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I just found out that I failed the Nclex. I will need to re-take it. I am just crying while I write this. Most of my classmates all passed. I feel stupid and ashamed. Can anyone tell me how you passed the 2nd time for those who failed the 1st time like me?????

I'm a new nursing assistant in the float team. We get sent everywhere including the peds floor. I know we take vitals every 4 hours on patients in the adult floors. As for the pediatric floors like pediatric oncology, do we take vitals on babies who are sleeping? I heard there were babies around 1 year old or less in the pediatric floors. I'm afraid of waking them up.

I am a nursing student attending a 2 year program. I had other clinicals before, but honestly I feel like I still lack in so many areas. There are so many things I have not done and I am very scared. first of all, you would think I would be great in my assessments, but I am terrible. We are getting assigned 3 patients each clinical now because we are doing the 12 hour shift. I don't know where to start. I go into each room and introduce myself. I first take vitals myself even though the nursing assistants probably took them. Then I listen to their lung and heart which honestly I'm still having trouble with. I listen to their bowel sounds, check where their iv site is, how much and what is running, ask the patient if he's in any pain as well as on the iv site. check for swelling on the feet. Do I do this all at once? NO. I always forget something. Can someone please help me how I can do assessments better?

I am working part-time as a NA with benefits for a big hospital. I still live with my parents while working and going to school. My parents work, but cannot afford health insurance. They work for a company, but that company does not offer insurance because the employees work as self-pay. However, after the tax and all the deductions, my parents cannot afford insurance. Is there any way I can include them in my benefits? I know I have to pay extra. I'm willing to do that.

I'm in the float pool as a NA. I just finished my training. I heard that we also get sent to work on the Peds floor/peds oncology/antepartum. What is expected for the NA to do on those floors? I am sure we have to do vitals. How do we weigh the babies? How do we keep track of the I/O for the babies on diapers? Do we measure each diaper on the scale? How do we document those diapers when they are weighed in kilograms or grams? When we chart, we usually document the I/O in mL.

I will be starting my clinicals on the oncology floor. We will be having an all day clinical, 7 to 4pm. I know we can get more information from the instructor, but I wanted to know from the nurses who works on the oncology floor or who has worked on that floor. After we get report from the nurses, what is expected from us? Is oncology different than the med-surg floors? Can we give the morning care like washing them up if they want, making beds etc? What goes on during the oncology floor?

I need advice from nurses. I am a quiet person and when it comes to speaking in front of a group of people, I get very nervous even if I see them everyday in class or in clinicals. I am a nursing student and I will be starting my clinicals soon. I've had clinicals before and I always dread giving report in front of my peers and clinical instructor. Everyone else is articulate and outspoken, and I just tense up. I will be having an all day clinical on an oncology floor. Each of us will have 2 patients. I know we first get reports from the nurses and look at the charts. What is a great way of giving report? I need help. Does anyone have a particular format? please help.

I will be starting the night shift in the float pool for a big hospital soon. I've worked days for a few times. I know every floor is different, but what do you expect NA to do at night shift? I know we have to take vitals either every 4 hours or 8, unless otherwise told so. Do we let them sleep or do we wash them? I don't want to wake them up.

I started a a nursing assistant recently and worked a few days in the day. I changed my shift to the night one in the float department because I was getting too stressed out. I work in a big hospital, not long term. How is the night shift? Can someone explain to me how what your shift consists of?

Today was my first day alone after my training as a nursing assistant. I trained for 2 weeks on a specific floor because I'm in the float pool. At that floor, all I got were compliments and even a full-time job offer from the manager. I was so nervous starting today since it's different going to all different floors, learning where everything is, how it works etc. I was sent to the pediatric oncology floor. Let me tell you..this was different. I was used to being on that 1 floor that I got so overwhelmed. I was the only NA which I understood because there was only 12 patients. I asked the nurses how it went as far as the vital signs, what is expected etc. I never learned some of the things they were asking me to do. After taking vitals which for some reason, took me forever because they were children. I told the nurses that I was sorry if I seem slow or disorganized. I told them this was my first official day after training and it was taking me awhile to get adjusted. I guess they realized why I was so slow because they all smiled and said not to worry that they would help me out. However, I think my mind just stopped. I was just overwhelmed when I didn't have to. All I did was just take vitals and put in some ins and outs, but I feel like I did such a horrible job. I knew the nurses were bickering about me. At the end, I thanked them and left. I just wanted to crawl into a hole. I am a quiet and shy person, and possibly, that is why i felt overwhelmed. Please give me words of advice. I'm second guessing myself, and I just feel horrible that I was so useless today.

what does this mean? i know pto is paid time off. but what is pto-u?

I'm in the float pool and I finished my training as a NA on a floor. I got used to how everything works on that floor, where everything is, and what is expected. But now that I won't be on that floor (since that floor is for training), I am very nervous. I am a shy girl. It's true that I need to be aggressive in this field. When it comes down to reporting abnormals about patients, I tell the nurses right away. However, I am freaking out because since I am in the float pool, I go to different units. Everything is different in how they work and I'm still new. I am so nervous as to what I should do first when I go to the floor. Do I tell them I'm new to their floor so if they can give me just the run-down on the time of vitals, what is expected etc? Please give me advice...

Today was my last day of training as a nursing assistant. I am in the float pool, but I trained at a med-surg floor for 2 weeks because that is one the training floors. During the first week of training, there was a nurse who was also the charge nurse. She said hello to me and asked me if I was training. I told her yes but I will be in the float pool. When I went to get something in the break room, she was eating lunch so I told her to enjoy her lunch and she said thank you and smiled. I had a few of her patients and told her the abnormals regarding pains, blood pressures, sugars, etc. A few days later, I made eye contact with her and she just looked the other way. I thought it was nothing. However, I went into the utility room to get linens and pads for patients. While I was going in, she was about to come out, but she saw me and turned around and got something from the linen cart. She just picked up a towel. I smiled and said hello. But she didn't even look at me and just walked out. It's a small room so I know she heard me. I started to think if I did something wrong. Did I tell her things about patients and she was bothered? or was she annoyed with me. Am I overreacting here??

I'm training as a NA right now at a big hospital. I tell the nurses when the patients rings the call bell because he or she is in pain and is asking for meds. Why do nurses seem like they don't care or seem like I'm telling them something petty?? Also, what is the correct procedure for taking the blood sugar? I trained for 1 week during the day and the NA that was training me told me to wipe the finger with the alcohol swipe, air dry, poke, get blood on the strip, and put the alcohol pad on the finger again. That is what I did for 1 week during the day. Then I'm training 1 week during the evening shift. The NA during the evening shift embarrasses me in front of the nurses saying I did the blood sugar wrong. He says, I need to wipe the finger with the alcohol pad, clean the first blood with a gauze, then put the 2nd amount of blood after squeezing the blood on the strip. I told him I was trained differently during the day therefore I did it that way. The nurses then doubted me after he embarrassed me like that. He says everyone is guilty of doing so. What was ironic was that when he went to do the blood sugar himself during the night, he didn't do the whole gauze thing. I felt so angry.

This is my 2nd week of training as a NA at a big hospital. I can do a lot of things, but I'm still learning and I learn something new every day. The floor I'm training on has 3 nursing assistants, each one is assigned to a section of the floor. I was assigned to shadow one of them. I understand that I need to answer call bells when one of them is on break, but I'm busy answering lights on my section or helping a patient out. The other NA seem to just be talking or chit-chatting with one another. I end up going to the other sections, answering lights, and telling more nurses about the patient's concerns and problems. Some of them don't even respond to what I say or seem very annoyed. I just tell them anyway because I don't want to get into trouble. But is there a fine line as to the things I should tell or not? I tell high blood pressures, patients who are in pain or want meds, blood sugars, etc. Why is it that they don't seem to care as to what I say, but when it comes to the other NA on their floor, they respond????