Skayda

Skayda

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  1. Spokane Valley, Wa AFH Seeking Caregiver!

    Skayda posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hello all! I know this is a bit uncustomary since I've only been at my current job for a little over four months but my supervisor and I are being worked to the bone and we really need a third...

  2. CEUs Online?

    Skayda replied to Skayda's topic in Washington Nursing

    Ok thanks! And another quick question; we have to send off copies of the certificates to the same place where we sent off to get out NAR/CNA? Or is it a different place for CEUs? I'm asking as much...

  3. Spokane Valley, Wa AFH Seeking Caregiver!

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

    Thanks! I wish you lived closer, too! Lol! I did post this in the Wa forum, too, just thought I'd cover all my bases.

  4. Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    Skayda replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    Back in 1995-1996 I was working for my mother, (a retired LPN), as an aide in her AFH which catered to late-stage dementia clients. Well, as we know during the weekdays any facility can get pretty...

  5. Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    Skayda replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    We call them "briefs" and the residents call them either "diapers", "briefs" or "pull-ups". They can call them whatever they want but we have to be respectful and not use the term "diapers" because...

  6. Any CNAs/NARs In Spokane, Wa Seeking Work?!

    Skayda posted a topic in Washington Nursing

    Hello all! I know this is a bit uncustomary since I've only been at my current job for a little over four months but my supervisor and I are being worked to the bone and we really need a third...

  7. Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    Skayda replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    Years ago at my mother's AFH we were caring for my boyfriend's fraternal grandmother and she had late stage Alzheimer's. She had the habit of "collecting" items and shoving them up her sleeves and...

  8. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Skayda replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I also agree on the seriousness of kidney stone pain! For about six years straight no matter what I did, how I ate or drank I just kept forming and passing kidney stones! I has lithotripsy done twice...

  9. Was asked if I was bisexual?!?!?

    Skayda replied to caregiver1977's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I once had an ER doctor ask me if I ever engaged in anal sex. I told him the truth; of course not! And he replied; "I didn't think so. You don't look the type." Needless to say my eyes were like this:...

  10. What have you found in your pockets at the end of your shift?

    Skayda replied to Poi Dog's topic in General Nursing

    Ooh! Yeah! I forgot about the med keys! A few times myself or another caregiver has accidentally taken the med keys home and then it's a drive straight back or the med room won't be able to be locked...

  11. What have you found in your pockets at the end of your shift?

    Skayda replied to Poi Dog's topic in General Nursing

    Just today when I got home I found about six blood sugar test strips that must have fallen out of the little bottle when I opened it to get one out to do a client's blood sugar test in the morning. I...

  12. "But the patients sleep all night don't they?"

    Skayda replied to JDZ344's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I agree with you there! We two of our five who will skip breakfast nearly every morning cause they don't want to get up before noon. With one I will just bring her morning meds in to her and that way...

  13. What have you found in your pockets at the end of your shift?

    Skayda replied to Poi Dog's topic in General Nursing

    Pens Post-It Note Pads Digital Wristband Blood Pressure Cuff Digital thermomoter An Emery Board Toenail Clippers Hand Lotion Glaucoma Eye Drops Safety Pins Bobbie Pins Curlers A

  14. At Work With Migraine & Everyone Else Out Sick...

    Skayda posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Ugh! To say today (last night since now its after one am) was one of the worse days of my life at work is not an exaggeration! I work weekend doubles at an Adult Family Home and over the past week...

  15. At Work With Migraine & Everyone Else Out Sick...

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

    Yeah, I know. She was the only one who had her full CNA and all of her other creditials of all the caregivers who applied. It turned out that she never returned any of the messages or texts that our...

  16. Verbal abuse from patients?

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

    Oh believe me, I hear where you're coming from! I have one little old lady who will pretend she's too sick and helpless to get out of bed for breakfast when it's hot and on the table usually around...

  17. At Work With Migraine & Everyone Else Out Sick...

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

    Thanks! I am feeling much better! But I was home for two days before I get an email from the resident manager who was out sick all last week saying that the other girl called in sick and then was a no...

  18. Home Health Aide Requires You to Know How to Drive

    Skayda replied to sebig001's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I know how you feel. I'm a non-driver as well. I get panic attacks whenever I've tried to learn so I just gave up years ago and have relied on public transet and my boyfriend for years. I have worked...

  19. How much does a CNA makes hourly?

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

    I am an NAR haven't been certified yet and I make $9.50 an hour at an AFH. Of everyone working there, even the owner, only one caregiver is a CNA the rest are like me registered but not certified. The...

  20. How did you get your nursing home job?

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

    I found my current Adult Family Home job through an ad on Craigslist I used a resume-building app on my I touch and emailed it off to them and got a callback and interview the same day. I was offered...

  21. At Work With Migraine & Everyone Else Out Sick...

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

    Thank you! Yes, that hug was much needed! Lol! I know what you mean about the two day thing. When I first applied for my job I made it very clear to them that ten years ago I burned myself out working...

  22. At Work With Migraine & Everyone Else Out Sick...

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

    Thanks for replying! I was sooo tired and hurting when I wrote that. Thankfully I got to go home this morning and collapsed in bed where I slept for a straight 12 hours! The resident manager called me...

  23. Deaconess Medical Center - charting

    Skayda replied to Diddledi's topic in Washington Nursing

    My mother, who's been retired now for over 20 years, worked at Deaconess for 30+ years and then she opened her own AFH in my childhood home so my sister and I grew up around caregivers and nursing and...

  24. Sexual Harass of Staff by Residents?

    Skayda replied to TurtleCat's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The closest I've ever come to having been a victim of inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature by a client towards a caregiver was this one time I accepted a two-person private home care job with...

  25. I'm a CNA, not a MAID.

    Skayda replied to Darkstar1485's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Lol! I hear ya on all that! Especially the cooking like "mom made" and curling hair! One resident where I work is constantly comparing all the caregivers' cooking with the food in the restaurant where...