..."I am not just a butt-wiper", many people believe that being a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) is just taking care of old people and changing them constantly but that is not the case. Future nurses all should go through the lowest level of nursing types in order to achieve where they are today. Certified Nursing Assistants are in high demands in the health care, for areas such as the nursing home. Nursing aides should be compassionate at their job, tolerant and have good communication skills; it is important for aides to express empathy to those that are sick or with limited abilities that are needed for daily care, maintenance of environment in stressful situations and be effectively concern about their patients' health (Nursing Aide 2017). Working as a nursing aide will give you experience that a nurse might not get, it is because nursing aides communicate and interact with the patients more. Besides the fact that CNAs jobs are primarily in nursing homes, more comes out from it. Think of nursing homes and assisted living as day care that you take your kids into. The CNAs are there to help them when they are in need, in pain, scared, and when they're happy. We are the ones that wake them up at the crack of dawn to start their day and help them brush their teeth before going to bed. There are times when you will see LPN (Licensed Practical...
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...Understand: A Career as a Nursing Assistant Have you ever asked the question who takes care of my grandparents or parents while they’re in a nursing home or hospital? Do you have an interest in making someone’s life easier by helping them with simple life tasks? If you have ever been interested in helping someone, then becoming a nursing assistant is the right job for you. The definition of a nursing assistant is “A person who has completed a brief health care training program and who provides support services for RNs and LPNs. Also known as an orderly or, when certified by a state agency, a certified nurse aide (CNA).” In this essay I will explain what the definition of a nursing assistant is to me. I will also include the job description of a nursing assistant, and why they are the eyes and ears for nurses. To begin with, a nursing assistant in my definition is a person that does daily cares on a patient/resident according to their care plan. The job description of a nursing assistant is as follows; “Assists with patient's assessment and care planning, in meeting nutrition and elimination needs, assists patients with mobility, makes sure patient comfortable and helps with anxiety relief, promotes patient safety and environmental cleanliness, assist with unit management and efficiency.” To sum the job description into an easier definition, nursing assistants assist with all life activities that a resident can’t do on their own. Nursing assistants also give love and support...
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...There is many job opportunities in the world. Everybody has the chance and resources to get a good education. The careers I would like to look into in the future are becoming a nursing assistant, a surgeon, or a criminal investigator. They are all careers that interest me. I find them intriguing and life-changing. They are not only life-changing for me but for the people I would be helping as well. To begin, I already have a little background when it comes to nursing. I am taking a class to become a certified nursing assistant. So to be an actual nursing assistant would be an awesome career to start my life. What they do is help people with daily activities. They work in hospitals and other facilities. A common one is a nursing home. In nursing...
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...I am a young man who was raised in the suburbs of Southern California, but I have been a nomad in the United States employed as a traveling Registered Nurse for several years. For several years now, I have been working diligently towards the goal of becoming a nurse practitioner and want vastly to study at Old Dominion University towards the Masters in Science in Nursing as a Family Practice Nurse Practitioner. My long-term professional goal for the future is to work as a design and management of the administration. I hold a B.S. from the University of the XXXX Philippines in the area of Business Administration with a special focus on accounting. Soon after graduating, however, I realized that I very much wanted to work in the area of health care because I find caring for people much more satisfying than working in the area of Business. As a result, I now have over a decade of relevant work experience, including 5 years working as a Care Aide in Canada with XXXX Health Services and 6 years working at XXXX Medical Center in Sacramento California as a Certified Nurse Assistant. At XXXX, I have had the privilege of working in the areas of patient bedside care, injury care, Alzheimer’s care, patient foot care and skin care, palliative care, and vital signs. I help to implement and document safe, therapeutic, and efficient care as directed. I am proud to support the psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural needs of both residents and their families. I am a kind hearted...
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...I’m not one of those people who grew up always knowing that they wanted to become a nurse. I went through the usual childhood fantasies: pilot, lawyer, scientist, architect, etc. But, never a nurse. My complete fascination and admiration for the profession is something that came to me rather recently in my life. In fact, what inspired me to pursue nursing was my experience with my pregnancies and the birth of my second child. Second child? Yes, I have two babies. So maybe I am going about things in a somewhat unorthodox manner, but it sure makes for an interesting and challenging learning environment. Given my life situation, maintaining a 3.3 GPA in my undergraduate studies and a 3.5 GPA in my prerequisite coursework has proven difficult, though I hope my persistence and hard work will ultimately pay off. The delivery of my first-born child was by way of cesarean section. While it was perfect and beautiful and completely orchestrated, I knew almost immediately after the birth that if I were ever blessed with another baby, I wanted to do things differently. When that time came around, the plan was to attempt a vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC). Jumping feet first into this “plan”, I made sure to complete hours upon hours of research as to be armed with applicable information to provide to my obstetrician. While I knew VBAC deliveries were not necessarily favored in the medical community, I never anticipated the difficulty I would face when proposing my wishes. After...
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...Nursing for Life: How to Begin a Lifelong Career in Nursing According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the career outlook for nurses is excellent. In fact, the BLS estimates that the projected percent change in employment for nurses will be almost 20 percent from 2012 to 2020. Below introduces four ways to begin a lifelong career as a nurse. Volunteer Volunteering in a health care organization is a great way to learning basic nursing skills. For example, a hospital volunteer will come into contact with many types of health care professionals, ranging from pediatricians to anesthesiologists to nurse managers. Therefore, volunteering in any health care organization is an excellent networking tool. Once the student has volunteered for a sufficient time, they will have built up a...
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... explaining when and what an RN can delegate, and describing the delegation process. Learning Objectives ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Identify three factors that affect delegation. Discuss what registered nurses can and cannot delegate. Explain the steps of the delegation process. N ursing’s Social Policy Statement (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2010), the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2001), and individual state nurse practice acts (NPAs) underscore the responsibility, authority, and accountability of registered nurses (RNs) for their nursing practice. The RN’s obligation to provide safe, quality care creates distinct challenges when delegating care to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). These challenges are amplified in today’s health care environment of shrinking resources; patients with complex, chronic conditions; hospitals, home care settings, and nursing homes with high patient acuity; and the use of sophisticated technology. An...
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...a nut shell a CNA helps the elderly people and the RN helps anyone in a hospital, local or private, physician's office, and nursing care facilities. I enjoy helping people and being there for the needy; therefore, a CNA and RN will greatly be in my career path. Looking forward to my future career as a CNA to start out with at North Idaho College, then going to Lewis and Clark State College be become an RN. I am going to go to school to become a Certified Nurse Assistant at North Idaho College. I am interested in the health and wellness of people. I would love to help people get better and stay healthy. Our elders need our help, and I am willing to help them to the best of my abilities. The three main skills needed are assistance, procedural and safety skills. Assistance skills help with patients that have memory loss, confusion and trouble understanding aspects of care. Procedural skills are about the body, foods and charting. Safety skills help with the handling, washing, cleaning, and disasters (“CNA Certification”). In my life I already have experience with those skills and more due to my mother and family ties into nursing. In every job there are steps to get in and do it right. There is a 48 hour of online school, in class sections for three months, CPR, clinical experience in care facilities and a final exam to become a CNA (“Nursing Assistant Training”). On top of that one must complete and pass the...
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... intelligent eleven year old girl and a wife to my supportive husband. I graduated from the Trinitas LPN to RN program offered at Union County College this past January. I worked as licensed practical nurse for six years. As a LPN I worked in various facilities, but my favorite experience was working as a pediatric homecare nurse. Prior to becoming an LPN I was a combat medic for the U.S. Army. I served five years as an active duty soldier and seven years as a reserve soldier. During my military career I was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan....
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...I started as a certified nursing assistant working with patient in the wound care department. Throughout seven years as a nursing assistant I would prep my nurses for a wound care change or assist our doctors on the bedside supplying them with towels and supplies from the nurses to give to the doctor that would be doing a wound debridement. As a cardiac medical assistant in Sutter Pacific in San Francisco I was able to watch the surgeries after my working hours. While I was observing I wanted to know how to get into this department and what were the perquisites. I was intrigued because the intensity of what is happening around me while I sat quietly and how the surgery would end from a good note. As I remembered on the other hand I have seen...
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...vision requires knowledge of the present and where their healthcare organization stands in terms of success. They must also know and be committed to the mission, goals and objectives of their organization. Interviewing a nursing leader in a long term health care facility provided this student with many new views of healthcare management and the challenges she’s presented with daily. The leader this student interviewed is a director of nurses at a longterm care facility with 100 beds, 28 of which are Medicare certified. She has a staff of 18 nurses and 32 certified nursing assistants. Her name is Patti and she has been in her position at various facilities for over 20 years and at the current facility for eight years .She is very knowledgeable about Medicare, Medicaid and case management. She has worked many sub-acute units as well as stepping in now to help with staff shortages. When an employee comes to her with a problem or complaint, the first thing she will ask is, “What do you think the solution is”? Her description of a leader is any person with integrity, honesty, and the ability to treat everyone with respect and dignity. She feels her leadership style is a democratic, participative leadership style. She says she frequently turns to her nursing staff for input into making decisions that concern the workplace environment and other issues designed to improve patient care. This seems to be a transformational leadership style as it achieves objectives by motivating...
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...Nursing Job Descriptions The many faces of the professional nurse The title of Nurse has many applications in modern medicine. Each specific type of nurse has a different set of responsibilities: Registered nurses (RNs), Nurse Practitioners, head nurses or nurse supervisors, Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), nursing home nurses, Home Health Nurses, and nursing aides. While there are many shared tasks, these nursing professions require special skills and different levels of patient interactions. We've compiled the many nursing job descriptions below: Nursing Forum: Join the discussion about nursing careers and education. Registered Nurse job description (RN) Registered Nurses (RNs) comprise the largest group of healthcare workers. To become an RN, students must learn what it takes to work directly with patients and their families. They are the primary point of contact between the patient and the world of health care, both at the bedside and in out-patient settings. RNs perform frequent patient evaluations, including monitoring and tracking vital signs, performing procedures such as IV placement, phlebotomy, and administering medications. Because the RN is much more regular contact with patients than are physicians, the RN is usually first to notice problems or raise concerns about patient progress. RN job descriptions also include developing the day-to-day nursing care plans both in the hospital and for care after discharge, to be administered by families and visiting nurses...
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...care and it is a role I have wanted to pursue for numerous years. I began my nursing career at the age of 16, as a certified nursing assistant in Calvert City, KY. At this young age, I decided to dedicate my life to helping others in their medical time of need. To date, I have been a practicing registered nurse for ten years, working in both acute and critical care settings. I am now anticipating taking the next step towards my short-term goal of becoming an advanced practice nurse. I plan to achieve my short-term goal by earning a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Murray State University. My long-term goal is to become a Family Nurse Practitioner, which will provide holistic and quality care to underserved families and individuals in rural Western Kentucky. After I completed my bachelors of science in nursing, I quickly knew that my professional goal was to strengthen my nursing skills while working in the nation’s top research hospitals. By practicing at Vanderbilt University, Stanford Hospital, and University of Vermont, I have fulfilled that goal, and in the process have been exposed to many different cultures, lifestyles, and nursing systems. I believe these vast cultural experiences enhance my ability to connect with and treat a diverse patient population within the communities of Western Kentucky. During my nursing career, I have had the opportunity to be a nursing leader in various roles. At Vanderbilt University, I held the position of charge...
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...On the job you should always have a positive attitude, a steady hand, and good patient handling skills. Like most jobs in the medical field there are good things and bad things about the being a Phlebotomist. After completing the training program to become a Phlebotomy Technician there are many other routes to advance your career. You can go from becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant all the way to a Licensed Vocational Nurse. There are also many different enviroments you can consider working in such as laboratories, doctor's offices, hospitals, blood donation centers, and nursing homes. The pay is fairly decent and expected to rise with the increase demand for Phlebotomy Technicians. To do the job you must be able to pay close attention to detail and have a steady hand. One mistake with mislabeling or delivering blood could cause a lot of problems for you and the facility you work at. There could be a lot of stress with the job and you'll need pateince. You will come across people who are afraid of getting blood...
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...NR390 Nursing History Brandy Wideman Chamberlain College of Nursing Professor Maier December 9, 2012 My name is Brandy Wideman and I am conducting an interview with Mrs. Lavelury Powell, RN. The interview took place Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 2:00 pm at her home. The interview is being conducted with agreement from Mrs. Powell with the understanding that it is for educational purposes only for Chamberlain College of Nursing. I performed an audio recording of the interview to assist in accurate documentation but as agreed I will be submitting it in written form. The purpose of the interview is to identify an exceptional nurse who, in my opinion, is making history. The nurse is Mrs. Lavelury Powell. She is my maternal aunt, my mentor, and my hero. Mrs. Powell is a lifelong resident of Wadley, Georgia and has worked in the nursing field for twenty-nine years. She is married with three adult daughters and two grandchildren. She started her career in 1983 as a Certified Nursing Assistant and then furthered her career in 1987 by becoming a Licensed Practical Nurse. In 1993 she returned to Middle Georgia College and obtained an Associate Degree in Nursing. Mrs. Powell has spent her entire career in long-term care, first as a staff nurse and eventually as a Director of Nursing. In 2005 she was diagnosed with ESRD necessitating hemodialysis three times a week. Due to frequent hospitalizations and her declining health, she had to give up her nursing career. Because of her...
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