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  1. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Kitkat23 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    :angryfire What makes me mad is that I've seen aides cut corners and use shortcuts. As a pool aide, my short week in a nursing home, and my hospital volunteer job, I've seen them throw dirty linens on...

  2. Horrible Coworkers

    Kitkat23 replied to PDCNurse's topic in General Nursing

    :angryfire I'd write her up and bring the issue to the supervisor or administrator. You have a right to feel comfortable at the job and not put up with someone's miserable attitude. I understand that...

  3. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Kitkat23 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    :uhoh21: Oops, my bad. Aspirin is white, like Bayer or Tylenol. Advil is ibuprofen and so is Motrin IB. That nurse asked me to give a resident her aspirin and when I refused politely; she snapped,...

  4. Should nurses return to wearing uniforms?

    Kitkat23 replied to hellerd2003's topic in General Nursing

    I do have two pairs of white pants. One of them has readymade, stitched creases on the front. I've got complimented as looking sharp while wearing them to my hospital volunteering job. I have printed...

  5. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Kitkat23 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    :angryfire My other pet peeve is when nurses try to get CNAs to pass meds or turn off feeding tube and IV alarms. Or mess with oxygen tank dials. One time when I was a pool aide, one of the nurses...

  6. Problem CNAs on night shift

    Kitkat23 replied to clab25's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    :angryfire :angryfire I totally agree with you. :angryfire What are they still doing there? Their job is to do pericare and pay attention to the residents. It seems like the good, innocent aides...

  7. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Kitkat23 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    :uhoh21: My story isn't gross, but it was freaky. As a student aide at the clinical site, I was put in charge of feeding this elderly gentleman with Alzheimer's at dinnertime. He was in his late...

  8. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Kitkat23 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    By working as a pool aide, student aide, and a hospital volunteer; I've developed a pet peeve about certain CNAs. The call bell will be going off and the aides will be nearby and they'll snap, "That's...

  9. Can new grads get a 7a-3p shift?

    Kitkat23 replied to akissbytheseine's topic in General Nursing

    Hey there. I've worked for a pool agency as a CNA last summer and fall and I've worked twice on day shift. It was HELL! I've worked with awful aides and nurses who don't understand teamwork. I've...

  10. Should nurses return to wearing uniforms?

    Kitkat23 replied to hellerd2003's topic in General Nursing

    They actually let the secretaries and housekeepers wear scrubs? I think scrubs should be for the nursing, xray, and lab staff. In the hospital where I volunteer at, the office staff wear business...

  11. I'm starting to hate ICU nurses

    Kitkat23 replied to Mayflye's topic in MICU, SICU

    :) I'm sorry to hear that you're working with the nurses from hell. I'd write a formal complaint to the supervisor or administrator. You don't have to put up with being called stupid and lazy. Or...

  12. Can new grads get a 7a-3p shift?

    Kitkat23 replied to akissbytheseine's topic in General Nursing

    I know for a fact that day shift (7-3pm) is the toughest shift for CNAs in nursing homes. They have breakfast and lunch, you have to get 10 patients up and washed for the day, they have doctors...

  13. Problem CNAs on night shift

    Kitkat23 replied to clab25's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Hi there. Did you get my private message? Anyway PCT stands for Patient Care Technician. It's a multiskilled nurses aides at hospitals and according to the state rules they can do skills that RN's...

  14. Problem CNAs on night shift

    Kitkat23 replied to clab25's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    That's terrible. You could get fired at other jobs for sleeping as well. It doesn't look good on your resume when you've been let go for sleeping on the job. Especially when you're going for nursing....

  15. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Kitkat23 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    OOOHHH!!!! That was so disgusting. I wouldn't have quit, but I'd try to avoid going to the patient's room again. Well, that's good that you've went to nursing school. Good luck in all that you do....

  16. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Kitkat23 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    :) Thanks. Whoa, that sucks. I heard about patients getting diarrhea after getting antibiotics, but I've never heard of Cdiff before. Thanks for the

  17. Problem CNAs on night shift

    Kitkat23 replied to clab25's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Oops, my bad. I guess I can't spell today. I guess my petpeeve is that how the CNAs I've worked with during my short week in the nursing home and the homes I've pooled in during the summer say that...

  18. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Kitkat23 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    :) Hi Heartsofangels! That's what my CNA instructor always told us,"CNAs are the eyes and ears of the medical field. Never let anyone tell you that 'You're just a CNA.' They do a very important job...

  19. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Kitkat23 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    :angryfire My biggest pet peeve is that certain people look down at me for being a CNA. They say that all I do is wipe people's @sses and change dirty linens and bedpans, but being a CNA is more than...

  20. Bossy CNA's in LTC(long)

    Kitkat23 replied to jaimemds's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Whoa, you let the aide talk to you like that? Are you the charge nurse? If I were you, I'd write her butt up to the supervisor, and if she doesn't do anything, move up to the chain of command. You...

  21. Interview Scheduled

    Kitkat23 replied to CRNAsoon's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    :Melody: Congrats and good luck with the interview. :balloons: I do have a question. How do you start making a new thread topic. I'm having trouble with it. Can someone give me directions? Thanks, I...

  22. Problem CNAs on night shift

    Kitkat23 replied to clab25's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    :chuckle :balloons: Hi Angie. That's cool that you work in the hospital. My friend is a PCT on the telemetry wing at the hospital where I volunteer. We get a bunch of elderly patients and a bunch of...

  23. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Kitkat23 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    What's C-diff? I just wanted to

  24. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Kitkat23 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

  25. Problem CNAs on night shift

    Kitkat23 replied to clab25's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    :wink2: Thanks Angie, I sure love to work with you. Do you work in LTC or at a hospital? I've been told many times that there will be a bunch of CNAs who don't give a damn about the residents and...