Cora_Ann

Hospitals and having a BSN are not all that. You are still just as stressed and honestly will not make that much just coming out.

I'm sorry but what does having a 4.0 have to do with it? You forgot to get a TB test and if you have ever done anything in medicine you would know that you have to have that done regardless.

Another helpful thing is anytime you go in there try to bring a nurse with you so they can witness what is said. I work in a similar facility and this will save you from them being able to say what you did or didn't do.

You left without telling anyone!!! I'm sorry you didn't feel well, but you should have gone to the charge nurse and told them. How would you feel if someone just left and didn't say anything? If you had said something they could have worked on gettin...

I am in no way saying everyone; because I have worked with some great LTC nurses. However having gone from LTC to a hospital, LTC nurses are the laziest I have ever seen. They would never make it in a hospital setting and actually have to do direct p...

I have had to wear every color of the rainbow; right now we wear hunter green except for Friday's when we can wear what we want. Nurses normally wear royal blue

I always thought I wanted to be either and ER nurse or work in the ICU. However I have been given the opportunity to get my EMT lisence and now I am wondering if I want to take the paramedic route. I would love to hear from y'all that have done both....

I am very fortunate that the LTC facility I work for allows me 3 eight hour days during the week and one 12 on weekends. So I work 7-3 and then have school 5:30-10:30

I have done both LTC and the hospital and honestly I would recommend you try LTC first. Because if you can make it doing that you can handle anything. I really enjoyed the hospital, but it's not all that. In LTC you can build relationships with resid...

I am one of those hey I will try anything people lol. And I am just want to try something different. I have been a CNA since high school and everyone was always like nursing; but I am just not 100 percent about that and I have always wanted to try th...

Yes I know there is a big difference between a paramedic and an EMT. But you have to be an EMT before becoming a paramedic. At least where I live anyway. And I do plan on going on to that

Sorry for the lack of info! I am 27, and I live in a relatively small community. I actually went ahead and registered for my local fire houses EMT course . I will continue to work at the hospital as I do this. I am very excited to try something diffe...

No I am not already in nursing school; and yes I have done ride alongs and liked it. I am trying to decide what would be the best option. And I know in the end only I can decide that lol. I would just like to hear both sides.

Respiratory or any of the mentioned above

A lot of people where I work (which btw I still do LTC PRN) have complained about this same thing. And yeah I have worked with crap CNAs which makes it hard. I also know the stereotypes of CNAs. And the responses I have got to this post have pretty m...

I hadn't to hear about because I am just a CNA I have no idea what nurses do, I am obviously awful because i have the audacity to say anything critical, among other comments..so how is that polite?

Why is it when other nurses and EMTs complain about LTC it's just fine, but when CNAs who do a lot of the work complain it's not? Believe it or not I can actually see and read enough to know who is actually charting and who is on the internet. I also...

But you all do. Assuming I have no idea what a nurse does is making a pretty broad statement.

Please don't give up and look for another job! I have expierenced this myself. And just remember this is not the nurse that you want to be.

Anyone that says just a CNA or says we don't know anything can feel free to their job without us.

I didn't mean it to come across as judgmental. But honestly a lot of CNAs that I work with at the hospital have had a similar experience. So have you as nurses ever wondered why we as CNAs ha e left LTC I favor of hospitals or have chosen to leave th...

There is no sharing an expierence on here or having an opinion obviously because if it's a negative one it gets turned around on you. All through high school I worked in activities at a nursing home and then became a CNA. For a long time all I wanted...

I still work PRN in a LTC because I love the residents and I have friends there. And it's not a typical nursing home. It's a long term ventilation unit. So everyone is total dependence and the nurses could do a lot more to help. I learned a ton from ...

Everyone is entitled to have different experiences and opinions. This is mine. If you love working in LTC and you take care of everyone then great. My expierence has not been that great so I got out of it and now this is the opinion I have formed fro...

Wow you don't know my expierences and things I have seen go on in LTC. Or the amount of hours I have worked and residents I have taken on. I stated above I have friends who are LPNs.