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We have a young CNA at our LTC who is also taking classes to become a nurse - and she is one that I sincerely hope DOESN'T make it!! She is not a bright person, but now that she is taking her 'prep' classes, she likes to run around and try to tell t...

Good heavens, NO!! Altho I have a couple of special Christmas ornaments that were given to me by patients - and food is always appreciated!:)

Ah, beachbum! Bless your heart! Just reading your post makes me SO glad I'm retired and away from all that! Yes, the techs need to communicate with you! You are rightly annoyed! Altho you'll come to depend on the good ones.:) You need to find out...

Gosh, it seems like forever since I went thru all that. Good luck, and congratulations.:yeah:

Chart, chart, chart - exactly what they said, what you said, and how they responded!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!:):) It seems to me that it's like 'adults' deciding what's best for the 'children'! I consider a job, my 'work', not my 'life'. When I'm done, I'm outa there - my free time should be just that. For the most part I n...

I know what you mean!! :chuckle I've worked with some women I wished I could clone and pull out of my pocket during frantic or doubtful times. This one gal especially, always knew exactly what to do in ANY emergency, and she knew the best and quickes...

This reminded me of the time we had a frequent flyer in our psych dept. come in and want a bed. He was generally admitted for ETOH abuse - and for once he wasn't drunk - so they told him they couldn't just admit him whenever he wanted a bed. So he ...

My experience in the past has been with new trachs. We just got a resident with an old trach in - there is just the stoma, with no appliance. This lady requires periodic suctioning, so I asked the question - how often are we to change the catheter? ...

Exactly! I found everything I needed. I even discovered things I would never thought the hospital had. The problem is the lack of staffs' knowledge about where everything is located. It's a bit off the topic, but I found a bladder scanner at one ...

I wouldn't think so, but who knows?

It IS maddening!! I used to work with two of them at noc that used to talk to themselves and I had to learn to tune them out or go nuts. Then when they'd try to talk to me - and I wouldn't answer them, cause I was tuning them out.........

Olli - that's very nice of you, but what you aren't getting is that unless I'm being admitted during some emergency, I should already have those things available and should bring them with me. The hospital should have things available for the commene...

Wouldn't that be considered abandonment?? Call social services!!

Olli - I am also now disabiled, and covered under the ADA. I would ideally need special weighted silverware, and special weights around my hands for when I eat. Also a special cup for when I drink hot liquids - do you have those immediately availab...

I would guess that you don't completely understand addiction then.

And do you simply TELL THEM that you flunked those classes in nursing school, then go about your business? If they 'complained' to me I would.

Well, Jessie, in the little time she had with them, she wasn't going to change their whole outlook, and maybe all she would accomplish would be to be stressed and upset about it if she chose to confront them about it. Maybe the best thing is to recog...

Black heads!! I don't want to look at them, touch them, and I certainly won't squeeze them. Other than that, as long as I have gloves on, I'm impervious!

Oh, geez, that's nasty!! :bugeyes:

Ah, leslie, leave it to you to find the song!!:yeah:

Then leslie, what we all have to do is work around it, until it no longer matters! I can think of a couple of black doctors that I know - I would bet in their earlier years they had to put up with a lot of racist attitudes - more so than today. But t...

Leslie - it's the 21st century!! It's time for it to stop. The color of a person's skin is just that - a COLOR! My husband and I both are considered 'white' but his skin is much darker than mine - so what's the deal? A few years some ignorant girl ...

And then Obama has to come in and create a little fire with his comment about the 'typical white person'. WTH?!! Let's just keep this racial BS swirling so that we forget to pay any attention to any of the real issues!

EW, EW, EW!!:bugeyes: Roaches are on my hate list, along with flys and mosquitos!