swayman2202

OK, so this is a quick and hopefully easy question to answer!!! So a friend of mine raised a question in my mind, she believes that CNA's can work in sport medicine! Is this true? Because if that is the case thats where i NEED to be!!! Can someone please clear this up for me!!! I have searched all over the internet without any success in locating my answer. THANKS!!!!!

Well i know in MY CNA course we were taught not to use these words when speaking to a patient it was described as disrespectful, I cannot remember exactly the reason for this but it did have alot to do with bring them down to a childs level, as we typically call our children sweet heart, honey, sweetie, sugar and so on. Since they are older than us (usually) they deserve to be address as Mr. or Ms. unless requested not to. I have worked with a nurse that yelled at me for everything even in front of residents, it was very degrading and sometimes he would say things that were extremely hurtful, but after I talked to him about i found out he was going through a tough divorce he apologized and we get along better now, but honestly I THINK that the personal and professional life should remain where they belong. I dont take my issues at work home to my husband and i dont take issues with my husband to work with me.

I really like ten hour shifts, i tried to swing that at my first job ever as a CNA but they were not having it. But my second job let me for a few months then they got short handed and asked if id got back to 12's not sure why though i basically worked the same shift, i just added 2 hours onto the SLOWEST part of the night when everyone is asleep, i had 1 round in that period of time and charting. but owell. I like 12's because sometimes it set up 3 on 4 off with one odd day (or at my first job it was) i never even considered the off days as time with family lol (im a dork i guess)

Thanks for all the input, i recently left a job (due to problems with pregnacny) where i was working over night and it was a scattered shift where id work for 3 days get one off then work for 4 get one off then work 2 and FINALLY get 2 days off. I really hated that cause the one day off thing is spent (for me anyway) trying to catch up on sleep and relaxing time. I now work in medical records which isn't so bad but after i complete nursing school i am just so afraid of running into another shift like my previous one and i DO not want that to happen, i really dont know that i could stand that again.

I know I personally get a huge sugar rush from caffeine to only crash soon after. Just a thought though.

PERSONALLY i think a med tech gets better expirence, because they get to work side by side the nurses (at least where i use to work) they get to do quite a few of the things that nurses get to do (there again may just be where i work i dont know) while an aide gets to do well strictly aide work.

If by orientation you mean interview, NOT a good idea, whether that place is your top choice, or not, it looks and sounds tachy and disrespectful and give the idea that if another "top choice" comes along in a few months you will quit at the drop of a hat for them also. Not the best move in the game book , but it may not completely disqualify you for the position. O and by you and your i mean your friend.

I am a CNA, but currently due to problems with my pregnancy, i work in medical records at a home health agency. We have a form for doctors, an RN has to fill out the order that they want approved and we fax it to the Dr. who signs it and returns it. They also make changes to the order if it does not suit their opinion (i guess thats how i should word it) we also have an LPN that writes ordesr the only diffence there is that the RN review it before it goes to the Dr. so I dont see the problem with writing and order while doctor is present. as long as dr. signs it.

Is it possible to be hired on into a daytime shift or is that nearly impossible?? I am NOT a good night person!!!! I get burned out very easily on nights but its not from work, it is from not seeing my daughter and husband and spending quality time with them. I worked on a night shift for 2 months be for quitting, but going in at 6 and gettin off at 6 and gettin home just in time to say by to my husband and dgt who were going to work and daycare was not fun and waking up around 2 just in time to start getting work stuff together and my husband and dgt getting home about 30 mins before i had to leave for work is not fun. So is it possible at all or if i specifically request day shift does it put me at a lesat likely chance of obtaining a job. any thoughts?

WOW!!! 14.00 an hr for CNA job. Id love that!!!! Starting pay in okla for cna is usually 10 dollars the most i made starting was 12.50 what 2.50 was differential for working weekends and nights. TAKE IT! any expirence is better than none! Fortunatley I have worked in the medical field since i was 16 yrs old. as an office assistant, part time aide, and medical records.

I agree with the previous posts, but there is a point that private life becomes annoying. A co worker of mine alwasy talks about how she sleeps with this guy behind her husbands bakc and all this other stuff about her screwed up life and i personally dont care at all about her life.

This is irrelevant to the complaint but made me think of this situation i was in one time, me and my co-worker were putting patients to bed (we r cnas) on a high functioning alzhiemer unit, but this one pt is always wanting to get in and out of bed he is VERY VERY heavy but will not allow us to use lifts cause they scare him cause he has fallen out of one, but we had just changed his bottom and laid him down and got one more down after him, he hit his call light so my co-worker went in and asked him what (she is very loud im sure you could hear her 5 floors above us) but he said I have to go to the bathroom really bad, she said you have a diaper on so go i am not getting you out of bed. then left the room. well i heard all this i was only 1 room away. so I hit my called light and asked for our senior aide to come down and assist me, afterwards me and the senior wrote her up (CAN YOU BELIEVE SHE HAS BEEN WROTE UP >10 times and STILL HAS A JOB) I think something needs to be done about this.

I would report, I know my job you have to give at LEAST 2 hrs notice if not coming in or its a write up. ANd just because you showed up or even if you called in NO supervisor is allowed to treat you with such disrespect. It is not appropriate.

I love helping people, but I really think I like the exciting stuff and the adrenaline rush i can get, which at the VA happened only twice the entire time i worked there, once we had a patient choke that was really exciting, the second while I was giving a pateint a shower (even though i told the nurse something was wrong with him, cause he was a nasty grayish color and was really out of it) the nurse told me to do the shower anyway sayin it would "refresh" him, he had a heart attack in the middle and died right there in the shower. But, I don't mind the rounds and the incont. stuff. BUT, i worked with a lazy staff and we were all pretty young (im 19) the oldest one there that was a CNA was a senior aide she was in her 40's everyone else was in early 20's but they called in a regular basis usually eveyr weekend and monday they worked cause the had parties to attend. Which doubled our already overwhelmed workload. and would split us up. (we were required to address each patient n a group of at least 2, d/t it being a higher functioning alzhiemer/psych unit, where we frequently got beat up and the worst that happened is this LARGE man threw an aide through a glass door) So per a grp of 2 were had approx 26 patients. The feedings were brutal. we only ever had 4 aides on shift unless our supervisiors were nice and sent down an extra one which rarely happened. So to feed approx 52 patients in an hour was near impossible. Very few could feed themselves and it took a good 45 mins just to get them all to tables because we would put one at a table go get another and the one we just put ther was already gone. So this process took a long time. The showers would not have been terrible had everyone done their share. (there are 26 pts on each side of unit, day shift did one side showers and evenings did other side showers) so 26 pts were getting showers and they had to be all done before supper time. shift started at 3 dinner was at 5. 30 mins were taken to stock carts and give report before showers would begin so that leaves approx 1:30 mins for showers. (half of the patients would be whirlpools which typically take longer than the standard shower) so between four aides 2 would do whirlpools 2 would do showers that means that it should have been about 7 or so pts per aide. BUT half the aides would start playing games like oh i needs a smoke break, or im getting to hot, or i have to go to the bathroom or this taht or the other. so in turn that would leave someone else taking at least 1 if not more of their patients. Wow this has turned into a HUGE rant! sorry. This just really bothers me, maybe its just the work load i didn't like. and the lazy co-workers.

Thanks I didn't think about applying there at all thanks for all the help