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  1. Can any Patient Care Techs tell me how much your training cost?

    Miwila replied to Miwila's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Now that sounds much more

  2. Can any Patient Care Techs tell me how much your training cost?

    Miwila replied to Miwila's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    She'll just take a regular CNA course if it turns out $9000 is the standard cost of a PCT course. That is just too large a debt to assume if she'll probably have to work as a CNA for an unspecified...

  3. Can any Patient Care Techs tell me how much your training cost?

    Miwila replied to Miwila's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    We're located in South Fl. She wants to work either as a CNA or a Patient Care Tech. To the best of my understanding the difference is a Patient Care Tech works in a hospital and has a few additional...

  4. Can any Patient Care Techs tell me how much your training cost?

    Miwila replied to Miwila's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Well this particular program teaches all the duties of a CNA as well as providing EKG and Phlebotomy training. To the best of my knowledge EKG and Phleb training is what distinguishes a PCT from a...

  5. FED UP CNAS!!!!

    Miwila replied to marineswife0809's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I'm sorry but I just don't get the thinking of these nurses who think its somehow professional or even productive to yell at and be abusive towards

  6. FED UP CNAS!!!!

    Miwila replied to marineswife0809's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    And you still work there?? You must have a stomach of

  7. How do you discuss your availability?

    Miwila replied to SnowRain7489's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I am not sure if you mean you only want to work weekends or you don't want to work weekends. I personally have had a fairly easy time finding CNA jobs that allow me to only work weekends since no one...

  8. I am so frustrated at my new job!!!!!

    Miwila replied to jilajila's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    My mother is in a nursing home facility now, temporarily while she recovers from surgery, and I sware whenever I read this forum some of the stories make me shudder. Even where my Mom is at a couple...

  9. CNAs and weight

    Miwila replied to fuzzywuzzy's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    The job itself, in my opinion, is a great way to stay in shape. On the side I do maybe an hour a week on a treadmill and a half hour on an AB machine although I have gone for weeks and months without...

  10. Does New York State require CNA retraining and/or recertification?

    Miwila posted a topic in New York Nursing

    As a CNA, if I were to move back to Brooklyn from out of state does anyone know if I have to retake CNA courses and take a State Test before I can work as a

  11. CNA vs Patient Care Technician

    Miwila replied to Lola89's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    The difference is a Patient Care Tech does EKG and Phleb and many hospitals, when they advertise, specify that they are looking for PCT's. I know most hospitals don't want you without any experience...

  12. NYC CNA's

    Miwila replied to Serendipity, PCT's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Why should you become an LPN when you can become a Medical Assistant? I hate to generalize but there is a part of me that really hates vocational schools. Some of them really have a lot of

  13. Why do so many nursing homes fire CNAs all the time?

    Miwila replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Yes, I've caught the bus when I had too and have also worked with many punctual people who use public transit so it gets on my nerves whenever people who have cars make excuses about why they can't...

  14. Why do so many nursing homes fire CNAs all the time?

    Miwila replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I agree there are many aides who don't take their jobs seriously. I recently had a co-worker react with outrage because I politely suggested that - since her car was unreliable - she put $20 a week...

  15. Why do so many nursing homes fire CNAs all the time?

    Miwila replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    As some who is considering relocating to several different places I would love to know which city you live in where the nursing homes have a habit of firing aides easily. I guess in a big metro area...

  16. NYC CNA's

    Miwila replied to Serendipity, PCT's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I'm planning on moving back to Brooklyn and I am curious about what I should expect in terms of work environment in LTC. LTC is pretty "rough" and Brooklyners are known for being tough so does that...

  17. Student Nurses over 35 and Second Career????

    Miwila replied to LoveFromAbove's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    People of both genders opting to change live paths and study nursing or becoming CNA's after 35 is not unusual at all. I would be willing to bet this is the most popular field for people in this age...

  18. Qestions about being a CNA

    Miwila replied to teysmith's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    It doesn't need to be an issue but I guess there is the possibility that a healthcare worker with a bias or with strong religious beliefs might have a problem dealing with a homosexual patient if that...

  19. A question about hiring new CNA's

    Miwila posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Since it is pretty hard for a CNA without experience to find a job, I am wondering if it would help if the CNA put in their resume that he/she would be willing to work nights and waive the shift...

  20. Question on surviving as a CNA in North Jersey before I move there

    Miwila replied to Miwila's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I would never expect to make big bucks as a CNA anywhere. I just want to be able to eat and pay the

  21. Question on surviving as a CNA in North Jersey before I move there

    Miwila posted a topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I am considering a move to North Jersey and am wondering if the average CNA pay matches the cost of living there. NJ is expensive. I understand that to rent an efficency apartment in Jersey City would...

  22. Question on surviving as a CNA in North Jersey before I move there

    Miwila replied to Miwila's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    Well my mother wants to be closer to her sister so I figure when she moves up there I can move close to them and start a new life as well. Most of my friends and family living in Florida have...

  23. Ca-CHING! Empty wallet for CNA class!!

    Miwila replied to OldITgeek's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Online with weekend clinicals? What state do you live

  24. Online LPN course

    Miwila replied to Miwila's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Greenie thanks for the info. Ironically New Jersey and Georgia are #2 & #3 in places I would like to move too if and when I leave the area I live in now so maybe thats a

  25. Question about an LPN course

    Miwila posted a topic in Florida Nursing

    I'm trying to find out if anyone knows of or has attended an LPN course at any institution in South Florida that only meets two days a week or, preferably, two nights a week.