glittermoomin

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1. Help! Sleeping too much after my shifts are over!

   glittermoomin posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi there! I am a new CNA (been at my CNA job for three months now) working almost full-time on a VERY busy rehab floor of a nursing facility. We work with the people that have just been discharged from hospital, but are too ill to yet go home. I wor...

2. New CNA - how to prevent resident call-light overuse?

   glittermoomin posted a topic in CNA/MA

   Hi there! I'm a new CNA, and I am having a problem with a small number of my residents over-using (dare I say abusing) the call light. This has meant I am unable to provide adequate care to my other residents, and I don't even get started charting u...

3. First day as a CNA. How did you know what to do when?

   glittermoomin posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

   Hi there! I just graduated as a CNA, and start tomorrow in my first ever CNA job. I read a lot of posts from new CNAs asking experienced CNAs what their own first day was like. But they tend to be more worried about things that don't worry ME so muc...

4. Want to be a nursing student, but too dumb at maths!!

   glittermoomin posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

   Hello everybody! :-) I am a 35 year old female considering a career in nursing. I just completed my CNA programme as a first step. My question is this - how good at maths do you need to be to take nursing? I'm not so much interested in responses tha...