Destiny'skid

I seem to attract bullies to myself. I was bullies in school and in some previous jobs, but as cna bullying takes on a new dimension. First off I should say my job does things differently and I don't like it. They put several cna's on a team to care ...

I have experienced bullying at work and here are my thoughts. There is personal and there is professional issues. Personal issues cannot be dealt with the same way. The example of being left out of activities outside of work or conversations pretty m...

I am not even a nurse yet, but my short time in the hospital as aide made me see how much nurses do and how smart they are about patient care and how little doctors are even around and sometimes honestly they seem to just not get what is actually goi...

To me the question is not so much whether or not healthcare is a right. Depends how you define right. We have a serious problem in this country because healthcare is a business. Nurses probably suffer the most because of this, they are often under pa...

Can someone clarify what a mandated hippaa reporter is? Are cna's mandated reporters? If so why cnas and not nurses?

This post is a little scary to someone in nursing school. Seriously no jobs? It took me 6 months to get my current cna/ma job and I plan on working here once I graduate. I know a few people asked but what about ltc? It seems since they hire a lot of...

The whole gloves thing is interesting, it seems some nurses still think this way. My cna instructor told us not to wear gloves unless we came in direct contact with the patient because it would make them feel bad. Later on I was taught to wear gloves...

So I finally got my acceptance letter for my lpn program. So thrilled. I am surprised how many people want to discourage that I am doing lpn- rn instead of straight rn. To me this is so perfect. Instead of 4 years as a cna I will net about 2 years th...

Ok so I am going to probably cause a huge reaction here but I am genuinely curious about this. As a nursing student and current cna/med aide I have heard nurses talking about the trouble with patients and family calling techs,aides, even kitchen or h...

Yes and as I stated before this question was never about me not knowing what to call myself I NEVER refer to myself as a nurse it,just seems that according to popular culture nurses were one a broad catagory of caregivers or the word nurse originally...

Just curious here, the last hospital I worked in was a magnet hospital and they were not hiring any lpn's even for outpatient. They fired their lpn's even the ones who had been there 20 plus years. Now I can get why a hospital would feel that more ed...

I have always earned an average of 11 an hour I won't even look twice at jobs offering less than 9. I did have to get some education and considering how demanding the job is I just won't do it for less. If I am going to get paid 7.50 I am going to go...

someone posed a question on here which I thought was very thought provoking why not licence cna's, and change it to lna. then they would have higher standards of accountability. make them go to school for 3-6 months and get some real education. You c...

Yeah I don't get the whole ma thing a. the program at my school I believe is longer than the pn program and then they make what cna makes, it seems like a waste for all parties I dont see the advantage except saving money. I guessstill don't see why ...

It may not be a problem I was just wondering why they would not hire an lpn to do it? where is the advantage?

Just curious as I have been reading some about the history of professional nursing. Do some hospitals still have orderlies? If so do they differ from cna's? Why do most hospitals not have them? Is this just a situation where the title changed but the...

I had a very strange thing happen to me at work last night, basically I got there and right away the charge nurse who is an rn called me in her office and gave me some instructions she wanted me to carry out that evening. It was simple stuff like wal...

Perhaps going in the room with the cna when she is doing his care and talking about what you do that works would help her... perhaps you have already tried this. It seems unfortunately there are some who don't have a very good attitude no matter what...

since the pre-recs for the 2 year nursing programs generally take two years is it actually faster to get an adn? besides this are there any real advantages to ad that you can think of? I want my bsn no matter what just trying to decide how to go abou...

Since I am planning on applying to a variety of programs I was wondering if any one knew of a source where I could find classes that would apply to any nursing program. For example my local college requires three different a and p classes for BSn the...

Hi All! I am a cna so I dont know if I am posting this in the correct space but I figure licensed nurses go through this too so I am just going to ask. As a cna does a resident/patient and their family members have the right to order me around? I hav...

Yes you are so right. Sorry if I kind of went off kilter there. I think what I was trying to understand is why are we as cna's there? to do things they can do but would prefer not to. As a maid would be or because there are things they legitimately n...

Thank you! very inspiring...

Why is nursing school so hard to get into? why do 2 year programs end up taking 4 years with all the prerecs? dont we need more nurses? one school said they only let in like one in every 4 applicants? dont even medical schools let in 1 in every 2? la...

Thanks everyone! Especially grn tea for your informative answer. Nurses all want to be seen as professionals so we should shoot for the professional degree. Also I looked at my local university and sure enough its two years to complete once your pre...