SuperRN_1

I'm glad you asked this question and got great comments. I too will be a nurse in 10 months and wanted to stay in my department but I feared not being taken serious or getting the respect from the CNAs I work with right now. I had to make the decision that I will not be staying in this dept. I know I could do it but I don't want the added stress because it's already going to be stressful being a new nurse.

Is it a soft or hard shell taco? J/k :) Ok, I'm done laughing. *puts on serious face* To answer your question, you wipe the labia 3 times--first the labia furthest away from you, second is the one closest to you and third is down the middle.

In my state, CNA starts at $9.00 in a nursing home/facility/assisted living. The highest paid CNAs here are the ones that work in home health...about $10-11/hr. Look into clinics or home health. And even if you have to start at $8/hr and caregiving or nursing is your passion, then that's where you should start--$8/hr...cause we all started with low pay. There's no shame in that. Follow your passion, work hard and it'll all pay off :)

This thread is EXACTLY why my Facebook profile is on total privacy and I don't even use my real name (I let all my friends know that I was changing it so they knew who I was). I'm a nursing student and our college tells us all the time that the big healthcare organizations in our city ARE looking up students all the time prior to hiring them. Yes, I agree that FB shouldn't matter to employers cause FB is personal thing or my private life, etc, etc, but the reality is that employers ARE checking them. Please be careful what you post. There is no way to ever be "totally private" anywhere on the Internet but here's some tips for FB: 1) Change your name so they can't look you up. 2) Don't "Like" your employers FB page. They go through the list of followers. 3) Disable the ability to be tagged in people posts/photos. They will look up your friends/coworkers and see if there's anything about you on your coworkers page. 4) Do not friend your manager or coworkers. If anyone has any other tips, please feel free to share!

Isn't there a law about caregivers (CNAs, nurses, medical assnts, etc) only allowed to work up to 16 hrs and then they have to have a physical and mental break for a certain amount of hours before working again?? After 16 hrs a person cannot safely provide patient care. Maybe this law is different for each state or city.

Exactly!!! I can't tell you how many times I say "nobody cares, shut up" in my head in class and clinical.

#truestory What a great post!! Thank you for sharing!

To that one student in every class/clinical: stop answering every question the professor asks, give someone else a chance. And stop cutting off the professor and finishing her sentences. We get it, you're a know it all. And if you know everything, why are you here. Shouldn't you already have your PhD?

I'm currently in MedSurg clinical and I carry a clipboard that opens up where I keep pens, notes and patient info. The other students use clipboards too. We have to do a lot of writing so the clipboards are very helpful. Some of the clipboards are thick enough to hold a thin book or pack of drug cards.

I'm in my last year of nursing school, and the only thing I'm afraid of right now is missing a due date on assignments! :)