MissChloe

MissChloe

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  1. What do you wear to work, fellow aides?

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

    Turquoise is impossible to find; that is the only problem. Apparently it used to be ciel blue, but they changed it for whatever reason. That would have been way easier to find cute tops

  2. how much do you make?

    MissChloe replied to sabby09's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I make $10.25 an hour plus $0.50 shift differential for working second shift. Third shift gets more, I think, but there is no weekend

  3. No lift policy

    MissChloe replied to monters's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    We do have dedicated Hoyer slings for each patient, and we always use the Hoyer for those that we are supposed to use it for. My back still

  4. Do you use walkie talkies at work?

    MissChloe replied to Dorali's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    We use walkie-talkies at work. I can't imagine having to shout down the hallway or leave a resident alone just to get help for a lift. The call lights are also broadcasted over the walkies, so you...

  5. To become a nurse??? Need advise~

    MissChloe replied to mei834's topic in Nursing Career

    Because it won't be acceptable for school. Because there's a difference between language change and blatant misuse of language. Because it's just WRONG. And don't tell me I'm being an "old codger."...

  6. To become a nurse??? Need advise~

    MissChloe replied to mei834's topic in Nursing Career

    If you can't write well as a sophomore in high school, then no, I don't think you deserve to have someone "cut you some slack." In fact, some of the ADULT posters on this site shock me with their poor...

  7. Calling out in advance

    MissChloe posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work as an aide in a nursing home. I have had some sort of stomach bug since this morning, and I am scheduled to work the evening shift tomorrow night. I have a history of this sort of thing, and...

  8. Calling out in advance

    MissChloe replied to MissChloe's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I just found out why I HAD to go in today--the FEDS were there. THAT was fun. Trying to keep from looking too green with a guy with a clipboard follows me around nodding and mmhmming and...

  9. Calling out in advance

    MissChloe replied to MissChloe's topic in General Nursing

    I appreciate everyone's insight. I just wish I would have asked before I called

  10. Calling out in advance

    MissChloe replied to MissChloe's topic in General Nursing

    No, you are correct. I'm more frustrated with the system that is putting me in the situation of trying to figure out what to do in the first

  11. Calling out in advance

    MissChloe replied to MissChloe's topic in General Nursing

    What I'm saying is that I don't think I would go in today if she hadn't basically said yesterday that I HAVE to be there today. I still DON'T feel good but the way she treated me made me feel like I...

  12. Calling out in advance

    MissChloe replied to MissChloe's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I do, too! I'm feeling a bit better today and I guess I'm just going to go in. I'll just make a point to let her know that I'm still not feeling 100% but I came in because she told me I needed...

  13. Sandman hates me

    MissChloe replied to Vtachy1's topic in General Nursing

    Yetanotheramanda, I don't think she's saying she doesn't have TIME to sleep, but rather that she CAN'T sleep. Your advice would work if she just didn't have the time, but even when one with insomnia...

  14. Quick rant

    MissChloe replied to MinnieMomRN's topic in General Nursing

    I got the opposite at work the other day! I'm an aide in a LTC facility. The nurse was in with a resident giving him his meds and when she was done she came to find me to say "Rob (not his real name)...

  15. Accelerated BSN vs. "second major in nursing certificate"

    MissChloe posted a topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I'm finishing up a BA in biology next spring, and looking to go to nursing school after that. I'd only been looking at accelerated BSNs because I know that you are generally paid more as one with a...

  16. Accelerated BSN vs. "second major in nursing certificate"

    MissChloe replied to MissChloe's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I mean, I did ask that. They said it was

  17. Accelerated BSN vs. "second major in nursing certificate"

    MissChloe replied to MissChloe's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Well, when I called the school they said it was a certificate stating that I'd completed a second major for my bachelors degree, or something like that. It's just hard to get unbiased information...

  18. Accelerated BSN vs. "second major in nursing certificate"

    MissChloe replied to MissChloe's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    But the first year is prerequisites, which I need to take

  19. CNA tution reimbursement

    MissChloe replied to monters's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I will be giving this a try; I just took the test last week and am starting my job on

  20. Any one else annoyed?

    MissChloe replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Seeing as the original poster has a year of experience in Labor/Delivery/Postpartum nursing, I'm guessing she's probably already had her first

  21. Announce that you passed your CNA exam here!

    MissChloe replied to jb2u's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I just passed my exam today! I start work next week!

  22. Alternative name for CNA?

    MissChloe replied to JakeF's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Here, where I'm taking my class now, we are NARs (well, I'm a student still). It stands for Nursing Assistant,

  23. Lethargic a word to remove from Callers vocabulary

    MissChloe replied to Jerry 75's topic in Telephone Triage

    In popular usage, lethargic means tired. Try to give the parents a break. They don't necessarily know the medical meaning of the word, so to them their child IS being lethargic, if s/he normally is...

  24. Fever question

    MissChloe posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If someone's normal body temperature is 96.8-97, is 98.5 then a fever since it's elevated, or is it not a fever because it's still around

  25. Fever question

    MissChloe replied to MissChloe's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    CT_pixie, that really answered my question. Thank you! I know that it's not considered to be "a temperature," but I'm glad to know that about 1.4-1.5 above normal COULD be considered a temperature FOR...