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hey everyone! I am a brand new cna, just finished school and never worked in the field before. i just got hired on at a nursing home and I have one day left of my 3 day orientation. The problem is, I am no where near ready for being on my own. I mean...

Ok, so I know I can't be the only one who dreams about just for ONCE saying what's really going through her mind! I love my job, and I do it for the love of my residents, and I always give 100% to make sure they are safe, happy, and cared for. Howeve...

Hi Everyone! I just started Phram and we need to make our drug cards like I am sure many of you may have already done. I have seen a couple "templates" and samples, and made a few myself, but I just wanted to get feedback from everyone.. What tips o...

:pumpiron: I am in my 2nd quarter of my LPN program, and even though I am doing fairly well at balancing everything - homelife, kids, hubby, pets, chores, working part time, homework, grades, etc.., I am finding ZERO time or motivation for exercising...

You consider just going to buy new socks & underwear rather than search through the five baskets of piled up laundry that you have no time to sort through and put away. It would be so much easier to just buy some new stuff! But, then again, I am...

I was wondering if anyone else had this problem... I pre ordered the Taber's 21st Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, and received it. I was so excited to activate my "included" 1 yr online access and PDA/Mobile access... only to find that my book was pri...

Have you considered re taking the nurse aide training? I was in a situation similar to you - in the fact that I had taken the aide training around 4 yrs ago, and the subsequently had to withdraw from the nursing program after that. I never tested or ...

I am curious about your orientation, and why you felt like you "couldn't do it". How long was your orientation? When you say you were supposed to have your first day yesterday, was it your first day on your own, or shadowing someone? Could you have a...

But then you do get a little irritated when you realize YOU will be the one unpacking all their belongings and putting them away again! LOL

I think that you have to walk the line of being partially "desensitized" to it, but yet still having empathy for your pts. It's not being cold, it's just doing your job. I mean I have sometimes that I catch myself being totally cold about it all, get...

To my coworkers who ask me to hold the elevator open for them so they can go clock out to go on break: No!!!!!!! :angryfire No I will not hold the elevator for you so that you can have every last second of your precious break to yourself! (gawd forbi...

:yeahthat: in my first few days as a new cna, one of my residents said "now make sure you rub the cream on my scrotum" i wanted to say - uh, i am pretty sure if you can ask me to put cream on your scrotum, you are good to do it yourself buddy!

When that "special" family member stops me and asks "are you the nurse?", I sooooo wanna say "Nope and THANK GOD!" :bowingpur LOL (Even tho in 14 months I will be the nurse!) :w00t:

You just reminded me of another one.. Son of above mentioned obnoxious pt, as he's leaving stops me to say: "There is something really foul smelling back there" Gee... ya think? You are in a nursing home and you did just breeze down the corridor afte...

Is anyone else ever complexed as to why this is an issue? I mean, I totally understand patient rights and yes on the rare occasion I can understand certain situations why a female may refuse a male aide, but seriously, has anyone ever had a male pt r...

You spend 30 minutes cleaning up a pt over and over and over again because she is having explosive diarrhea and you aren't at all upset, you just wish she would hurry and get it over with already because you are so starving and you are vividly imagin...

:yeahthat:this totally happened to me today i discovered that my pt had a prolapsed uterus :eek:when i was toileting her. of course i had no earthly idea what "it" was when i discovered it until the nurse came... but man of man did i think it was t...

....when you run up and down the hall a thousand times a shift, lifting completely dead weight all day long, and barely stop to pee much less eat anything... and yet you still can't manage to lose that last 10 lbs!

Hi! I have several tattoos - and I was curious what the typical health care employers policy is on them. The ones I have now are all easily coverable. I was however thinking of getting another one the base of my neck, which would be covered by my hai...

TLWSTNANOH, congrats on your new job! yes, it is very hard work! i tell anyone who will listen to me lol that this is the hardest job I've ever done. But it also is absolutely the most gratifying. At the end of the day, I go home exhausted, bruised...

Hi! I am hoping you folks here can give me some advice... I am a brand new cna. I just finished my training and I have never worked in the health care field before. i just got hired at a nursing home and I have one day left of my 3 day orientation. T...

Well.....:redbeathe I was on the floor on my own both Sat and Sunday. All went pretty well I think. I am still rather slow... I didn't get all my residents out for breakfast on time. We start at 7 to get them all out by 8, and I got my last res out t...

Well.....:redbeathe I was on the floor on my own both Sat and Sunday. All went pretty well I think. I am still rather slow... I didn't get all my residents out for breakfast on time. We start at 7 to get them all out by 8, and I got my last res out t...

Thank you all for your advice! I did talk to the DON and I got 1 more day, which even though it's not alot, it helped so much! I am all on my own this weekend! Say some prayers for me!!!

Thank you all for your advice! I did talk to the DON and I got 1 more day, which even though it's not alot, it helped so much! I am all on my own this weekend! Say some prayers for me!!!