mzdebi

I used secrets to the TEAS V study guide and practice tests. From everything I am finding out online, all the study guides seem to be lacking in the science portion. That is what I did the worst on. However, I just spoke to a friend that got into the school that I am applying to (She turned them down) and she said she only scored a 74 and she is an awesome student with a 3.75 GPA (mine is 3.61). So who knows, maybe I am freaking over nothing.

This same resident fell again. The same day as her third fall in a week, so now make that four falls. All with no alarm.

That was my thoughts as well. I gave notice last night. I refuse to work for a place that does not take every measure available to protect the residents. They must come first. Everything I found on the subject said it is facility preference.

our facility is dcing the use of pressure alarms as well. They stated it is becoming federally mandated because it is a 'form' of restraint. However, since dcing certain residents alarms, we have had the SAME resident fall 3 times in ONE week!! It is so frustrating because last night I personally checked this resident and 5 minutes later she was on the floor by the bathroom after refusing the use of the toilet an hour earlier. If this was my mother, who had fallen 3 times in one week because of no alarm, I would remove her from the facility immediately for not keeping her as safe as possible.

I am getting ready to start cna training for re-certification. I was certified in California MANY moons ago, and due to getting cancer and being sick for the last 15 years, my certification lapsed. Now I am in school doing my pre reqs to get into an RN program and part of that process is getting my CNA. But when I had my certification, I would only work nocs in the ltc facility (took an act of God back then for a cna to work in acute care), come home sleep til about 1 then had the rest of the day free to do what I needed to do, plus a short nap before work. The shift differential was nice too. This time around, I will still prefer the noc shift, but I want an acute care facility.