Certificate at risk

[Diamon1982]

I am a CNA. I reported for work today and clocked in. I then walked to my permanent assignment and saw another CNA there working. I immediately walked over to the DSD office and asked if the CNA I saw was working my assignment? DSD said yes. DSD said she was helping us out and she wanted to work that assignment. She told me I was going to be sent elsewhere. I immediately told her I wasn't accepting being sent elsewhere and that I was leaving. I also told her I would write my resignation letter. She told me if I left she was going to report me to Sacramento for patient abandonment. How was I abandoning my patients if my assignment was given to another CNA. I never received a report on the patients I was going to take care of. Everything happened at the beginning of my shift. Reason I reacted that way, was because this facility over works their CNA's and we are always understaffed. I have become ill with stress and anxiety. I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't provide great care to any patient working under these conditions. Everyday is a different problem. Also, a new person quits everyday. It wasn't professional at all, how I left, but my health is also a priority. Has anyone experience something similar? If so, what do you think is the outlook of my certification? Please advise

[LINY24]

I understand the stress but it is technically abandonment if you clocked in for your shift and you then left, thus abandoning your assignment... the way it works at my facility is that you work for the FACILITY, not for a specific unit/floor. It's great to be assigned "permanently" to a unit of the facility but at any given time you can be floated and expected to work anywhere you're put based on the needs of the facility. It sucks being bumped but it happens to the best of us, sorry to say you were in the wrong here (not to take away from your stress/health situation, just being blunt here). Good luck and hope it all works out for you.

[VampyrSlayer, CNA]

It most certainly is not abandonment. She did not take on any patients, didn't receive report, and didn't accept a change in her case. She should be in the clear. They probably just didn't want you to leave.