Any daycare that operates until 12 midnight or 7am- 3pm LTC jobs

As a new CNA, it's going to be difficult to get straight 7-3. Everyone wants to work straight daylight, so if anyone is allowed to, it's going to be the senior staff. Often facilities will require you to rotate two shifts.


I'm also in the PGH area. Do you have a car? I know some of the hospitals have on site daycare, which might be more flexible.

Hi Malima,

Don't know if this will help, but I thought I would add it....

Since I had just moved to a new city (NYC) and was taking my CNA class, I wanted to pick up some babysitting jobs to do on the side. I was nervous about going through craigslist, so I searched and found a site that may be useful to you: www.sittercity.com
From a babysitters point of view it seemed very safe to use (better than craigslist). I paid to have a background check done on me, created a profile w/ picture for parents to view, listed times that I was available for babysitting. I have had several families contact me and I am now sitting for 2 little ones while searching for CNA jobs..... I've been very happy with it from this end.

Not sure about the details of using it from a parents perspective, but thought I would throw it out there. There are probably many similar sites out there as well......

good luck!! and don't give up!

There is a Sunrise Senior Living in Monroeville. I would apply there. They are a large corporation, and most of their facilities are larger with many different "departments," so to speak. The local Sunrise gave me my first CNA job, 7A-3P. Since they are larger, with more employees, there are often more openings. Good luck to you!

That's pretty much the term they use. Once they hire you, your nametag will say CNA, but the thing is you don't have to be a CNA to get hired for that position, but it definitely makes them consider your application more and if you are a CNA you get paid more for the same work. Most Sunrise facilities have assisted living parts, and skilled nursing parts. The skilled nursing area is more like a nursing home, whereas the assisted living part is less clinical, as in.. less transfers, less catheter care, bedpans, bedbound residents, etc. There is still incontinence & toileting, showers, dressing, etc. I work in the alzheimer's/dementia assisted living unit, and we are assigned to a group of 8 residents that we will be working with every time we work (unless we're filling in for someone.) We get to know those residents, their likes and dislikes, hobbies, history, routine, etc. Since it is less hectic than a skilled nursing unit, we often have time to just chat with the resident, or do a puzzle with them, or something similar. I thought I wanted something more clinical, but I wouldn't have it any other way right now.

However, the coordinator on my unit said that sometimes the cnas will transfer to skilled nursing if they don't feel like it's a clinical enough environment (usually the nursing students.) So once I hit nursing school, I may do that too.

Oh, and just to add, you do have to be a CNA to get hired for the skilled nursing part. All the "caregivers" or "care managers" that I work with in the assisted living unit are CNAs, though.