Switching from Assisted Living to Hospital... Any Advice??

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Any tips for CNA's switching jobs from an assisted living to a hospital. I hear they can be quite different. Any tips for adjusting?? :D

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You may want to post this in the PCT forum. Good luck on your new job!

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I've worked in Assisted living, Nursing Home, and the surgical department at a near by hospital. Going from nursing home to acute care was very different yet you are doing things that you always have been doing. I think that you will enjoy working in the hospital because it is less strain on your back. I felt a lot of stress at first and I broke down and cried because of the different stresses I got. After awhile I got a hang of it and became a go to CNA at work.

Keep those nurses posted quickly if there are changes in your pt.'s level of coscious. It is never fun when you walk onto the floor and a code has been called. Something that was different for me though, I don't know how much death you delt with in assisted living, I had experince with it at the nursing home, but it was different at the hospital. For me it would be my job to clean the body, put the toe tag on them, and put them into the body bag (which I thought was the hardest part), and took them down to the morge. I don't know how to explain those feelings I had. I was at peace with it but I still had many different emotions.

I hate hospital beds. They are a pain for when you try to trasfer pt.'s in them. I suck. lol.

Do you know what department you are going to be working in? In the surgical department I noticed if I worked in the mornings there would be like no one on the unit...then bam, bam, bam it fills up! Then you have all these post-op vitals you need to take and get into the computer. It can be crazy, yet exciting at the same time.

Do you have any questions in mind that I maybe able to answer for you?

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Be careful with all the lines and tubing. lol You'll learn to be a professional tubing untangler. lol

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Be careful with all the lines and tubing. lol You'll learn to be a professional tubing untangler. lol

OMG listen to what she said very closely! I've pulled out a line before! Thank goodness it was where they attached

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OMG listen to what she said very closely! I've pulled out a line before! Thank goodness it was where they attached

I'm a "He." lol :lol2:

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