FROGGYLEGS

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  1. CNA board cert test tips???

    FROGGYLEGS replied to moliuchick's topic in General Nursing

    I don't recall this being on our exam, but one of the CNAs I work with recently failed her exam because she didn't know how to "zero out" the scales. She said the scales were the balancing type like...

  2. CNA board cert test tips???

    FROGGYLEGS replied to moliuchick's topic in General Nursing

    I think that it is 3 skills here. That may vary state to state. I worked as a CNA part-time in nursing school. My salary was pitiful....I think I made $5.50/hr. BUT that was in 1999 and it was in a...

  3. I passed the CPNE!!!!

    FROGGYLEGS replied to BBFRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Someone tell me to stop sitting around and to study more.

  4. How many of you were CNA's before you went into nursing?

    FROGGYLEGS replied to Cryssi's topic in General Nursing

    I applied for a CNA job that provided training when I was 18. Then I found out what the job really entailed and what it paid so I ran away. I started nursing school and eventually had to quit my job...

  5. CNA board cert test tips???

    FROGGYLEGS replied to moliuchick's topic in General Nursing

    I did the same thing as you...challenged it in nursing school. My skills they selected were blood pressure, hair care, and denture care. I think that someone gave me a list of all the different...

  6. How do you really feel about 5-star rooms?

    FROGGYLEGS replied to maddiecat's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know that I think this is an entirely great idea. However, I do think it is a lot better than the "hot bed" list we have now. Certain people on the "hot bed" list are to be catered to for...

  7. Need Charting Help Please

    FROGGYLEGS replied to RNwendy's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have never worked at a TN NH that used flow sheets. We've alway did regular nurses notes on everyone including skilled and subacute. We chart on skilled and medicare daily. The rest are weekly....

  8. Dress or scrubs? Females ONLY!!!!

    FROGGYLEGS replied to 1BlessedRN's topic in General Nursing

    No dresses. No thank you. My mom wore a dress when she was in nursing school long ago. That ugly dress is about the only thing I recall about her nursing school days. She cast it aside after...

  9. New LPN and no jobs available.

    FROGGYLEGS replied to ladybay's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Okay. It was only a suggestion. If the people in human resources aren't nurses, I wouldn't quite trust their expert opinion on what exactly a particular job entailed. It didn't occur to me that you...

  10. New LPN and no jobs available.

    FROGGYLEGS replied to ladybay's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    You took the words right out of my mouth. Wound care can be an entire specialty...WOC nurse. I'd love to do it myself. Maybe you can check into it to see what the wound care job entails. It may be...

  11. Overtime EVERY day you go to work?

    FROGGYLEGS replied to nycNurse2b's topic in New York Nursing

    I'm paid hourly so I do get OT for anything past 40hrs/wk. Most staff nurses are paid hourly in my experience. With my current position, I do generally have to stay over to finish things up. You...

  12. Excelsior College

    FROGGYLEGS replied to gdnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever been enrolled with Excelsior? What knowledge do you have about their nursing programs? I would be quite interesting in knowing what your experience with Excelsior was that helped you...

  13. How soon can I work as a GPN?

    FROGGYLEGS replied to Betty_SPN_KS's topic in General Nursing

    I started working at a hospital about two weeks after graduation. I applied for it at about the same time as I graduated. The two weeks were spent playing the waiting game and going back for...

  14. "I don't know who to vote for?"

    FROGGYLEGS replied to Blackcat99's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I honestly haven't voted since I was 18. :chair: So far I think thats what has saved me from jury duty. There was a website that would give you a bunch of multiple choice questions dealing with how...

  15. i think i failed the nclex

    FROGGYLEGS replied to bebegirl_620's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Most NCLEX books will explain how the test is scored. It looks rather like a graph with a line in the middle that is the passing line. It will let you go on answering questions until you have spent...

  16. Does your employer recognize "Nurse's Day"?

    FROGGYLEGS replied to OCCHCanada's topic in General Nursing

    Yeppers, I got my annual lunchbox

  17. Advise about IV Drug Books

    FROGGYLEGS replied to OneChattyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    My IV drug guide is from Nursing I believe. It isn't very big, but it has had everything I've needed so far. I haven't ever had another brand to compare it

  18. How to become an oncology nurse?

    FROGGYLEGS replied to Purple Hugs's topic in Oncology

    My very first nursing job was in an oncology unit at a major hospital. I didn't have any special training; I had my diploma and that was it. They hired me before I even sat for boards. They did...

  19. Nurse found dead at Honor Farm

    FROGGYLEGS replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional

    I also thought I might add that our waiting room at the HSU had a television installed in it while I worked there. The TV supposedly kept the inmates from complaining about wait time and was a...

  20. Nurse found dead at Honor Farm

    FROGGYLEGS replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional

    You have got to be kidding me! A swimming pool? The inmates at the prison I used to work at (my husband still works there) get cable television. They also get all of the big fights and such on...

  21. Need advice on memo to all nursing staff that contains threat

    FROGGYLEGS replied to ms40's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with what some of the others said about the possiblity of underlying causes. I am not trying to justify the nurses failure to sign. When I was in nursing school I had a few patients and I...

  22. Nursing Home ratios??

    FROGGYLEGS replied to JustJulesy's topic in General Nursing

    Alzheimers unit = 1:28 with 3 CNAs on days / 2 on 2nd/ and 1-2 on nocs. This works out okay most of the time. Subacute floor = 1:22 with 1-2 CNAs on nocs / 2-3 on 2nd/ 3 on 1st. This is all but...

  23. Need advice on memo to all nursing staff that contains threat

    FROGGYLEGS replied to ms40's topic in General Nursing

    Pre-signing of MARs is falsifying records; that sort of thing can get you into some serious trouble with the BON. I can completely understand the facility firing someone on the grounds that they...

  24. have you started becoming anal about things?

    FROGGYLEGS replied to grapejuice01's topic in General Students

    I've always been somewhat anal, but I think I am getting worse as I get older. In line with some of the ones already mentioned: errors with contractions and poor spelling irritate me. I especially...

  25. Nurse found dead at Honor Farm

    FROGGYLEGS replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional

    It is probably a minimum security type