CNA BURNOUT

[Janis Joplin]

I quit my job as a cna, Dec 2...I felt a huge sense or relief upon doing so. I was there for ten years

I was working on the ''behavioural floor'' for two years..and I made so many realizations of how the place was managed, or lack there of.

Working with broken lifts, being told to use a sling for a sit stand lift, that was broken, being yelled at by the don bc I was intentionally hurting the resident by using the sling the proper way...

Residents wearing the cheapest of diapers, that ripped all of the time, not having diapers and having to go to the store to buy some, while Mangement gets tv's in their offices, as well as new office furniture. Using up the governments money by year end..it was a harsh environment, that I am free of, yet the place still upsets me

Rn's, that just got hired, running to the don with something they thought that heard me say, being threatened all of the time..''you're going to be fired next time you're in my office''..I lived in fear for years.

I never went on stress leave, as many had, b/c they never returned..

I reported an rn for running around 2nd floor with a huge nerf gun, shooting people, cna's, I was told by the don that ''she was probably just trying to lighten things up up there''.this same rn gave a resident the wrong amount of insulin and he went into diabetic shock..she didnt get reprimanded..

BREATHE LOL

I hope to get into another nursing home . The one that I left does not have a good reputation. As a matter of fact most of the new residents are coming from other nursing homes out of town. No more locals..it is very strange

I also noticed where family members took their family member to other, better nursing homes, only to want their family member back where to I worked, bc we did things beyond what other nursing homes would even consider

I think I need to get my upsetness out in a journal..

I feel so badly for the residents that are there. Falling all the time, while doing exercises with physio, becoming wheelchair bound...

It was not a health care setting at all.. Even the head of Union asked me ''why do you even want to work there?"

Sorry for the rant