:chuckle I'm only a CNA but plan on atteding nursing school within the next year. The LTC facility where I recieved my CNA training is a wonderful place it has its ups and downs but I know now its the best in my area. I left this :balloons: wonderful place cause I was so stressed out we were really under staffed and people were getting laid off since census was so low. I know now all I really need was a couple extra days off to rest. Cause by the time I left things were starting to look up. Instead I let myself work at a horrible facility an now I feel terrible .
But I didn't realize what good training I had recieved until I went to work at another LTC facility just two days ago. After you read this you'll see why I quit.
I went in with an open mind knowing it wouldn't be the same. The first night I was kind of disappointed the rooms were a mess stuff stacked everywhere. One resident who was on a ventilator and feeding tube had stuff stacked all around his equip & on his bed he also had BM everywhere did anyone care um no. They said oh he'll get combative and we don't wanna deal with it. Uh that kinda made me mad because well its for his health and safety right?
Anyways the girl that was training me started telling me about some of the nurses that worked there. An well I wasn't very impressed so let me tell ya. One Rn didn't even know how to put a cath in or do suppositories and he wasn't new to nursing. Now heres my question shouldn't an RN at least have the basic idea on doing this? I mean the other LPNs working there were like um excuse me you don't know how to do what. He was basically clueless asking CNAs how to do this and that when um hello aren't you the one that should know. Then I really started to really see what a poor quailty facility it was. Then other nurses would just go into these rants about the residents. We'd say so in so is in pain oh well the'll just have to wait when clearly there sitting on there duffs. Or this person has open sores on there bottom and they were like so what do you want me to do about it. Now I know it can get stressful but this kind of stuff can become quite serious. I really can't even begin to tell you all the horrible things anout that place.arrgh
Also the other cnas were horrible playing on the computer when call lights are going off. Residents are yelling for help people need to be changed. They complain they don't have enough time to complete there work but the sitting on the computer or sleeping yes i saw a cna sleeping on the job. :angryfire
So now I know why people say the LTC facilitys have bad reps its places like this. No one should have to have dirty rooms, pressure sores, be left for hours sitting in there own urine and feces, dirty hair, dirty hands and faces etc. I know that all facilitys don't have adequate staffing but you get through it and do EVERYTHING you can. Its so disappointing to know these places exist it makes you wonder how state can let them get away with it and other places that are great get in trouble for the littlest things.
Now where I had came from 96% of the nurses were wonderful they inspired me to go further in nursing. I thank all those wonderful caring compassionate skilled etc nurses and CNAS out there. Its a great and rewarding profession and its to bad theres other nurses out there that bring such negative reputations to nursing. So all you nurses,furture nurses & cnas keep up the go od work!!!!!!!
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Mystery5
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"only a CNA'?
Hey, I thank God for CNA's like you. You sound like you'll be a great nurse. CNA's are the backbone of LTC, IMO.