Amethyst Veralyn

When a doctor refers a patient to a place that they or their family owns, they are said to, "have a financial interest," and this violates the law, but this is too narrow minded. What if a practitioner sends their patient to a place that they or th...

Try a place with a smaller work load. Try working for a home nursing agency. The agencies always have nurses who complain about facilities and the work load in them.

She shouldn't be forcing you to do anything you don't want to do. The most I ever did to my family members was take their blood pressures and give them hot packs and back rubs.

Don't let any of them bully you into doing things you don't feel safe doing. This will protect both you and the patients. If there are only 3 aides for 40 patients they should get together at one end of the wing and do all the transfers at once m...

When you use the hoyer lift a lot of facilities require you to have someone help you. I asked my co workers if this is a facility rule or state law and they didn't seem to know. I still would like to know if it's actually illegal to use it alon...

Have you ever gotten in trouble for an improper abbreviation, not as a perscribing doctor, charge nurse or transcriptionist, but just as a CNA or as a regular staff nurse or as a private caregiver who sends your patient care notes in to your agency?...

some co workers and family members offer me advice that changes me forever. they point things out to me that i didn't know about. their advice to me is completely fair. some others give invalid advice and go deaf when i try to reason with them. some...

I play a little game sometimes where I drive to my shift before the snowstorm hits and then I arrange to take the next shift away from the girl who is scheduled after me because I don't want to DRIVE HOME in a snow storm and because I know whoever i...

I was on a case one day and wrote a note to the girl who came at the end of my shift to tell her our patient had diarrhea and I did this specifically because our patient had guests in the house and I didn't want to be rude. She sat there and read my...

I have just recently been told that if I work one on one with a patient in a facility that I can not pull the signal cord for help unless it is a medical emergency. I was told this is about hippa regulations. This does not make sense to me. The ...

Working as a CNA or a PCA not that hard. The training class is on high school level and it's easy to get a job. Any hospital or nursing home can help you if you ask them.

I don't like to call in sick unless I can't avoid it. I try to take use meds that supress my symptoms instead of calling in sick. When you are throwing up or have diarrhea it is a threat to co workers and patients. Why would a good supervisor te...

Some nursing facilities offer a free meal to people who work a double shift and also let them take a shower. There was one time that I was stuck on a 24 hour care shift in a facility for 51 hours and the staff didn't offer me anything. The resident ...

_____________________________________________ A Reebok Princess is lightweight and gives support. It works if you have high arches. I've seen some staff nurses wearing waterproof clogs with designs cut in them. You would take your chances as far as y...

If you see your patient as a piece of revenue you won't be able to give them adequate care. You have to see them as a whole person and sometimes you have to think of them when you're off work. One girl stopped in to see a patient in her off hours t...

One summer I took a beginning paramedical class where you're taught by advanced paramedics. It lasted for three months and I was never the same after I took it. This was how I learned to intervene im emergencies.

I'm a witness to patients with advance directives who are admitted to a facitlity in a coma and tube fed over long periods of time and this is immoral treatment of them. Some are in long term care for more than ten years who have no quality of lif...

Only in rare cases do CNA students ever work before they pass the state exam. Most times you should have your certificate in hand when you apply at a place.

I see emergency room nurses that where green uniforms and it's tranquilizing to look at. White can hurt people's eyes. Wearing a white uniform makes me feel like a phoney.

I have a different question from the last. I take care of an alziemers patient and sometimes he gets violent. The charge nurse told me he can hit really hard. He is not allowed to get up and walk without two assists. He gets restless sometimes an...

If someone was in the ER after having beaten me or someone I care for I would still prefer to see them have pain meds.

Once a long time ago I took some used attends out of someones room and found the garbage can gone and then found out the other aide on the hall had taken the barrel inside the room with her like no one else even existed. It was humiliating. All she...

I like to provide comfort and safety for people who can't take care of themselves. I like to touch people.