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I have posted on here numerous times over several different issues.... but I am in a hard spot and disgusted by this facility. I am being induced on this Thursday due to a high risk pregnancy. We were just informed today, so at work today my boyfrien...

Okay to all the responses about us planning a small (BUT FORMAL) wedding... I have been married once before for 2.5 years my ex deployed to Iraq came back with an young female soldier. He divorced me and less than 6 months later remarried her. Our we...

Sorry the boyfriend is a CNA at a CATHOLIC, nursing home... He is a Catholic himself... We are not married but engaged to be... and if not for time and money would be getting married (date set). We are still planning on getting married but with us bo...

Has any one else tried these scrubs out?? I just got a job at the largest hospital in our city... and they simplified the scrubs by colors per department. Basically RNs/LPN's where solid Marroon....Doc's where tealish color....and all other patient c...

Okay I was doing orientation at a major hospital today...while there I had time to talk to new grads and students at the program I am going to enroll in. I am hoping to get into the accelerated program. The standards are higher to be accepted in this...

It mattered to me because I am transfering from another state and was trying to get statistical information on those whom I will be competing with for a limited spot in a nursing program. If everyone of those nurses truly has a 4.0 then, yes I have r...

Oh well trust me I covered that...I specifically asked what skills she had learned in first semester. Vitals and Foley's were covered...I am not trying to attack her, I just found it scary since she is in her second semester of nursing school and did...

Yes, I am thinking it could be due to a few possibilites. 1. That program is way easier than I anticipate 2. She lied about her GPA 3. She cheated her way through school When I heard from 4+ people they all had 4.0 in that program, I began to wonder ...

I worked a LTC facility with my MOM it was very small and she was the only RN on shift and I was a CNA... It was great except for once!! The Pro's: My mom wasn't down my back she knew my experience and my work ethic and knew my job was done and done ...

I just recently left a LTC facility like this... I worked there for over a year and the Nurse ratio was never better than 46:1 in the entire time I was there. I left we were paid a measley wage as a CNA I was making $6.85/hour!! I was 6 months pregna...

I have so many...I have been working in hospital settings since I was 13 volunteering. All Time Faves- My Palm TX My Ipod Touch Army Combat Medic Pocket Essentials Tourniquets Kerlix Coban Tegaderm Scrub Pocket Essentials Pocket Pulse Ox Mini Bath a...

This is accurate I worked as a CNA in an Oklahoma nursing home, we made $8.35/hour. LPN's made $15.50 an hour and RN's made $18.50/hour. Our RN's rarely passed pills did, very few blood sugar checks. They had very few treatments, never passed trays, ...

I am outraged at the cruelty, and insanity of this!!

Via Christi in Manhattan, Kansas had several pages of RN positions available!! Manhattan is a nice city....college town located midway between topeka and salina!!

Okay I am really starting to stress out... I have a CNA license and can't really use it... I am a high risk pregnacy with pregnacy-induced hypertension. I can't lift and turn patients like I would like too. I am not able to be on my feet due to the r...

I would have said something along the lines...to the CNA!! Unless this is an emergency...your patients come first!! All personal calls while on the clock need to be handled through the main line, like everyone else!! Consider this a verbal warning, n...

Okay this reminds me of a resident.... we had a new aide go in there for one of his numerous rants, screams, hollars.... He was confused and has some form of dementia...so we figured just the where are my keys or something... She comes out and says u...

Thanks you all for sharing...I am also so glad to see the support others are giving each other and not judging on this thread!! I wish this could be said about every thread!! All though I have never abused prescription drugs while working... I did ha...

Your reply brings up numerous other issues.... What is a person to do if an old employer is giving them bad reviews? Problem #1 leave them and accept bad reviews, you have no clue you may be getting!! If you were to ask a potential employer to show y...

wife of an elderly dementia patient....she has left me numerous good ones!! here are my faves: #1. i want to know who ripped his wife beater/undershirt off him because i want to be reimbursed for this...we obliged and just replaced them!! this occure...

Okay, I totally understand how your feeling as I was a Medic in the Army before as well... The CNA is a whole different experience...like everyone has said dealing with patients...turning them...learning the hospital...networking...job placement afte...

We have had similar issues in a small town nursing home...Although the families aren't the problem the in one case are part of the solution and attempt to help... We have an dementia patient who has been kicked out of every facility within an hours d...

I feel you...except consider you lucky considering you do have a job....it gets you out of the house for a while... Now I just moved from a smaller town to a bigger city and I have to say in this economy the job market is much worse in cities right n...

I have to be honest here don't shoot me...but I have PIH and was 7 months pregnant and there wouldn't be a parking spot for blocks except for the numerous handicapped spots near my classes.... So I did contemplate asking my OB/GYN for a handicap tag ...

When I say poor unsuspecting male aide...I say because of the look of shock and disbelief on my BF's face... I feel sorry for those who walk in and she attempts to "persuade them" ....Now for those that accepted they no longer work at this facility. ...