CNA_Timmy

You may want to call a transport company next time. I am a EMT-B/CNA/Nursing Student, and I occasionally pick up shifts for a local ambulance transport company. We pretty much specialize in transporting LTC to hospitals/doctors appts/other places. ...

It costs around 20-30K a year or a private school. Valparaiso University charges $29,020 a year for tuition and university fee's. Forget about living expenses, that's $116,080 for four years of classes alone. Add on books, and you are looking at $...

A hospital based diploma program in my area recently came to an agreement with a local college to share resources (as in the college can use the nursing program on top of their gen ed to grant BSN degrees). Students can enroll through the college an...

I would like to point out that my lazy nursr zapper will also work on the docs... with a special setting for interns who think nurses are their personal servants :wink2::wink2:

A chux pad that sends an alarm when it is soiled sounds wonderful to me, along with the zapping call button! What else... an IV pole that has sturdy wheels to get over those stupid thresholds between the bathroom and patient room and a place to hang...

Well in the US PCT's and Phelebotomists (typically trained for several months in veinipuncture) draw the blood, and nurses place peripheral IV lines. As a matter of fact, I would sonner be stuck by a hornet than by most physicians I work with. As f...

I work as an aide 4 shifts a week... usually friday night and sunday morning... as in 16 hours... then saturday night then sunday morning. I do my homework everynight after class except the weekend I do it sunday night, and I always have flashcards ...

So I was just responding to a post, and it got me thinking. Has anyone else noticed that the nurses do not get to provide much in the way of nursing care anymore? Not that the nurses are opposed to positioning a patient or making them warm and comf...

Old post.... but... ortho is full of surgery to fix broken legs, hips and spines so there is your surg. And guess what group of people are good at breaking their hips... the elderly... which means while they are there for their hip surgery you are g...

HAHA!! I know! I think we should make all the shifts change places for a few days so they can both see what they are missing. Although I have to say that was horrible about your low urine output pt! I hope that nurse was reprimanded, or at least ...

Have you looked into a masters entry program. My aunt was a social worker for 15 years before she went back to school and got her MSN as her first nursing degree. She then went to a psychiatric NP program a few years later, although graduating with...

I always have to walk the line, seeing as how I work days and nights. I am always hearing each shift talk about the others. But seriously. Yes the day shift is busy, but there staffing is awsome (they have 4-5 patients per nurse, and several aides...

Prarie state has a RN program, not sure about a bridge though. South Suburban I know does, www.southsuburbancollege.edu, and there is a newer program in Crown Point, IN through the university of St. Francis, www.sfc.edu/crownpoint, which is a part t...

I would say med/surg would be a good place to start. It is a good place to see many different kinds of things while shadowing. The floor I work on is a surgical ortho floor, with a lot of medical spill over... so you will see NGs, piccs, various ty...

I take adderall, 10mg BID, and when I was hired, and even when I had a OTJ accident I was screened again. The first time I didn't even think about it and did not bring in my script. I was called a week later with a job offer. When I had my visit w...

Where I work the nurses and CNAs actually go into the patients rooms (all private rooms where I work), and involve the paitent in report. The reason we are given for this is the patients can be more involved in their care. Usually the patients do n...

I have worked in my facilities acute rehab unit, which I think is similar. Ours is very structured, they have a strict routine everyday, and therapy all day long. I like being floated there, especially on the evening shift, when they are all relaxi...

Ivy Tech takes LPNs for a one year bridge program, however it needs to be regionally accredited to get credit for the non nursing programs. I have a four LPNs taking A&P and English who took them already at Brown Mackie, Everest, and some colleg...

Never heard it said better... here here casi!!

You might also want to look into the nursing programs in your area. Many require you to have your CNA to apply. Other will give you credit for the intro nursing class if you have your CNA. Where I work only paramedics and CNAs are hired in the ER,...

Around here PCT is what they call a CNA in the hospital. I am one. I had my CNA through a career center, then when the hospital hired me they trained me to be a PCT. It was required to be a CNA before being placed in the hospital training program.

I am a CNA, but in the hospital my title is PCT... it is basically CNA with training in EKG and a few other small tasks. I know some health training schools offer a PCT or nurse tech program, but they are all basically CNA with some additional train...

The scope of practice for a CNA is usually found in the BONs delegation clause for the nurses scope of practice. It is even crazier than that. In the hospital I am expected to (as in it is in my written job description) connect and disconnect o2 fo...

Don't do it!!! MA school is a RIP OFF! I have said it on a few posts... you go to school, pay lots of money, and get a job paying the same as a CNA. In my area MAs and CNA make the same bassic pay, and CNA in the hospital make a bit more. My doct...

I love both... really hate the pay at LTC though. I work at the hospital on a regular basis, and LTC PRN. The hospital is nice because your scope is expanded, LTC is nice because you get to know the residents. I suppose LTC is more physically dema...