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I'm in my psych clinical and each of the students need to lead a group activity for the patients. One student did stress bingo, meditation, drawing, talking about fears, exercise. it's my time to lead soon and I have a few ideas but I'm worried they ...

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 w...

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...

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 ...

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 bab...

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 insuranc...

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 som...

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 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 ...

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 o...

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 ner...

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 ner...

I'm training on a floor during the evening shift. I hear it's better than the day since washing up, cleaning the bed etc is finished and we just have to answer call bells. How is the evening shift? Would you say it's better??

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 nur...

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?? A...

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 w...

Today was my 4th day of training as a NA. I'm in the float pool, but they train you at a specific floor for 2 weeks. Today was day 4. Today during training, my manager from the float pool calls me at the floor where I'm training at and told me th...

I'm in nursing school and I thought it was a good way to get my foot in the door and gain experience. I got a job as a nursing assistant and started training this week. It's been day 3. Some of the nursing assistants were nice when training. I try m...

I need to do a friedman family assessment paper and i have no clue on how to do it. professors gave very little information. does anyone have any info??

I started working as a nursing assistant in the day shift. However, I worked at night to cover for someone. I heard at night I get paid $1.50 more than my day shift pay. I just checked my payroll, and it says the amount of hours for the day and sh...

I wanted to ask any shy nurses out there. I am a nursing student and will be graduating at the end of this fall semester. I just started working as a nursing assistant in a hospital, but I am very shy. I have been shy all my life. I hope I can co...

I am starting my training for 2 weeks as a nursing assistant at a hospital. I sweat a lot and I am quite worried as to how I will cope with this. any words of advice.

I'm starting training as a NA and our uniforms need to be the maroon color. I've been to walmart and I found pants that fit me, but the not the top. I found a site where I can order the scrubs, but the color description says, wine color. is wine and ...

i'm starting training as a NA and our uniforms need to be the maroon color. i've been to walmart and i found pants that fit me, but the not the top. i found a site where i can order the scrubs, but the color description says, wine color. is win...