You need to see your doctor ASAP! Any pain during pregnancy needs to be viewed as suspicious and needs to be assessed. First thing is first, you and your unborn baby's well being, please call your doctor. Also, as the last person mentioned, it is ill...
I get thanked all the time by the nurses at my job. It's usually for doing something to make their job easier though. The patients are one of two things. Extra greatful and appreciative or "entitled" and ungreatful. Just a few weeks ago there was a m...
asun21ta replied to satyadhi's topic in Addictions
Hello there. I work in a Drug and Alcohol Facility. I can tell you we deal with people who have serious medical conditions all the time. Often, it something that was ignored for so long that it turns into a full blown medical condition. Our most comm...
The doctors I worked with were really nice. Actually, at my last LTC the doctor was more respectful to the CNA's then he was to the nurses. He used to chew the RN's/LPN's out and in the same breath tell the CNA's what a wonderful job they were doing....
The patient probably has bad days when she can't weight bare and the help of a 2nd person is required. This should be outlined in depth in the patient's care plan. I know how it feels to ask for help and either you get help with an attitude or they t...
Yeah it's the little things that add on to the delays. Many of our patients are very needy. Every few minutes or so a patient "needs" you do something for them. No one can really get anything done uninterrupted. This is the kind of place that really ...
I understand. We had patients that had MRSA. If the MRSA is in a wound or something, they are not going to infect the whole community just by walking around. However, they are extremely contagious and they need to be isolated especially when they are...
I used a notebook, several pens and highlighters, scrubs (various colors), comfortable white sneakers and a watch with a minute hand. The school supplied the text books. I bought my own stethoscope and blood pressure cuff. The school offered to let u...
I had a talk with my DON yesterday. Apparently two more people were unable to transfer to a higher level of care because of Doctor's orders and various other things not being put into the charts ASAP. The filing is not my sole responsibility. The DON...
I think being a CNA's helps with nursing school. It also helps with making you a better nurse in my eyes. I think it helps tremendously. In my 4 year experience, the Nurses who were once CNA's make some of the best nurses. Most times, you can tell i...
I am a CNA but I work as a unit clerk in a psych facility. I don't have to do patient care, but I do vitals, health assessments, accuchecks, filing, assigning rooms to new residents and assist with prosthetics (normally the nurses don't know how). I ...
I don't tell the patients that we are short staffed, but they could usually figure it out since it happened so often. I do not believe in lying to them about being short staffed. If they ask me, I tell them the truth. Why should I lie to them and pos...
Good Luck with your job interview. I wish you well! I have had a similar situation happen when I just turned 18, I was a NA in training and one of my patients fell out of her wheelchair. I couldn't find a nurse anywhere....I looked all over. I yelled...
Fuzzy, I totally hear you on the recreation staff. I had the same problem when I worked in an LTC. I used to hate how they would take my patients away before I could toilet them. They would bring them back to me completely soiled.....to the point tha...
I have several. 1. The Family members. As another person mentioned, they often tend to be worse than the actual patients. One of our family members was so distraught that her mom had just wet her breif that she paraded the wet the wet diaper up and d...
