sarah.e.foley

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1. Is this pay too low?

   sarah.e.foley replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

   I work at an acute care hospital in the med/onc unit, was hired with no experience starting out at 13.37 an hour with 1$ differential each for nights and weekends. If we work an extra shift we get a...

2. How to get my foot into the Women's Specialties door?

   sarah.e.foley posted a topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

   Hey all! I am a CNA, working at an acute care hospital as a PCT (already cross trained for accu check and EKG, working on getting my phlebotomy license this summer) in a Med/Onc unit. I love love...

3. How did you get your hospital job???

   sarah.e.foley replied to stigrl's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

   Persistence IS key! I graduated my CNA program last June, and IMMEDIATELY started applying for jobs- didn't get one until OCTOBER! I applied to just about every LTC, hospital and rehab place in the...

4. Been working as a PCT for almost a year... go from 0 write ups to TWO within a month.

   sarah.e.foley replied to Spikey9001's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

   First of all, I feel bad that you work somewhere like that and are CLEARLY being made an example of. I work in a Med/Onc unit, and though we are VERY focused on patient satisfaction too, we would NOT...

5. Who is responsible to check the emergency cart?

   sarah.e.foley replied to tony2020's topic in General Nursing

   Where I work, a med/onc unit at a hospital, the crash cart (or code blue cart) is sent down to stat stores after each code incident/emergency and a new full one is brought back up with a "lock tag" on...

6. Is it normal for them to just let us take care of the pt's on our own??

   sarah.e.foley replied to Brannray's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I felt the same way, basically the whole time during clinicals in my CNA course. We were in a med-surg unit at a hospital. Our class took half the patients, and the hospital CNA took the other half-...

7. From Home Health to the Hospital

   sarah.e.foley replied to WannaBNursey's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I agree with northernguy! Here at the hospital I work at, patient satisfaction scores, team work and time management are all KEY. Explain to them how you are good at time management already; tell them...

8. CNA now or wait for nursing school

   sarah.e.foley replied to jbhvbc's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I live in Illinois, so I can't give you advice about the Alaska job situation, but here there are always plenty of night time CNA jobs available! Don't forget, hospitals are an option too- don't just...

9. Don't know if I should take this job....

   sarah.e.foley replied to missie1's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I agree with the others, that though this will take some sacrifice, in the long run this will help you in the job market. For most places you need some experience if you want to get hired into a...

10. Chasing after alarms. What do you do?

    sarah.e.foley replied to vc01ca's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    First of all, 26:1 with how many nurses. just that one? I don't work in LTC, I'm at a hospital, but if we are short a PCT and have to have that many patients, there are atleast 6 nurses around! So if...

11. CNA working on phlebotomy cert... raise in my future?

    sarah.e.foley replied to sarah.e.foley's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    We are having a lot of changes lately with supervisors on nights, so many times we only have a relief charge, and I didn't want to ask our PCS manager because I didn't want to sound... greedy? I...

12. CNA working on phlebotomy cert... raise in my future?

    sarah.e.foley posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I am currently a CNA working in a hospital (on a Med-Onc unit) and I am going to be taking classes to start on my phlebotomy certification this summer. In my hospital, if you want to work in the ER or...

13. 6 patients at once? How do you do that?? Any advice?

    sarah.e.foley replied to RN0302's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey girl :) Congrats on graduating! I myself am not yet an RN, I'm a tech (CNA) working on RN liscense... at the hospital that I work at here in IL (Medical/Oncology unit) I am on night shift, and...