Jayblade

Hey guys, I am not a big blogger here. However, I am always reading what you guys post. I can feel everyone's excitement about getting into NYU. I must admit, Im filed with excitement as well. I applied before the priority deadline. This past two months have been the longest. I check my e-mail at least twice a day since admissions office stated that acceptance notices will be sent via e-mail. I see some of you will be relocating for school. NYC is a wonderful city, a lil saturated with people but amazing. I am currently working as a Patient Care Technician(PCT) at NYU Langone Medical Center. Nurses here (at least on my unit) are wonderful, sometimes I bombard them with questions but hey, thats how you learn and as long as they are willing to answer them, I will keep on asking. I've been here for one year four months and 24 days lol. Can you tell how much I love it? I obtained a wonderful recommendation letter from my nurse manager( I was able to read it and send it myself) and another one from the director of the Health Education and Promotion program at my previous college. Anyways, I hope we all get in. I dont know if anyone is familiar with the website "Nurse eye roll" if you are not, go on check it out. You will find wonderful tips on how to survive nursing school among other entertaining stuff. You an also post questions you may have.

Call the nursing admission's office and ask them for your "N" number. After obtaining your N number, you can log into NYU Albert where you can check your application status. The application fee can be paid by money order or personal checks. Send either one by mail to the nursing admissions office. Online payments are not available. It will be wise to put your the application number on the envelope. It will make it easier for them to identify you.

Since the RNs do a lot of the teaching of residents and protecting patients from them? That makes no sense at all. You protect pts from Doctors? you advocate for pts which is different. If you were able to do your job without a physician or resident. Why are they on call? This is where you show how ignorant and incompetent you can be as a nurse. Try giving a asymptomatic pt medications for which they are not written for without the approval of an attending or whoever is overseeing the pt. Whats the first thing you have to do? Page the attending. and I wrong? A pt with excruciating pain wants pain meds but is not written for any. Try alleviating the pain by just educating them. This is how ignorant you are, stating you can do your job without a resident. If a CNAs job is not important. Why do hospitals hire them? my bachelors is not in nursing but I can guarantee my knowledge about a broad range of disease process, epidemiology, manifestation, and treatment is better is than any regular RN. You give meds which is a like no brainer nowadays. Orders for meds are precisely written; Scheduled meds and PRN's. new systems such as EPIC and ICIS provide you with all the information necessary to educate your pt about the medication contraindications, side effects and mechanism of action. You are totally right CNAs and RN have different duties and TASKS to execute. This is what make them different from which other. However, you cannot rule out the fact that being a CNA can help a person become a better RN. They don't teach everything in nursing school. Most thighs you learn when you start working as a nurse. You are not more than a step away from a CNA. Before you know, one of those CNAs can be the one you will get report from next time you go into your shift.

Im a nursing student. I work as a PCT so I have more autonomy than a CNAs.I work along with nurses all the time. I shadow nurses all the time. I know more than you can imagine. Im not putting myself at the level of a nurse. You might want to revisit my post. I don't need a nurse education to get my job done. On the contrary, nurses do need the aid provided by PCTs and CNAs to get all their job done. You stated cna's only do tasks. I never said CNAs give meds or do assessments and Charting on pts. I just laugh because these are things I expose myself to everyday. You think you are talking to a person that is clueless about the things nurses do everyday. You can call it what you want, I'll call it what it is. Giving meds, doing assessments, charting on pts, those are tasks as well. A Nurse job is important as a nurse too, nothing more. Look at it this way. Can you do your job without a physician or a resident? If your answer is yes, you are wrong. If a pt wants tylenol and is not ordered for it. Can you give the pt tylenol without reaching out to the attending? Don't think of yourself as being on top sweet heart. You are just one step ahead. FYI- you dont know my level of education. I have a bachelors degree in health education and currently pursing a second degree in nursing.

Hi dove I will be applying to the Accelerated program this spring 2014. :)

CNAs provide more than tasks. And quite frankly, cnas do for pt more than a lot of nurses do. They dont have half of the autonomy nurse have. However, their presence and care for pt make an immense difference in the recovery process. What do you call charting on a pt? Assessing a pt? Giving scheduled meds? Aren't those tasks as well? How can a customer service job serve as well as a CNA for someone looking forward to nursing school? Stop undermining or eating the young. Their job is as important as your.

Don't listen to some people on this forum. A CNA job will make a great nurse. If the people you work with are not very pleasant just stick to your job.; complete your tasks, care for your pts, and go home. I immensely dislike when some people undermine CNA's as if their job is not important. A customer service position will never compare to a CNA position, experience wise. Have you dealt with a sick customer with chest tubes, feeding tubes, foleys, ect. How can the experience be similar?