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  1. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank you for your post. In our facility, when the bell goes off, the resident want to use the bathroom or be put to bed. It's rarely a nursing issue. It's a time management issue. If do all those...

  2. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes, I found working with the male nurses a lot easier. We just backed each other up and kept it light. What a pleasure to have a partner on your

  3. The Disrespect Of Nurses

    MotherRN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's all about the patient satisfaction

  4. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    BTW- we were classmates, but it was a large program and I never met her while in school. She's my son's age. It's a shame that we couldn't have been more of a support to one another. It was the last...

  5. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Kcmylorn, I have to agree that what they were teaching in my program certainly helped me pass that NCLEX on the first time, but hasn't done too much to help me or my favorite nurse (and former...

  6. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Poor job performance was claimed because that's an easy one with a new nurse. Of course I've made mistakes, I'm new and untrained. Either you're willing to support me while I learn or you aren't. What...

  7. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    MedChica, thank you for your post. I appreciate you telling your story and letting me know I am not alone in what I have experienced in LTC. I came to a similar conclusion as to the priorites of my...

  8. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Anotherone, even the residents and their families would comment on how much we nurses ran around at night. I didn't get my dinner break that I was docked for anyway. If and when I ate, it was five-ten...

  9. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Pattie, I knew the whole time I had a problem with one nurse on the day shift. I knew she was telling tales because she would openly accuse me of poor performance etc (had her call me at home TWICE to...

  10. My appearance being an issue

    MotherRN replied to CNAEB's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have a red birthmark on my forehead that gets redder when I'm hot or tired. It's subtle enough that people don't always realize its a birthmark but used to ask me with concern if I got hit in the...

  11. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I left out the NOT in military environment. I am definitely not an authoritarian. Let's put it this way, if I were a professor, I'd be the cool professor sitting on the desk engaging the students in...

  12. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

  13. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was on another hallway finishing with a resident. I came out of that room to answer the light, quite a distance from where I was. When I came around the corner, there she was, fruit cup in one hand...

  14. I want to be a nurse with a 9-5 job w/ weekends and holidays off

    MotherRN replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    How did you get into wound care? Did you need specific

  15. Assuming The Nurse Role

    MotherRN replied to Soliloquy's topic in General Nursing

    I understand what you mean. I held back in school. I felt I was a student and didn't have the right to make a guinea pig out of the patients by practicing on them. I find now that I have worked a bit...

  16. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hey BlueDevil! I remember you from our difference of opinions on the DNP thread. Geez, you make me sound paranoid! Not the case, I assure you. But, I am taking your advice and moving on to brighter...

  17. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The egging was on October 3rd, right after the incident. The really sad thing is I had been borrowing my son's car to drive to work, and of the four in our drive way, only his was the one egged. Maybe...

  18. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The management staff works 7-3. There are five nurses on that shift-one for each half the patient load and 3 salaried administrators. They also have a unit secretary and 5 CNA's. With all that help,...

  19. Wrote up a CNA, but I was the one who got the boot!

    MotherRN replied to MotherRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ...yeah, I had a mysterious 'egging' of my car after the whole incident happened...so I guess they might know where I

  20. If I hate being a Cna, should I stop pursuing Nursing?

    MotherRN replied to Pattycakes85's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I never wanted to be a CNA either. I had one rotation for 3 weeks in the summer in nursing school. I made the best of it. My issue with CNA work is that I am not strong enough to keep moving very...

  21. Over 60, seasoned nurse, fired for not being a "Robot RN."

    MotherRN replied to Wise Woman RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm nearly 50 and this is my first year as a graduate nurse working a job. I've been at it about 3 weeks now. I'm haunted by the comments made by one of the younger nursing students who said, "I don't...

  22. Waitressing as a pre-req?

    MotherRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I feel better after reading this thread. I thought maybe I had missed something. I'm new on the job and after the shift Monday, the one where the family members of the new admits ran me ragged, I...

  23. 8 or 12hr shifts?

    MotherRN replied to ashleyr34's topic in General Nursing

    I'm working LTC right now with 8 hour shifts. Getting everything done in that time frame is pretty much impossible so I end up working 9 to 10 hour shifts anyway. I do think the 8's fly by. I can be...

  24. Not doing what I was hired for

    MotherRN replied to MomRN0913's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. There is such a thing as self love too. It doesn't make you a bad person or bad nurse because you need to look out for your own well being also. I know what it is like to never get a meal...

  25. Advice on Dealing With Condescending Nurses Need

    MotherRN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So, I'm a new grad, working my first job. I've been solo about two weeks now. I am working with another new grad in her mid-twenties who has been at the facility for about four months now. This is the...