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  1. Gear for your first clinical day!

    Girl Scout replied to Karla.S's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    All I took with me on the first day of clinicals was a black pen, a notepad, my watch, my lunch, and my stethoscope. My stethoscope wasn't ever needed (I had no idea who I was being assigned to, so I...

  2. Burned Out and Breaking Down

    Girl Scout replied to Button2006's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I don't think I could do 12 hour shifts, much less a 12 that turns into a 16 (ie, a double), for days in a row. It's not really the physical work that bothers me so much as the emotional stress of it...

  3. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    Girl Scout replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Perhaps a forum moderator could be asked to change the subject line of this thread to read something more like "Will you work in a pandemic (please read first post before posting)" because I'm getting...

  4. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    Girl Scout replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    With how the OP phrased it, the situation was very bleak. The OP isn't about H1N1, it's about H5N1, which has a very high fatality rate,

  5. Starting Clinicals...

    Girl Scout posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hi all, Today was day 1 of clinicals and there is so much I learned and so many things I wasn't even aware of, I feel like I've already become way more capable than I felt before, just working with...

  6. Starting Clinicals...

    Girl Scout replied to Girl Scout's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Today was my last clinical day and the least physically intensive also because I worked the geri psych floor, and there really weren't any changings or showers to give, just feedings. The nurse let us...

  7. Hard Time Finding Brachial Artery

    Girl Scout replied to zooz's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Yeah, I'm like you, I know where it is, but they make us do this extra step to learn, where you have to palpate it, find where it stops beating on the manometer, THEN stick the steth on it, go 30...

  8. Signing up for my CNA class today!

    Girl Scout replied to wannabcna's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    If it helps you any... before starting, I started to get cold feet, so I just decided I was overthinking it and tried to distract myself. The first night after my first day of class, I laid in bed...

  9. Hard Time Finding Brachial Artery

    Girl Scout replied to zooz's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    All this time I was having a horrible time finding the brachial on anybody, then suddenly today my instructor whips out this little gem: extend your arm (resting) with the opposite hand, place the...

  10. Feeling very discouraged right now. Advice please?

    Girl Scout replied to ojuice7620's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Jeeze... my CNA course is 5 weeks and I feel like we've been rushed through and had our heads so crammed full of info that I leave class dizzy. I can't even imagine doing it in 3 weeks. I am lucky...

  11. Signing up for my CNA class today!

    Girl Scout replied to wannabcna's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    OMG thank you for mentioning Nurse Jackie. I didn't know it even existed! Watching the first ep on Showtime's site right now! (and it's

  12. Burned Out and Breaking Down

    Girl Scout replied to Button2006's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Button, it sounds like you're needing a change of scenery. I don't know what your personal situation is, if you're working doubles because you're raising kids or taking care of parents or just need...

  13. how many cna's plan to continue their education?

    Girl Scout replied to jynxa17's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I don't know what the difference is here locally, because they get interchanged all the time. I'll see PCA at school, then go look at job listings at hospitals and they want PCTs and PCAs and CNAs...

  14. how many cna's plan to continue their education?

    Girl Scout replied to jynxa17's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I'm curious now, how many are going to maybe get the PCT (or PCA) thing? I am, and I thought mine included phlebotomy, but somebody today at school mentioned that it did not. I guess maybe it just...

  15. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    Girl Scout replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Btw... the scenario in the OP is a really grave, end-of-rope scenario. The poll is not about the 2009 pandemic as it stands right at this moment. First... if I don't care about myself, how in the...

  16. Employees sick with flu need to call out

    Girl Scout replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It might take a minor miracle, since it seems that healthcare workers aren't even covered by wc in most places if they get back injuries on the job. You can use good body mechanics 99.9% of the time,...

  17. Signing up for my CNA class today!

    Girl Scout replied to wannabcna's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    lol... that's so funny. When I got my scrubs, I thought, I'll get them a size too big, because I'll be bending and moving and sweating all the time, so I want them to breathe. Weeeell... a size too...

  18. My CNA clinical exam is this weekend and I'm FREAKING OUT!

    Girl Scout replied to emily_ganshert's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    K nock on the door I ntroduce yourself P rovide for patient's privacy ID entify the patient E xplain what you are going to be doing W ash your hands And for some things, like if you're going to go on...

  19. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Girl Scout replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Here's the CDC's explanation of the lineage of the 1918 H1N1: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no01/05-0979.htm http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol9no10/pdfs/02-0789.pdf In short, no, the current H1N1...

  20. I Think I Had Swine Flu This Week ...

    Girl Scout replied to PacoUSA's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That, and, I think if you go state by state and look at stats, you'll see the gap in numbers between CDC and theirs, but even states are unable to keep up with labs and have greatly cut back on...

  21. I Think I Had Swine Flu This Week ...

    Girl Scout replied to PacoUSA's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't believe they're really performing tests anymore unless you appear critical. The CDC isn't even keeping up with the real numbers, and haven't been for a few weeks. Their estimates anyway are...

  22. Employees sick with flu need to call out

    Girl Scout replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I can't even imagine working as a CNA and needing at least 7 days of consecutive absence, without warning, pandemic or not. What if that 1 CNA became 4 or 5 CNAs? Your facility would be in trouble....

  23. I Think I Had Swine Flu This Week ...

    Girl Scout replied to PacoUSA's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Who knows. I don't think they're actually testing anyone anymore unless they've got really bad s/s or might need the vent? I can say I "might" have had it, too, in mid-May, when suddenly I had fever...

  24. Starting Clinicals...

    Girl Scout replied to Girl Scout's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I'm glad! When you start class, it may seem like an information overload, but stick with it and just study every day, and you'll do fine. And when you get around finally to your clinicals, be sure and...

  25. Starting Clinicals...

    Girl Scout replied to Girl Scout's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hi, well I had day 2 of my clinicals yesterday and I thought by noon that I was going to just go crazy if I couldn't rest my feet. I've worked at a desk job in an office for years and years. I...