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fuzzywuzzy CNA

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  1. improving staff responsiveness

    That's very passive-aggressive and probably makes the situation worse, actually. I work with someone like that- she won't lift a finger to help anyone else and on the rare occasion that she does, she...
  2. Slower pace environment for CNA's?

    I work fast. I DO treat it as a race because there is always more to do. My view is, if I fiddle around too long giving AM care right up until lunchtime, then there is no time to toilet/change
  3. What does Generate BM list and give MOM mean?

    We have a night nurse who does that. She laxes EVERYONE! They all get MoM, and a lot of them get supps too! And she waits until 6:30am to give them so that her aides don't have to deal with the...
  4. Nitpicking

    Just wondering if anyone else has this problem... you've worked 8 hours, you're tired, and the oncoming shift has to inspect every toilet and trash can and complain about whatever they can. Today...
  5. Am I just being a big baby?

    Where I work sometimes they schedule and aide to move to another floor halfway through the shift. It's actually a big
  6. Do patients

    I don't smoke, but I think it's kind of silly to say that nurses should know better. You don't have to be a nurse to know that smoking is bad for you, not to mention that it smells disgusting, is a...
  7. Telling me to just make up vitals for a woman who never lets you get them (it's hard to take a BP when the person is thrashing around and screaming). They were only routine vitals, but still. YOU make...
  8. How do I deal with a rude coworker?

    In my facility if I did that, they would make sure to include "doesn't play well with others" in my review and I would not get my
  9. Back breaker / ergonomics

    Yeah... that's no good. You would think that even if it's legal, they'd still want hospital beds in order to avoid having to pay workman's comp all the
  10. Oh geez. She's not performing surgery. And she's not in a hospital. So she doesn't need a nursing degree to change a bag. Here's a scary thought- an UNLICENSED person gave me a Midol the other day!...
  11. Slower pace environment for CNA's?

    I hear you. The thing about administration saying they don't want you to cut corners, but giving you so much work that you have no CHOICE about it, and looking the other way until state comes in?...
  12. New CNA, not too well at taking insults.

    Why is everyone telling her to look for another job? There are PLENTY of residents in every nursing home that act like that, and you can't avoid taking care of a staff member's parent. I've taken care...
  13. That's kind of a silly argument. The nurse is getting paid to take care of her patients, not to babysit students. The students only make it harder and the nurse gets paid the same whether they are...
  14. Where do the damn pillows go?

    I work in a nursing home and we actually have enough pillows (other supplies are another story though). Every time we get an admission they always arrive with a pillow or 6 from the hospital because...
  15. Rant about a co-worker

    Oh well, she's old and probably only works because she has to. It must suck to be her. That said I can understand how you can dread working with her. Can you make "suggestions" to her? Like what if...
  16. 7-3 vs 3-11 vs 11-7.

    7-3: Get people dressed and out of bed. Serve and feed breakfast. Toilet everyone. Put some of them back to bed. Pass snacks. Do a couple showers. Get everyone out of bed again (toilet if you have...
  17. I would be less concerned with the test results and more concerned with the fact that you probably REEKED when you walked in
  18. I'm a CNA, but I say the same thing. Since this job is and always has been dominated by women, the pay is low. It's primarily seen as a nurturing, pillow-fluffing, caregiving job with little "real"...
  19. FED UP CNAS!!!!

    Yes, but do they care? If a resident falls and the alarm was going off, they just have to say that they wrote up or fired the CNA that failed to respond to it, and their butts are covered,
  20. FED UP CNAS!!!!

    I can't take the noise! Almost every single resident on my unit is on alarms- bed alarms, chair alarms, seat belt alarms, and those kind that detect motion. I cannot go one minute without that blasted...
  21. I couldn't take this seriously after the complaint that no one smiled at
  22. Starting CNA class soon...supplies needed?

    All I needed was a pen. The class will either provide everything else you need or tell you what to get. Sometimes you need certain colors of scrubs or something so I wouldn't go out ahead of time and...
  23. CNA shift wars

    I hate nitpicking too. So there's a brief in the trash or someone is wet... OMG! Just get over it! How much does it really set you back? Our third shift doesn't do showers. First shift does the bulk...
  24. issues at work new cna

    Poor thing... you're being way too hard on yourself. It's not easy for any new CNA- we all start off slow, have trouble with simple tasks (like putting briefs on) and feel like a thorn in everyone's...
  25. First Day at Clinicals: Not good at feeding =(

    Sometimes when the resident talks a lot during the meal they end up choking, so I try to keep the conversation minimal. Anyway if you're at a loss for words you can just talk about the food. And if I...