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  1. Changing Careers - Balancing Family

    I am a cna, and I plan on starting some pre nursing classes in the summer. Where i live, we need to have our cna to start nursing classes. i work third shift, and i have 4 kids, two are in school all day, one goes half day and one is at home all day...
  2. Death- Do you ever get used to it?

    I have been working as a CNA for almost 2 months. About 2 weeks ago I had a resident die. That was the first time I accually had that happen to me on my shift. I have never seen anyone die, and only had 1 great grandma die in my recent memory. I k...
  3. 3rd shifters, what are your duties?

    Sometimes I feel like I am a house keeper. Here is my list of things I do for the night. We have two cna's on duty for third shift, thats it. Oh, I also work in a CBRF assisted living. about 30 residents. We have about 3 hrs of cleaning to do clean...
  4. Where Do You Work?

    CBRF (assisted living)
  5. interview next week!

    keeping my fingers crossed for you, update us when you get some news! Cari
  6. CNA salary

    I am a resident assistant at a LTC (not yet cna) I work 3rd shift, and I am at $9.25/hr. Once I am certified I get a whopping $0.25 more! I am in Wisconsin. Cari
  7. Hospital or LTC? Other options?

    I feel your pain chadash. I hope to one day work in a hospital. We have 4 hospitals in my city, and ALL are hard to get into. Its like the Secret Mason Socitety or something around here! Cari
  8. how many patients do you have

    I have about 15, assisted living, 3rd shift. Cari
  9. Calling All CNA's!

    I am a resident assisitant for a whole 3 days now. I am taking my CNA class a month from now. That will get me a whole $0.25 more in pay once I am done and certified. I am not sure if I like my job or not. It has only been 3 days, so I have time...
  10. Anything helpful to buy for CNA position?

    Thanks OP for posting this, I too was wondering about thease types of things. And good suggestions pp's! Cari
  11. How did you hear about allnurses.com?

    a poster on another site (totaly not nursing related) referred me.:nuke:
  12. Hey, I have Crohn's.....