Search Results

I would say yes, that is how it really is. Sometimes you just have to use what you've got (and I am not saying this is RIGHT, but I am saying this does happen in real life). In my unit we haven't had...

My facility in Wisconsin also doesn't care if we have it or not.

Everyone I know dreads them. If students are around we need to do things more 'by the book' rather than how things are actually done in real life. We had a group of students a few months ago and a...

Good for you! We have done things like this at my LTC facility and I have never heard or even thought there could be something wrong with doing so. One resident with long hair had literally one...

Wish I knew. I've been a CNA for only 2 years and some mornings I can barely get out of bed because my feet have hurt since I started. Can't remember the last time my back didn't hurt either. My...

I'm a CNA in the dementia unit of an LTCF and I can't imagine behaving this way towards my nurse. I would expect to be fired for yelling at a nurse-no question. If we are having a slow night and have...

My class ended in the beginning of November and I took my test the following January 3rd. I didn't crack my book the entire time and had no trouble whatsoever with the written portion. I focused all...

Still not on there? I tested in WI through Pearson Vue and was on the registry the next day...

Have you looked here? Pearson VUE: Choose your state then scroll down and click 'search nurse aide registry.

Well-I think your mistake was telling the night nurse to have the night CNA do it because you had been waiting 30 minutes...If a nurse asks me to go do something-whether it's an am, pm, or noc-I go...

I don't remember if I was asked about having kids or not, but at my LTCF full-timers work every other weekend, while part timers work two weekends on, one weeknd off.

I can't speak from personal experience, but my coworkers who have been/are pregnant work right up until their due date. In fact, one of my coworkers is due this Friday and she is scheduled for work...

LTCF in Wisconsin, no experience, started in 2011 at $11.08 per hour with .50 differential for PMs, and .50 for weekends. One step raise so far and am up to $11.49.

I'm a CNA in a LTCF and we got $25 Walmart gift cards. We also get double time and a half for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

I am a CNA in a LTC facility. Last year our nurse got the 6 of us (all the regulars on her unit) each big bottles of Bath and Body Works lotion and body wash, and a glass snowflake ornament. This...

Most of the CNAs at my LTCF have tattoos and many have helix or nose piercings, gauges, etc. I've never heard anyone mention them, and they don't need to be covered. I did need to cover my helix...

Caller ID ;) I never answer my phone if I don't want extra hours.

They can mandate at my facility(WI). Normally it would be the person with the least seniority who gets stuck being mandated for the next shift, but I haven't seen it happen to much. Normally someone...

I've been a CNA for a year and a half and my personality has changed drastically. I dread my job, sometimes I cry when I get up to go in for my shift. It's constant stress. Away from the job I am...

I'm glad we don't take vitals at my LTCF. We didn't even learn to take blood pressure in my class.

It's my one day off and I'm sitting here with a back pain patch on. I'm exhausted all the time and I can barely put weight on my feet every morning. I don't remember what it's like not to be in pain...

My facility provided gait belts if you didn't already have one, and it was part of your uniform. But then last year they decided we are NOT to carry gait belts, but rather each resident would have...

Sorry for being off topic, but I'm curious...why can't beds be against the wall? Almost all the beds in my facility are up against a wall...

Our instructor gave us applications to the local nursing home on our last day of class. After I passed my test and got my card, I took my application down there and waited over an hour to hand it to...

Yes...listen!!! We KNOW our residents! Just the last few weeks my coworkers and I notied some changes in one of our residents...no one took us seriously. We brought it up to all our nurses...still...