Possum_RN

I loved Dickies zigzag clogs when I was in school.. they have a strap along the back, but they may still be considered "open-back"? I got them when allheart was running a "buy one Dickies item, get one 50% off", so I got my scrub bottoms and those a...

These high-end scrubs like FIGS and Jaanuu....my god, who had $45+ dollars to spend on scrub singles?! I guess if you have the salary to do that, fantastic... but I just don't understand it! I'll just be over here, thinking my $28 Purple Label scrub...

Well...I've had the same experience. It's true that CNAs might not always be aware of where the nurse is/ what they are doing (their charting is often much more intensive than ours, for example, and I don't begrudge them sitting to do it). However, w...

I think the point is that there is still a stigma attached to nursing as a" female profession", like teaching, secretarial work, cooks, etc. You mention that you've "never been a fan of any push to get any people of any gender, ethnicity, or race int...

I agree with KelRN215. My English major skills are no longer sharp - I'm not sure if it's a matter of passive voice or a misplaced modifier or what the technical explanation is for each example - but the sentences could be re-written: "I am inspired ...

Honestly? I compared resumes with a few in my nursing class, and there really seems to be no "magic recipe" for resumes. Like Sour Lemon, my stable job history was the "focus" of my resume: mine is a 'minimalist' chronological resume - just a clean ...

Oh, I second this! I'm not really an pie-and-cobbler person, as a rule: I don't like gloopy fruit. But I make something very similar to this when I get something good and seasonal at the farmers market - pears, peaches, berries...it's a good, adapta...

This thread has got me paranoid! I went in for a pre-employment drug screen today, and stood there with my hands in "sterile field" position until she capped the sample. Then I lunged for the sanitizer But the sanitizer WAS over the counter that ...

My grandmother was a Red Cross Nurse during WWII. VERY old-school. My parents traveled a lot for business, and if I was feeling the least bit sick, I would try so hard to hide it from her! Salt-water gargles, and a grandmother who refused to believ...

Never hear of that, how crazy! I looked over some studies on it, and it looks like the results are mixed. A few of the studies proposed further research on weather the false positives were due to the alcohol vapor in the testing sites... either that...

Eh? I've never heard of the alcohol sanitizer causing a positive test? I mean, if that were the case, ALL of us would be failing (I hope, unless you're in the school of soap-and-water-every-time)? And c'mon you HAVE to admit, the question is highly s...

I'm so sorry you're going though this - it's stressful, and hurts. I've had this happen, I think all of us have. Often, patients and family are stressed, and just looking for something concrete at which to direct their feelings. That's often the ca...

Also...I am disheartened by some on here who have spoken ill of those that passed after frightening visions. I have seen many pass after such experiences, including my own grandmother (and if anyone deserved heaven as far as I know, she checked all t...

I have seen many deaths working on the "special care" unit (basically hospice or near-hospice residents) of a LTC facility. I've seen many different experiences. One that comes to mind is an elderly woman who was so contracted, she was pretty much ...

I once worked with a CNA who had worked in the adult film industry. She didn't mention it to management, just to me and I imagine a few other coworkers ...since I DID hear people gossip about it later: don't tell your coworkers either if you don't wa...

In my cover letters, I usually use the first paragraph to pinpoint what excites me about the position I'm applying for, "Your mission statement really grabbed my attention: as a nurse looking to change career direction, 'innovation in research, educa...

"I was in shock initially but overjoyed to know that I took care of him almost 30 years ago and now he's as a pediatric resident to the same population he was part of when he was born," says Wong. Aw, it's not even lunch time, and I'm here ugly-cryin...

Thank you for your reply, pmabraham! I have read all of Barbara Karnes' booklets and love them. Thank you for the resources, I will look into membership with the HPNA, and joining the facebook group.

Hello there! I have attached an example for you: it's the cover letter template I used when entering the medical field as a CNA with no direct experience, but some "life experience". The bits in red were what I customized for each individual applica...

As a former-CNA, former nursing-student, and current new grad nurse (at 29).... I may have misplaced my car keys, left the phone on my COW, been personally responsible for leaving the bladder scanner in a patient's room, etc... but I have two fine-po...

I don't want to come off as dismissive of the OP's points though. My first career was teaching. All though high school and college, I was told there was a shortage of teachers. When I left university with my teaching degree, I found out what a lie t...

Absolutely! My desire to move in a few years stems from the fact that my parents are aging, and I'd like to move closer to them, not because I really want to leave. Working somewhere that is actually motivated to retain you is truly empowering, and m...

I graduated last May. Everyone from my class (as far as I know) has a job. I had the luxury of waiting and vacationing right after school, so I didn't actually start job-hunting until a little less than a month ago. I interviewed at a few places that...

I loved the experience of being a CNA at a long-term care facility: getting to know the patient's quirks and preferences, finding ways to connect to them at whatever level they were at... loved it. I went to acute care on a med-surg floor for the ex...

You mean the yoga-style scrubs, right? Actual yoga pants never have pockets - what a nightmare! The yoga-style scrubs usually have minimal pockets anyways (and I'm a fan of having approximately 103,824,954 pockets myself) so I don't go for them....b...