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  1. Sport Medicine????

    swayman2202 posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  2. What would you make of this?

    swayman2202 replied to bluemorningglory's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  3. Night shift my only choice as a new hire?

    swayman2202 posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  4. Night shift my only choice as a new hire?

    swayman2202 replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  5. Night shift my only choice as a new hire?

    swayman2202 replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  6. First nightshift down

    swayman2202 replied to gtoko's topic in General Nursing

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

  7. CNA or Med Tech better experience?

    swayman2202 replied to PepeSilvia's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    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...

  8. Would manager or HR be impressed?

    swayman2202 replied to shuubie's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  9. Can a doctor ask a nurse to write the order when she is standing right there??

    swayman2202 replied to Parul's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  10. LVNs=no job?

    swayman2202 replied to kikisan's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...

  11. Sharing Personal Information at Work

    swayman2202 replied to Urban_Durga's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  12. is it just me?

    swayman2202 replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  13. Report or not?

    swayman2202 replied to dscott76's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  14. Is the medical field right for me?

    swayman2202 replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  15. Is the medical field right for me?

    swayman2202 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been a CNA/HHA for the past 6 months, I worked at 2 nursing homes one of which was a state VA center. Then I went into home health. I begin classes in august for my BSN, but after being a CNA I...

  16. Is the medical field right for me?

    swayman2202 replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

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

  17. Is the medical field right for me?

    swayman2202 replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    I think I will try again. I applied at st Francis st johns n southcrest but I was turned down . But I will go re apply. That could be what it takes to set me. I am rly not a fan of geriatrics which...

  18. Is the medical field right for me?

    swayman2202 replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    I am going to the ou Tulsa campus. But I'm getting into ou in a kinda odd way. They are partnered with Tulsa community college and they allow you to do all your basics at tcc then transfer over to ou...

  19. Is the medical field right for me?

    swayman2202 replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    Well that's what I originally began college I was a pre-med student at the univ of tulsa the only reason I have decided against that us I don't want to be a CNA for the next 12 years of my

  20. Adventures in the McDonald's drive-through...

    swayman2202 replied to Bumashes's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You must have been intended to be there at that time!!!! Way to go!!!! There's a reason for everything that

  21. Very Concerned (please read)

    swayman2202 replied to CuriousGreorge7's topic in General Nursing

    I am not completely sure about this, but I think the only way you cannot, will not, shouldn't even dream of being a nurse if you have a record (like felonies) O n even if you are around people that do...

  22. Is the medical field right for me?

    swayman2202 replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    my ultimate goal in life is to become either an OB/GYN, Anesthisiologist or Surgeon. i want those more than anything and the BSN is just a stepping stone to get me there. I have been accepted and even...

  23. Is the medical field right for me?

    swayman2202 replied to swayman2202's topic in General Nursing

    No I haven't but I really should!!! Thanks for the