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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 ...

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 ...

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 & ...

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 rollin...

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 clos...

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 h...

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 ...

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 agree with the other posters. The last ltc I worked at we did have a resident who was a child molester (we also had a murderer who was paroled to the nursing home). My first day the molesters call light went off so I was about to go down the hall...

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 contrac...

I just want to say that NICU nurses are wonderful. When my youngest was born, he was healthy and latched on the first day, second day he ran a fever and couldn't eat and ended up in the NICU. Granted he was not as sick as the other babies in there ...

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 ...

Hey, just wanted to say that i am currently taking my prereqs to apply for nursing school. I have 100% loss in my right ear and sometimes have trouble with my left ear. I don't know sign and i don't read lips either. I am going to get the Littman ...

BTW yousoldtheworld, my comment about the hoyer was not even directed toward you so why did you get so defensive? I take that back about the hoyer taking 10 minutes, if resident is already hooked up to lift pad then 2 good cnas working together can ...

I was not "talking down" to you and "assuming you would put your license at risk". And yes in the state of Indiana you do have to have a CNA license to work as a CNA otherwise do not call yourself a CNA. I was just trying to give some friendly advi...

Was the guy ill? After awhile, when you know what c-diff smells and looks like, you can usually tell when they have it.

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I agree, even cna jobs are getting hard to get. I will say that in LTC if they are short staffed (and I'm sure they are) you will most likely have to work every other weekend unless they are nice and let you only work during the week. You never kno...

I agree with everyone else, you are not to give the lady the cup, the LPN was suppose to physically give it to her. Where I live CNAs can be trained to pass meds, but they have to have 1000 hours of CNA experience and go through class, clinicals, an...

You know if a resident (or you) gets hurt because you used a hoyer by yourself, that's your license. It is against procedure to do that, I'm just saying that you don't want to get in trouble for that, it's your license not your co-workers. If it wa...