I was given a trainee for four hours last weekend. I told her to follow me, and I would get her some hands on experience. I love having trainees...when they want to learn. This woman spent most of her time texting, even after i repeatedly told her she wasn't allowed to ahve a cell phone on the hall. I had to force her to come in rooms with me, it was pretty much awful.
Then when I was given her again the next night, the poop hit the fan...literally. Two residents died within 15 minutes of each other, and I was working short with a new aide and this trainee. Since the girl showed no interest in learning the day before, I kind of ignored her, just told her to follow me. Well she did, but later that night (after I had left) she walked out saying she had been there four days and nobody would train her! Well I'm sorry, but I'm not there to train you when YOU get good and ready. I have so much going on it's hard to train people anyways, but if they're willing to learn I'm fine with putting in the extra effort. This girl didn't care (other CNA's said same thing about her) so when I got busy, yes, I didn't sit there and explain everything to her. Needless to say I was offended to a degree. I have always gotten 5 star ratings (preceptors at my facility get evaluated by trainees).
But to end the rant, how many CNA's out there feel they were trained well?
I personally think my training sucked. The other girls were really mean to me. I had to learn everything on my own. I think that's why I feel drawn to new people. I don't want anyone to go through what I went through.
I am a brand new CNA. I had ten class days. Seven of those days were spent with a teacher who used all the class time to tell funny stories about nursing home residents. When we used our textbooks, she read briefly over some text, then flipped pages going, " well, you'll never use that", or " I don't think you'll ever come across this..." or, " that won't be your job". She never assigned homework, or gavequizzes/tests. When we went to clinicals, ( three days) she told us she wouldn't have her students doing the aide's work for them, we should only try to watch and learn 'the basics'. Then she just let us loose in there without any guidnace. She didn't even arrange for us to be matched up with an experienced aide for training. After a couple of hours she called us all back into an empty resident room and wanted us to just hang out until it was time to leave. Five of us decided to stay on the floor and help because we didn't feel we had any of the experience needed to pass the skills test. The employees found the class's attitude so deplorable ( some of the students crashed on the sofas in the lobby and napped.) that later they interrogated all newly hired CNA's to make certain they weren't part of that class!
I passed the written test easily enough ( I read the whole textbook, even the parts she swore we wouldn't use...such as emptying a catheter...which I do use.) but I'm ashamed to say I passed the skills test only because I watched YouTube videos.
I got hired right away at the nursing home. They gave me three days of training, each day with a different aide. The first girl I trained with basically told me all the residents names and divided them into two categories 'sweet' or 'pains'. Then she dumped me off on another CNA. The second day I got a lady who was very nice, and very efficient. She had all the work done by herself and would forget to show me how. My third day of training was during a state inspection. Luckily that day I had a great trainer who kept me close so that I wouldn't be so nervous. The next day I was told to take a hall. I've been there 28 days and am still learning new things everyday that should have been taught either in class or in a longer training period. I'm just now able to go in without scared to death. Those first few days, I jumped every time someone called my name--just sure I had unwittingly injured someone or broken a law and was about to be penalized!
However it sounds like the girl you were training was just disinterested. Don't blame yourself if you tried. There are plenty of apathetic ones out there. The first girl I trained with can be that way...she texts on her phone while feeding a resident...I keep thinking she is going to put the poor woman's eye out one day.
Lucina11
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I am a brand new CNA. I had ten class days. Seven of those days were spent with a teacher who used all the class time to tell funny stories about nursing home residents. When we used our textbooks, she read briefly over some text, then flipped pages going, " well, you'll never use that", or " I don't think you'll ever come across this..." or, " that won't be your job". She never assigned homework, or gavequizzes/tests. When we went to clinicals, ( three days) she told us she wouldn't have her students doing the aide's work for them, we should only try to watch and learn 'the basics'. Then she just let us loose in there without any guidnace. She didn't even arrange for us to be matched up with an experienced aide for training. After a couple of hours she called us all back into an empty resident room and wanted us to just hang out until it was time to leave. Five of us decided to stay on the floor and help because we didn't feel we had any of the experience needed to pass the skills test. The employees found the class's attitude so deplorable ( some of the students crashed on the sofas in the lobby and napped.) that later they interrogated all newly hired CNA's to make certain they weren't part of that class!
I passed the written test easily enough ( I read the whole textbook, even the parts she swore we wouldn't use...such as emptying a catheter...which I do use.) but I'm ashamed to say I passed the skills test only because I watched YouTube videos.
I got hired right away at the nursing home. They gave me three days of training, each day with a different aide. The first girl I trained with basically told me all the residents names and divided them into two categories 'sweet' or 'pains'. Then she dumped me off on another CNA. The second day I got a lady who was very nice, and very efficient. She had all the work done by herself and would forget to show me how. My third day of training was during a state inspection. Luckily that day I had a great trainer who kept me close so that I wouldn't be so nervous. The next day I was told to take a hall. I've been there 28 days and am still learning new things everyday that should have been taught either in class or in a longer training period. I'm just now able to go in without scared to death. Those first few days, I jumped every time someone called my name--just sure I had unwittingly injured someone or broken a law and was about to be penalized!
However it sounds like the girl you were training was just disinterested. Don't blame yourself if you tried. There are plenty of apathetic ones out there. The first girl I trained with can be that way...she texts on her phone while feeding a resident...I keep thinking she is going to put the poor woman's eye out one day.