karamarie91

Can you chart as you take your vitals? I am a pct on a med-surg/ortho floor and that's what I do when a computer is accessible. I just take it room to room. Others just have their clipboard or piece of paper(that's what I use. I can't keep up with a clipboard) and take the vitals before going to sit down and document them. Also, sometimes you can take your accucheck at the same time you're doing vitals.

I'm a stutterer too but not severe since I got some therapy in elementray school. Still, I think speaking slowly and focusing on what you are saying than how you say it helps. I pray that you feel better. I know people can be cruel and stuttering can destroy your self-esteem.

What I don't get is when facilities want to reuse towels and washclothes that are saturated in feces/blood/whatever bodily fluid. You can't wash everything out and even if you could, that's just yucky. I dump out heavily soiled linen even though it's heavily discouraged.

do we work at the same place?lol. because they did the same thing at my job today too...

we got umbrellas. I put my initials on it, but someone still stole it.

I'm confused. I thought you have to have at least a BSN/ADN to work at the bedside.

Very inspiring, CheesePotato.

Yea, at my job, only a few of the dietary staff helps set the patient's tray up. They usually just put the tray in there and leave. One of the houskeeping staff actually offered to help me pull up a patient. A radiology tech helped me clean up a patient since she was in the room to pick the patient up for a procedure. Teamwork is a beautiful thing. I don't demand that non-nurses and tech help us out. But I it is a pleasant shock when they do.

I got accepted too! I had found out at work when I was checking my email! I plan to go there.

I got accepted to Clayton, but I am waiting on KSU so I can make my decision. I don't know which one to pick if I get into both. They are both around the same distance from me. Gtqueen371, are most of the nursing students working at night, since you said days is bascially too hard? I am a tech at a hospital and I work days right now.

Georgia:starts at $10 in the hospitals.

Yall got me sorta excited. I start in Fall.

yay, I'm in too!

JeannePCT, are you a PCT and if so, where at?

When you say that you want to take the test without taking a class, that means you want to challenge the exam. I don't think you can do that here in GA because in order to register for the test your cna school has to send a certificate to the GA Health Partnership(the people who are in charge of GA CNA's). Even if your 4hr prep course does that for you, you also have to keep in mind that the exam is graded on how well you perform the steps of each skill. Like for example, you get 5 skills, and one of them will always be handwashing. But there are steps you have to do in order in order to pass that skill. How you do these skills in real life(like feeding a patient, or helping a patient ambulate) is different than how they expect you to do it in the testing environment. After you pass the test and get into the real world, you can do the skill however you see fit. In the CNA class(it's also online too i think), they should give you the official cna skills book which tells you exactly how you will be graded on whatever skill you may get. They give you each skill step by step and you can practice everyday until you just remember exactly how the test people want you do it. You're experience as a physical therapy tech is good, but those skills are only a small fraction to what you may be tested on. If you fail the test, I think you can take it 30 days later I believe. But most people pass the written part, if you fail the actual skills part it might be because you forgot a major step in that skill. But with enough practice you'll be fine. The only one that really terrifies people is taking manual blood pressure because you can only be off by a few numbers. I was terrified of taking the pulse(which is supposed to be ridiculously easy), but I didn't get that skill in my test. Best wishes.