walkingon CNA, LPN

I'm in OH too and make $1.40/hr less than that.

Hey serendipity....same story here except for the last 2 sentences of your post! Taking A&P 2, started 1/5, A&P 2 easier than A&P 1, missed an A in 1 by 1 point. Same teacher this quarter. But taking Micro, Psych and Human Growth too? ...

Currently attending Rhodes State College in Lima. :monkeydance:

Our residents get showers 2X week. It's usually not that bad because the showers are scheduled so that there's only one or two a day on our individual assignments (no shower aides). But if our low census picks up, we're in for it, because managemen...

Well, as a late bloomer who will be 44 or 45 upon graduating with my ADN, I won't want to go back to school right away (will need to work for awhile to really tamp those principles into my head), but have toyed with the idea of BSN. Ya never know......

I also have had a mid-shift shower, but unfortunately not quite as interesting as yours! What a character "Nellie" sounds like! Gotta love 'em.....

Yes, yes, yes!!! One of my big pet peeves is aides that walk into a room where residents are sleeping, flip the lights on, throw their covers back, and yell "Time to get up!". Who wants to be woken like that? You don't necessarily have to baby the...

Sometimes the brightest ideas are born of the darkest circumstances. What a beautiful gift.

Being left-handed (and otherwise very oriented to the left side down to the left eye seeing better), I figured that I would see her turning clockwise, and I did. Like another poster, however, I saw moments of counterclockwise movement when reading o...

:yeahthat: I totally getcha.....it's one of the things about going back to school later in life I think. One day those youngsters will be us, and will understand why we were the way we were in school.

Count me in for this club....I start the 3rd week of Sept. Had A & P in scrub school and didn't think it was that hard, but have a feeling that this is going to be a lot more in-depth. Fortunately, it's always interesting to learn about the bod...

Pfffft. I'm an aide in a LTCF, and getting my first full weekend of the summer off this coming Labor Day weekend. I was ok with every other weekend, but ALL weekends is ridiculous. Hope my supervisor listened when I told her I couldn't do all week...

:yeahthat:......and as an LPN, you can walk your happy butt out of the OR if it's not your thing, and work elsewhere.

As a STNA in a LTC facility who is also a nursing student, I take issue with the statement that I would have "nothing to lose" should I become entangled in retaliation against a nurse. What if my name, around my graduation time, were flagged on the ...

Best of luck to you, Missy! (from another LTC aide in nursing school who's trying to get her foot in the door of the local hospital!!)

Just completed my first quarter of prereqs (actually, it was prereqs for the prereqs ) at 41 y/o, I'm also taking the A & P I in the fall). My classes are at night too....they did lean toward younger people, but I was hardly the only older one t...

I'm in OH at $7.65/hr....feeling pretty underpaid right now!!

Although my SAHM days are behind me, I can tell you that some colleges offer special accelerated-entry programs for those who already hold bachelor's degrees in non-nursing disciplines. This is from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, b...

Thanks for revealing your trade secret to us nursing students. Now we will know who Nancy is if she bubbles up out of our subconscious on those tough days.

I've been working LTC for almost a month now, and had my first experience with a resident passing away today. I had the privilege of giving him his last bath before his journey, and since the passing was expected, I took my time and was extra-gentle...

The 21 y/o nursing student I work with in LTC is one of my favorites there. She is a gem. She's been there longer than me and always has time to help, doesn't get ouchy with the residents, and doesn't join in the breakroom drama & gossip. Age ...

Hi Becky, I am a STNA at my first LTC job just a few weeks now too. It IS very hard, but the time goes quick, no? Listen to that little voice in your head...it's your intuition speaking. With experience, it's going to get better for both of us. P...

After I got my STNA and a job in home health, I interviewed twice at a local hospital and didn't get the job either time due to lack of experience. Seems to me that most of us have to do our time in the trenches of LTC in order to advance. It's har...

The care that nursing assistants provide is more in the realm of assisting with ADL's (activities of daily living) - things like bathing, dressing, feeding and toileting. We also learn to position and turn patients in bed, make an occupied or unoccu...

Hmmm...I am still quite a ways from clinicals, but will tuck this gem away for when the time comes.