janmae1950

Another questions from a future nurse of America! I have been browsing this board for a while and can't help noticing the high number of posts from new nurses getting bullied about by the veteran nurses. Due to the shortage of nurses and other proble...

I am a nurse's aid at a LTC facility. I've been here since January. I took 4 weeks of class then was assigned to a hall on the 3-11 shift. The CNA that trained me on this floor is very bossy. I don't work under her anymore but she tends to boss me...

thank you for asking about dad. he has had 3 surgeries over the course of a month and 1/2. his right artery was 90% accluded (sp?). the doctor operated on his neck first and then in april operated on his thigh and then did a by-pass on his lower ...

I don't have to work with Ms. Bossy anymore! The nurse supervisors moved me to another wing of the home. And the ladies I am working with are all around my age (51). I gave the documentation I typed up to the 3-11 supervisor and the Inservice Super...

Oh, yes! I jump from this forum to another one that is more bent to politics and current events. I'm a nurse's aid right now and hope to pass the CNA test in May. But I would like to get into nursing and am taking pre-requisite courses at a local ...

Hey, I'm north of Pittsburgh too!!! Franklin Park Boro.

Update: After yesterday's incident I had spoken to the Charge Nurse about things and she had suggested that maybe a meeting could be arranged between me and the bossy aid and a supervisor. Today, I called the InService Supervisor who also was our tra...

There's been more than one bad experience with this person. It's at the point where I dread working when she's there. She's catty, lies, and is a control freak. One night, another aid asked me to assist her in cleaning up BM from a hefty resident s...

I don't want to "run away" because of fear. However, I'm 51 and the job alone takes alot of my energy that I'd like to conserve for resident care - not wondering 8 hours a day wondering if this gal will be walking in on me and ordering me to go here...

Ms. Bossy has been there a little over a year. This isn't the first time I've had problems with this particular person. I have another topic on this person I posted back in April called something like "Taking CNA Test This Wednesday" for more infor...

I'm a nurse's aid at a long-term care facility and it's like that here also! I've only been working for 4 months now. The aids that have been there longer are so critical of the newer ones. I used to come home close to tears. I don't want to fall i...

Vincentian Nursing Home in North Hills offers training to be a CNA. And you are paid during training. I'm in that now. I had 4 weeks of training in January. The test was in early April and they got the Red Cross to come to Vincentian. I didn't ...

Insurance used to cover inpatient and outpatient alchohol and drug rehab. However, what has happened is that people are in and out of the rehabs over and over. I don't blame insurance companies for setting limits. I've known people personally who ...

That was how it was in West Virginia and down there we called them "Crazy Checks"!

Good points you raise. From what I am seeing on these threads is that the nursing profession wants respect, less stress on the job (i.e, a normal work week), more money, etc. and then wants the government to take over health care. I'm sorry, but w...

Are you referring to all the taxes we pay or just Federal Withholding? If it's just Federal, when we calculate our taxes, we need to remember State income tax, Social Security, Medicare, sales taxes, real estate, personal property, local income taxes...

God, I hope the United States never goes socialist health care. Take England for example. A cancer patient has to wait half a year for treatment. George Harrison didn't stick around in England to take care of his cancer. He was treated in the US. ...

I used to work as a secretary. Every year at Secretary's Day, we got flowers or the boss would take us out to lunch, and we were expected to grovel with gratitude because they remembered us that week. Behind the clenched smile, my mind was running - ...

Haven't you heard - in California some Senator is proposing that junk food be supertaxed because it causes obesity. Be careful, once the pinheads start thinking up ideas like this, it's only a matter of time before overweight people are treated like...

I haven't reached an opinion either way on same sex adoption but I admit, I am questioning some of the ideology put forth in support of this debate. I question the argument about it being better for a child to be adopted by a loving family no matter ...

Myself and 3 others at the nursing home I work at will take our CNA test on Wednesday! I started here on 1/21 and had 4 weeks of training and have been working the 3-11 shift in one of the wards since. I hope I will have good news to report. I would...

Thanks to all of you for your support. I will continue to try to hold my head high, but I'm sure Miss Bossy will gossip and b!tch about things to others. But your words of encouragement have certainly helped. Well, I took the test today. I did ver...

First, I hope that the stressors in your life ease up. When it rains, it pours. Depression is tricky because it can be environmentally caused; yet I have a pet theory of my own that if one is hit by stress factors, one right after the other over a l...

Hi everyone! My goal is to be a registered nurse and I am taking my pre-requisite courses currently. I decided a few months ago that I would like to work in the health field while I go to school and 3 weeks ago began paid training at a local skilled ...

There may be places that provide on-the-job LPN training. Something to check out. You'd still have to go to school for LPN. But that's an option and pay will be more than CNA. So if money's needed now, then keep working at what you are doing and ...