To Mars and back: My clinical experience in a nursing home
3-21-2014 Hey guys! I'm sorry I've been away and neglecting blogger for so long. For these past couple months, I've been taking a certified nurse aide (CNA) course and have finished the three longest days I've experienced in a while. I had 3 days of clinicals at a nursing home and I chose to go on the therapy unit. I thought it might be slightly less depressing than working on the long term care unit. One thing I can definitely say is that after finishing those clinicals and then going back to my secretarial-type of job the next day, I feel like a fish thrown onto land for a while and then thrown back into the ocean. Either that, or being teleported to another world and then teleported back. It's all been so surreal and I wonder how long I'll be thinking about this. This experience has really opened my eyes and has me thinking constantly about future senior care. It's not uncommon that the majority of the population has a very negative associat