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A few times, I have heard doctors and R.N.s talking about a drug they were given in nursing or medical school that makes them helpless and causes schizzophrenic symptoms and they are required to take this as a part of their schooling just to learn what a helpless patient goes through. I have never learned WHAT THIS DRUG IS or why it would be safe to just give it to everyone in a whole class or even if they really do this in every nursing program. If there really is such a thing and it's safe, then why don't more people have a chance to use it since so many of them have no empathy or insights into the lives of disoriented people? Why should you have to be a nursing or medical student to do this? They should give it to anyone who likes to torment helpless individuals so they can learn deeper insights. They should pass it out to high school students. Can anyone clear up my confusion.

This year I have only been assigned to work about five or six times. I called up my employer who said "We are unbelievably slow right now, and I'll call you if that changes." I talked to a girl out at a seminar who said she can't get any hours. She was a CNA. I said, "What are all these old people doing?" She said she didn't know. For the two of us and one other girl I knew, I wondered how many others have trouble getting assignments. I never had a problem before this year.

The idea that I can call a nurse on her shift at the hospital and ask her for guidance in caring for my patient who she may have never met. I said, "I might as well pay her for that." I would be driving her insane.

You can go to work at your nursing job when you have a sick stomach. "These nurses are used to it." I answered, "No, this is against the rules. You are expected to call out when you are contagious." A sick staff member is a cause for stress and it is not fair to the patients or the staff.

Announcing the details of a co-worker's psych history is ignorant and rude. The details of someone's psych information should not be treated like a police record. Most people seem to think someone with a history of mental breakdowns or psychotic illness has something wrong with their, "I.Q." and think nothing of being rude to them. They imagine them to be chronic liars or idiots. In reality, some of them are more dependable than some, "normal," people are. I was at work in the nursing home one day, and most of the people on the shift that day were at the nursing station doing their charts. Then this woman who was a CNA made an announcement about one of her co-workers that made her look like an diot. "She said some guy could read her mind." Anyone who does not have the mind of a third-grader could figure out that this is a piece of private health information. In reality, the staff-member who was the victim of this rudeness had confided this information to her friends at least two decades into the past asked them not to gossip and they gave her a reputation and made her look like some sort of a jerk. A visitor there made some snide comment that sounded like it came from a third-grader and she had to have two staff-members explain to her that this is a piece of private health information. I think that aide who made that announcement in front of her co-workers should have been written up. The things you know about your co-workers should not be used for entertainment purposes.

There is agency work that gives you one on one cases so there would not be a problem with distraction like there is in facilities.

Be sure to call the nursing homes and hospitals and/or the agencies. They sometimes teach their own CNA classes. I got my training at a low cost this way. One time I even found a paid Home Health Aide class that went for a month and got hired at the same time.

I want to know why some facilities require gloves, gown, cap, and booties, while some others only require gloves.

They look to see if you have annotations on your record. They probably don't care if you quit somewhere without notice as long as they an verify the dates of employment.