katy_kenemy

It took me seven years to get hired at the hospital of my choice. (as a CNA). Seven years!!!! I worked a lot of crappy jobs til then. I am happy now. Never give up! I also have the lowest GPA I have ever heard of actually existing. I want to do nursi...

Thank you Melissa--- I know I will use this information when I am a nurse. ---Katy

Ohmigod, I thought this said homophobia! I was like no, never have been homophobic. Hemophobia.Never been that either!

just my opinion, but being a perfectionist is wrong for nursing. because if you want to do everything perfect, you will never go home. i think someone on allnurses once said the thing was to not get all upset over stuff that was not worth it, and i t...

i would love to be called a beautiful lady.

I personally think you are entitled to ask any damn question you want, even if you are asking others to do your work for you. Sometimes hearing it put a certain way by the right person gets it in your head and it sticks that way. I feel that way abou...

I know what you mean! I see it all the time! Maybe at some point when you are a nurse you will have the opportunity to sit down and talk with these families, explain to them what it means that the pt is a full code. Sometimes when you simply say to t...

My nursing instuctor assisted in a roadside emergency. He then got sued for not (allegedly) working at a level on par with his skill level. He had insurance and the insurance paid them off. My other nursing instructor refuses to work roadside emergen...

My hospital has CNAs in the ER, also in critical care/ICU. In ER, they mostly transport, comfort and clean up pts/rooms.

I thought some mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, change the very structure of the brain and would be visible during an autopsy. ?

I love the "old time nurses." They know what they are doing and don't freak out everytime something goes wrong, and they don't spend half the shift talking about their burgeoning bellies and showing ultrasound pics. Just my 2 cents. They also have en...

I pray that when the day comes for me to go to LTC, I have strong advocates like you and your family. Bless you.

try sending in your app via snail mail and include a couple letters of recommendation. it worked for me! : )

don't forget, CNAs cannot supervise or delegate. that is the nurse's job. this should be in your CNA book.

I am so sorry things are bad for you right now. I work at a pretty good hospital : ) if you ever want to travel here, private message me and I will tell you where I work and anything else you want to know about the place.

it used to really irk me when pts used to say things like, "that's good, right?" (about a 160/90 BP). i always felt like blurting, "no, that sucks!" or about a 90/50 BP: "how am i still alive?!" they say. i just used to want to roll my eyes and promi...

I don't think it is as likely as you do that they won't remember you. I always thought that with Alzheimer's, at least, the pt can have lucid moments. So if you promised to write, I think you should write. It's not your fault you can't be as consiste...

the most important thing for you to know, IMO, is that this year next time you will be totally confident and will have learned and accomplished so much, not from knocking yourself out or being overly critical or trying too hard, but just from showing...

this all sounds childish to me. let's face it, CNAs and other lowly jobs (i am a CNA, so i can say that) are people who have not had the opportunities that other people with more socio-economic class have had. therefore their social skills are not th...

When I originally trained in LTC, the creepy girl who taught me kept referring to the residents as "them." I found it dehumanizing. It was very clear to me she thought of "them" as different from the rest of the world. I would like to evetually see p...

I think you should go for it! Then you can really call yourself both a feminist and a romantic! And nobody can argue with you because you will be living it! I would do the same thing in a second, if I had (sigh) a man to do it with.

It was kind of lame, yes. I love House---- so much so that one of my birthday presents is an autographed picture of Hugh Laurie, so much so I spent forty dollars on the House first season DVD and another eighty for a DVD player when I am on a sad-ass...

My hospital recently went non-smoking. If a pt really wants to smoke, we are supposed to let them go AMA. Well, some of the nurses have been letting them go out to the parking lot and turning a blind eye. Guess what. A pt went out to smoke, while he ...

Our UC's often go to school. There is some kind of program at the local community college. They make about the same as what the aides make, which is absurd, about $8.00/hr to start. They deserve more! They often work without breaks or even lunch. Und...

i work for a private non-profit. we have great benefits--- if you pay your fifteen dollar co-pay, or fifty for ER, everything else is basically covered. on the other hand, the rate of pay is not so great--- because it is a rural hospital. i pay about...