What Does Being a *CNA Mean to Me?

Thoughts on Nursing

Encouraging, observing, supporting, Giving, tender-loving care. Listening, teaching, reinforcing, Offering empathy or prayer. Orienting, educating, managing, Planning discharges with a goal. Meeting the varied needs of the client, Respecting the ever-changing role. Assessing, planning, evaluating, Implementing the "Plan of Care". Identifying the threatening complications, With the knowledge that we bear. Continuing education programs, Practicing a life-saving skill, Challenging new information, sharing, Updating policy-procedures at will. Stayiing close by the bedside, As the patient ceases breath. Offering comfort to the family Who are grieving after death. Nursing, a satisfying profession, Touching lives from cradle to grave. Maturing with each encounter Giving quality to the lives we save. -- Bonita Kilgore, RN

A Poem for Friends

Maybe God wants us to meet a
Few wrong people before meeting
the right one so that when we finally
meet the right person, we will know
how to be grateful for that gift.

When the door of happiness closes,
another opens, but often times we look
so long at the closed door that we don't
see the one which has been opened for us.

The best kind of friend is the kind you
can sit on a porch and swing with,
never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best
conversation you've every had.

It's true that we don't know what we've
got until we lose it, but it's also true
that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.

Giving someone all your love is never an
assurance that they'll love you back!
Don't expect love in return; just wait
for it to grow in their heart
but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone,
an hour to like someone,
and a day to love someone,
but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive.
Don't go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile because it
takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
Find the one that makes your heart smile.

There are moments in life when you miss someone
so much that you just want to pick them from
your dreams and hug them for real!

Dream what you want to dream; go where you
want to go; be what you want to be,
because you have only one life and one
chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow
to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

Always put yourself in others' shoes.
If you feel that it hurts you,
it probably hurts the other person, too.

The happiest of people don't necessa! rily
have the best of everything;
they just make the most of everything that
comes along their way.

Happiness lies for those who cry,
those who hurt, those who have searched,
and those who have tried, for only they can
appreciate the importance of people who have
touched their lives.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss
and ends with a tear.
The brightest future will always be based
on a forgotten past,
you can't go on well in life until you let go
of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and
everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one who is smiling and
everyone around you is crying.

Teach us our Lord,
to be sweet and gentle
in all the events of life-
in disappointments, in the
thoughtlessness of others,
in the insincerity with those
we trusted,
in the unfaithfulness of those
on whom we relied.


Let us put our self aside,
to think of the unhappiness of others,
to hide our little pains and
heartaches,
so that we may be the only one
to suffer from them.


Teach us to profit by the suffering
that comes across
our path.


Let us so use it
that it may mellow us,
not harden nor embitter us;
That it may make us patient,
not narrow, haughty
and overbearing.

May no one be less good for having
come within our influence.  No one
less pure, less true, less kind, less noble
for having been a fellow traveler
in our journey toward
ETERNAL LIFE.


As we go our grounds from one
distraction to another, let us
whisper from time to time a word
of love to Thee.  May our life be
lived in the supernatural, full of
power for good, and strong in its
purpose for sanctity.

AMEN!!

Poem for a Friend

by Linda

 The sun slowly lowers in the western sky,
 as sadly to my dear friend, I bid farewell and goodbye.
 
 Who decides the time we have to live, mature and grow,
 and who decides the time when we have to say, "It is now I must go"?
 
 For many a year I have lived upon this planet called Earth,
 a journey of friendship, love, tears and a child's wondrous birth.
 
 I have followed my heart and treated all men equal and fair,
 and yes many a time that cross has been difficult to bear.
 
 Good friends have helped me through these long, sometimes lonely years, and with each of their passing I can't help but shed for them some of my tears.
 
 I feel sadness and immense bittersweet sorrow,
 to know that from today I'll never see my friend in the morrow.
 
 I am however grateful for one thing on this sad and bleak day,
 of that we were good friends for many a fine day.
 
 So go with good speed to that place upon high,
 and join those I love dearly who have already passed me by.
 
 I know not when I will join you and one day it must be,
 but until then your memory will stay alive, forever within me.

*****End*****

soMebody'S coNfEsSiON

Lyrics :

[Dice]
Juz' call me first born, you're my first love,
You're my 1st kiss from up above.
And I don't care if you don't give love back
Coz' n my heart is where your ass is at.
I love your eyes , your nose & your tender lips,
Wanna kiss your neck, your shoulders to your finger tips.
I go crazy when you shake those sexy hips.
Baby girl you're the 1 I can't resist.
You know I love you from the very start, I don't care if you break my heart.
I'm the man & I'm here for you, believe me coz' my love is true.

[CHORUS]
[Sashi]
Itsumo kokoro we hoshi itstuka
Dare katu mata koi nei utchitimu
Itsumo kokoro nei eiro itsumo
Anata dake no basho ga aru kara

[K9]
You wanna get down with k-n-i-n-e, make sure that's pure l-o-v-e
Never talk about the i-c-e coz' I only got my h-e-a-r-t for y-o-u
I can't pay the bills for dinner, I juz' give them my IOU
For sure, I'm not after f-u-c-k, got no b-a-d intentions don't wanna play girl,
Maybe we might spot a UFO, wait, that's not part of the rhyme juz' felt like sayin' so
You gotta know that I love from the start till f-o-r-e-v-e-r.

[CHORUS]
[Sashi]
Itsumo kokoro we hoshi itstuka
Dare katu mata koi nei utchitimu
Itsumo kokoro nei eiro itsumo
Anata dake no basho ga aru kara

[Dice]
Baby girl be my first lady, be the mom of my first baby
You didn't like me when you first show me, I'll be gentle I'll do it slowly.

[K9]
Girl, I think it's better if you was with me, I got doe coz' I juz' won the spelling bee
For you, I got all the t-i-m-e Ask mommies to pass but I'm not so sure
Juz' doin' my on thing, shits more expensive than your fancy gold rings,
I don't mean dissin' coz' I gots to go there, mommies don't care,
All for them ladies, even chicks with nose rings.

[CHORUS]
[Sashi]
Itsumo kokoro we hoshi itstuka
Dare katu mata koi nei utchitimu
Itsumo kokoro nei eiro itsumo
Anata dake no basho ga aru kara

[CHORUS]
[Sashi]
Itsumo kokoro we hoshi itstuka
Dare katu mata koi nei utchitimu
Itsumo kokoro nei eiro itsumo
Anata dake no basho ga aru kara