clarinets

clarinets CNA

CNA/Nursing school student

Hello, I am a crazy nursing student and cna and love to help heal others!!

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  1. ADN Clinical nursing school

    clarinets posted a topic in General Students

    Hello, I am an ADN Nursing student and am having difficulty in student clinical setting, in particularly in a medsurg or ICU setting. As much as I do not mind doing things by myself, I certainly do...

  2. Thoughts?

    clarinets posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello, I am possibly interested in becoming a Certified Diabetes Educator. I have a general idea on the route to it, but would like some idea on pros and cons of that area, (other than pay and...

  3. Certified Diabetes Educator

    clarinets posted a topic in General Specialties

    Hello, I am in an ADN program out in California and am possibly interested in becoming a certified diabetes educator. I have a general idea on the road map of becoming one, but am interested...

  4. Nutrition nurse

    clarinets posted a topic in General Specialties

    Hello, I am looking at possibly becoming a Nurse Nutritionist. I have some questions to ask. 1) Is there an organization for nurse nutritionists? 2) What is it like to be a nurse...

  5. Nursing

    clarinets posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hi I’m a nurse assistant and I want to go for either nursing or radiology tech or pa or speech therapist. TBH I grew as an abused child where my mom tried stuffing my face with a pillow amongst...

  6. Got a coaching write up and being eye balled

    clarinets posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hi everyone. I’m in a bit of a pickle. I recently left the va hospital after 4.5 years as a nurse assistant to go part time as a nurse assistant at el Camino hospital. I was doing this to take...

  7. Got a coaching write up and being eye balled

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    They did by saying time management. What I don’t understand is why the nurses could not approach me but rather tell the manager. It seems like they are also eyeballing

  8. How to work independently as a CNA or nurse

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a med surg unit. I have been here two years. Sometimes I don't get help. I can do the skills taught in school but struggle with independent prioritizing in tasks and situational thinking. I...

  9. How to work independently as a CNA or nurse

    clarinets posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm having trouble with on how to work independently as a CNA. I'm trying to be a nurse. How do I work independently? How do I ask for help? When do I take initiative? I'm trying to do this without...

  10. How to work independently as a CNA or nurse

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a med surg unit as a CNA. I struggle with independent prioritizing and figuring out situations. How do I do this? Sometimes when the floor is busy asking for help is not an option especially...

  11. Priorities?

    clarinets posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am just curious what are the nursing priorities? I work in an acute care hospital as a CNA. The other day I was trying to pull up a heavy patient that could not pull himself up ( tried...

  12. How do I effectively communicate with patients and staff and nurses in an acute hospital?

    clarinets posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok... Sorry my last question was not detailed enough... Here goes.. i had a couple of difficult patients yesterday... One did not want to have me perform an ekg on him.. I thought he would not lay...

  13. How do I effectively communicate with patients and staff and nurses in an acute hospital?

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in General Nursing

    No I do

  14. How do I effectively communicate with patients and staff and nurses in an acute hospital?

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in General Nursing

    I do... And

  15. Being Ignored

    clarinets posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I am a bit upset and frustrated. I am a CNA at a hospital. One time I had a question about a new patient's diet because he has not eaten for hours. This person was a direct admit from ER. I tried to...

  16. Being Ignored

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I am a he by the

  17. Being Ignored

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I meant task delegated to

  18. Being Ignored

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    It's okay to take more than one task, but when I ask a question about a patient for a task that I don't have access too, something is not right. And get

  19. Being Ignored

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Not really needy.... Some patients 2 person assists though. Can't see what other nurses are doing when I call... Questions about meal were asked when primary nurse was on computer.... charge was on...

  20. Being Ignored

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I don't have access to this information. ... So one piece of advice was given to me....It was to tell the patient to use the call button and ask for the nurse.... Let the charge pick up and answer......

  21. Being Ignored

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    CNA's give report to each other, but on new admits, I get report from the nurse and pulled left and right to do other things for nurses, I often get

  22. Being Ignored

    clarinets replied to clarinets's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Unfortunately, na's dont have that access...Only nurses

  23. combative patients

    clarinets posted a topic in General Nursing

    How does one work with combative patients? I am a cna and had a patient that kept taking his nasal cannula off. Every 5 minutes I kept putting it back on for him and telling him to leave it on....

  24. Dementia Patients

    clarinets posted a topic in General Nursing

    As a CNA how does one work with NON DIRECTABLE Dementia patients? What are the

  25. Lost CNA Needs help......

    clarinets posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hopefully this is much clearer. I am a CNA hired through a registry that sends me to hospitals. I managed to get a nurse upset the other day and she reported me to the nursing supervisor, for not be...