Lil_Skipper04

:rotfl: Oh My Gosh!!! That's hilarious, I almost spit my drink all over the screen!!! Hilarious, Code Brown, I'm gonna use that one. :chuckle

Wow, some of my horror stories aren't anywhere near as bad as those. I almost feel bad for sharing them. 1. I'd only been at our Assisted living facility for about a month and a half where I'm a CMA. One night when I came in for work, they were preparing to send out one resident for being lethargic, and having bright red blood in her colostomy bag. After comforting her, and promising her everything would be okay (she died 2 weeks later), we thought it was all over. Not 10 minutes later, another light goes off and the resident was turning blue and couldn't breathe. It was the night from hell. Running from one end of the building to the other, getting o2 tanks, calling 911. We both looked at our DON that night and told her we deserved huge raises. LOL. Looking back on it, it wasn't that horrible. :rotfl: Then I've gotten in several spats with some of the other nurses at my work. They're mostly older ladies, 40's & up, and are only CMA's. They keep hearing about my college and all the other stuff I do. My DON loves me, and that's gotten around a bit too. So, in the end, I end up crying because they get so jealous of me & start screaming about me. It's awful.

I think that if that's the case, then a special ID # should be given out. That way it saves us from having our last names on our badges, and it still easily identifies us. For example, Joe S. RN #2245.

By unlicensed, do you mean not RN's or LPN's? Or someone with no certifications? Because I'm a Level 1 Med Aide in an Assisted living facility, and we don't really have any problems. I think the biggest problem we've had recently was a PRN girl mixed up 2 resident's meds. That and 3 nurses popped pills when they didn't check against the MAR, and kept giving double doses of a few meds on one resident (she's okay now). But generally when I do a med shift, we administer all medications, even narcs. Our pills come through the pharmacy in cassettes that are labeled by color & day, so it's quite simple. Even our ditzy nurse can do it, :chuckle . However we had to pass the whole course and test thing. But, med mistakes make me feel uneasy. It tends to also make me a little upset, because you can't afford to make mistakes when doing meds. People need to pay more attention to what they're doing.

I'm a CMA in an assisted living facility. A while back we had a resident die and when the DON was notified, she was shocked, but didn't want to come in and help w/ EMS & police questioning (which happens everytime a CPR patient expires, they don't come for DNR's), or help clean up the body for the coroner afterwards. :angryfire This was a great shock/disappointment to all the nurses, who are mostly CMA's, afterall shouldn't she be there?! It was a weekday morning, so it wasn't all that unrealistic. Not to mention we hadn't dealt with a death in a while, and had no procedure manual on it. Don't get me wrong, she's a great DON and I love her to death, but come on.... I guess what I need feedback on is would you do the same if you were the DON? Or would you have come in and assisted? Was what she did ethical?

Well, I had my job interview for the ER tech position today. I was so nervous! This would be a GREAT learning experience for me. (I'm a nursing student wanting to specialize in trauma) However, I didn't have the EKG experience he wants, nor any blood draw experience. But he did say that that could be trainable for me. I'm not sure if I'll get it or not. It went great as far as the interview, but do you think he'll hire someone that he has to train in EKG & blood draws, or hire the student nurse that can already do that stuff? Sara My Birthday is Wednesday!!!! :roll