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  1. Workload @ your facility

    mstearns09 replied to TurtleCat's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I worked evenings for a year and a half and that sounds about right but unfortunately, we are often had more like 20 per aide due to call-ins and lack of staff. We didn't do showers, though, as there...

  2. any cnas ever catch anything from their residents/patients

    mstearns09 replied to mwilso2318's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Yep. Spent the entire month of January and half the month of February sick with five different things because I picked them up from work. I am the hygiene queen at work and I still got

  3. Positive I'm about to get fired

    mstearns09 replied to TurtleCat's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    When I first started at my job, I was the aide who did everything by the book and how I was instructed in clinicals. I was the slowest person on shift and I had even done my clinicals at this...

  4. Worried that I might be over qualified for HHA or CNA job because of college degree

    mstearns09 replied to flod's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I have a Bachelors degree in education and English, 20 credit hours towards my Masters degree, and 10 years experience in education. I now work as a CNA. It isn't going to hurt you at all unless you...

  5. LTC Workload + Speed and Time Management

    mstearns09 replied to TurtleCat's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    What shift will you be working? When I worked 2p-10p, I found that if I went into each of my residents' rooms and set out pajamas, pull-ups or briefs, chux, and whatever else I needed to put them to...

  6. LTC/Nursing Homes do all the vitals? Do they still exist really?

    mstearns09 replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Wow. CNAs have to get weekly vitals at the facility where I work, along with any fall follow-ups, abt temps, etc. However, I am about one out of three aides who know how to get a blood pressure...

  7. Shocked with my CNA clinicals.

    mstearns09 replied to Dhalia27's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Ditto. To address your concern that this is really what it's like? My regular assignment now is specifically as a shower aide. I have used conditioner on residents as soap and I've used body wash as...

  8. I tried to tell them!

    mstearns09 replied to LightX's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    We deal with something similar with a resident. Today, I helped a fellow shower aide hook up this resident to a sit-to-stand lift to transfer said resident to a shower chair. She gave us crap the...

  9. We *do* make a difference...

    mstearns09 posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I am struggling heavily with Mother's Day this year not because of my position in life as a child-free, custodial step-mom but because I am seriously missing my mom right now. Have been for weeks. I...

  10. Favorite CNA skills/tasks to do?

    mstearns09 replied to TurtleCat's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I like doing vitals and sitting with residents in the dining room. I am more or less one of two permanent shower aides at my facility and I actually think it's my favorite thing to do. I am very...

  11. CNAs please share your wisdom!

    mstearns09 replied to 9#n's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Don't feel bad. I have a Bachelors degree in education and I work as a CNA. I worked in public education for 10 years until corrupt administration forced me out. Sure, I make a lot less but I'm not on...

  12. Crazy co-workers?

    mstearns09 replied to TurtleCat's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Looks like she's trying to get the heat off her by putting it on you. I had that happen to me at my former job. Karma came to visit on the person who went after me,

  13. Cna scrub crazy!

    mstearns09 replied to Kimcan38's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    If you're going for your LVN, be prepared: They will likely require you to wear a specific style and color. CNA or LVN, we are professionals and should look and conduct ourselves as such. Not sure...

  14. Do you get a lot of call ins

    mstearns09 replied to mvm2's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    That pretty much sums up where I work. Sadly, though, the ones who perpetually call in do so because they have some poor schmuck who will give them money to cover what they lose on their paycheck....

  15. New CNA

    mstearns09 replied to LadyLeo75's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I've been through a pair of Acsics and Pumas. The Pumas were like walking on memory foam and very comfortable even after 10 hours. Now I wear Crocs all the time because I work as a shower

  16. Have any of you that are working ever had a resident that was 100 or older?

    mstearns09 replied to marsqueen's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    The oldest lady I've cared for was 109. She was 6 months short of being 110 when she died. She didn't enter the facility until she was 106 and she was still walking at admittance. Even at 109, she...

  17. Nervous about TEAS and lack of certain knowledge

    mstearns09 posted a topic in TEAS Exam Help

    I am in the process of a complete career change; I have a BS in education, but after 10 years in education, I was forced out and burned out of that career field. I took a CNA course last summer and...

  18. Families who just don't get it!!

    mstearns09 replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    It didn't happen to me hut I guess we had a family member who was so demanding that she barged in on some aides cleaning up another resident and demanded they stop what they were doing and take care...

  19. "force feeding" residents

    mstearns09 replied to LightX's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    We had an aide from agency do this to a resident this week along with verbally abusing him in the process. Five other staff members witnessed it and turned her into our DON and administrator. She was...

  20. I'm not the CNA I wanted to be.

    mstearns09 replied to LightX's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I can completely relate as I told myself the same thing. Sometimes I can get all my residents checked and changed before dinner time (when I do work 2nd shift) when my ratio is 1:10 (that's the usual...

  21. Department Wars

    mstearns09 posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Little did I know that when I switched shifts from evening to day that I was walking into the proverbial fecal storm. I apologize now for the length of my post/rant. I cannot believe how much...

  22. Department Wars

    mstearns09 replied to mstearns09's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

  23. Department Wars

    mstearns09 replied to mstearns09's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    The administration refuses to crack down on it. She is too busy trying to find things the nursing department isn't doing instead of managing the rest of the building. They are allowed to have power...

  24. Department Wars

    mstearns09 replied to mstearns09's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    And the retaliation is exactly what happens when we report something not being done. Rarely do we report something that they are or are not doing. The last time one of the aides reported something was...

  25. Question on Washcloth and bathing

    mstearns09 replied to ngazza's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I had a major Code Brown to help clean up today and let me tell you, if we had used disposible wet wipes, we'd have used five packages. Instead, once we had the resident in a state that she could be...