Lucina11

So very sorry to hear this. I enjoyed her posts immensely. They were thoughtful and educational. She will be missed!

No one? Okay, well, it was worth a shot. I just finished my second week and it is still a little confusing. Especially since the three instructors all give different answers to your questions. I guess it really does get us ready for the workplace!

HI! I just finished my first week of PN class! It is a called a Flex program and it is really strange. I was reading through other student's first week/semester of nursing school to get ideas, and realized that mine is completely different. For ins...

Postpartum or L/D would be my top choice if I worked in a hospital. ER is very interesting, but I don't know if I could keep up with the pace. Outside of the hospital, I'm starting to be very interested in wound care and LTC.

Probably not hilarious...but at the end of shift, it was almost more than I could do to keep from laughing. CNA in the nursing home. One elderly lady with Alzheimer's was known for getting crotchety some nights when her legs hurt her. This night, sh...

Yes. Death has a smell. I think it smells differently to everyone, and some don't notice it at all, but it is there. I could always smell it on animals too. In the short time I worked at the nursing home, we had three residents die. One had been br...

Ooh...cool topic. I'm not a nurse yet, nor am I involved or married, but I have some nurses in my family so I can add to the stats! One nurse was married to a cop. One is married to a mechanic. One to a deliveryman. One to a boat painter. Of my f...

I start march 1! The program is flexible 12-18 month program. I just did my first day of orientation today!

Wow...I don't know if my program will go that deep. I'd do it, but it would be weird. This is a rural school and everyone knows everyone else. Those classmates will be my friends and neighbors...even my ex-boss's boyfriend!

I just recently quit a facility because it had horrible working conditions and wouldn't let use lifts. We were understaffed too. There was only one aide out of all the aides and nurses working there that didn't have a back, leg, hip or wrist injury. ...

I am fairly new to being a CNA, so maybe this is just ''the way it is" , and I am being a wimp, but I have some questions regarding a skilled nursing facility. Please allow me to rant along. :) First of all this facility has two aides to 30 resident...

Thanks to everyone for their response to this post. I managed to extricate myself from that job gracefully without having to work another day there..., and did it without having to name any names or incidents. And, since then I've received my long-aw...

When I did my CNA clinicals at the nursing home, nearly all the aides and nurses had tattoos. To my surprise, so did plenty of the residents. One elderly lady even had multiple ear piercings and a labial ring! When I started work, my administrator ha...

Okay. Thanks. SO how long is a notice for? Or does that simply mean telling my boss that I quit? ETA: Also, I already cut back to working two days a week so that I could go to school. Don't know if part time employees have different requirements?

Thanks everyone for the helpful responses. I've decided to find another place to work. So, what is the best way to quit? Call in? Walk in? Disappear from the face of the earth? ( sorry, dumb question, but its my first job.)

That is what really scares me. I want to be a CNM someday.I don't need a bad incident on my record. Some of the other girls are practically married to the facility and will bend over backwards to make the place look good when and inspection comes. I ...

I started counting last night, and of the seven staff members who have worked there over a year, five of them have been injured to the point of having a permanent limp. It is a no restraint facility so one of the mentally disabled residents broke one...

Thanks for the replies. I love the elderly, and even though they are getting the best care we are able to provide as aides, it kills me to see that it isn't better care. I hate that we don't have to time to chat three minutes with them...we have to p...

No. I am a brand new CNA. I had ten class days. Seven of those days were spent with a teacher who used all the class time to tell funny stories about nursing home residents. When we used our textbooks, she read briefly over some text, then flipped p...

Not a nurse yet...but I was raised on a farm, and did several at-home patch-jobs on people as well as animals. I can honestly say that the only thing that causes me to gag uncontrollably is people feces and dog feces. Give me vomit, snot, mucous, blo...

Mahage--That was a great post. I think you captured my feelings about stereotypes against Southerners better than I did. I hate to be thought of as racist because I come from the South. People often assume Southerners are 1.) Republican. 2.) Bigoted....

Wow. I suppose you have all been to different parts of the South. My family is primarily from Arkansas and Mississipi ( for many generations)--and they are very open minded as to race and sexual orientation. We have many black, Hispanic, and Native ...

Hi. I live in OK, and am scheduled to take a test on the 10th of Feb. to get in to an LPN program at a nearby tech. school. They said I would be taking a COMPASS test and a CAPS assessment. I could find plenty of information for the COMPASS test, but...

As a personal treat to myself upon graduation I will probably indulge in a small tattoo in a discreet location. As for the rest, I want a very fat savings account. Also my parents have been the most amazing, wild, eccentric people in the world who h...