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School Mack - Very well said! I whole heartedly agree that ALL Nurses should be a Tech first! At the local nursing school - prospective nursing students are given a bonus point toward admission by having their CNA license. Some of the best nurses I ...

M- Wouldn't it be nice if the nurses could work together? Techs and CNAs get the bad rap - but maybe the focus is on the wrong person? Do you often have nurses with a "That's not my patient" attitude? Mama D- In my experience, staffing people are rar...

Maybe your hospital is nicer to it's patients that we were to ours! (then again - on night shift - patients don't need our crappy coffee! ) Have you spoken to her about this issue? Karen

In the ICU, patients have BPs in the 200/105s all the time and I probably wouldn't be freaked out about it - just something else to fix. But I agree that the tech was wrong. Maybe she is burning out? Our ICU had 1-2 nurses to 1 or 2 patients (depend...

Hi there, I have worked with some nurses that demand a hundred little things every shift - and other nurses that will get it themselves. I think some nurses tend to forget that the assistants have their own jobs -(patient care, secretarial work, inpu...