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I'm just wondering, how is the new job going?

I agree 17-18 people doesn't sound unreasonable. I'm a CCA(when I'm not in school), it's SKs version of PSW. I work nights, we have 40 people. I take my laundry cart with me, I put extra linen on my cart. In the personal laundry side I put a large ga...

What happens if you give the toothbrush to Mary?

We go M-F most days are 8:30-4 when we start clinicals the time depends on where we're going. Last semester our clinical site started at 6:30 and so did we. This semester my clinical site starts at 0700 and we will be there until 1530. For practicum ...

That's awesome! Enjoy the last of your clinicals.

Oh I remember that feeling, we could miss more than you though 3 out of 30 marks. Did you have to write down the answer after in a sentence? "I would give 2 capsules...." Even if we had the math right we could get the answer wrong by writing the sent...

I think I would probably do risk for isolation r/t disease process (you can add the meds in here also I think). Now keep in mind I'm from Canada but in my experience I have never heard of the term chronic confusion. Also we don't reality orientate s...

pen to paper works best for me. i write it over and over until my brain remembers the way it works, my last a&p mark was a 95. i also use you tube a lot. what are you working on for a&p right now? sorry i'm one hand typing = no capitals

I agree don't wait. Just go for it.

We have course packs so when I hit a new semester I do as much as I can before the semester starts. For example in Nursing Arts (a combo of fundamentals and med surg) we have take home quizzes in our course pack and I did them all so I don't have to ...

I prefer to not be home or not be at a classmates house because I don't get as much done as I'd like to there. I stay after school often and just study in our classroom.

Honestly I have a great support system at home but I don't think anyone can understand the stress of nursing school unless they have been in nursing school. They may not even realize they are not being emotionally supportive.

This is why I don't share my marks. I was actually told in class one day that just because I have the highest marks does not mean I will make a good nurse. I replied, "Just because I have good marks does not mean I will NOT make a great nurse." For t...

In our area it matters where you go to school. I have been told my many people in our health region that our grads come out very well prepared and are hired first. The grades don't matter.

Our class is still really competitive too and we're in our second semester. I hope you did well on the exam. When people ask me how I do well (I get 90s) on my exams, besides just studying, my answer always is, I never change an answer. I don't go in...

The only thing I can think is if you don't keep up with your books you might not get to do clinicals. Our subjects don't work the same way we take all 7 classes for this semester at once, I think I'd like to get rid of a subject or two throughout the...

Everytime I read these threads I think, CNAs do not get paid enough in the US.

Starts at $31 maxes out at $33 so far, we'll see what happens in the new contract that is being negotiated.

I'm an aide working in ltc. Everyone(nursing, dietary, housekeeping, maitenance) working in ltc in our health region has to take the gentle persuasive approach inservice, well its a class. I found it very helpful. https://uwaterloo.ca/murray-alzhei...

The pressure is intense, our instructors keep telling us it is supposed to be like that. I'm going into my second semester on Monday. To start on Monday we have 3 classes that day, 2 classes the next day and I have done days of reading and homework j...

Do you want to hear how it is from the people who are actually working there on this site or would you rather everyone just say, "go for it"? I am a CCA and I can tell you that just because people are younger does not mean they don't have work ethic....

For us, it is the only way to a RN so the nurses I work with are encouraging me to got BSN after I finish getting my Practical nursing programme. Just for the record, if they offered BSN here I would probably be in that right now.

ohoh me too or five. 3 to a page with a note area. every.single.time. I love power points now.

There is always someone who has to comment on everything the instructor said. There have been times I have been able to complete my homework during "rabbit hole" days. That is the one thing I am not looking forward to when we return.

I get the power points for each class and if I hear, you need to know this, I write it down. any extra stories they tell I write things down from those, there's always a reason for the story. If they point out a table or a box from the text I write t...