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    You need experience.

    nguyency77 replied to MVitiello's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    LTC facilities typically aren't as picky about their CNAs. Be wary, though, since some of them are awful in terms of the quality of care they provide for residents. I got a job at a short-term...
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    Horrible First Day; How to cope?!

    nguyency77 replied to tammy_zeidan09's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    At least now you know what you SHOULDN'T do if someday you have to orient a new CNA. I had a really great experience because my preceptor was a girl who had never been written up for anything, knew...
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    Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

    nguyency77 replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To some of the nurses I work with: Why did you even bother going through nursing school if all you're going to do is take a two and a half hour lunch... at 9 in the morning?! As an 'uneducated, poorly...
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    Do you like being a CNA?

    nguyency77 replied to tammy_zeidan09's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Staragate: I did my clinical in such a place. I am still traumatized by that experience. One time I was showering an incontinent patient who defecated while in the shower. I frantically looked for a...
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    Do you like being a CNA?

    nguyency77 replied to tammy_zeidan09's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I like being a CNA; most of my coworkers are willing to compromise, i.e. "I'll help you clean this person if you help me transfer this other person into the shower later on." But I don't really fancy...
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    Losing Faith

    nguyency77 replied to hrsthecna's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Some companies LOVE hiring "caregivers," aka untrained personnel. Because those people do not have a CNA certification, they are much cheaper to hire: $8.00 an hour. Maybe you can try hospital work. I...
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    CNA work

    nguyency77 replied to I♥Scrubs's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I became a CNA pretty recently-- right out of high school --because there were people who said I couldn't. They told me the same things: it's gross, it's back-breaking, etc. I work in a skilled...
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    Delegating to UAP. How do you feel about it?

    nguyency77 replied to kwagner_51's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe this sounds strange, but I'm a CNA that actually DOESN'T want to do any of these things, such as passing medications, doing phlebotomy, wound dressings, or anything involving foley catheters...