shannymar

:chuckle ...That bad huh?

I'm so sorry about your loss. I know what you mean about being meant to do this. I have a daughter that was born in April that spent time in the NICU after she was born, she had two strokes during the delivery and kept having seizures afterward. She is doing quite well now, she'll be 6 months soon, and she is trying to learn to sit up now. But the care that the NICU nurses gave my baby, that I saw day after day was incredible. They treated her and loved her as if she was their own baby. I had always wanted to be a nurse, but after this happened I felt this was where I belong. I have never seen such beautifully kind and loving people as the nurses at Childrens Hospital in San Diego. (If any of you come on to this site.) Thank you! You inspire people to do great things because you are all great people!!! :heartbeat

sorry if you've covered this topic already, i'm a newbie to all nurses. soo, let me know!!! :behindpc: Shannon

what are the scariest, weirdest, grossest, or most stressful :sofahider situation or day you have ever had? let me know... :uhoh21: btw... what kind of hours do all of you work? give me an example of the hours you worked last week. or your regular shift. any double shifts? what size hospitals do you work in and your staff to patient ratios. (we'll just cover it all. :rotfl: )

wow. thank all of you for being angels on earth. you truly are what makes this world great. i don't have the courage that which you do. thank you. :kiss Shannon Shannon -Loving wife to Zechariah -Mommy to Kayla Maylin born April 3, 2005 7 lbs. 3 oz. Had two strokes at birth due to the a high homocysteine level caused by the MTHFR genetic mutation. And she is absolutely PERFECT!!! Kids have strokes too! All life is fragile... -and future CNA and Nurse!

thanks! Shannon

thanks soo much for your help! that's what i wanted to know! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shannon -Loving wife to Zechariah -Mommy to Kayla Maylin born April 3, 2005 7 lbs. 3 oz. Had two strokes at birth due to the a high homocysteine level caused by the MTHFR genetic mutation. And she is absolutely PERFECT!!! Kids have strokes too! ...and future CNA and Nurse!

ooooohh. ; ( no one helped me...lol. btw, once someone does get back to me about that, i had one more question... how does this whole shift thing work? they can make you work over 12 hours in a row? if so how often do you find this happening? not that i am shocked but i wanna know what i am getting into. c'mon, gimmie your stories!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shannon -Loving wife to Zechariah -Mommy to Kayla Maylin born April 3, 2005 7 lbs. 3 oz. Had two strokes at birth due to the a high homocysteine level caused by the MTHFR genetic mutation. And she is absolutely PERFECT!!! Kids have strokes too! ...and future CNA and Nurse!

sorry about how long this is...lol... i recently decided i was going to be a nurse. until then i want to work as a CNA. i have signed up for all my classes, and if i pass them all, hopefully i will become one. meanwhile, i have been excited, researching everything about them and looking forward to actually doing something about it. i am kind of scared about the whole thing though. i have read a lot on message boards that makes me wonder if i am making the right choice. is it really as horrible as a lot of people on these kind of sites make it sound? the ones i am concerned with are; (these are actual things i have seen in nursing web sites. not all of them are word for word but it's the jist of what they said.) *"cna's work for so very little money..." -is this true? i live in san diego, and just had a baby girl with my husband that i need to take care of...how much do you uys usually get? i'm not looking for the lotto, but enough to get by... *"cna's are constantly dealing with urine, feces, and other things, either changing incontinent adults, and cleaning up after them." -i understand i will have to deal with this occasionally, but how often are you actually doing these things? do you find yourself dealing with this numorous times throughout the day? *"cna's get picked on or bullied by the real nurses..." -do nurses look down on cna's? or have you found that they treat them just as they would treat another nurse? these are some of the things i picked up on nursing message boards, that have been really baffling me. could znyone give me advice or answers to any of these questions? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shannon -Loving wife to Zechariah -Mommy to Kayla Maylin born April 3, 2005 7 lbs. 3 oz. Had two strokes at birth due to the a high homocysteine level caused by the MTHFR genetic mutation. And she is absolutely PERFECT!!! Kids have strokes too! ...and future CNA and Nurse!