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A employer asked me at an interview for a nurses aid job how I made end meets if I didn't have a job. she was eager to find out the truth about me. Although I never have had any criminal background, I felt like a criminal when I left her office. She wanted too much personal information in the interview. She wanted to know about my family, which is not allowed. My friend told me when someone ask information about my past to tell the employee I didn't need to work because my uncle left me money when he passed away. I went to her office to give her my criminal history sheet which was cleared from any crimes. When I got to her office she said i had an interview that day at three O'clock. I thought another interviewer. I told her I could not stay for the interview because I had other things plan for the day. I went to the other interview that day which is sitting with a lady. I was upset that she dropped an unexpected interview on me The whole interview felt nonprofessional and couldn't deal with with it since I just left a job for being unprofessional. The next day I called her thanking her for an interview and a few other things to smooth over the situation. I sit with the lady till she passed away.

they can determine if you get the position by your credit score???? It has nothing to do with nursing skills, and some people come from a hard spot that wants to better their lives.

I am afraid of an employee spitting in my food at a restaurant if he/she becomes upset with me. I don't trust people one hundred percent. I never would eat food left unattended on table. People are too mean.

I knew two girls with funny names: Candi Green and Sandy Glass.

My school requires structure and function of the human body-5, Math-3, English-3, Computer class-3, Nutrition-3, and physiology-3 but this is a LPN program. The classes at a tech school are less difficult than classes at a community college because there are no labs attached to the anatomy classes at the tech school. The classes at a tech school are exhilarating way to caught up on the basics after being out of school for a couple of years. Although I am glad I took the classes for a refresher, I am ready to get through these classes and get my ASN.

Years back, I remember a discussion about Police Officers were required to be a certain weight etc before they could be hired as a law enforcement officer. They wanted to do the same thing to truck drivers. Truck drivers can't drive a truck if they have health problem. Someone with health problems could have a stroke or heart attack while driving a truck and kill another person, then the truck company gets sued by the family. The health field is not the only people dealing with this issue.

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I worded my paragraph in an awkward way so appreciate no one took offense to what I wrote here. In saying that, I admit that I have some problems myself. I've never beendiagnose with a disability; however, I have several disabilities,which are hearing lost in one ear and inability to write clearly whenforming a sentence. I tend to write words in the wrong order.Although I lost some of my hearing from earaches while growing up, Ican still hear well enough to hear the sounds through a stethoscope.This article is an inspiring story for people like me. She inspiresme to fight for what I want in life that is to attend nursing school.

I read an interesting article about a deaf LPN nursing student who was dismissed from a nursing program at a community college because she was deaf. Supposedly, the college violated a rule of the disabilities act when they dismissed her from the LPN-RN program. She won her lawsuit against them. What do you think about a deaf nurses working in the medical field? Could her lack of hearing put a life in danger? If she can't do her job and puts someone's life in danger, the hospital will be sued by family members. Yes, people can't be discriminate against because of a disability but where should the line be drawn. I want your input on this.

I had some great professors in college and not so great professors in college. She's one of the not so great teachers. It's one of those cases where you see stuff but hard to prove it. I did not give great details of the whole situation. She's in a position where she has power over people and it goes to her head. Of course, I must learn to deal with all kinds of people in the world. The hardest situation for me is someone flat out lying about me to snowball my job. I've had that done to me at a job. I was a nurse's aid for two years and knows how to deal with situations. The hardest part of the job was dealing with overbearing family members and lazy employees but I did well with it. I'm done with this situation and still have a "B" in the class so good riddance to a rubbish situation that could have hindered me from going into nursing. I just needed to rant about the situation and did not explain well.

Has anyone ever hadan unfair professor that treats students unfairly except for a fewstudents. I felt I was treated unfairly by a teacher and wantsomething done about it so she doesn't treat others unfairly. I'mafraid reporting her will only harm me and the problem won't getresolved. I don't want my future hindered by this problem. I gotreally upset with us today because I asked her if she was gradingpapers for people who stayed after class and although I was the firstto ask her, she made sure she graded my paper last. She never givesus full class time to finish a test. Today she gave us a 45 questiontest and gave us less than 35 minutes to finish it. I read thechapter 3 times plus studied and still made a 69 on the test. Italked to another student after class, finding out she uses her powerpoints which are totally different than the book. She lies aboutwhat's on the test and adds question that are not in the chapter thatwe are going over. Luckily, I could drop her anatomy class since Ionly retook the class for a refresher course. I'll keep my B”and she can play head games with someone else. I took many collegecourses in the past few years and never had problems with myprofessors. Hope everyone drops her class at midterm and she ends upwith no students left in her class. I must find a way to prove whatshe is doing before I can report her. I'm glad I got a great math anda fantastic nutrition teacher.How would you handle the situation?

I am a prerequisitenursing student. I am currently taking Anatomy with a teacher thatmakes up the rules as she goes along. Today, I went to class to taketest one and after she was 5 minutes late, she announced she wantedus to do the first part of our test on the black board, delayingclass another 15 minutes. I felt frustrated with her randomlychoosing to use blackboard without any prior warning. After westarted the test and everything was going well...right? No! She toldus that she had a meeting and needed to end class at 2:20pm leavingus with a little more than an hour to finish a 100 question test,which average about 1.7 min per question. I finished my test andhanded it in to her. Although I believe I did well on the test. Ifeel unease with her fairly grading my paper. She's so wish washy andarrogant about everything. Her study guide of stuff on the test thatshe gave the class was so so correct except for questions that shehad on the test that she did not go over with us. I'll preparedmyself for the next test by knowing the facts thoroughly. ThankGoodness this course is a refresher course and I know some of theinformation. I feel she has favorites and she does not care about therest of the class. I believe she lied about having a meeting to leaveclass early. If she had a meeting then why not tell us about it atthe beginning of the class. I know people forget stuff; however, Isense she's there for a check and not concern with the studentsexcept for a handful. I answered a question that she asked the classand she responded in mocking, sharp way. Oh, Did I mention, When sheasked the students to raise their hands if they already knew the nineregion abdominopelvic region, I raised my hand. She's said you'd knowit. What kind of response is that? Getting through this class isgoing to be interesting.

Congratulations on a high score on Hesi.

This is my experience with those kind of situations. I worked as a C.N.A at an assistant living who hired new people just out of high school to supervisor older C.N.A of 5+ years. The boss wanted young people who could get the job done. They are failing miserably and management is too dumb to realize it. Young people has not experienced life enough to understand humility of taking care of others. These kids thinks it's about getting the job done and don't worry a resident's needs. They don't try to feed the residents who don't eat well. After feeding a resident, a resident living there walked up to me and thank me for feeding the resident. She said they never try to feed him and he just sat there. This person has Alzheimer and needs feeding. I see it but can't stop it from happening because the management is set on letting young people run the place. Thank god, they laid me off. I can't deal with their dysfunctional ways anymore. Some of the family sees what goes on and leaves their family member there because it cost less to live there. After working at an assistant living, I pray I never need anyone to take care of me. Starvation isn't the best way to dye. Hope they shut the place down soon.

My family and I argues about whether or not germs got into a refilled liquid soap bottle after reusing a refillable bottle several times. I say yes, it does, and they do not concur with me.When I worked as a CNA at a assistant living, a Practitioner came to our place of employment to talk about germ control. She said when they put liquid soap from a refilled bottle under a microscope, they saw many nasty germs in the soap. I wanted an opinion from professional people who worked in health field and came here for opinions on this matter. My family said I worry about germs too much;however, They did not see the stuff I did at work as a CNA. My concern is mostly having clean hands before I touch food, other than that, I really don't worry about germs. I am excited to hear your opinion on this matter. Thanks in advance.

cream, I filled out one application at an assistant living about 20 minutes away. My job improved a tad since they hired someone to bathe all the residents. I still disapprove how the place is run by management. We live in a crazy world.

thanks, I'll buy an ACT book and study it. Maybe take College Algebra in the Fall.

I'd take Anatomy and Phys, Microbiology, Nutrition, and a math before I'd took the Teas V if I were you. I saw some chemistry on the Teas V too. I recently bought McGraw-Hill Nursing school Entrance Exam book to prepare myself for the Teas V. Good Luck.

I'm an older student that went back to college after 10 years for a degree in nursing. I took Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra and College Algebra at a community college before dropping out of college for over 5 years. This summer I started classes again to get an associates in nursing. Of course, I need math to pass the nursing entrance exam so signed up for Quantitative skills and Reasoning to help me get through the ACT and Nursing Entrance Exam. My Community college requires a ACT and Teas V score so trying to prepare myself for it. Today was the first day of class and dropped his class because it was a waste of my money and time. He was covering only 4 chapters out of 15 chapters and on those 4 chapters, he wasn't covering them thoroughly. What should I do to help me get a good score on the ACT? Since I took math so long ago, I don't remember it, I thought about retaking the class. Maybe I can study Intermediate algebra on my own during the summer, and then retake College Algebra in the fall. Do you think this is a good idea, or a waste of my time? I really need help with this decision. The Quantitative Skills and Reasoning math was only bits and pieces of College Algebra and didn't make sense at all. Example, On chapter 7 on example 1, they talked about plotting numbers on the number line and on example 2 they were talking about what makes the line bend. The book doesn't cover anything thoroughly and jumps around so much that it's just a waste of time. I'm really confused about what I need to do to get through the entrance exams and ACT. I am studying hard to prepare for the ACT and even learned the Frequent words used on the SAT (500-800 words) to expand my knowledge in vocabulary. Can anyone please give me some solid advise. Hope I gave you enough information to help me.

I signed up to interact with other nurses, to learn from nurses, to find entertainment, and to rant about my job. After study-time and on off days, I also come to allnurse to read recent post about nursing to stay updated about the nursing world.

what barb h said in the above post sounds right. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Working even part-time while you're in nursing school is very hard. Nursing school is ridged and takes endless hours of studying to get through it. You should forgot about work and finish school unless you are in the need for money. I believe, In clinical, you work at the hospital. This advice comes from a currently CNA who works at a assistant living home,Hard work, under paid, don't appreciate you. Good luck.

Our CNA school gives everyone dark unisex navel scrubs for clinical day. The teacher can tell you which color you need for clinical. Some work-places allow CNA to wear only solid colors while other places do not care just as long as you wear scrubs. Some places even allows a tee shirt with the company's name and scrub pants. Good Luck!

Tonight, I was close to quitting my job and the only thing that kept me there was the need of a job for college money. I love the residents but the employees get treated horribly by the staff. There are 11 residents on the 3rd building which 4 of the residents needs full assistants and they have one CNA running that building. One of those 4 calls us every 15 to 30 minutes for nothing. We do about 3 people's jobs. Along with giving out medicines, we are suppose to keep up with 11 residents, bath 2 or 3 residents and change their bed linen, give out dinner plates, wash dinner plates, clean tables, swipe and mop floor, and get garbage, wash clothes, put up clothes, and change everyone around 10 pm before the next shift takes over. Seriously, They won't hire another CNA to help us because they rather save money that goes into their pocket while we work ourselves to death trying to keep up with everything and everyday the list of things to do gets longer. One of the Supervisors left a note on the med cart giving me a list of things to do and supposed to call her and tell her I did them. Wait! I Am 10 years old? I work hard and what they did tonight shows they don't appreciate it. I was already pugnacious with them about the way they trained me on the medicine chart after taking a 4 hour proxy care class. The lady who taught us in the class marked us off and then they said the LPN working there must mark us off too. They gave me the keys to the medicine chart and I figured everything out by myself and 2 weeks later, they said they must check me off. While giving an insult shot, I asked the LPN a question and the nurse grabbed for the syringe and got stuck by it which isn't my fault the nurse carelessly grabbed for a syringe with no top. After that, they said they must watch me and mark me off before I can give medicine in the other buildings too. Giving medicine is the same, read the chart and giving out the medicine so why would they have to train me to give out medicine at the other buildings? If that's not bad enough they don't tell us when a resident has diseases. We have a resident there with hepatitis A and no one has told any of the CNA's that he has Hep A. He told one of the CNA's and that's how the rest of the CNA's found out about it. Residents must be checked for diseases before becoming one of residents so sure the supervisors knows he has it. They allowed him to leave and he gets drunk and begs them to come back. It's crazy because he's already threw a knife at one resident. This place is just horrible! Is there not a law to protect CNA's and inform them about residents with diseases with whom they work closely. Seems though they would get in trouble for not telling us. Does anyone know the law of how many residents to each CNA? I heard ratio is 15 to 1 and 15 to 2 if any of the residents are a two person lift. My next job couldn't be any worse than this one so stepping out into the unknown and hunting for a new job.

You don't do it, you won't have the stress of worrying about losing your licenses. It's really that simple! There is enough stress dealing with the overload work on CNA and nurses without the worry of someone wanting to steal medications from the med cart. Anything that takes our focus off of the main purpose of our job should be eliminated. In other words, it's not about us but about the care of others. I'm so tried of babysitting lazy people working in health that makes everyone else job hard because they work in health care only for a pay check. The first thing they should do is a drug test and test randomly because people taking drugs shouldn't be in the health field.