callmekipling

I picked it at random... or so it felt. I was in the process of dropping out of a Music Education program, and one of my frat brothers (yeah so dont ask why I dropped out, ahem) mentioned he made good money as a CNA. And then I became an EMT, and th...

You will be a gofer. I sure am. You will help lift heavy people. To quote eddie vedder.. it's evolution, baby! Whether you are "just" a gofer or "just" a lifter depends, quite frankly, on your willingness to stand up for yourself.

Hey, some of us fill out a large okay There is one ICU doc where I work who has really huge hands, like ironworker big. He has to go to supply and draw out his own XL gloves. Poor guy, it's a running gag with him, and it seems to come up whenever ...

I like to play the straight man. "Good to meet you, sorry it's here" is my favorite opener. As a tech - "They don't let me play with anything fun, but if you need a soda or something I'm well qualified to get it." LOL's come in with bruising/ raccoon...

I always get a kick out of people asking me for health advice. "My ears and my nose have been hurting so bad" "yeah, you should see an ear, nose and throat doctor" "but how do I know if its bad enough?" "is it bad enough to call a doctor for?" (in co...

Forgive me if this is too brief a treatment of a very involved question, but - I think it depends on what your goals are as a nurse, your philosophy and the field in which you practice. Realize you are working in an imperfect medium, with imperfect c...

I have had this happen to me. I prefer to say, and you may quote me on this:smokin: "The details are technical and boring to someone uninvolved in the field.. Needless to say it's more involved than you may think." And then maybe wow them with a ...

artless, but a compliment. maybe Yogi Bera is still floating around whispering in people's ears. Uncondensed, it would read, "I think it's a respectable profession though I bet you get laughed at by other people." Just grin, and don't make excuses.

Did you know your managers are *required* to find room for improvement in your eval? True story. If that's all s/he's got to say about you in the negative, I'd say you're pretty awesome. I mean, that's culture today. If you can do it well, maybe y...

Aahahahaha! happened to me once. Of course I'm a tech, I don't talk much to attendings (I know the house docs, but who's gonna drop THEIR names?) So a little old lady came in insisting she knew such-and-such CEO of our company... I could honestly ...

From "The Modern Gentleman" by Mollod and Tesauro - a really great read, by the way, one that I cannot recommend enough. The passage begins on page 70.

I think domestic violence falls generally under elder abuse for most LTC settings. I have to say, the only domestic abuse I've ever witnessed was verbal and addressed towards a deaf demented woman. I don't even know if that counts.

classically it's referred to as a "great big s-- eating grin" you may find yourself having this reaction I'm one among maybe five or six guys in a class of about a hundred. We're all being broken up for asmt lab. My advice to the bros. here would ...

pat if you're taking a pretty nurse type there, getting emotional may be just the thing.. tell her about your deep and abiding inner pain they eat that up! i'm kidding, but hopefully dealing with people at their most vulnerable all the time she wo...

YEA SON I'm a heavy hitter myself, 6 ft 0 in shoes, 230lb. Bench 315, squat 425 deadlift 480. Do I wish I didn't have a pooched out gut? sure, but all the crunches in the world won't save me :chuckle besides, it's not supposed to be about how you lo...

Another big danger - you're seen as stronger than women, physically, because as a general physiological thing you probably will be. So make sure you ARE strong before attempting to ACT strong.. just lost a brother in arms to home hospice for this ve...

:yeah:completely and entirely true.

Books. Books on tape. Jazz music, if he's a classy bloke find stuff from his era. Tell him about your life. Babble endlessly. Tell him about his family, if they won't come. The same sorts of conversations you'd (hopefully) have, now you keep ...

kuku, i bet it was acute kid

CNA = complete cna program tech = incomplete nursing program around here we all do the same job, but techs are expected to do EKG's and draw blood for labs. Also, depending on the technical skill of your nurse, sometimes they do IV starts. At my hos...

Norway, greenland, ireland, england.. because I plan to spend some time touring europe, and if I'm gonna die sooner than I planned then darn it I'm bumping the vacation up! oh and: when I die I wanna be cremated and used to fertilize a flower garden ...

1) Airway, breathing, circulation (thank you, emt school) 2) Holler for a nurse, any nurse that's free. Call bells are non-emergency. State the room number. Something like, "Need help in 13!" Once the nurse gets there, stick around and help. Stay...

Call me pessimistic, but expect to have to cope with short staffing. Either occasionally or all the time, depending on the hiring and retention rates of the facility you're joining. Been a bit since i worked LTC, but here's how I recall it breaking ...

Don't spray them in the face :-P Seriously, tilt the head back so water stays off the breathing parts. When you have to do the face, do it quickly. Custom products are great. Look into cheap hair stuff too - depending on how often they get bathed, ...

I was gonna say, you blurt out "hold on, I'll get your nurse" when someone unattractive asks you out Wearing the same pair of jeans twice might take you three weeks. or, your basket on laundry day contains one pair of pants, two shirts, seven sets o...