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What was your worst and your best experience as a CNA?

Bebi :nuke:

Best: Back about 7 years ago, I started a job in a LTC facility/Rehab center. I was there one day and came across this little lady that was walking funny with her walker, so funny I thought she was going to fall forward on her face! I was told she does that all the time with what she had, which was Huntingtons Disease, all the staff seemed to hate this lady because of her bizarre behaviour and her family would constantly complain about something. Well, I was intrigued about this disease. In all the years of working as a CNA I have never heard of this. The next day I had off, I went to the library and researched Huntingtons Disease. I was forever changed. I started taking my breaks and talking to her and getting to know her more and more, Turns out she loved to talk (even though other people had a hard time understanding her, I understood her perfectly) and we would sit and talk up a storm. She eventually got worse. She couldn't walk, she was becoming more agitated I would rub her back or just read her articles in a magazine. She loved Elvis Presley so I bought a book on Elvis and read her the articles. The staff would get pissed at me for showing her so much attention they would tell me to stop because when I had a day off they would have to deal with her and they didn't want to take the time, typical of some workers unfortunately. I took care of her for 5 years before she passed away, I was so attached to her that after she died I quit my job and left the Nursing Home setting. It taught me that people with this disease are in a prison all on their own.

Taking care of her and being there for her when she would laugh or cry was the best experience EVER!!

Worst: You probably wouldn't believe me on this one!

My best friend and I were working on an Alzheimers wing and directly across the hall from us was the Ventilator wing, Complete with your RT and RN supervisor and LPN expected to be on a vent wing.

We knew that the RT and RN supervisor was having an affair as we were working nights and was within sight of the vent. wing. To make a long story short, they ended up killing a resident with neglect. The things they said after she died and the things they did would make you sick to your stomach My friend and I went to the DON and the Admin., then called the Omsbudsmen and the State for elderly care(can't remember the proper name for them). I left shortly after that episode. I did not want to work in a place where they didnt care what went on. As of this day, as far as I know the RT, LPN and RN still have their licenses and for all I know they are still employed there. We did all we could within our power to have them exposed, it has been MANY years ago and I can not remember their names or the residents name, but it was the worst time of my life!

hello just wantes to say that being a CNA has its ups and down bit for me I think my ups have been great ups and downs I have to say that my worst is when you get close to a res/patient and then they expire on you. This has happened to me several times and i know you are nit suppose to get that close to them but seeing someone everyday and taking care of them I think if you are human you are going to get connected to them. I have been a CNA for 3 years and it stills get to me when one of my res/pts expire because they mean so much to me. I have found that when you are having a bad day that it only takes one res/pt to tell you something and it brightens your whole day and sometimes I even cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So yes I love my job and getting poop on me it part of it but I always keep a change of clothes in my locker just in case.:balloons::balloons::balloons::balloons::balloons::monkeydance::monkeydance::monkeydance:

I have more than one best experience.

The times a resident hugged me.

The times a resident with a severe speech impediment made a big effort to say an understandable word such as nice and kind to compliment me.

The worst----One time a resident stood up out of her wheelchair and fell because she had dementia, couldn't understand she couldn't walk so good anymore, and convinced a family member to take the soft waist restraint off. Me and another CNA put her to bed after she was checked out by the nurse, and during the transfer she screamed loudly. I thought she had a broken bone. It turns out she didn't, she just bumped her arm and got a skin tear during the transfer. I worried all weekend about her. When I got back, I found out she was OK. When I talked to her she didn't remember falling.

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