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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 not want to make mistakes, such as with passing med...

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 benefits). As an example, are what are the stress le...

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 (outside of the pay scale) in the pros and cons of bei...

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 nutritionist? 3) What are nurse nutritionists called? ...

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 other issues I had. Yes I have some ptsd. I am five year...

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 classes. After a month at el Camino hospital I got writte...

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 me.

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 need help with this. Please advise!! Nurses someti...

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 pissing some doctor or nurse off... I've done the a...

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 when it comes to turning patients. Not always is ...

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 trendelenberg) and called for help. The nursing assistants were...

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 down because he was heavy in size but did not realize...

No I do not.,,,

I do... And will...

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 call he primary nurse in charge of the patient twic...

I am a he by the way....

I meant task delegated to do.

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 ignored....

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 computer... If I am going to be a nurse, must know w...

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... This is a new admit. .. I also cannot see sometime...

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 ignored...

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

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. Eventually he became combative and I had to tell the nur...

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

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 energetic and not asking questions. I told the n...