I work noc at local hospital. 50 bed med/surg, mostly elderly awaiting LTC admission, or there from LTC for surgery. I would say 75% Elderly/LTC/HH and 25% middle age surgical pts. We have two aids at...
As I had told you in a previous post of yours... ...it depends on the facility you are looking into working for. Here in Texas, I easily got a job at the local hospital, with NO Nurse Aid experience....
Here in Texas, you can work in a hospital as a nurses aid/assistant with no training required. Granted, this is the more difficult way to go, it is the way I chose. You learn a lot, and feel a bit...
I am not sure of your relationship with this patient, or i this patient might get on your last nerve. But if I EVER found out a nurse had callede me a Beached Whale, you bet I would make some heads...
What has me confused are the people that take great precautions to wipe, disinfect, bleach, their shoes which they remove outside, in the garage or a mudroom. I understand that shoes might as well be...
Yarra replied to danigirl58's topic in Texas Nursing
Mom? Is that you?? :roll My mom said the EXACT SAME THING to me when I moved back to Texas from the East Coast. How funny! I am serious, the EXACT SAME THING. She is a notorious shade parker! No...
Yarra replied to danigirl58's topic in Texas Nursing
Where in Houston are you moving to? Do you already have a place lined up? What part of Canada are you coming from. I lived in Calgary for a spell. GOOOOOOOD LUCK with the humidity. You couldn't have...
Austin it GORGEOUS! If you are the outdoorsy type, you will love Austin. It is very expensive though compared to cost of living in other TX cities. It is SO cheap to live in Houston. I know in North...
Thank you for this! So working nights. 7p to 7a in Med/Surg, what can I expect? There will be no meals. There MIGHT be baths at the begining of my shift, I am unclear about this right now. I am...
Hi! I am a new member here, and just got hired on at ETMC in Athens as an NA. I will get my CNA cert in a short while and was wondering; What kinds of things are CNA's allowed to do, by the state of...
Wow. I need to move where ever ANY of you guys are living. I work in small town-rual Texas, 10,000 people or so. I just got hired on at the big hospital in my area, and I make, hold your...