Skayda

Skayda

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  1. Pest Control?!

    Skayda posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Anyone ever had to deal with pest control at your facility? I don't mean swatting a few flies/killing a couple of spiders. Here's my little story; The owner of the AFH I work at has been so busy she...

  2. Family Making "Elder Abuse" Jokes?'

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

    It also reminds of how people always say; "What's wrong with you?! Were you dropped on your head as a baby?!" A fellow caregiver and friend of mind told me recently after taking a new job that she...

  3. Family Making "Elder Abuse" Jokes?'

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

    Seconded! That's what made me uncomfortable to begin with! I pretty much did as ElsaKay suggested and said cheerfully along the same lines as no one would ever harm your Mom/you on my watch to which...

  4. Rude ED Doctors

    Skayda posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Okay, I understand how busy the ED can be but as a nursing assistant working in an AFH who just sent off a resident with worsening leg/knee trouble I am concerned with the care and treatment she will...

  5. CNA verses Certified Caregiver

    Skayda posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I thought they were one and the same; A CNA is a Certified Nurse's Aide/Assistant and a caregiver and a certified caregiver is a CNA, etc, vice versa.... But I have been told that they are two...

  6. CNA verses Certified Caregiver

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

    I know what a CNA and an NAR is. What I wanted to know is the difference between a CNA and a Certified

  7. CNA verses Certified Caregiver

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

    I took the 28 hour Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving in December of 2011, then CPR/First Aide, HIV/AIDS Awareness, sent in my application and money to the folks in charge of nursing in Wa state and...

  8. Family Making "Elder Abuse" Jokes?'

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

    Me and my own family are like that too but there's a time and place for "dry" humor,

  9. Family Making "Elder Abuse" Jokes?'

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

    I agree. Next time it happens that's what I'll

  10. CNA verses Certified Caregiver

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

    So if I take the 75 hour certified caregiver class I won't be a nursing assistant any longer but a Certified Caregiver instead? Right now I'm a Nursing Assistant Registered.

  11. Rude ED Doctors

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

    Anyway, this is the rest of the story in which was missing from my previous venting post of being upset at some rude ED doctors. (not all!) I thought I'd write the rest of what happened so people...

  12. Rude ED Doctors

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

    I, myself, had no decision making process at all in this. I never ever take it upon myself to decide when and if someone needs the hospital. My boss instructed me to call 911 and send the fire...

  13. Rude ED Doctors

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

    Next time I will tell my boss it makes me uncomfortable and let her handle it if she wants to make demands of

  14. Nursing assistant

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

    Is an Adult Family Home considered a LTC (Long Term Care)

  15. Rude ED Doctors

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

    I agree! And she did. I found out cause she called me back and was all; "Omg! They are are so rude!!" to me about whatever they said to her when she did the calling

  16. Rude ED Doctors

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

    Yeah in the AFH I work at its just me when I am on shift from Friday night til Monday am and my boss, who is a NAR like me, is the one on-call who makes all the decisions, (there is a delegating nurse...

  17. Rude ED Doctors

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

    I work in an adult family home. There are no nurses on staff (other than the delegating nurse who comes in once a month to check on the residents and delegate a new caregiver/resident/task if /when...

  18. Rude ED Doctors

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

    I did do all that as per my instructions because part of my boss wanting me to "make sure they do such and such" was to find out how the resident was doing and I was speaking at first with the nurse...

  19. Rude ED Doctors

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

    I should have worded it better. I was still upset when I wrote it out but I was following my boss's orders. It was her order to send the resident out to the ER. Since I am the only one on the premises...

  20. Rude ED Doctors

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

    THANK YOU!!! This is exactly what happened!! I am glad someone gets

  21. Rude ED Doctors

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

    First of all they weren't MY ORDERS but what my boss told me to say word for word and considering the fact that if I did not call them as per MY INSTRUCTIONS from MY BOSS I would have been written up...

  22. CEUs Online?

    Skayda posted a topic in Washington Nursing

    Hey all! My boyfriend has to do 12 Continuing Education Units (Credits) a year in the state of Washington, in order to be caregiver for his nephew who is a DD client. Well, he does his online and SEIU...

  23. CEUs Online?

    Skayda replied to Skayda's topic in Washington Nursing

    Ok, thanks!

  24. Q as per regarding I-1163

    Skayda replied to Skayda's topic in Washington Nursing

    Oh, okay. Good idea! Thanks! Hopefully I'll be able to get some straight answers for once!

  25. Q as per regarding I-1163

    Skayda posted a topic in Washington Nursing

    Ok, so I know that caregivers who worked as long term caregivers in Washington in 2011 are exempt from this but since I just started working in March of 2012 I won't be. Anyway, I read that new...