jyoung1950

jyoung1950

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  1. Catheters

    I'm a CNA at a nursing home. Something here doesn't seem right to me although I may be completely off base. About a year ago one of the ladies on my unit wasn't voiding very well during the day;...
  2. Catheters

    No, this woman was unable to walk, was incontinent. I don't know if she has Alzheimer's or some other kind of neurological disorder as she can't communicate her needs. The day staff said they noticed...
  3. Elderly Mental Health Issue

    Is this true, that if a nursing home resident hits you (nurse/CNA, employee), you can call the police? I work at a nursing home and, to tell you the truth, nobody has ever really addressed violence...
  4. Friend DNRed from nursing home by CNA.

    I guess the LTC's will have to get used to putting up with "uppity" CNA's. They won't pay aids a decent enough wage so that aids with a good work ethic will want to come work for
  5. National Health Insurance

    What does "single payer system"
  6. ??? Nursing Home ???

    Some facilities will provide the CNA training for you and then arrange for your testing to get certification with the proper agencies (in Pennsylvania it was the Red Cross). At the facility I work...
  7. What NOT/Never to talk about at work...

    I try to avoid politics because, at this point in time, people are fervently one side or the other and since I'm on my break, I don't want to expend a lot of energy arguing about this, that, and the...
  8. Religion's Place in Nursing

    Just tell them that you are because you take to heart the words at John
  9. CNA's need recognition...

    from the bottom of my hard working cna heart - thank you!
  10. Help, help, help, thanks everyone

    Can't help you out because I'm not an MT now but I want to be. I thought about going into nursing but I've been researching the MT field now and, at my age, health, and stresses in life, this kind of...
  11. Taking away your Time and a Half!

    I was watching the committee (I think it was a House committee) questioning the Labor Department and others on the specifics of the revised Labor Bill on overtime last week on Cspan. Questions were...
  12. Does your employer recognize "Nurse's Day"?

    When is Nursing Day? Where I work - a nursing home - we are having nursing home week. Maybe once upon a time they called it nurse's week, I don't know. We're starting it next Monday. But it's no...
  13. Talk about cheapskates!

    Here is a website you can refer to: http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whdfs31.htm I would also browse everything you can find about wages, etc. and the law and also find a number to call from...
  14. Nursing Home ratios??

    Where I work, on the 3-11 shift there are 2 units that have 40 and 42 residents. Many nights there is only one RN for each unit and 3 CNA's each. On the graveyard shift, one nurse takes care of 2...
  15. RN or busperson?

    don't think i could make it as an adon - i'm just a cna and no nursing education. need
  16. RN or busperson?

    . . . . I would be proud to work for you. You sound reasonable and fair. The DON at the facility I work at has occasional screaming fits where she seeks out the CNA's and has hysterics right in front...
  17. Racism still living freely in elderly...

    Maybe our LTC's should start having diversity, tolerance and acceptance activities every week for the
  18. dog shampoo for LICE!

    Are lice the same as scabies? I work in a nursing home and periodically, scabies breaks out. Big pain in the
  19. State Requirements in LTC

    In all the years I've practiced clinically, I've never understood what the big problem was with just following the rules in the first place -- Best wishes for your new position![/quote] On the one...
  20. I am a worried CNA

    I'm a CNA also and became one when I was 51! About 2 years ago. I'm lucky that after a few months on a floor with aids young enough to be my daughters i was moved to a unit with aids around my age....
  21. Briefs at night???

    I'm a CNA at a nursing home. Our practice is to put quilted pads on the bed and also a "crotch" cotton pad in between their legs. On the ones I put to bed before dinner who are very heavy wetters I...
  22. Segregated Nursing homes: Your opinion Please!

    I say leave the political correctness out of it and let Koreans be with Koreans and so on. These folks are in the last stage of their lives. Things are hard enough in a nursing home; why should we...
  23. Is it reasonable or do we have no choice?

    I feel your burnout! I work 3 - 11:30. On the unit I'm on there are 40 residents. All types of care. 3 aids. 2 of us have 13 residents each. One has 14. I swear I go 80 miles an hour, 40 hours a...
  24. Overtime Rules

    i am a cna at a long-term care facility. i work 3-11:30 shift. we often have to attend mandatory in-service meetings. they ususally hold these meetings at 7:00 am and 2:00 pm. those of us on "swing"...
  25. I am a CNA at a nursing home. God forbid I have to add passing meds to my duties. I'm going 80 miles an hour, 40 hours a week as it is. What gets me is that in my state, Pennsylvania, nursing...