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1. CNAS, what's it like at your nursing home/long term care facility?

   blue cna replied to blue cna's topic in CNA/MA

   Happy Holidays everyone. Keep strength through your work days!!!:heartbeat

2. I may have to quit

   blue cna replied to Penny82's topic in CNA/MA

   did you go on the vacation, what happened?

3. CNAS, what's it like at your nursing home/long term care facility?

   blue cna replied to blue cna's topic in CNA/MA

   I don't understand why LTC places are like this! It would seem like it would be the opposite way around! Low pay for what we do, when nurses sit on their butt and 'chart' all day and get paid 3 times as much! We should get paid a hell of a lot more, ...

4. CNAS, what's it like at your nursing home/long term care facility?

   blue cna replied to blue cna's topic in CNA/MA

   im out of that place now, i couldnt take it anymore! im staying prn though

5. want to quit my CNA job, need advice

   blue cna replied to sourapril's topic in CNA/MA

   dont feel bad. this was me when i started. and depending on the work load, work will be torture the whole time youre there. i just quit my cna job after being there 6-7 months because the environment was hostile, people refused the hard assignments s...

6. CNA wear

   blue cna replied to Chris NS's topic in CNA/MA

   if you're going to be a cna, you'll be sweating buckets the whole time, you wont need a jacket

7. The NOC shift doesn't wake up ANYONE in the morning...is this normal?

   blue cna replied to emily_ganshert's topic in CNA/MA

   I work 3rd shift, after a crazy exhausting night we have to get up as many as we can by 7:30, starting at 6. they are all total care and it takes time. day shift always says we dont get up enough people and are always asking us who we are getting up ...

8. Why You Rock

   blue cna replied to Cinquefoil's topic in CNA/MA

   what happened?

9. What you'd REALLY like to say....

   blue cna replied to ICor9:24's topic in CNA/MA

   To the husband of a 2-3 assist total care patient, stop acting like it takes too long for us to get to your wife to change her or put her on/off the commode. We have tried to hold her up and wipe her 5-6 times already in the past 20 minutes. SHE'S NO...

10. CNAS, what's it like at your nursing home/long term care facility?

    blue cna posted a topic in CNA/MA

    I'm getting really burned out with a lot of things going on in the facility I work in. Way too many things to name. What's it like where you work in terms of call-ins, scheduling, lazy cnas, mean residents, cold DONs, favoritism, work load, etc. ?

11. How much homework for CNA class?

    blue cna replied to cantfindmyshoes's topic in CNA/MA

    i had no homework besides studying what we went over in class

12. When should I call?

    blue cna replied to Beccasaur's topic in CNA/MA

    when i apply anywhere no matter what job i usually call about 3 days later, tell them my name, and that i turned in an app, and ask if they are hiring

13. Question about 3rd shift?

    blue cna replied to mommyof2nc's topic in CNA/MA

    i thought the same thing about the place i did my clinicals, which is where i work now. beware

14. Are you happy at your workplace?

    blue cna replied to Poi Dog's topic in CNA/MA

    no, theres a lot of backstabbing where i work and a lot of people are against eachother. people refuse to do certain things and people refuse to do certain sides of the building. one side is way harder than the other. people call in all the time. peo...

15. How physically demanding is working as a cna?

    blue cna replied to j119's topic in CNA/MA

    no no no no no no, you wont be able to do anything you need to in ltc. in ltc there is no easy work. it is VERY physically demanding and you sweat bullets allllll day and you will have enough pain from the job alone, you wont be able to do it with ha...