nursesaideBen

Hm... earned my CNA when I was 16 started LPN school when I was 17 I'm 18 now and graduate this May :) It kinda stunk because the hospitals wouldn't even hire me as a CNA until I became 18 this past summer lol

I have to agree with you! I'm 18 a CNA and I graduate LPN school this May. A few other students are around my age and anything that our instructor says or does a couple of the students automatically think that she's trying to degrade or insult them. ...

Can you imagine admitting a pt and never doing an assessment or getting orders for them???? That is pure maddness! The poor pain management is all too common which is very sad. I'd like to think that if I was in the hospital for pancreatitis I'd hav...

The thing that gets me are nasty, dirty fingernails. Let's face it, a lot of our pts play in their feces, their foley's, and it's all under their nails for when they eat or drink anything.

Great way to contribute and offer support.... Anyway try not to beat yourself up or let yourself feel depressed, as the others have stated you can reapply for next semester. We can't be at our best all the time you WILL get through this :)

At our school we're not allowed to smoke during clinicals either, and that's fine, I just suck it up and keep going. I'm trying to quit smoking simply because I'm tired of not being able to breathe lol Honestly, it's not worth getting kicked out bec...

That's a wonderful idea! I work on a medical unit and we get a BUNCH of psych patients especially alcoholics because our psych unit doesn't do detox.

Just curious, because I love taking care of terminal patients and I've wondered for a while how the inpatient hospice settings are set up as in what are your nurse/patient ratios, etc. Any input would be wonderful!

This would be a good one if you were taking care of psychic with a brain injury or something :chuckle

Sorry Triage didn't mean to get you riled up lol I was just wondering :chair:

I totally agree. While it's true that a lot of times we choose our path in nursing based on our own personal experiences, it simply isn't appropriate for your patients to know about you. We're not here to be friends with our patients, we're here to b...

This is kinda off the wall, but I always wondered why O2 sats weren't the fifth vital sign? I mean at the facility I work at, with every set of VS you get an O2 sat on, we document the O2 sats with the VS so why isn't it considered a VS? If anyone kn...

While I still have 1 more semester of LPN school left I work at a hospital as a CNA on the Medical Care Unit, I LOVE IT! I worked at a skilled/LTC nursing facility and an ALF for the first year that I was a CNA, I loved working with elderly people bu...

I have to agree with Tweety on this, I think you have to be a little "out there" in order to get through NS and survive out on the job! For me personally, my friends all think I am crazier than looney toon for going into nursing all they ever say is ...

That sounds extremely frustrating to not be used to the full extent that you could!! I think talking to them about a permanent position on one of the units as a nurse not an aide or for them to start using you as a nurse when you float instead of an ...

Through my personal experience I think that females are easier to talk to, and generally have better communication skills. Now this isn't always the case because I know quite a few male nurses that rock my socks off and several female nurses I'd like...

I have 4 months left till graduation, and to be honest it's been a very difficult program. With us we've had at least 1-2 tests every day and at least 3-4 hrs of homework and studying every night. We started with 15 students down to 8 now lol Is it ...

I work on a medical care unit we had 12-13 pts xmas eve and day not bad but the ones we had were either isolation, confused and determined to fall, or ringing the call light every five seconds :trout: last night was the busiest of the two ran ALL ni...

That is the most ridiculous thing! That just absolutely infuriates me!! I'm sorry I just don't know what else to say other than I think you did the right thing and your manager needs to get off your back :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :a...

I have to a agree with oral care as well. It sounds awful but since I can have up to 20 pts as an aide and have to do all the baths, accuchecks, vitals, make sure they have water so the nurses can give meds, call lights, admissions, discharges, I sim...

Bottom line is you're the nurse, she's the aide, it's your responsiblity to stand up and flat out tell her that she needs to start listening to what you tell her to do. If you ask her for a b/p on a patient you're not just asking for the heck of it, ...

Thank goodness I'm not the only one who has done that Well, I haven't broken too many things yet but on incident I did have happened about 2 months ago in clinicals, my patient had an 02 tank in her room that I accidently knocked over, I was so af...

When I was working in LTC had one mentally with it resident who never liked me. He kept complaining to the charge nurse and the DON that I was "Too ugly, too fat and too stupid to be serving him." Well the DON just told me to not worry about it that ...

Lord I'm glad I'm not the only one going through this! I have gained so much weight, my blood pressure is constantly elevated, I have been sick it seems almost every other week, it NEVER ends lol one more semester left: OB, Psych, Peds, and geriatric...

Are you only wanting to work in a hospital setting or have you applied to SNF, LTC, Home Health, Hospice, Clinics, and physician's offices as well? Hang in there, I KNOW you will get a job you love it may just take time! :icon_hug: