CNA problems w/ accusations

[notsoinocent88]

I am working at a local long term care facility. I have had my CNA status since Oct. of 07 but only have 14 month of actual working experience. I was unemployed from March '08 untill August '09. Have been at the same place for since August. I have had to call in multiple time (almost excessively) due to the fact of 3 deaths in family, several immediate family member being hospitilized, and rarely being sick. I belive that I have missed about 20 days of work 5 of those were due to me being sick 3 of those were doctor excused. I have been written up twice once for the shift after mine claiming that I left 3 of my 24 resident I had to provide care for wet, putting multiple breifs on residents, and failure to have residents in dinning room. This write up I contested and had removed from my file because 1. we were short staffed and assigned 12 residents more than usually assigned 2. people are going to soil and if only 3 of 24 voided after I completed my rounds I thought they were lucky 3. When it came time for breakfast and to get the people into the dinning room, had already been done while taking the barrels out.

The other time that I had been written up is for "failure to provide care" which I'll talk about in a min.

Ok so now that my background is covered I can further state that I know I'm an excellent CNA. Residents that

The problem that I am having is a LPN just out of school started a month after me. Everything was ok we got along fine untill about a month later when I was needing her to change a residents breakdown dressing. The resident had to be in the dinning room at 7 am. I asked her to change the dressing at 4:30 am and twice after. At 6:50 the dressing had not been changed when asked her again she told me that she would get to it when she could get a min. So I asked another nurse to change the dressing for me. The nurse told me that she would see what she could do. Like a min or two later the first nurse was changing the dressing but was furious at me for asking another nurse to dress the wound (I think that she got scolded) and while I was assisting her with the dressing (she did a really poor job so bad that I actually had to get more gauze and tape after she left the room to cover the wound, which made her look worse because a CNA had to fix her work). After then she is the only nurse that I have had problems with. Every time that we work together she is always looking for something to write me up for. She is the one that wrote me up for failure to provide care. When she wrote me up the paper that I signed stated that I did not provide care to residents. I argued with her infront of another nurse but she won because it was my word against hers and they believed her before me. I was taken off the schedule for three days. Well last week I was very dizzy and not feeling well due to fluid in my inner ear. It was bad enough that I asked another CNA for assistance to transfer someone that I could have usually picked up and carried like a baby(not that I would) because I didn't want to take a chance of hurting her. Well an hour before time to leave to go home the CNA come to me and said that since it was almost time to leave that if I would complete my rounds a little early and made sure that my residents that were required to be up and ready she would watch my section of the hall. I told her that I would really appreciate it and that I would owe her big time. When I asked the nurse she said that I could go home but she would have to tell the ADON about it because she would find out any ways because of the time card reports. I told her that was fine and I would for a fact be back that night no matter what I felt bad enough about leaving early that I took the barrels out so that the CNA that covered for me wouldn't have to. When I reported for work I had been taken off the schedule for three days because the nurse said that she had sent me home because I was crying, being dramatic and that it was easier for her to do my last round than to put up with me. When I told the nurse supervisor what really happened she stated that she was told nothing like my story and that it would be discussed on monday with the adon. I really think this nurse is out to get me. And so do some other people my work is never questioned with other nurses and the one or two times that I am asked about something I tell what happened (not an excuse I don't belive in excuses) and fix it. (usually its I forgot to re-zinc or put back on the person's turn schedule).

Does anyone else have problem like this?