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Lift Safely!

You should have proper lifing equipment at wherever you are working, but we still have to pull people up in bed. Always make sure you have a lift buddie and that you are using a draw sheet. Make sure your lifting using a straight back and using the power of your legs and arms. It also helps to bring the bed up so that your not bending over a lot. For heavy patients, bring the foot of the bed up so that your working with gravity when your ready to boost them up. Protect those backs! I cant tell you how many times Ive strained those muscles even when Im trying to be careful.

Some Help For Dry Hands

If your anything like me, you wash your hands a thousand times during your work week which leaves your hands really dry. Heres some things you can do at home to help.

1. Prepare an olive oil bath. Fill a bowl with lukewarm water. Add 4 Tbsp. olive oil to the water. Soak your hands in the bowl for 10 to 15 minutes. Rinse your hands with tepid water. Pat your hands dry until just damp. Apply a moisturizing lotion.

2. Apply a coating of petroleum jelly to your hands before bedtime. Cover your hands with thin cotton gloves or cotton socks.

3. Steam your hands. Cover your hands in petroleum jelly. Run hot water in the bathroom sink. Place your hands in the resulting steam and keep them there as long as comfortable. Rinse and dry your hands.

4. Buy an aloe vera plant. Cut off one of the leaves. Rub the leaf onto your dry hands to smooth and soften your skin.

Just a Nurses Aide

Someone asked me what I do for a living. I said, "Im a nurse's aide. I work in a nursing home." The person made a face and quickly changed the subject.
A lot of people dont't understand my job. Many people wouldn't do my job. "Not for all the money in the world," they say. Neither would I. There is something special; about this job. My patients NEED me. They depend on me. I not only care for them: but about them as well.
Being a nurse's aide is not a glamorous job! Its an important one though. I take pride in my job and in my work. There is much to learn. I try to improve my skills and myself. Things do get hectic. Sometimes the call bells seem to go off all at once. Family members ask to do this or that. They all want priority. I do the best I can.
My work is the kind of work many sons and daughters cant and wont do! Yet somebody has to take care of the sick and the old. So I bathe and shower my patients wantthem to be fresh and clean. I comb and brush their hair. I want them to look nice. Their hands shake and tremble so I have to cut their food and help them eat. I want them to get proper nourishment. Now do you understand why my job is so important? These people really need ME. They depend on ME. Thats why I feel I am a very special person. Even though I am "just a nurse's aide."
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The History Of Nursing Assistants

The idea of training a corps of nursing aides was first considered in 1912. it was not until World War I, however, that the first nurses's aides were trained to work in army hospitals. About 1,000 of this early group served overseas. After the war, the focus of the aides changed, and they were called health aides. They worked in clinics, visiting nurse associations, and other non-hospital locations.

In 1940, when the Red Cross foresaw the need to expand the group, they placed the emphasis of nurse's aide training on hospital procedures. The official title of this expanded group became Volunteer Nurses's Aide Corps. The entry of the United States into World War II accentuated the shortage of nurses, and the American Red Cross joined forces with the Office of Civilian Defense. The corps members wore a light blue jumper over a white blouse and a blue and white cap.

Although officials predicted that the end of the war and return of the nurses from military service would eliminate the need for nurses's aide's, they were proven wrong. Time has shown that the need for good health care assistance, now provided by nurse assistants and home health aides, still continues in the community.

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