Possum_RN

Ah, yes, I'm familiar with those two lifts. I was referring to an assist-to-stand, which looks like this: It has no automated parts, and thus, in my facility it could be operated by one CNA without a spotter. Since the OP mentioned they asked the p...

I'm not sure if this has been hashed out yet (read three comment pages deep, then skipped), but I'm wondering something: in the facility I worked at, an automated sit-to-stand was a two person lift. A "stand assist" had no automated parts and was th...

I get that one can get tired of these threads, but each of these threads represents a human being who is facing a very stressful and difficult time. Junking up the thread with a list that includes lion tamer and silk-worm grower is dismissive and dis...

^^^ absolutely agree with Jedrnurse! Most strikingly, I was so at-ease in my first clinical: other students looked like deers in headlights, but I was confident in the basics of patient care, at least. Other than that, I really recommend you get a...

Hey there! first off, I just finished my associate's degree of nursing and found out I passed the NCLEX yesterday - I'm 29 years old. I was by no means the youngest in my program - the oldest in my class was in her early 50's. I got my CNA licens...

I just finished up nursing school in May. This question is so difficult to answer - for me, lab values and medications KILLED me. Pure memorization is difficult for me: "what should you monitor a patient for, who is taking oral terbinafine"? Oof, my...

Wow....jerk move, hherrn. I hope you find whomever defecated in your Cheerios and direct your passive- aggressiveness to them. Anyways, First off I have to get the obligatory disclaimer out of the way: are you SURE you want to leave a career you pu...

Well, I took my NCLEX three days ago. I was SURE I failed, but got the good pop-up. Turns out, I passed with 80 questions . But I'm still pretty skeptical of the "Pearson Vue Trick". You can look up the pass rates for the NCLEX - 89.2% for 2018 so f...

I worked on a med/surg floor at my local hospital, in a rural area surrounded by several "big" cities. There were a lot of migrant workers, and we had several cases of confirmed TB a year or so ago. I'm shook at the reply that admits they lied and ...

This really hits home for me. Healthcare is my second career (I've worked as a CNA for 5 years, getting the results on my NCLEX today hopefully). I started out as an English teacher. This reply will be insanely long if I try to type out all of my ...

I have very curly, frizzy hair: after years of wearing it in a high bun, one patient called it "Irish washer-woman hair" I decided I needed a style that was more polished. I do my hair in a "Gibson tuck" for work - off the shoulders, easy as heck,...

I also want to add: no matter what you look like, how beautiful you are, it's very likely a patient WILL at some point call you fat, ugly, etc - any insult they think will hurt you. Patients have all sorts of experiences - some are "not in their rig...

The only thing that ever bothered me was in long-term care: there was one CNA I worked with that would take wrapped desserts off the assist-to-feed's tray, put it to the side, and eat it later. Most of the patients lived off their nightly dessert and...

I hope you apply, if you really want this! I have horrible skin too...approaching 30, still have acne, tried everything under the sun. It appears to be stress related, so maybe I'm in the wrong profession, but hey! Also, I'm 5 foot tall and 115ish...

I'm a CNA (get official results for the NCLEX tomorrow - send me good vibes!), but mannnn I love scrubs. As a night-shifter, sometimes I'd wake up on my day off around 3pm, and remember I needed TP or some other essential, but had a fundamental obje...

Oh, and when I caught co-workers snoozing, I'd nudge them awake and ask them if they wanted to take their 30, or their "optional 15-minute break", to nap. Maybe that was kind of a jab, but like others responding in this forum, I felt it was really i...

Yeahhhhh, big mixed feelings on this. I worked night shift as a CNA for 3 years. I did fall asleep once while in a dark computer cubicle charting - it happens! BUT: it was only once. After that, if I didn't sleep well the day before, I'd try to ...

Oh, I know how bad that sucks! I've been a CNA for 4 years, and just took my NCLEX (wish me luck!) - I truly believe that being a CNA will make me a stronger nurse just for this reason: many nurses just have this attitude that it's a CNA's job to 'd...

Thanks for all the replies. I know it's hard to get the "feel" of a situation down in writing, but I really feel the situation was...if not bullying, then at least toxic. The original call bell was already going off when I came out of the galley ....

I've worked on a unit for over a year as a NA, and I'm in nursing school. I used to work weekend nights full-time, and I built a good rapport with my coworkers. I have recently gone PRN due to the time constraints of my nursing program, and work wee...

I'm in nursing school right now, in the med/sug II class, third semester. I have to say, if I hadn't worked as a CNA in a LTC facility, and thought nursing was only being a floor nurse at a hospital....I'd be in the same boat you are. Med/surg is no...

Erm...that's way harsh and off-base. There is NO call for that negativity. If you didn't give patient identifiers, you should be okay. HIPPA is a very nebulous and confusing concept - any time you say ANYTHING about a patient, there is a chance t...

I'm very liberal and live in a very conservative area. From bits and pieces I've heard coworkers discuss, I assume I'm in the minority. It doesn't change how I feel about the people I work with: I still respect them 100%. That being said, I don't...

Oh my word...I'm SO sorry that you had this experience. I'm a nursing student myself, so maybe others can give more insight...but if it was the wrong medication in the patient's med. box, then it was not your error (it's very rarely ONE person's err...

Also, I don't know how I missed that he THREW A CUP at you the first time I read this. Glad it was the water and not the coffee: at the hospital where I work, the hot plate keeps it scalding hot. So no, do not feel bad AT ALL about telling him to ...