JDZ344

JDZ344

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  1. Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    JDZ344 replied to Snowbird17's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It is offered, not

  2. I dont know where else to turn.

    JDZ344 replied to IdianaCNA1993's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    From what I understand of right to work states, that is correct, but I am neither a US citizen or a lawyer, so take that for what its worth. I do not remember your previous thread, I might look for...

  3. Patient requests

    JDZ344 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One of our staff always has an iPhone/Blackberry charger in their locker. I sometimes take mine on a night shift so I can charge it and play battery-draining apps on my break. I did once loan the...

  4. Advice about other tech!

    JDZ344 replied to joshsmother's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Re: lunch. I know in our place we all have to go at separate times, so if one person is late to go, it messes up everybody. We now get a time and we HAVE to go within 10 minutes of that time or we...

  5. Conflicted - which would you choose?

    JDZ344 replied to duskyjewel's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Well, I personally would go for job stability right now, but it depends how much flexibility with shifts you need and how much the job fits with

  6. Total Disregard for Visiting Hours

    JDZ344 replied to DYLANB's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In the UK, most visiting is afternoons only. It's nice

  7. How is the NA night shift in a hospital?

    JDZ344 replied to chariot's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I work float, too. So it depends on the floor, but nights here consist of vitals, turns, changes, toileting and not much else. Mostly patients sleep. Some of them, anyway. The end of the shift is busy...

  8. Burnout: getting through the shift

    JDZ344 replied to jrgcna's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hope you can find

  9. Only Charting "The Good Vitals"?

    JDZ344 replied to whitecat5000's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our policy is that is a vital is questionable (somebody who is alert and looks well having a B/P of 60/40 when it's been "normal" for days, for example) then it is not charted, but must be checked...

  10. Why are some aides so disrespectful?

    JDZ344 replied to onthemark's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Nurses and Techs should work as a team, but all teams have a leader. If you (speaking in general, not to the one poster in particular) don't like being delegated to, then being a CNA is probably not...

  11. Working in a christian place while being an atheist?

    JDZ344 replied to mls4455's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    What is good is that this place is upfront about bring a Christian centre. Worse would be joining a place and THEN realising you have practically joined a Church. I would not mention your religion or...

  12. CNA Bingo card

    JDZ344 posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    What would you put on it? I would definitely have a square for "Patient on contact precautions who wants the bedpan every 5 minutes" and one for "5 call bells going at the same time". Any other...

  13. CNA Instuctor wants students to bath each other before real clinicals

    JDZ344 replied to Desertrainfury's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Sorry, I think that's messed up. Where will it end? Do you practice giving a bedpan and you HAVE to use it? Practise peri-care on each other? I think you have every right to refuse to participate. You...

  14. False vitals data???

    JDZ344 replied to jval's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I wish action would be taken against these people. They are endangering lives for goodness

  15. Not even a word of English

    JDZ344 replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It must be so scary to be in a large, noisy environment where you have no clue what is being said, but people are coming at you with needles and pills and gestures and shouting single words in the...

  16. PCT/CNA Patient Load in Hospital Setting Question

    JDZ344 replied to RedneckGrl's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I would love to have 9 patients. I normally have anything from 10-30, depending on call

  17. Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    JDZ344 replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Nobody but an RN is allowed to touch the pumps in our hospital. We can not even silence

  18. Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    JDZ344 replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Only RNs can respond to alarming pumps where I work. Although I agree the tech should not been sitting at the

  19. To the nurses: Is telling you the pain level of the patient bothersome?

    JDZ344 replied to chariot's topic in General Nursing

    I would imagine that most hospitals have a protocol for taking blood sugars. You could ask one of the RNs or the manager- just say you have been told two different ways, could you please clarify which...

  20. Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    JDZ344 replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

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  21. Throw it on the floor?!

    JDZ344 replied to justme01's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    It is very sanitary. The bins are not kept full to overflowing, and soiled linen is tied immediately and taken to the dirty linen room, so all that is in the bin, if anything, is reasonably clean...

  22. Throw it on the floor?!

    JDZ344 replied to justme01's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    We wheel linen trollies around to the bedside and put the soiled linen in. If a pad is changed, I just place it on the top and throw it in the bin when I get back to the dirty

  23. Patient assignments - Are nurses assigned to empty beds

    JDZ344 replied to LearningAboutNursing's topic in General Nursing

    Where I am the nurse is assigned a group of patients (beds 1 to whatever) and that is it. If there are empty beds in that assignment then they take admissions as they

  24. Do You judge and treat patients differently depending on who they are ?

    JDZ344 replied to star.crush's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm going to come out and admit I judge people. We're all lying if we deny it. It becomes a problem if our judgements cloud the care we give,

  25. CNAs no longer doing vitals on our floor

    JDZ344 replied to new_grad_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am an aide and I do manual BPs all the time. I'm honestly curious why you think an aide should not be doing them? They are not difficult. If I am unsure of what I got ot it's crazy low or high, I...