Mirai Kangofu

My first scrubs were purchased at a discount chain at $14 a set. I had to make returns because the XS tops were too small and the S sets were too big, and I'm stuck with the ones nonrefundable due to wearing. I later went to another scrub store and d...

Not to sound vain, but so far in life, I've usually worked in environments where I've been smarter and more edcuated than many of my coworkers (retail, CNA, waitressing). Even if I try to simplify my everyday rhetoric, I still get blank looks and dem...

Nursing homes are the epitome of exploitive capitalism, slashing costs to the bare minimum and taking advantage of the fact that people can't complain. I don't blame you for leaving.

I don't know. I'm working as a CNA in LTC, and I'm having second thoughts as having a career in nursing.

This might have something to do with dentistry being less of a necessity than medical care, so people are willing to shell out more.

I work at a nonprofit LTC in Houston and make $6.90/hr. At hospitals, pay is about $10/hr. I've been trying for months to get a hospital job, but with no luck whatsoever.

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! I wish that people would look beyond superficial pity and black and white perspectives to realize that restraints are necessary, yet people will always blame the caretaker for somehow provoking the demented resident. Some of t...

1) I'm a CNA, and I can't talk to doctors, and I work in a Catholic facility that opposes treating residents like animals, never mind the fact that it harms thae staff 2) I don't talk to resident like babies, nor do I neglect to try to see if they're...

I swear, with some of the residents' families, what they choose is what they get. Too many people see nursing homes as a guilt-free way to solve the problem of an elderly parent. They don't have to get stuck taking care of them, they can keep up thei...

While we're on the topic, what constitutes unlawful restraint when defending one's self? When someone swings at me, my first reaction is to grab their hand or arm, or break their grip by bending their fingers back. By law, I can't do that, can I? Whe...

Yeah, I'd also rather commit suicidal euthenasia than get put into a nursing home. In fact, one day, I called up my dad and told him that I'd rather shoot him and mom than put them in nuring homes. This sparked one of the deepest conversations that w...

Today, someone gave me the "You're too smart to be a nurse," line after I told him the difference between mental retardation and cerebral palsy. I raised my eyebrows, stated that EVERY nurse knows that, and if he thinks that knowing about 1/1,000,000...

Judge Judy's ratings are based on how caustic she can be, not on her actual knowledge. People love Schadenfreude, especially if it's abject humiliation. How do you think Dr. Laura got her 15 minutes of fame? Yeah, it offends the heck out of me when p...

This sounds like a cynical, know-it-all attitude as well as problems with authority, mixed in with a bit of an entitlement complex. I hate my boss and my working conditions and can't wait for her to be replaced, but c'est la vie. I made a choice by t...

I am working as a CNA while I wait to get accepted into nursing school, and I work with a few wonderful aides who love their jobs, love taking care of people, are sensible, have great work ethics and personalities, and are a joy to work with. They do...

Huh? What happened? Uterine worms?

I'm a CNA, and I have a job interview tomorrow at another nursing home (Belmont Village on Holcombe in Houston, TX). I've had a bad experience at my current nursing home (St. Dominic Village on Holcombe in Houston, TX), such as chronic understaffing ...

I'm a CNA, and I have a job interview tomorrow at another nursing home (Belmont Village on Holcombe in Houston, TX). I've had a bad experience at my current nursing home (St. Dominic Village on Holcombe in Houston, TX), such as chronic understaffing ...

Haha, amen to that! Only in dramatized fantasies... I also consider it insulting when told that I'm "too smart to be a nurse" or "If you're studying to be a nurse, you might as well be a doctor," becasue it insinuates that doctors are better than nur...

Wow, thank you for the reassurance. I'm waiting to get into nursing school (UTHSC, TWU, HCC, or HBU), and I've been hearing all sorts of horror stories fromt he forum and seeing all sorts of stuff at the LTC facility that I work at, so it's nice to h...

I wear these shoes with an extra pair of insteps, pressurizing knee socks, and an extra pair of thick socks over the pressurizing socks for the best results.

Pfft as wonderful as doctors can be, most MDs wouldn't know a healthy situation if it bit her in the butt and stole her wallet. Nurses see the patients over extended periods of times, through good and bad, while doctors only see patients when somethi...

These are the best darn shoes ever. I paid over $200 for them and they were worth every penny. I no longer have severe calcaneus and ball-of-foot pain from pinching, and my back doesn't hurt anymore. They actually fell better when you walk!

Due to a tattletale war and the fact that my shift is understaffed to the point where you can't get anything done without severely cutting corners (read: not wipe anybody down), I'm reorientating (read: remedial training). The CNA who is reorientatin...

Good news: She started nitpicking over the "Yo" thing, and I simply replied that it's a idiosyncratic colloquialism and socially conditioned jargon due to my regional and multicultural upbringing. She said that she didn't understand a darn thing that...