kelsey.kristine CNA

You're right. People are people. And while I've only worked in psych for four years, I find her behavior to be spot on. It's a good portrayal of addiction, IMO.

I started watching Night Shift but just couldn't stand it. I think it was the whole, basketball on the roof thing. Getting On....I should probably give a second chance. It just didn't really hit me as a "OMG YES" kind of thing so I found something e...

Yeah....I'm one of those people that has ended up in the ED my fair share of times for this. I'm not a pot smoker, and I do what I can to identify triggers and avoid the ED at all costs. I don't know if I have CVS as I'm waiting to see a new GI doc b...

My grandmother was a school nurse(school nurse of the year in '91!) And my great grandmothers on both sides were also nurses; I grew up hearing about how rewarding it was, etc.etc. I always insisted I would never be a nurse because I "hated blood"(no...

I read "Something for the Pain" by Paul Austin....it was really really good, I highly recommend it. In fact, I'm going to read it again. :)

I am SO excited to get back to school!!! I'm tired of the pre-reqs, but at least I'll be one semester closer, right? I get soooooo bored in the summer, it's terrible. That plus all the nurses at work asking when I'm going to be in nursing school.......

I highly suggest a hospital setting. I got my CNA and it took me a little bit to get hired at a hospital, but that was my goal so I held out for a job there haha I'm SO glad I got it....I've learned so much just from working, it's really helped with ...

I wore a nice, black dress(hard to describe. It's from H&M, and I bought with my boyfriend at the time, an engineer, specifically for interviews haha) with nylons and small heels.

I'm not sure about the laws in RI about working as a CNA, but I do know that if you don't renew....in order to get the license back you have to take the class all over again, and the test. Might as well, if you'd legally be able to work as a CNA desp...

To room 22..... Unless you TELL me what you want after you ring the nurse call....I DON'T KNOW. And letting me stand there and just staring at me? NOT DOING ANYTHING. And to the new grad nurses who are orienting.....seriously. It's a call light. Answ...

I do the vitals....if a BP is high or low, then I re-check with a manual though sometimes the nurse will do that. Depends. On my floor nurses VERY rarely do the vitals themselves. I oriented for a couple weeks, but honestly felt SO comfortable before...

Jump in my car and drive for 10-20 minutes....sometimes stop at 7-11 if I didn't bring something to eat. Mostly just do a lap around the town, windows down, music blaring....I usually take my break at around 3:30-4 am....so yeah haha Only been pulle...

I was under the impression that yes, most, if not all hospitals offered shift differentials, but then again, don't quote me on that haha I'm part time as well, rotating weekends and holidays. I get shift differential for all my shifts(since they're ...

Congrats! When I got the call from the hospital where I work, I literally hung up and screamed haha. I told the HR woman that she made my month :) My floor isn't specifically tele but we do have a few patients that are tele....the floor up from us is...

I see no reason to delete mine. My supervisor at the hospital is even my friend! As are some of my coworkers, all RN's(one other CNA). My dad's a politician, so I'm already cautious as to what I write and post, but I'm mature and able to make good de...

Look at Lifespan....I know at Newport, where I work, they were interviewing A LOT of new grad RNs....lots of retiring RNs!!! RIH is hard to get into...I think it has a lot to do with unions or something, to be perfectly honest I'm not very aware of t...

In RI, on a med/surg floor....$12.49 an hour with NO experience, plus differential. $2.50 for night shift(my shift) $1.75 for weekend

Great post!!! I totally agree....I got my CNA cert last April, got reciprocity in RI in June, and was hired to my floor in a local hospital in early September. I had NO idea what I was getting myself into. There I was, this tiny 20 year old, being th...

I agree with the above poster, NEVER go with a vein you "see"!!! I took a class as part of my CNA training(and EKG, yadda yadda), and LOVED it. I was always SO nervous about finding a vein(we practiced on each other in class), so as weird as it was a...

How much experience did I have? NONE! Just my class and three days of "clinical" at an LTC facility What factors influenced them? I can really sell myself in an interview. I know my strengths and I can get them across. I also know my weaknesses, but ...

I would say you're overreacting, yes. You'll find people like that everywhere. I don't know why people get into this field if that's how they feel about people, or maybe they just burn out, I don't know. I work overnight, and the morning crew is like...

Such good responses!!! On my first day of work at my first CNA job EVER(med/surg), a patient died. The CNA I was following had him as a patient, and I figured I might as well get the post mortem stuff out of the way. ....eh, not quite. I ended up hyp...

I work at a hospital in RI....with no experience I make $12.49 an hour, plus differential. 3rd shift(what I was hired for) is an extra $2.50/hour, weekends are $1.75 and I believe evenings are $1.50. If I work my regularly scheduled hours any 3rd sh...

Reviving an old thread.... I have one tattoo right now...on my hip, so that's not an issue. But I want at least two more. And one of them....I can't seem to think of anywhere to put it but my wrist. I was thinking of copying my friend(she has the sam...

I JUST got hired at hospital for my first CNA job on a med/surg floor. :) With no experience, it's $12.49/hr. It's 3rd shift though, so I get a $2.50 differential and on weekends I get an extra $1.50 With experience it's more like $14 and change an h...