Beldar_the_Cenobite CNA

Hi all, I just recently graduated from nursing school (Finally) and I haven't taken my NCLEX-RN yet, but I am struggling to find a job as a CNA. I have 4 years of experience and throughout my time in nursing school, I've been fired, or DNR as a...

This is not relevant to the post, but does anybody know how to start a conversation for others to reply? I can't seem to find the answer. Also, for OP, nursing programs don't require you to be a CNA. Some do, but the one I'm in doesn't and our state ...

Hello all, I have a question. Those who worked in HR either at a hospital or in general your advice would be greatly appreciated. Nursing managers like Unit Manager or Director please share your thoughts. I work as a CNA whi...

You always bring hopes up, Caliotter3. Please don't ever change your profile name. It's always good to see your supportive positivity. I wish managers had that. I was planning on staying where I'm at as a CNA to transition as an RN, but I also wanted...

I graduate next May. I was at the hospital for about a month or a month and a quarter, one of those two, and I didn't get to see these two patients almost the whole day because I was trying to answer other call lights and I just had poor management s...

Yeah, med surg is difficult. I've been told fundamentals is med-surg. My program has fundamentals, then I think med surg 2 and med surg 3, so that would assume fundamentals is med surg 1.

I was wondering if anybody knows if you can get a job as a CNA at the VA without experience? I'm technically a new grad with no experience. Unfortunately, due to my school schedule, I haven't been able to find a CNA job since December 2016 and passed...

I'm not on here often, but I figured I'd get down to something that's been bothering me. I've been DNR'd from 3 facilities unfortunately. Actually 4. I was wondering if it's like a permanent thing with the agency you work with. It's been almost a yea...

Yeah, one facility I admit I was wrong. I was on my phone in a room before I was about to go home for the day. CNA here, it's agency to work for the facility you pick up. Not full employment. Just being on my phone was the problem.

I have never been asked or told that I can never come back. It gets reported to the agency. Even the agency hasn't told me unless I asked which I thought was strange.

How many times or programs did it take for you to get your BSN? I just failed my fundamentals exam 1, and granted I didn't read all the chapters, I'm trying to implement that, but we just took our first med dosage quiz (50 questions), and I got a 36....

She lectures online due to Covid, but it's not relevant to the content. Our first day she said, "I normally do not teach in class. What I do is I go around the classroom and I see if anyone has any questions to the chapters". She'll say things like "...

I have a question for nurses and nursing students. I'm taking peds and maternity at the moment, do you guys think it's necessary for Med Surge II? We did pharm and health assessment first semester, fundamentals of nursing second, peds and maternity t...

This is a very late reply, but I eventually passed my test I think on my second attempt. I do have a question. I'm barely passing peds and some of our chapters are 50 pages long alone. The most I've seen so far. How do you read all of that? Word for ...

What's the exit exam like in most nursing schools? Is it like non-nursing related questions or is it nursing related questions? My program gave us an ATI test at the beginning of our program and it asked us weird questions with no relation to anatomy...

Is there such a thing as night nursing school? Where you can do clinicals at night? Lab at night? Lecture at night? No, I'm not talking about in your home as in online school. I'm having to do a report on professionalism in nursing. one article from ...

I'm curious how nursing programs have changed over the past 3 decades. How did nursing students find ways to understand the material? Buy a bunch of books with practice questions? Did teachers provide practice materials like practice problems? I've b...

I've known now to prepare reading more. I didn't realize it was so important for fundamentals or nursing school. My CNA school was terrible. The books didn't match the exams. We didn't know anything about critical thinking and our instructor used chi...

Hi, I have a presentation for a Caritas me and my group are doing. It's about "Cultivating one's issues in nursing practice, the law, and the professional nurse". A majority of my work is on angels of death like Charles Cullen. There's a book about C...

Tried that already and couldn't find what I was looking for. Somebody recommended to me a book on here, but I can't find it either.

Hey all, So, I start nursing school, my first semester, August 29th 2019. My first classes are Pharmacology, Professional Role Development and Communication, and Health assessment. Not sure what to expect, but I am part time....and pharm looks intim...

No, thank goodness. Nothing wrong with having kids, but I admire those who do while in nursing school, married, divorced, or single. I was behind for a bit because I had to have my computer serviced at Apple and that took a few days. I'm trying to ca...

Isn't what the recruiter was doing considered discrimination?

Omg, thank you for all of this! What you wrote looks overwhelming lmao One thing I am concerned about is tricks to use for solving problems. My algebra might not be all that great.

That's funny considering many smartphones have good quality mics like the iPhone. Unless the school/class/instructor requires phones to be upfront in the class. Still, it can only take one person to record lectures for the entire class, not the entir...