northernguy

I've been working as a CNA for about a month, and something I've noticed puzzles me. I have yet to ever see a CNA or nurse wearing a back brace. Not during clinicals, not where I work now, and not to facilities and hospitals I've gone too as an EMT. ...

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 through a least an employee a month because of suspect...

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 Doctor! Give me a break, as a CNA I have people t...

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 stressful job, but she has a nice mercedes Benz a...

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 encountered at work are just plain evil. Not sure wh...

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 they gonna work as a CNA? Im pretty sure a lot of ...

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 swearing up a storm and verbally abusing whatever s...

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 hand me that ******* transfer board. No I dont wa...

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 trained as a CNA, they can spend more time on RN sk...

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 a vehicle. I wouldnt sweat it though. I work as a...

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 something pretty much every EMT has been trained fo...

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 a patient care tech except for EKGs and drawing b...

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 doing Nursing clinicals. As for the students being...

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, including CNA or patient care tech, but maybe not, sin...

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 the end of the class you might have to do some pr...

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 drunk, obnoxious, or mentally ill patients. You will al...

Are you getting the patient dressed in bed? If the patient can ambulate, or at least stand, I find it easier to get them on a commode or toilet, then get them dressed there. Put the pants up over the legs while they sit, then pull them up when they s...

Your pulse rate does not remain constant, it changes all the time, so if you took it for 30 seconds or a minute several times in succession, you probably wouldnt get the exact same number every time, regardless of whether your count was dead accurate...

CNAs and work environments vary, but yeah, CNAs in LTC arent always the nicest people. Some LTCs the work environment can best be compared to the lord of the flies, with aides forming cliques and always criticizing and even plotting against each othe...

Is it going to make you less employable as a CNA? Until you have some experience, yeah, it would. After youve worked as a CNA for a while it probably wouldnt make much difference, although it still might with some employers. I guess the first thing I...

This is why I dont think I will ever go back to working in LTC if I can help it. I did it for a couple years and never had any abuse investigations against me, but its something that is always hanging over every aides head. Ive seen other aides go th...

A CNA working in corrections....I cant think of a job I would want LESS.

To the patients who complain or are totally uncooperative when being woken up for vitals in the middle of the night. Im sorry, but apparently you got lost on the way to the Holiday inn and somehow wound up in a HOSPITAL. These are often the same p...

Just keep in mind that being a CNA is nothing like being an EMT, the training and jobs are a lot different. If the Nursing school requires you be a CNA, they probably want to know that you know how to perform CNA skills without having to spend much c...

I dont know about Medical assistant training, but if its like CNA school, there was very little training on what to do in medical emergencies. If you arent BLS certified, then take the class so you will have some idea what to do if someone does go un...