northernguy

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1. Horrified at what I have seen go on in this nursing home

   northernguy replied to butterflykisses23's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   Ive only worked in a couple nursing homes that had really strict hiring standards, paid their employees well, and fired and investigated people at the slightest suggestion of abuse, as in we went...

2. Rude ED Doctors

   northernguy replied to Skayda's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I dont mean to totally trash Doctors(like they would care what I think anyway), or ER Docs in particular, I just get annoyed at the tone of some of the responses. How dare a CNA suggest something to a...

3. Rude ED Doctors

   northernguy replied to Skayda's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   The RN should have made the call, but who cares if the Doc was rude and snotty. You make a fraction of the money she makes doing a thankless job that gradually wrecks your back. Yeah the ER doc has a...

4. Certified Nursing Assistants - The Nurses think we have it so easy.

   northernguy replied to hfullerCNA's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   95% of the RNs I work with are great, never have had any problems with nearly all of them, either working in long term care or on med/surg. OR Nurses are another story altogether, some of them I've...

5. I had a terrible day at school today... Accused and feel awful.

   northernguy replied to jval's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I dont understand why the students would be so resistent to riding the hoyer to begin with. Yeah you might look kind of foolish, but if everyone does it, who cares. If their knees are so bad, how are...

6. Verbal abuse from patients?

   northernguy replied to shix's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I'll never forget one patient who was admitted numerous times, with longer stays each time. He was a bed jumper who was continually pulling off his telemetry leads and o2, hitting his call light and...

7. Things we think that we do not say... humorous...

   northernguy replied to Baubo516's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   To the snotty ER nurses who either completely ignore the aide when bringing up a patient, or try to order you around on the floor and dismiss anything you say. Get off your high horse Nurse Jackie and...

8. MA really needs to get CNA cert. to start nursing school?

   northernguy replied to cfroelich1's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I think Nursing schools are requiring people have their CNA for two reasons. Number one because they have an overabundance of applicants, so they can afford to be selective and if people are already...

9. Did I do the right thing?

   northernguy replied to Jackfackmasta's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

   I would say it is definitely in your scope. Again, EMTs do it all the time, and ER techs are pretty much just EMTs minus the pre hospital stuff like driving an ambulance or extricating a patient from...

10. Did I do the right thing?

    northernguy replied to Jackfackmasta's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I'm curious if you have any training or experience as an EMT. As an RN you have a lot more training than me, but stabilizing a penetrating object like this seems like a pretty simple thing to do and...

11. Cna/pct

    northernguy replied to Kdrenee's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Sounds to me what a PCT is varies depending on your state/area/hospital. Where I work you have RNs and CNAs doing patient care. No LPNs and no "PCTs". The CNAs pretty much do all the work described as...

12. Only male in the CNA class; feeling awkward

    northernguy replied to somekindofstrange's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Take the CNA class. If you are feeling awkward about just practicing on female students, imagine how awkward your gonna feel taking care of female patients. Better to get over it now before you start...

13. corpsman to cna

    northernguy replied to PaCe23's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I know a lot of military medics go into EMS, but I believe most have to start from scratch in terms of education and obtaining licenses. I think the same would be true for other health care jobs,...

14. Taking CNA class while doing other pre-reqs

    northernguy replied to AlaskaHopeful's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    CNA class is pretty easy, very little studying involved from my experience, but I also had some medical training in EMS prior to CNA school, so it might be different if you are completely new. Towards...

15. HUC or ED tech?

    northernguy replied to duskyjewel's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I'm assuming HUC means unit clerk. If so these are two totally different jobs. Which one you prefer would depend on your personality. Obviously an ER Tech job will have you dealing with a lot of...