Beccasaur

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1. Everyone's wearing scrubs...is this good or bad?

   Beccasaur replied to caregiver1977's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I am a CNA and at the begining of my shift I let the patient know what I am and who their RN is. I usually write this on a white board in the patients rooms. I also give them a quick run down of the difference between a CNA and RN. Most of the time, ...

2. What's your nursing kryptonite?

   Beccasaur replied to ktliz's topic in General Nursing

   I had a patient once who had CDiff and she was on Golytly. I was in there with the RN for 3 hours (no joke) trying to clean her up and change linens. It was coming out faster than we could clean it. The cherry on top was that she had a Type 2 bedsore...

3. What's your nursing kryptonite?

   Beccasaur replied to ktliz's topic in General Nursing

   I'm a CNA so not much can gross me out...except for old colostomy bags, patients with the wet pnemonia cough, poop from a patient that has had bad constipation, and food on dentures.

4. When should I call?

   Beccasaur posted a topic in CNA/MA

   I graduated from my CNA program and I filled out applications to hospitals this Monday, but now it's Friday and I haven't heard anything except an email from one of the hospitals I applied to saying they don't hire new grads. How long should I give t...

5. New Grad RN no job thinking of being a CNA

   Beccasaur replied to Gem0607's topic in CNA/MA

   This might sound silly, but I heard schools are always looking for school nurses. A lot hire RNs because you can take one look and know what's going on. I was told that you get teacher's pay and you join their union and you have summers off. Also, yo...

6. WRONG CHOICE!!!!

   Beccasaur replied to mejajo08's topic in CNA/MA

   When I did clinicals, one of the first things we had to do for the day was get the patients up and awake for breakfast. We would set the trays out and set it up for them. We would also have to raise beds and feed some. If one of them didn't want to g...

7. New CNA - questions from a newby

   Beccasaur replied to AzDeb's topic in CNA/MA

   I'm from California and to renew our licenses we need to complete 24 hours of continous training each year. My instructor said to keep every class you take in a binder with a name of the instructor, the date it was held on, and what was taught in the...

8. Making an occupied bed/skill test

   Beccasaur replied to sweettiff4prez's topic in CNA/MA

   My instructor told us that with that skill being tested we had 10 minutes to show we could do it. She also said it didn't have to be perfect. She said what the examiners are mostly looing for is that you can properly do it.

9. Whats with the beyond horrible pay? :(

   Beccasaur replied to camci's topic in CNA/MA

   Before I finished my CNA program, we had a representative from my dream job come in and tell us that if we were hired we were to start off at $8.25 and if we earned 12 units Child Development we would get bumped up $2. It was very discouraging to hea...