ShyGecko

At the hospital I worked at it was very easy to get overtime. At one point I was working 5 12hr shifts per week, by choice.

I never wore my watch, I just kept it in my pocket. It didn't matter what hand I held it in when taking pulse, because I worked on an infant/toddler floor of a peds hospital and we took pulse with the stethoscope. I don't really have any experience...

quote: "we are expected to be neat and clean, wear underwear (i can't believe we have to tell adults this), no thongs (again i can't believe we have to tell adult women this). we can pretty much wear whatever color shoes." "as for this, if they tried...

They are considered restraints at our hospital, and we have to have a new order from the physician every 24 hours in order to keep using them. We only use them if absolutely necessary, though.

At the hospital that I work at you can normally only work 12 hour shifts. You can only work an 8 hour shift if you pick up an extra shift and don't want to work overtime. Most everyone wants the overtime pay, so people rarely ever work 8 hour shift...

I work in a Children's hospital on a floor that has mostly infants, and we do all rectal temps on children under 6 months. *shrug* I haven't heard anything about them being discouraged. I have used a temporal thermometer in the past, and bought o...

At our facility, the ONLY people that can delegate to CNA's are charge nurses and management. Nurses are not our supervisors, and are not allowed to delegate to us at all. This is said up front to everyone in general orientation, directly from the ...

This is exactly how it is at our facility also. I am a CNA, and the only person at my work that can tell me what to do is the charge nurse and the management. The nurses are not in charge of us or above us in anyway, and are actually just as equall...

I work at a hospital, and I get paid weekend diff. It is $1.30 per hour on top of the $1.62/hr night diff that I already make for working nights.

I'm not sure about Texas, but here in Nebraska you only have to be 16 to become a CNA.

I didn't start getting replies from hospitals in Omaha until I added my American Heart Association CPR training for healthcare providers on my resume. I know that at least Methodist and Children's hospital want that specific one, they don't want peo...

It really depends on the hospital. I live and work in Omaha, also, and I know at least at Children's Hospital it doesn't matter if you are certified as a phlebotomist or not, they won't let you draw blood if you are working as a CNA (or Child Care P...

I work in a Children's Hospital on a floor with children ages newborn to 3 years on average (we get the occasional spill-over from the floors with older children), and I normally have around 8 patients. Occasionally I have as many as 12 if someone c...

At our hospital, the majority of us work 12 hour shifts, and anything 24 hours and above is considered full time, with full benefits. So yes, working three 12 hour shifts is full time with benefits. I get paid hourly as a CNA, and I'm pretty sure ...

We HAVE to work every other of the 6 major holidays (memorial day, 4th of july, labor day, thanksgiving, christmas, and new years), and we are automatically scheduled for them. We work one set one year, and then switch to work the other three the ne...

I know I'm probably way past the fact, but I just wanted to point something out in regards to these two statements. I know I'm not an MA, I'm a CNA, but in my certification class, they DID tell us that it is fraud to call ourselves or lead people to...

As far as I know, the only shifts here are 0700-1930 and 1900-0730. I work at a Children's Hospital, and they only want the parents and/or children to have to get to know two nurses and two care partners (cna's) each day. More than that, and it's t...

I just use Bare Minerals real quick to get rid of the shine and to even my skin out. That's it. Even when I go out I rarely wear much more than that, and since I work with babies I don't want it to rub off on them. I'd rather spend the extra time ...

We can wear whatever scrubs we want to, as long as they don't have team logos/names on them. We also can't wear tshirts unless it has a scrub top or jacket over it. Most everyone where I work wears print tops, since we work in a children's hospita...

When we are fully staffed for a night (which seems to be rare as of right now) we have 6-8 (usually closer to 8) patients between two nurses. We have 24 beds on each floor with the possibility of 26 if we utilize the treatment rooms as pt rooms. W...

Our orientation so far has been a week (m-f) in a classroom. The first three days were general orientation, the fourth day was general clinical orientation, and the last two days were department specific orientation. Starting next week we have an a...

I got my dream CNA job, right out of the gates! I passed my CNA course at the end of August, and have been filling out application after application since then, with no one even bothering to call me for an interview. A couple weeks ago I finally re...

At our hospital, we are required to wash our hands with 4% CHG soap and water with an MRSA pt. Otherwise we are allowed to use hand sanitizer (enough to rub vigorously for 15 seconds and have your hands STILL wet), but they prefer we wash our hands,...

I don't have to work Thanksgiving, so more than likely I will have to work Christmas Day and not New Years Day. I'm not sure yet, though. I only have my schedule through the 22nd of December. We work every other of the 6 major holidays, and then s...

I love Uniform Advantage. Their scrubs are super cute, and different than any I've seen. They are pretty inexpensive, also! I ordered a top from them, and they shipped it out the next day. I don't know how long it took to ship b/c it hasn't gotte...