jwolansk

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1. Why are nurses so mean to each other?!

   jwolansk posted a topic in CNA/MA

   It seems like no one notices all the good things I do. The one time I mess up all my coworkers gossip and no one just tells me to my face. I have asked, please tell me first so I can fix it. Don't got gossiping and complaining to admin over something...

2. Online BLS Recertification?

   jwolansk replied to jwolansk's topic in General Nursing

   Thats what I want to do but the every skills within two hours of me is serious at a time when I have exams or am working.

3. Online BLS Recertification?

   jwolansk posted a topic in General Nursing

   So, I need to get re-certified. I hold a AHA CPR card but the hospital requires I re-certify my BLS one too. I don't have to the time in my schedule to goto a class right now. All the ones near me seem to fall on a when I am busy. Will a hospit...

4. Has working in a nursing home changed your views on nursing?

   jwolansk replied to jwolansk's topic in Career Support

   So it has turned me off of nursing. I love my residents, but the people I work with mostly turn me off. The hopelessness of the whole place, the carelessness i have seen from RNs and CNAs alike. I just wondered how working in a nursing home makes you...

5. Has working in a nursing home changed your views on nursing?

   jwolansk posted a topic in Career Support

   I work in a nursing home and i was just curious how it affects others.

6. Should I try to work as CNA before I get my RN?

   jwolansk replied to nolamor's topic in CNA/MA

   It depends... CNA in a hospital, yes. CNA in a nursing home... no. I have know a lot of girls who stop going into nursing after working in a nursing home. LTC is very different than hospital experience. You do get tons of patient contact and lear...

7. Marijuana and Nurses

   jwolansk posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was wondering is nurses in states that it is legal can smoke? Do you still get tested for marijuana?

8. Double Briefing

   jwolansk replied to CuriousCNA's topic in General Nursing

   I have never considered if this is illegal. I work in LTC and we have pads we put inside their briefs. How is that different than two briefs? I always do rounds every 2 hours and turn/reposition. So I am wondering if they are still at risk for the...

9. PMHNP and Psychologist?

   jwolansk replied to jwolansk's topic in General Nursing

   I understand the difference between the two of the degrees. I read on here where someone was a PMHNP and a Psychologist.... I was wondering how they did that. Also i guess I should have specified a clinical psychologist. I know they cannot prescri...

10. PMHNP and Psychologist?

    jwolansk posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering what schooling needed to be done to have both of these things. I have been told psychologists have 13 years of schooling and PMHNPs have 8. Do you earn two separate degrees or can you do it at the same time? I read where someone on...