CAT-CNA

put perfume on the shoulder of your scrub top and smell it whenever u are around the bad smells, pretend you are scratching your nose :-)

wow that was sad, I don't know what I would do in that situation I'm just wondering why we are not doing more to help Japan.

Last place I worked at we had a sex offender and a murderer. I was told to take another person with me when I cared for the s.o. until I felt more comfortable with him--never did feel comfortable with him but I got to the point (very quickly) where I could handle him on my own. I never talked about my girls with him like I would my other residents (he had raped a little girl), you just had to keep a eye on him and his hands.

With my last pregnancy I had gone for my pre baby pap and received a letter in the mail saying I had HPV. When I had the baby my after baby pap showed mild cell changes. The next month I had a colposcopy that showed moderate cell changes, the next month I had a LEEP that showed severe cell changes. My point in telling this is that I have the strain that causes cervical cancer and since I had it while I was pregnant I would say that the strain does not prevent you from carrying to term or even getting pregnant since I believe that I had it before I got pregnant with the last baby. I asked my gyno alot of questions relating to the LEEP and he did say that those procedures is what may cause a issue with fertility, not the HPV itself.

There's one on there called Nurse notes NCLEX, it's 2.99. I was skimming over it and it has med. term, med. abbreviations, drug info, conversions, dosages, body systems, and questions. I think it's a good app because I am in Med. Term and A & P 2 now and with the med term and body systems on there i don't have to lug around my heavy books (like if I am riding in the car to the inlaws or the store) I can just look at the app and read up on what I want to read up on. editing to say that I looked at it more and there is ALOT of info on the app, well worth 2.99!!

The last LTC I worked at I gave a resident a cig and the other CNA with me told me not to do that again 'cause if the higher ups caught me doing that I could get written up or fired. I don't remember the reason why, but I thought it was stupid.

Hello to you too! I am not in nursing school yet--taking prereqs--but i would love to do L&D, mother-baby, or wound care, wounds are interesting :-)

oops--sorry

I injured my back at my last job, it was not from lifting, but from rolling. The resident was in bed and i was rolling him from hi back to his R side so I can get him ready for bed. He apparently did not want to get ready for bed so as I was rolling him toward the wall he put his hand on the wall and pushed against me and I felt a pull in my lower back. I ended up going to the ER and got a shot in my hip--painful--it still hurts from time to time.

Are you willing to move to Terre Haute? There are 2 hospitals here, one that just poured millions into an expansion and they are getting ready to redo their NICU/L&D area. If you are into LTC there are several nursing homes here plus it is close to Indy, and if you are able to have both a Indiana and Illinois License, Terre Haute is close to the Illinois border plus it is close to Brazil and Clinton, who also have hospitals. It is my opinion that I live in a pretty good area as far as job possibilities go, of course that is when I actually get through the program (which I won't apply for for another few months), but Union Hospital is hiring, their addy is Union Hospital :: Terre Haute, Indiana the benefits are appealing--hth.

TY for the replies, I think maybe I freaked before I throughly read the article. The script my girl has is made bu Mylan. It does make you wonder how long it takes a pharmacy to become aware of recalls if the pharmacist did not know about it. Yes the article came out on the 4th but it also said that health care professionals and consumers were notified--I guess the pharmacy does not count.

When are pharmacies notified of recalls? The article is dated Jan. 4 and I called Walgreens to ask about this product--my 6 yr old is on this (the one diagnosed with Tachycardia with heart murmur)--and the pharmacist told me he did not know/haven't heard about the recall. I have to wait until tomorrow the call her doc. cause she uses her nebulizer quite frequently.

No, you are not off base, kudos to you for showing concern for your neighbors--I wish more people were like that. I hope the wife is ok although I feel as though healing may take some time.

I am nearly through with my A & P 1 class and so far it has been about cells and muscles. The bones I understand learning, but how important is it to know cells, cell division, what covers the muscles, what controls the force of a muscle contraction, etc.? Maybe I am not seeing the "big picture" here, but I really don't have an interest in all that, I just want to dissect and see what is on the inside of the body in a hands on approach. TY for any replies.

He's good, he's 1 & 1/2 now and just oh so cute :-) I worry more about him than I did with the girls because he seems to "choke" when he eats, he's not choking choking but he seems to have a problem with eating. I don't know it has been awhile since I had a 1 yr old to feed. My sil said that maybe his little flap is not fully developed so I guess that is something to look into, but boy was everybody right when they said boys are different than girls.