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"I had an experience that literally changed the way I think about our souls and afterlife. I saw my residents deceased husband standing beside her as she lay on the floor crying from her fall. No one else saw him, not my unit coordinator, my aides,...

What you think are hallucinations are, in fact, angels gathering to assist the almost-dead to cross over. It's quite a party -- the trip of a lifetime! Read the book, "Many Lives, Many Masters" by Brian Weiss, M.D. YOU WILL FLY THROUGH THE BOOK IN...

When you have family in such a facility, visit a minimum of three times a week! This is extremely important. The staff knows who has family visiting regularly and will make sure your mom or dad is very well taken care of.

Become a CNA first and do that work for one year. If you still think you want to be a nurse, then go for it!

"Doctor, With all due respect, the next time you have to relieve yourself, please use the puppy pads, I mean chux!"

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Thank you so much for all the information!

I'm trying to decide if I should become an LPN/LVN. I live in Naperville, Illinois and know that I only want to work in a hospital setting in either Chicago or in or around Naperville. I'm doing a bit of research before making the financial and time ...

Father: "When is her stomach going to get back to normal?" And this is said right in front of his wife!

If it's money you're after, consider finding a job in a law firm. Or, I just saw an advertisement recently that ALDI grocery store cashiers start at more than $12 an hour. :flwrhrts:THis might sound crazy, but write out your greatest wishes on a p...

Ooooh, you sound like me! I quit my fancy Chicago paralegal job 7 years ago. I was making 56K a year back then. Now I'm a CNA making a fraction of that. Granted, I could afford to make this drastic change. I had almost ZERO job satisfaction befo...

I did my cna class through College of DuPage (COD) in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and all my classes and all my clinicals were at an area hospital. Yes, depending on where you go, you can do your clinicals in a hospital setting.

ABSOLUTELY NOT! I'm 50 and have been a tech for almost three years now. The first nine months I was in an assisted living facility. The next year I spent as a tech on the cardiac/stroke floor at a major Chicago area hospital (HARD, CHALLENGING WOR...

Once these hospital jobs are posted, they go fast. My hospital has a policy of interviewing all qualified candidates in the order in which their electronic resume is received. Triple check everything to eliminate typos and misspellings. Whatever ...

This looks really good. If I were applying, I would change the following: CNAs are certified, not licensed, so change it to "certification"; Under education it sounds like you already have your BS in nursing and then it talks about a projected gradu...

What happens when you have that bassinett in tow and a mom cries out that her baby is blue?! Do you abandon healthy baby to work on blue baby? What about the teenage moms who are fresh sections with no support person spending the night? This is a l...

Find out who the manager of L&D is, write her a letter, attach your resume, and ask for an appointment to see her. Follow up witha phone call. You have to think outside of the box and get get noticed. Be assertive and get yourself hired!

The advocate system is FANTASTIC! Benefits are outstanding. I work as a PCT at Good Sam in Downers Grove. They are very picky who gets in now and are firing the slackers and troublemakers. You must set up your resume/application on-line initially...

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Has anyone here ever read "Many Lives, Many Masters" by Brian Weiss, M.D.? It's powerful! I recommend it to any person who ever questions why God could be so cruel. On the contrary! I gave this book to a crabby old man attorney whose wife just died. ...

In the past six weeks, only two nurses have thanked me sincerely for doing a good job for them at the end of our shifts together. I stopped in my tracks and was so pleased and moved that I almost cried. Do you thank your nursing assistant at the e...

"Honestly, there are so many demands, I feel I need a personal tech for each patient! " Our hospital is in the midst of switching to a new model whereby one nurse will be teamed up with one tech. The nurse and his/her tech will have no more than five...

Holy Crap! I find that six or seven is heavy! At our hospital, a tech only has 12 if a lot of people call in sick and there end up with only two techs. Try another hospital or another department within your own hospital.

Good point! If a nurse helps me with ANYTHING, I thank her. I even thanked a nurse who pulled me aside in private and said, "May I critique you on your technique..." I thanked her for not doing so in front of the patient and her family, and I than...

ChristineN, I agree that actions (such as always being willing to help) is HUGE! The other day I answered a call light for a patient for whom I was not assigned. While I had a new admission just arrive, I thought that getting a woman off of a bed p...