future_RN, CNA

future_RN, CNA has 3 years experience.

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1. Developing Anxiety During Nursing School

   future_RN, CNA replied to kateandres's topic in General Students

   Is your main problem the anxiety? Do you get anxious thinking you have the diseases you are learning about? That happens quite frequently in nursing school lol. Me and all my friends went through a...

2. I'm having doubts about nursing... :(

   future_RN, CNA replied to Texasstudent0's topic in General Students

   Coming from a fellow nursing student, it was your first day. I know you worked hard and did all the prerequisites and have built up that day to be so much, but it is not always going to be exciting....

3. Dirty bed sheets/RN/CNA/UAP/CP

   future_RN, CNA replied to STUNUR321's topic in General Students

   At my job we have online training modules due every few months. One of ours last time was regarding linen. We were told only to change linen once per day, unless visibly soiled or requested by...

4. Using phones as a sitter-thoughts?

   future_RN, CNA replied to allinone's topic in General Nursing

   This I should the exact reason I see if any of my coworkers want to sit, and I'll take their assignment for the shift. Mind you my floor is known as the "busy," "crazy," tele floor, and I've willingly...

5. Malcolm X Fall 2016 (CCCSON)

   future_RN, CNA replied to Messy's topic in Illinois Nursing

   Also, there is background check, and drug test they require but from a specific company. They will give you more info on that as well as required vaccination records and physical forms....

6. Malcolm X Fall 2016 (CCCSON)

   future_RN, CNA replied to Messy's topic in Illinois Nursing

   Also yes, at the end of each semester (except 1st semester) you have to take an ATI Exam which is pass/fail and you have two attempts to pass it. You do not have to pay extra for it, and it is not...

7. Malcolm X Fall 2016 (CCCSON)

   future_RN, CNA replied to Messy's topic in Illinois Nursing

   I will always recommend Kipnis and Neal, but idk how the others were because I haven't taken them. Also, the lab section when registering I believe is actually the clinical section. Because it will...

8. Malcolm X Fall 2016 (CCCSON)

   future_RN, CNA replied to Messy's topic in Illinois Nursing

   The teachers are gold. The program is disorganized. Very fast paced, but nursing school will feel fast paced anywhere you go. The Nursing classes for the RN program do not go through the summer,...

9. Don't flame me for this

   future_RN, CNA replied to future_RN, CNA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   No the more experienced nurses don't do this as much. There is an art to delegation for sure, and like most things, it probably comes with

10. Don't flame me for this

    future_RN, CNA replied to future_RN, CNA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't understand why this was

11. Don't flame me for this

    future_RN, CNA replied to future_RN, CNA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    All very good points. People always tell me I'm so "blunt." I should have already reasoned this

12. Don't flame me for this

    future_RN, CNA replied to future_RN, CNA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I make it a point to leave the unit for my break, as I had learned that if I wanted to eat my food in peace that is how I can do it. As far as the phone thing when I was trained everyone brought their...

13. Don't flame me for this

    future_RN, CNA replied to future_RN, CNA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No i totally get it they are constantly prioritizing. And have much higher priority things to do than things that I can do. Also, I always notify the charge nurse when I'm going on my break and make...

14. Don't flame me for this

    future_RN, CNA posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am a CNA with a few years of experience, and am also in Nursing School right now. I have followed the advice of many and left my comfortable job as a tech in a freestanding, acute psych facility and...

15. Education Conspiracy

    future_RN, CNA replied to Avid reader's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I'm in an ADN program, and the only thing I wish was included in it was this class that another local BSN program includes is "role transition," at the end of their program. In that class they have...