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    Can someone please explain this ECG statement?

    juliaann replied to karyan06's topic in General Nursing

    Haha, it took me longer than I like to admit to figure out that "lead wires" are not the same thing as "leads."
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    Staffing ratios

    juliaann replied to Simply Complicated's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work our 24-bed ICU never has a unit clerk, and their aides always, always, always get pulled first. They do have 2 core staff aides on 7a-7p, and one core staff aide on 7p-7a, but almost...
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    What's the different between Nursing assistant and Certified nursing assistant?

    juliaann replied to EduardoLugo's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    It really depends on the state's rules and regulations. I got a job as a Nurse Aide in a hospital with no healthcare experience, no certification, and no requirement to attain certification within X...
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    Got accepted to Nursing school...but I want a tattoo :(

    juliaann replied to RedXIII_'s topic in General Nursing

    With as many applications as my facility gets, they can choose the most professional (in appearance as well as actions and words) candidate out of all the equally qualified ones. I would wait until...
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    CNA shoes - what kind to get?

    juliaann replied to CNAkt's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I wear Pumas. They're super cute and reasonably comfy even after 12 hours at work, and they can be pretty
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    Horrible Chem Professor...

    juliaann replied to purvislets's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    For what it's worth, I took Microbiology last fall after taking Chem I 6 years ago. And when I did take Chem I, I had taken it pass/fail, put in minimal effort, and didn't retain a thing (I'm not...
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    have to work full time and study full time

    juliaann replied to LookForward's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a nurse or even in nursing school yet, but I work 60+ hours a week (I'm a 3p-11p shifter also with lots of overtime on weekdays and call pretty much every weekend) and take a full class load...
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    On call status and drive time

    juliaann replied to netglow's topic in General Nursing

    For the on-call positions in my department (cath lab), the nurses and techs have 30 minutes to get to the hospital when called in. If you don't live within/aren't willing or able to stay within 30...
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    How many credits during the summer?

    juliaann replied to shesham's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    This summer I am taking Organic Chem, online Composition II, and online Statistics. It is an 8 week summer session (our normal semesters are 16 weeks). I don't have any kids, but I work 50-70 hours...
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    What would you make of this?

    juliaann replied to bluemorningglory's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely get report! CNAs at my hospital are not allowed to look at the patients' kardexes, but we can get a brief report on the information we need to know from the nurses after they get their...
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    Can You Live Off A CNA's Pay? Do you?

    juliaann replied to HS/College Student's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I feel you. I'm doing all my pre-reqs at the community college and paying as I go, but I'm going to be doing an accelerated nursing program at Big Expensive State University, and I'll have to take...
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    Can You Live Off A CNA's Pay? Do you?

    juliaann replied to HS/College Student's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I work full-time in a hospital (I've been here for 2 years, so this is after my two raises at my annual evaluations), and I make a little over 10.00/hour. There is no way I could live on my salary...
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    Cell Phones

    juliaann replied to daimere's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    We have a no-cellphone-in-patient-care-areas rule, but no one follows it and it's not enforced. I always have mine on me (on vibrate) and don't use it unless I'm in my office or a
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    Is the medical field right for me?

    juliaann replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. I work at OSU Medical Center, and we've got several CNA openings, if those others don't work out. It's not the largest or fanciest hospital in Tulsa, but I work with awesome people and in a...
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    cna and agencies

    juliaann replied to mejajo08's topic in General Nursing

    Hm, I worked as a CNA on a busy med-tele floor for a little over a year, and I totally hear you about the short staffing and being exhausted at the end of my shift - swollen feet and legs up to my...
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    Is the medical field right for me?

    juliaann replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    Swayman - it might just be the field you're in. Do you still live in Tulsa? Have you tried applying at some of the Tulsa hospitals? I started as a CNA in a hospital with no experience - I still...
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    i need some advice!

    juliaann replied to carly23's topic in General Nursing

    If I understand what you're saying: you haven't even started college and want to know if it's too late to change your major? Haha, my major changed 4 times and I still graduated in 3.5 years!...
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    Very Concerned (please read)

    juliaann replied to CuriousGreorge7's topic in General Nursing

    As far as I know, the only drug test needed was the one for my program...since you said you had to take one for your CNA class (which I'm assuming you passed) and you will need to take one for the LPN...
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    Report or not?

    juliaann replied to dscott76's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked as a CNA I'd rather have had a coworker call in as soon as she thought she wasn't going to be able to make it, rather than show up feeling awful and asking to get sent home. With an...
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    Why don't programs take into consideration anything else?

    juliaann replied to honeycakes55's topic in General Students

    Before you apply again, definitely go talk to them. Bring your transcripts. Go over the application step by step. Ask how the application is scored. Ask what a competitive GPA is. Ask what you can...
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    Pca & Cna???

    juliaann replied to Zalan's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Agreed. At my hospital, CNAs and PCAs could preform warm water and soap suds enemas, but not Fleets enemas. The logic there is that water and soap are not medicines, but the Fleets is, so a CNA...
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    Looking for work..but needing help!

    juliaann replied to Brycemom, RN's topic in General Nursing

    There's a new grad nurse working at my hospital right now, and in order to hold her RN job for her until she takes the NCLEX, she's working as a Senior Nurse Tech right now (she tests next month)....
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    Pca & Cna???

    juliaann replied to Zalan's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    It's really going to depend on the facility and the job description they give to "PCA." At my hospital, PCAs have to have their CNA license, have taken an accredited PCA class (with phlebotomy and...
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    What do you do when telemetry calls?

    juliaann replied to RaziRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was a monitor tech on a busy general cardiac floor (mostly 24 hour chest pain obs and CABGs 3-5 days post op, post op pacer placements, that sort of thing). What I can tell you is that we had a...
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    Any thoughts on agency v. core staff?

    juliaann posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Disclaimer: Yes, this is a homework assignment. If you don't want to help with someone's homework, feel free to ignore me. I'm writing a short persuasive essay on the benefits and drawbacks of 1)...