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  1. Terminated from my first CNA job.

    downsouthlaff replied to esand's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Ive been a CNA for nearly year! All in Long Term Care Nursing Homes. And from my pesonal experience its about the same everywhere. My first job was at my hometown nursing home. It had a bad reputation...

  2. CNA Supervisor or all under DON/ADON

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

    Med Aides and Med Techs our state doesnt have those in LTC. Not yet

  3. CNA Supervisor or all under DON/ADON

    downsouthlaff posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hello everyone, as some of you know I am an EMT. As most of you know EMTs do NOT get paid well at all. Don't get me wrong i do alright, but I'm finding myself having to work mor and more shifts in...

  4. CNA Supervisor or all under DON/ADON

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

    Sophiesmom,yes of course the Nurses are still the Aides supervisors by law, and by the facility, but these facilities with a shift charge CNA, worked the floor and did the sane things a nornal staff...

  5. CNA Supervisor or all under DON/ADON

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

    Thank you all for the reply, and did i mention that these facilities also had a seperate salaried Ward Clerk Superviso, who did everything the same except it was ward clerks instead of CNAs, wich in...

  6. CNA Supervisor or all under DON/ADON

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

    Thanks for the advice fun times, and your right. It does seem to take stress off the DON, to have a Lead CNA who can do that staff. But the CNA supervisors that I have seen, or clearly spoken. They...

  7. CNA Supervisor or all under DON/ADON

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

    And when I say CNA Supervisor, I do not mean CNA Supervising the entire nursing department with the DON/ADON, this CNA DOES NOT supervise Nurses, they strictly Supervise CNAs and the CNA functions on...

  8. CNA Supervisor or all under DON/ADON

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

    Wow I thought this might have been a regulation or something to have a CNA Supervisor in LTC facilities, apparently it's exclusive to this area. Surely somewhere else there must be CNA Supervisors...

  9. CNA Supervisor or all under DON/ADON

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

    And I say I've worked at many different faculties not because I'm a job hopper and can't stay anywhere, LOL, I am employed Part Time/PRN at One facility, but I also am employed at a Nursing Staffing...

  10. CNA Supervisor or all under DON/ADON

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

    Wow, I guess this is in this area only. The majority of facilities I've worked at had a Monday-Friday CNA Supervisor who hired, disciplined, made schedules, and assisted nursing administration. All...

  11. Nursing Home Reg Refresher?

    downsouthlaff posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hello all, I just took a PRN position at a local Nursing Home as a Floating CNA, to renew my state CNA certificate and get re registered for 2 more years because I'd hate to lose it, any how it's been...

  12. Nursing Home Reg Refresher?

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

    Thanks you Sixella 21 sorry for late reply did go well! Your info was helpful I had never workerd a day shift before I was used of the night shift and we do cheat a little at night, and I was worried...

  13. The role of the EMT-B in EMS Misunderstood!

    downsouthlaff replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And P.S., This is not a post that I write to attack Nurses. I just feel its important to improve the relations between EMS Professionals and Nurses especially those in long term care, because as the...

  14. The role of the EMT-B in EMS Misunderstood!

    downsouthlaff posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hello again, I have been through so many threads reading about tension between Nurses and EMS Practicioners. I have noticed that the vast majority of EMS vs Nursing comes from tension between the Long...

  15. Building Relationships for better patient care between LTC Nurses and EMTs

    downsouthlaff posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hello again, been awhile since i posted here! I just wanted to take a minute to aplologize for past posts that may have offended Nurses, becuase of my hot headedness toward nursing. While working as a...

  16. Building Relationships for better patient care between LTC Nurses and EMTs

    downsouthlaff replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Jadelpn sorry for not cathing your first sentence there saying you are an LPN and an EMT, you also have to remeber that every EMS agency has different protocol, yes we all are Nationally Registred,...

  17. Building Relationships for better patient care between LTC Nurses and EMTs

    downsouthlaff replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You see Jade LPN, this is the kind of atttitude that might cause friction between EMT and LTC LPN, maybe you have training in EMS as a Paramedic im not sure but if you dont then theres goes Nurses...

  18. Horrified at what I have seen go on in this nursing home

    downsouthlaff replied to butterflykisses23's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I was a CNA in the nursing home for about 5 months, Worst 5 months of my life!! The best decision i have ever made was to go to Emergency Medical technician school, Ive been a ful time EMT-B now for a...

  19. Attention Nurses, Nursing Assistants, and other hospital assistive personnel!

    downsouthlaff posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    assesment, and reasessment, IV push and so on so forth. Just like Physical Therapists Assistants are not Physical Therapists, Pharmacy Techs are Not Pharmicists, Deacons are not priests, Physician...

  20. Nursing Home LPNs

    downsouthlaff posted a topic in Male Nursing Students

    It is my opinion that Nursing Home or LTC Nurses, dont use any of their medical skills, aside from passing meds, and supervising Aides? I hope when I finish Nursing school in 15 months hospital jobs...

  21. CNA Supervisor and Nursing Staff Development coordinator

    downsouthlaff posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok ok. I was reading one of the topics about An LPN that was furious because her boss was a CNA staff coordinator. I can't believe some of the stuff that was said. First of all I hate when nurses say...

  22. Paramedics rank higher than LPNs?

    downsouthlaff posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This has always been one of my favorite topics. EMS vs Nursing. My perception is that Paramedics do outrank LPNs in the medical profession, because they have more education than LPNs in most places...

  23. Attention Nurses, Nursing Assistants, and other hospital assistive personnel!

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

    You dont seem to understand what I mean. UAPs is unproper grammar. Its a personell not a job title. And your from New York state and I am fromm Louisina, two completely different ballgames with the...

  24. Paramedics rank higher than LPNs?

    downsouthlaff replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes, I was reading some of the previous threads of EMS vs Nursing, and its some long long arguments. But paramedics who work in the hospital really arent working under there EMS Licnese just as a...

  25. Attention Nurses, Nursing Assistants, and other hospital assistive personnel!

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

    There is no such thing as UAPs. UAP stands for Unlicensed Assistive Personell, the term is used to describe a certain personell, such as medical personell, surgery personell, licensed nursing...