Do you get a lot of call ins

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Just wondering how many call ins do you get as a CNA or Aide? I wonder if it depends where you work. Are Hospitals and LTC different then Home Care?

I work for a Home Care Agency, and even though we have our own individuel shifts that we get a month in advance, we always have to be prepared that we could get a call in at any moment or day. Mind you we are not obligated to take these shifts, but when another care giver for one reason or another can not take their shift weather it is sickness or their car breaks down extra work calls to try to fill those shifts. I try to help out as often as I can because I feel the days come that things happen in my life and I need to get out of a shift as well. And I have compassion for those that work in scheduling. It is not an easy job to make sure that all our clients are covered. It take many phone calls and detective work sometimes to make it all come together.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Oh my god, when I was working at the nursing home we seriously had call ins at least every other day. It was one of the most aggravating aspects of the job; if they found no one else to fill the position, that means you'd be working short-staffed and have 20+ residents to care for, which was extremely stressful. I hated it because I felt like I couldn't give the type of care the residents needed with those types of ratios. I swear that I'd never seen people call in so much before I worked in a nursing home. It's ridiculous, you'd think in a job where people actually NEED you and depend on you to be there people would be more responsible. I understand if people are genuinely sick and can't come to work, or something else serious comes up, but it's another to call in just because you don't feel like working that way, which is what I have a feeling a lot of these CNAs did.

I wonder if other nursing homes are any better as far as staffing and people actually coming to work goes, but from what I've read this seems pretty much universal in LTC. Which is sad, because it's hellish on both the CNAs and residents when you're perpetually having to work short.

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I hear you turtle Cat. How often would the nursing home call you on your days off to see if you can work when they would be short?

What makes it worse for me is that we have a one on one with our clients so sometimes there is noone there for the client at all because the people that are asighned to that client are either working already, or there are plans that make it impossible to make it. Which makes me go crazy with worry for that client if I can not take the shift because the clients depend on us so much. I know that it is not really my problem if I can not take the extra shift, and I know this is not a perfect world where everything goes the way it is suppose to, but it can bug me to know I can not fix the problem.

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Ha! We have call ins almost everyday! Yesterday we had 3 which meant only 2 aides per station and there are 2 in our nursing home with 80 residents... Ughhh I know how u feel.. I have 2 days off a week and still get called in from time to time because of call ins! Ridiculous! A lot of it I'm sure is because CNA jobs are not hard to find so if they lose that one they can just move to another!

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Oh my god, when I was working at the nursing home we seriously had call ins at least every other day. It was one of the most aggravating aspects of the job; if they found no one else to fill the position, that means you'd be working short-staffed and have 20+ residents to care for, which was extremely stressful. I hated it because I felt like I couldn't give the type of care the residents needed with those types of ratios. I swear that I'd never seen people call in so much before I worked in a nursing home. It's ridiculous, you'd think in a job where people actually NEED you and depend on you to be there people would be more responsible. I understand if people are genuinely sick and can't come to work, or something else serious comes up, but it's another to call in just because you don't feel like working that way, which is what I have a feeling a lot of these CNAs did.

I wonder if other nursing homes are any better as far as staffing and people actually coming to work goes, but from what I've read this seems pretty much universal in LTC. Which is sad, because it's hellish on both the CNAs and residents when you're perpetually having to work short.

That pretty much sums up where I work. Sadly, though, the ones who perpetually call in do so because they have some poor schmuck who will give them money to cover what they lose on their paycheck. I've had them call me on my vacation to come in and work because they were short. Luckily, I was out of town and far enough away that I couldn't help them out. I don't think they realize that it burns out the people who don't call in when they do call in. No one wants to work on a day off; sure, the overtime is good but it also is exhausting.

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Specializes in LTC.

I used to get annoyed when I suspected someone called off for no reason. I don't anymore. I understand that people need "mental health days" and that the reason they called off is none of my business anyway. As long as I get to go home after 8 hours I don't mind working short. What gets me mad is when we're expecting a snow storm so all of second shift calls off BEFORE the roads even get bad and then management forces us to stay over.

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