luckystarr

Hey! I am a student right now so this will be a very generalized response, but I hope it helps. You said you were working on weight loss? I assume that when you first started briskly walking your dogs it was a little more demanding than it may be now. Maybe a high demand job would be good for you then. Over time as you get stronger and thinner you will be become quicker and lighter. Plus you will be forced to push yourself maybe a little bit more than you would if say, you were working out alone. Your patients would be your motivation. You sound like this work is a passion and not just a job so I think you would be fine

CNAMichelle, I am curious if you don't mind, what city are you working/living in? I am in GA also, in Gainesville and I don't know if that is common pay here or not. (I start my classes at Lanier Tech at Fall Quarter)

Me and my children are recieving much needed benefits right now, as I am starting school and my husband is disabled with benefits pending. Luckily I have a great family that is helping us out right now. My kids get food stamps and medicaid. BTW we get 600 for 2 kids and me and dh. I do not see how she can afford to sell her stamps if she has 6 kids! Someone has to be going without or with little. ANyways that is besides the point. I did apply for tanf (welfare I guess) and they told me that because me and my husband were married and live together, we did not qualify. So because we have a healthy marriage and are together trying to provide for our kids...we can't get that kind of help. One thing that made me mad, for more reasons than one, is that the case worker very quietly leaned forward and said "If you were black or hispanic, you would be approved for just about everything." Lets see, discrimination towards me, steriotyping towards said ethnicities, racism, and being unprofessional. You better believe that I don't want to be in the system anymore than I have to. I do not see how a woman can act so non-chalant about the fact the SHE cannot provide for the children that SHE brought into this world. Can anyone say Octo-mom? I am so glad that my children are still young and they don't understand or notice that we are struggling. My husband has not had new clothes in probably 2 years and the only reason we have had to make it work for me would be interviews or pregnancy. Sorry to write a paper on this, but it is people like this that make taxpayers ***** towards paying into medicaid. It's people like this that leech so much of the system that drain resources for people like me that are honest and just trying to survive for a little while.

IMO, I would take it out. Just a few moons ago, I had my labret, eyebrow, 4 in each ear and my top cartilage in. I can def. tell a difference in how people treat me on first impression, now that I do not wear them. If you know you will have to take it out for work, I would take it out for the course. This is ridiculous I know, but it seems the general population finds facial piercings un-hygienic ( if that is a word, and spelled right )

Holy cow! I can't wait. I have been a SAHM for about 3 1/2 years now and I need the CNA diet!

As far as I know, this is just the standard couse that Lanier Technical offers for CNA training. I know that the other 3 courses are pre-req's for the CNA Fund. class Here is the link to my course info. http://www.laniertech.edu/academic/program.asp?deptid=29&PF=true&ProgID=71 and this may be a silly question, but if I recieve a certificate at the end am I certified? No I cant be because I have to take the state exam right? uggg i'll have a lot of questions for whoever is so lucky to advise me first I thought that maybe what I was taking was a little more than average, but they are seperate college courses that I will recieve credit for. Not to mention that the other courses are pre-reqs for any other medical courses they offer. So I will have a foundation for whatever other things I'll want to go into. And I recieved a grant for my entire tuition, so my course is completely free! Whats better than free? It will take me 2 quarters to comlete the entire course. Do you guys think I am on a good track?

I start my courses in September with Lanier Tech. here in GA I was wondering if typically CNA's in other states just have to take a CNA course or if there are other classes you have to take. For example, at my new school, I have to take Diet & Nutrition, Anatomy & Physiology, Medical Terminology, and THEN I will be taking my CNA Fundementals course. Is this pretty standard for what you guys took?

It's ok, alot of people don't know. It's a person (typically a woman), hired privately by the mother, who is trained to know the physical and emotional needs of a woman in labor. Through my certifying organization I am trained to have knowlede in the physiology of birth. I am trained in all natural and holistic pain coping techniques and through position changes and emotional support, I help the laboring mother to labor more efficiently. I do not preform any clinical tasks such as bp, fetal heart tones, or lady partsl exams. I am also familiar enough with the maternity system to provide evidenced based information of procedures typically used in childbirth (pitocin, epidural etc.) Some would disagree that a woman in labor needs a doula, but stats are that woman attended by doulas: Have a 50% less chance of c-section 60% less request for pain meds 25% shorter labor times Not to mention, I was thanked by various L&D nurses for making their jobs so much easier. I changed the chux pads, dealt with hysterical moms, all while staying out of their way so that they could do their jobs. I make myself as small as possible when hospital personell is in the room.

Actually, I can't say that I will "never" want to, because I have never worked in health care. Maybe as I get my feet wet I would be more likely to persue higher ranks. Maybe I am just intimidated, to be honest. I do not have issue with bodily fluids whatsoever. Obviously, because I am/was a doula and I have been vomited on, had amniotic fluid splashed on me, bled on, yada yada. But I don't think that I would be good at IV's or drawing blood. I am not a math wiz and it's my understanding that the higher rank nurse you are, the more and more math you would need to know. I am a people person. I think the reason CNA is appealing to me is because I know that CNA's make a difference. (the one that care anyways. I am finding comments in the forum that are very disconcerting to me. Like when a CNA knows another CNA is being abusive and nothing is done.) I understand that I am very knew and I could have a skewed opinion of somethings. I really am drawn more to the less clinical care. Dealing with feces, urine, and personal hygiene is nothing less than I would do for anyone one of my family members when the need arises. I did take care of my Grandmother until she passed. I just did not preform vitals. Sorry to write a paper on this!

In my honest opinion, if a person knows that there is abuse going on and does not report it, they are just as responsible. What if that was your grandmother or grandfather? My grandmother died in our home (thankfully we had the means to take care of her) and she was dead-set AGAINST going to a nursing home because when she was in her 20's she worked in one and saw how the patients were treated. This is very sad, and SHAME on those who have an apathetic attitude towards the way other professionals treat your residents.

Hey everyone, I'm new here! I am starting my CNA classes for the Fall Quarter with Lanier Tech here in GA, and I am super excited. I am pregnant with my third and very unexpected child, and I decided that I needed to go back to school for SOMETHING or I was never going to get a decent job. (all of my experience is in retail, with the exception of the last year I have been a doula) I am proud to be going to school to become a CNA as I know that the "grunt" work is truley what means the most to patients and there family. It's the little things, ya'know Anyways, one quick question, do you find that CNA's are always in demand? I truley have no desire to continue on to LPN or RN. Thanks guys!