WI_cna

thankyou:) i am looking into further training,i will be taking the cna course soon, and after that, maybe more training, RN or LPN in the years to come, who knows. well see.

im not even quite sure why ALFs' have non certified people passing meds.ive never had a really big problem with it but i can understand from RNs' and LPN s' point of view,they know quite a bit more than cnas' do.i do trust myself in passing out meds and if i ever have a question or a doubt, i do not hesitate to call the charge nurse(our boss is a nurse)

yes there is a such thing. coumadin is a BLOOD THINNING medication. this resident had a heart condition, the blood flowing to his heart was thicker than should be, which is why he was put on the blood thinning medication, to thin out the blood flowing to his heart.why else would he be put on blood thinning medication??ive been working here for well over 2 years and weve had several instances where someone has been put on a blood thinning medication for several different reasons. some residents are on water retnetion pills because their bodys retain water and it makes there legs and feet swell up, which is why they are on water retaining pills. are you gonna try and tell me theres no such thing as water retention?im not trying to be mean but i know what i am doing. he wouldntve been put on a blood thinning medication if he didnt know it. and his wife is the one who called and said she took him to the hospital and was told his blood was thicker than it should be.

i work at an assisted living facility in WI im not even a cna and all i had to do was take a medication training course(course was 8 hours) and i pass meds. we have narcotics(although the residents dont ever take them) that we have to count at the end of EVERY night. i havent had a problem with it. we dont pass out that many meds really, but i am very careful with what i do.i learned alot in that class about side effects, dosages, dr. orders and the such. ive had to do telephone doctor orders before to discontinue a med and whatnot. i admit its alot of work, making sure everyone gets there med on time, keeping a close eye out for possible side effects and calling the doctor when there is a problem but i love the work i do and i would do anything to make these residents' lifes' better,which is why i feel comfortable passing meds because i have confidence in what i know and have learned.

I work at an assisted living facility in WI and we just had something happen and im worried about what might happen to me and my coworkers because of it. we recently had a respite at our cbrf for a month and he was on a blood thining medication(7.5 mg of coumadin)because he had a heart condition. he had 2 bottles in his medication bag, the 7.5 mg bottle which is what he was taking and a 5 mg bottle that was discontinued before he even came(why it was even in there,it being discontinued, is beyond me) and when he left our facility his wife took him to marshfield clinic for a check up and his blood was really thick,she called our facility today and claims that she counted his coumadin and says there was more in there than should have been,possibly meaning someone didnt give him his blood thinning medication at times which is why his blood was really thick, a serious problem.my coworker and i were discussing that maybe someone else gave him the 5mg pills at times instead of what he should have been getting(the 7.5 mg) maybe thats why they "werent all there".i know for a fact myself and coworkers have been really careful to give him the right mg because of that(there being 2 different mg bottles) so i dont know why she said that there was more in there than should have been. apparantly she reported us to the marshfield clinic.any ideas what might happen?could we possibly be fired or go to jail because of this?i dont know whats going on because i know for a fact that at the least I have always given him the right dosage because i knew there were 2 different mg bottles in there and i was careful to give him the right dosage. me and my coworkers are scared we'll be fired for something we didnt do or worse..go to jail..any ideas what the possible outcomes are???