See, I mean I was never there in any of these situations, but personally I feel like a person slipping off the bed with a stand up is a cause of not lowering the bed low enough, or not raising them up high enough, or both. I don't think thats the lif...
  8. Feel pressured to do 2 people transfer alone

    Yeah I was just giving advice on what I did and now do because I went through the same thing. I even said there are 2 person assist that you can and cannot do.
  9. You know what I hate?

    I hate when your walking down a hallway and you see a Nurse or another Aide and you don't know what to say and neither one of you are holding anything and you've already said hi and everything, and both of you just walk past each other looking at the...
  10. Feel pressured to do 2 people transfer alone

    I had the same problem when I started. I called people even for the easiest patients to move. As you get to know your patients, you'll know who you can move by yourself and who your can't. Yes, there are patients you need to learn to move by yourself...
  11. I need help deciding :/

    Your very right. I was looking around at schools like Chamberlain and NIU, and they both offer RN to BSN, all I would need is transfer there, and their both 1 year programs, and I could possibly get my RN done in one year by taking classes over the s...
  12. I need help deciding :/

    I just realized.. All my friends that went away to school will be graduating in 2014 with their BSN's, while here I am getting my ADN in 2014, then I have to go back to school for one more year after that, a RN to BSN program, and I'll get my BSN deg...
  13. first three weeks, need some advice.

    Okay well the first thing I actually do is grab night gowns and place them in everyone of their rooms. The pads we use come in plastic wrap of about 30 pads. I usually grab one thats half used, but still has the plastic wrap, and I put them in a draw...
  14. first three weeks, need some advice.

    You know, you could always just put a stack of linens in a room where a bed is open(make sure the room isn't isolated). Because they clean the bed and thats what I do when there are no roll aways. And when I put everyone to bed, and I don't have a ro...
  15. I need help deciding :/

    Yes.. all my pre-req I am taking are aimed for the Nursing Programs that I am looking into.. Like I said above, I've been accepted already last year both in Elmhurst and NIU. I never applied to UIC cause I knew I wasn't going away. Elmhurst sent me c...