Nurse_Bonita

I've heard another version of that and even though I am blonde I find it quite funny myself. How about this one??? Blonde showed up in the ER with a gunshot wound through her hand. The nurse comes in to asses her and asks her what happened. "Well," s...

I an a first year ADSN and a Patient Care Tech or CNA whatever. I cannot believe they would be insane enough to let someone with the minimal training that we get pass meds. I have also hear of student RN's who work as CNA being allowed to pass meds. ...

Had a patient in the nursing home I used to work at with this really nasty, deep decubitus ulcer on her hip. Of course, she looked like a holocaust survivor. Real thin, actually closer to emaciated. Wouldn't eat a darn thing. Only thing keeping her a...

About two weeks ago we had a guy brought into our ER complaining of a belly ache and flatulance. I don't know who his MD is or what the MD was thinking, but they admitted this guy to CCU. Ok, if I go to ER complaing of a belly ache and flatulance an...

Hey Huganurse, Love the webpage! It is so true even though I am still a PCT and pre-nursing student. When you gotta run to ER to get patients b/c ER is jam packed and transport is off for the weekend, them potty breaks get few and far between. Oh an...

That is too scary. I have a cool Walmart story. I introduced my best friend to her husband at Walmart 3 years ago. The guy I was dating at the time had a single best friend and so did I. We decided that they should meet. Well, we decided to meet at W...

Hmmm.... Don't know where I fit in here. My boyfriend graduates from RN school in December and I start RN school in August. He told me that he would help me in any way possible. We've talked about marriage, but I think we will probably wait until I ...

Hey Betts, Love the post. I enjoy it when people make me think. Keeps me from getting brain dead and I cant afford to be brain dead in nursing school. Miranda (Bonita)

hmmm... never dealt with a case like this since I am not a nurse YET, but one time my cousin got a quarter stuck in his ear. I still can't figure that one out.

Hey Everyone, In addition to just getting accepted to Nursing School, now I got myself a new job. I start at Weirton Medical Center as a PCT the 18th!!! It's a major change from the nursing homes that I have been working in and it's only 10 minutes f...

Hey Sharann, Thanks. I'm telling ya I am gonna need all the luck I can get though. I've never worked in a hospital. In nursing homes the only other medical people I deal with are Nurses. Now I am gonna deal with more I am sure.

I am only a student and I currently work as an aide. One nursing home I worked at tried 12 hour shifts, but half of the aides wouldn't do it. The hall the 8 hour people worked was always short so us 12 hours people would get pulled over there for 8 h...

Hey Everyone, I am so happy! :roll I am now officially accepted into the Nursing Program at my college!!! I start nursing courses in the fall. I am currently taking prerequisites. Also, I may have a new job, but I won't know until later this week. ...

SICU Queen and Ussie, Thanks a lot. What I am most worried about is flaking out in clinicals or something. All the nurses I work with tell me that if you can handle being and aide and getting BM or emasis all over you, then you can handle just about ...

Pama, Thanks for the info. Nice to know that the program is well thought of. Oh, I think I got my new job at Weirton Medical Center. I am supposed to call Monday morning to set up orientation!!! I am so excited! :roll Greer, Thanks for the further i...

Peggy, Renee and Mario, Thank you for your welcome. Also thank you for the comments on titles. It is so weird to be called something else in different places. I think they should call all aides the same thing. Who knows though. I am really nervous ab...

Pama, I am attending West Virginia Northern Community College. Ok. So CNA, is Nursing home, been there done that. Been doing that in Ohio for a year called STNA. Nurse Extern??? What exactly does that entail? I will definitely be careful as to what d...

Thanks for the info. In Ohio, I am a STNA (state tested nurse's aide). I was told that in WVa it was CNA (Certified) but now I am getting told that it is PCT. Oh well. I know I'll be doing more than I am in the nursing home if I get the PCT job. They...

Hey Everyone, Went to occupational health yesterday. I swear getting x-rays done made my back hurt worse that it already did! I have to go through at least 4 weeks of PT and I'll be off work at least 2. ARGH!!!

Hello All, I am a STNA and a pre-nursing student. I work in a Nursing home. Yesterday at work, I sustained a back injury while transferring a patient from her wheelchair to her recliner. When I went to lower her into the recliner I felt something giv...

I myself have never tried New Balance, but ever since I sprained my ankle very badly twice in less than six months the only shoes I can wear and be truely, truely comfortable in are Reebok Walk DMX. My dad told me about them. He works in the post off...

Hey Everyone, Thank you so much for replying. At the Nursing home I am currently employed at, we have a a color coded system as to whether someone is independent, one-assist, two-assist, or a hoyer lift. The woman that I hurt myself lifting is a one-...

Oh my goodness! sounds like something I got offered this summer when I was between jobs... A friend of a friend sits with this elderly man 7 days a week, 12-16 hours a day. Gets fairly decent pay, but not allowed to go anywhere or do anything all day...

I'm an STNA (stated tested nurses aide) and pre-nursing student in Ohio

I am a nurse's aide and a student nurse. I do NOT at all appreciate it when I am mistaken for a nurse. WHY? Because I know how hard LPN's and RN's work to get their title. In the nursing home I work at, our nurses wear either white or raspberry pink ...