Certified Nursing Assistant

A Certified Nurse Assistant, or CNA, helps patients with healthcare needs under the supervision of a Registered Nurse (RN) or sometimes a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). Therefore, taking a CNA program is a start to your career. The program helped prepared you for your Nursing major if that’s what your planning to do. During my Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) career, I had experienced many new skills that I haven’t learned during my CNA class. Working alongside numerous registered nurses,…

Research done about Certified Nurse Assistants (CNA) has shown that improvingthe quality and effectiveness of a nursing home begins with improving the satisfaction ofworkers. When CNAs are committed and happy with their job, it is easier for them toplease the residents. Research found that in order to improve the satisfaction of CNAsthere needs to be an increase of teamwork, wages, benefits, job advancementopportunities, and involvement of frontline workers. I agree with this statement. I…

The Role of Nursing It is said that the nursing profession is one of the most respected and trusted careers there are. From the beginning, a nurse’s role was to nurture and mend those that are sick, frail and even through the process of end of life, but it doesn’t just stop there. Nursing has come a long way and entails many more aspects than they are even given credit for. A nurse wears many hats and is required to perform duties outside of healing obvious wounds. They are highly skilled and…

career in the nursing healthcare field. My career goal has been the same since I was 9 years old, I have always wanted to get my masters in nursing and work in varies departments of the health field. When I had my first son, I had a midwife deliver my son and that’s when I decided I wanted to become a midwife and deliver babies and specialize in premature babies. Once I receive my masters and start working as a midwife I would like to one day teach a certified nursing assistant class for…

Control and Prevention, n.d.). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (n.d.), the emergency room treats over 2.5 million elderly and hospitalizes over 734 thousand every year. Roughly 50-75% of the nursing home geriatric…

Systems Model Current Care Delivery Model I am currently employed at a local Healthcare-Center that is certified as a level 3 Trauma Center with twenty-five-beds in the emergency room (ER). The staff in the ER consists of physicians, physician’s assistants, staff nurses, triage nurse, clinical manager (CM), assistant clinical manager (ACM), charge nurse, patient care assistants (PCA), unit secretary and a social worker. Other auxiliary staff from other departments such as laboratory, radiology,…

we learned about different health field careers in order to decide if nursing was right for us since it is such a competitive major at IUPUI. There were over six hundred pre-nursing students the first semester, so they wanted to narrow it down to the people who truly want to become a nurse and nothing else considering only ninety people get in the nursing program per semester. Toward the end of this class, I decided that nursing was not something I wanted to do anymore. I decided that I wanted…

college was best suited for me. Another thing I had to consider was, who had the best nursing program. Out of all the different options of colleges I had to choose from; in the end my decision was simple! I chose Davenport University! People ask me why Davenport University? I always reply to them, Davenport welcomed me with open arms! All their staff is super friendly and helpful. Davenport has a wonderful nursing program, small class sizes, teachers who actually want to see you succeed and…

the MDS department. Her management experience includes three years as MDS supervisor and twenty plus years as a director of nursing at Francis Marion Manor Health & Rehabilitation. Seventeen years ago, Dawn was also my Certified Nursing Assistant instructor whom vastly influenced my own nursing career. I consider her my nursing mentor and role model in this dynamic nursing profession. Dawn was eager to assist me with this assignment. During the interview, Dawn stated there are several key…

Being declared as a pre-nursing major, this counter argument is not something that should be even placed into the picture. A nurse is someone with a soft loving touch. They are the person who doesn’t care about getting all the credit of caring a patient or resident back to full health. Becoming a nurse is a dream for many people who are compassionate about healing, who could care less about the reward. A nurse’s reward is seeing a patient be able to walk again, or even being able to see Mrs.…