CNA_Timmy

CNA_Timmy

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  1. Nurses will do the CNA job

    CNA_Timmy replied to bongids's topic in General Nursing

    If facilites want to do away with aides they better limit patient to nurse ratios. In the hospital I work they are usually 6:1!!! No way anyone can bathe, toilet, feed, complete q4 vitals, turn,...

  2. Nurse Assistants are vital to our health

    CNA_Timmy replied to chinoyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Being the aide is the dirtiest, least paying, least appreciated job in nursing. We make the beds, wash the pts, clean the poo, wipe the rear ends, lift, position, reposition, transport, pass the...

  3. medication aids

    CNA_Timmy replied to ebutler1953's topic in General Nursing

    Here here... you nursing home nurses need all the help you can get from what I have observed. At the facility I PRN at the QMAs (Indiana calls them Qualified Medication Aides) usually work as aides,...

  4. Do you do walking rounds?

    CNA_Timmy replied to DorothyAnn0403's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I posted in your other one too, but this will be more in depth. Where I work the aides and nurses do walking rounds together. For the overnights where there is only one aide and two or three nurses...

  5. Do your LNAs/CNAs do walking rounds?

    CNA_Timmy replied to DorothyAnn0403's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work we are split into teams. At the start of each shift the new team meets with the leaving team and do walking rounds, new nurse, leaving nurse, new aide, leaving aide. It is working out...

  6. Yes, another "MA calls self nurse" posting..sorry

    CNA_Timmy replied to nurseby07's topic in General Nursing

    My brother is an Army medic serving in Iraq right now. There is no doubt he has been trained to do a whole lot more than a civilian medic, but when he gets out... guess what... he has no civilian...

  7. nursing shortage? how about equipment shortage?

    CNA_Timmy replied to MagnesiuM's topic in General Nursing

    wow I guess the hospital I work at is paradise!! We have an ivac in every room, a dynamap per every 6 patients (and a sphygnometer on the wall over every patient bed), the only thing I ever really...

  8. Patient Care Tech's Duties in a hospital ?

    CNA_Timmy replied to KdnRN2B's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work in Indiana, PCT/PCAs do all the tasks of a CNA in the hospital as they would in the nursing home (transfers, toileting, light room cleaning, making beds, etc). In the hospital I am also...

  9. Shoe advice please

    CNA_Timmy replied to Scooter5's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    My mom usually buys K-Swiss from the kids section. They look the same as the adult ones, only fit her tiny feet and cost much

  10. Age for Certications

    CNA_Timmy replied to antidote's topic in General Nursing

    I know in Illinois you only have to have an 8th grade education and be 16 to get into a CNA

  11. CNA's Aide the nurse... right!

    CNA_Timmy posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok... I just touched on this in another post, but now it is bothering me again. I was floated to my hospital's telemetry floor last week, and something happened that has been making me bitter all...

  12. Why it is better to be a Nurse than a Physician.

    CNA_Timmy replied to BaRNs's topic in General Nursing

    True, but the doc only has to deal with the patient for about 10 minutes one a month at most.

  13. CNA's Aide the nurse... right!

    CNA_Timmy replied to CNA_Timmy's topic in General Nursing

    We are certified to aide the nurse, everything we do for a nurses patient is something the nurse is responsible for in the end. We can loose our place on the registry, but the nurse loose their...

  14. Travel nursing love stories

    CNA_Timmy replied to daisydoll's topic in General Nursing

    I work with a nurse who met his wife while being a TN. He met her in arizona and while they were dating he continued to travel. They eventually got married, and moved to chicago together. They...

  15. Why it is better to be a Nurse than a Physician.

    CNA_Timmy replied to BaRNs's topic in General Nursing

    saw this in another post, but it seems to apply to here... it must suck to go through 4 years of undergraduate, 4 years of medical, and 4 years making $12.50 an hour as a resident to realize you've...

  16. Working peds?

    CNA_Timmy posted a topic in General Nursing

    Well, today will be the first day I will be working the peds floor as a CNA/PCA, and wanted to get some input before my shift starts. I usually work med surg, but I am going to be working in all the...

  17. Med Administration - Somatic??

    CNA_Timmy posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Ok... I currently work for (although as of today only PRN) a community mental health center. I work in both the inpatient unit and a group home for seriously mentally ill adults. The clients who live...

  18. CNA's Aide the nurse... right!

    CNA_Timmy replied to CNA_Timmy's topic in General Nursing

    I have always taken the position I work for the nurse. I work under their license, and what I do reflects of them. The hospital might pay me, but they pay me to do what the nurse tells me to do,...

  19. CNA's Aide the nurse... right!

    CNA_Timmy replied to CNA_Timmy's topic in General Nursing

    You guys are awsome! Now if I could only go back in time! Ooh well, at least I think I know why PCA retention in telemetry is so low at my hospital... At least it does not happen to me regularly......

  20. Patient freaking out

    CNA_Timmy replied to alcrab01's topic in General Nursing

    Remember everyone the key to retaining your own mental health while working in mental health is to have a good sense of humor! I has kept me sane . . . uuuhhh . . . well . . . sane-ish . . . over the...

  21. CNA's Aide the nurse... right!

    CNA_Timmy replied to CNA_Timmy's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks guys! That does make me feel better. I am just glad that I got it off my chest, I get really nervous about bringing up anyting like that to the charge nurses and what not, I know in the end it...

  22. How Much Did you Make as a Student Nurse Tech??

    CNA_Timmy replied to Sl1011's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work the student nurses and PCAs have the same job... and on med-surg we do wipe an awful lot of rear ends! But I cannot complaine, the nurses I work with are really great at the moment, they...

  23. Patient freaking out

    CNA_Timmy replied to alcrab01's topic in General Nursing

    LOL! I work on an inpatient psych unit as well, and all the nurses explaine what they are giving the clients, and what it is for. It is done quietly, and not meant for anyone else except the nurse...

  24. last day

    CNA_Timmy replied to calliesue's topic in General Nursing

    YAY!!! I feel your joy, just finished my last regular shift at a local psych group

  25. Fired, concerned, worried, job issues, need information, and salary info!! help!

    CNA_Timmy replied to cutehumor's topic in General Nursing

    I am not a nurse, not even staring school till fall, but... I do work on med-surg as a PCA, and I know everyone is super careful with the blood. Sucks you were fired, last year I know two nurses that...