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This is horrible.

Also the awkward moment when an elderly post surgical patient is coming down from anesthesia and pain meds poos in the floor, then tries to wipe it on you when you try to help her, tries to "run" away by going in another patients room and attempting to climb into bed with them, then telling you that you're pregnant with the "spawn of satan" (in fact I was not pregnant at all) and it takes 3 of us to wrangle her into a wheelchair, push her to a private room while she grabs the rails to stop you, and hold her down for a tranquilizer. That was my 2nd day at work, my supervisor told me if I survived that I could make it through anything lol.

I just graduated college in August and have an associates degree in applied science as a medical assistant and am a AAMA certified medical assistant. To make do, I work at a hospital as a nurse's aide and am thinking about going back to school in the fall for nursing, I absolutely love the field of work I chose!

That awkward moment when you get so used to calling patients by room numbers for HIPAA, that you go to tell someone something about a patient and mid sentence you forget their actual name, "Mr. Ummm what's his name in room X needs something", most embarrassing when done in front of a patient. And I can also relate to the male patients who you know very well are completely capable of using a urinal or cleaning their genitals on their own and ask you to do it for them, or hold their member and the urinal for them...very awkward silence, followed by a firm but polite decline. (If they have hands and they work, they can do it themselves.)

I can totally relate, when I do my rounds first thing in the morning when coming on shift, I have several patients ask if I need a light on, and comment about me being good in the dark lol