FED UP CNAS!!!!

Cnbyrum · Jul 15, 2009

I know i am fed up! I have been a CNA for over a year now and I do home health care, I make a puney $9 dollars an hour, never had a raise, i work 7 days a week and I go to school to get my RN, I have a full schedule and I am still on call for staff relief at my company. I give baths and wipe butts all day long, run people to the grocery store, the doctor, the pharmacy, and to pay their bills. I spend more money helping these people than I make, I am not appreciated by my paitents, never do i hear a "thank you" or "I appreciate your help" they just think that its my job so it doesnt matter. Every paitent I have ever had tells me that I am the best aide my company has ever sent out to their home. But I get no appreciation from my boss or my paitents. I am fed up is it any better working in a hospital or LTC?

mochabean · Jul 16, 2009

I know i am fed up! I have been a CNA for over a year now and I do home health care, I make a puney $9 dollars an hour, never had a raise, i work 7 days a week and I go to school to get my RN, I have a full schedule and I am still on call for staff relief at my company. I give baths and wipe butts all day long, run people to the grocery store, the doctor, the pharmacy, and to pay their bills. I spend more money helping these people than I make, I am not appreciated by my paitents, never do i hear a "thank you" or "I appreciate your help" they just think that its my job so it doesnt matter. Every paitent I have ever had tells me that I am the best aide my company has ever sent out to their home. But I get no appreciation from my boss or my paitents. I am fed up is it any better working in a hospital or LTC?

Nope!

sonomala · Jul 16, 2009

I got fired recenly because, another CNA verbally abused me throwing the F word out and verbally and physically abused a resident! I reported to the DON and 2 days later i got phucken fired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about that???!!!

I saw that happen tons of times! It sucks for hard working people!

marineswife0809 · Jul 16, 2009

lol u tell me i hate it....i jus wanna do home care jus one patient and no bs:yeah:

dedream · Jul 17, 2009

:bow: Hats off to all of u....I sooo know about what u guys are going through. I get sent to different units, different facilities on a daily basis and so every day that I work its a different scenario with little to feel happy about. I keep telling myself that at least this all counts to "experience" and once the economy gets better maybe I can shop around for a facility that respects cna..... sadly I fear that this may never happen.

tishirajan · Jul 18, 2009

I'm fed up with co-workers that leave their job half done and having to go behind them and clean up their messes. I hate that! I so agree with what everyone has said. I hate having to wash the crap out of dirty linens! Isn't that what the laundry people are supposed to do? I have a ton of things to get done and having to stop to wash the crap out of the sheets and clothes just takes the time I could have used to do more important things! Like making sure Mrs. Hooha is taken to the toilet so she doesn't poo all over herself to begin with!

I also hate it when a co-worker will run all over the place to find me to tell me I have a light going off!!! Why can't they answer the stupid thing to begin with and tell me what the resident needs?

Don't give me report and tell me everyone has just been changed and I go and find half my residents with freakin' brown rings!!!! That really chaps my behind!

I'll be so glad to get through school. I'll never treat my aides like some of the nurses I have worked with have treated me. I'll always answer a light and help them out. I'll never put myself above the aides. Without the aides, the whole place would go the h*** in a handbasket! CNA's deserve more recognition and respect than they get. I'm going to make sure they know they are appreciated.

cooly · Jul 19, 2009

I just HATE my job to the core.At my unit, most of nurses just dont respect the cna`s as humanbeings.but what really hurts me most is that some of them were once in the same position b/4 they became RN.One thing I`ve realised is that they dont use those with the attitude.

Nina,CNA · Jul 20, 2009

i have been a cna for over a year now and i have witnessed an awful amount of turmoil between nurses and cnas but also between two groups of cnas. cliques have almost torn the entire wing apart. i am mostly aggravated by the lack of respect many cnas have toward each other. it is obsurd that we are in the same position and are trying to tear each other a part for absolutely no reason at all. we are suppose to be a team. i feel like i have given and given to the members of all the cliques only to have no help in the end. i have been on fmla for the last couple months and i am hoping things have straightened out since i have been gone.

also, we should watch how we interact with our nurses. if we come to them with attitude or hostility, what do you really expect. i feel like most of my nurses are fair as long as they are treated with the same respect that you would want.

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Jul 20, 2009

We have CNAs that are really good. Then there are a bunch that are lazy and a few more who are so inept they can't even finish their assignment without being "rescued" by someone else.

Not to toot my own horn, but I think I'm good at my job and good to work with, and have been told as much by several other CNAs and nurses. And I've noticed that lately, none of the good CNAs get to work with each other! The stick us with the same crappy coworkers all the time. Before supper when I'm getting people up from their naps I take down the beds and get everything out for HS care. Meanwhile my lazy coworker is only doing that for her own rooms. Then after supper I run my butt off putting people to bed. Then I pass the snacks and do a round. Meanwhile the lazy aide has finished her assignment, wrote that all her people are dry without even checking them, and is sitting at the nurses' station pretending to do paperwork and texting on her phone, or leaving the hall altogether to visit other people. When I'm done with my rounds and snacks I see that my other spazz coworker is only halfway done with her assignment. I helped her put a bunch of people to bed earlier and I have no idea how she's managed to do so little since. So I help her out until she's done. And then it's time for last rounds. And then the next night they stick me on another hall with a different set of lazy people. Then on the rare occasion I actually do get to work with conscientious people it's like a dream. The last time that happened I was so relaxed all night, and then I realized it was because the aide who you have to follow all night fixing her mistakes was not there.

pca_85 · Jul 22, 2009

My pet peeves: CNA comes into a room while you're up to your elbows in any number of bodily fluids and leaves the door open. Hello! Aid before you that leaves alarms off and gets an attitude when you frantically run to turn them off. Aids who do peri care with no gloves, don't wash their hands, then pat me on the face and tell me Im pretty. The person who passes one tray and starts feeding. And the thing that made me sick: a tub of A&D with traces of BM in it that was used as lip gloss by an aid! Dude, that's like rubbing someone's butt on your lips!

GCTMT · Jul 22, 2009

The only thing that really bothers me is the staffing ratio. I can deal with the other BS.

From 7 am to 7pm, 1 CNA for 12 residents. From 7pm to 11pm, 1 CNA for 17 residents. Then from 11pm to 7 am the next day, 1 for 25.

I realize a lot of folks probably have worse ratios, but I think ours are ridiculous.

NurseCubanitaRN2b, BSN, RN · Jul 22, 2009

There are little things here and there that I'm fed up with. It's the do this and go do that. The nurse going from room to room looking for you AND THEN taking you to the room that has the breakfast tray and ask you to take it to the kitchen. Yet, they could have done it themselves. My patient load really isn't that bad, but on the positive note. I enjoy giving the bed baths, I enjoy having that one on one with my patient and learning about them. It makes them more comfortable with you and makes their stay more pleasant.

I really am content overall to be a CNA but I also feel guilty telling the nurse that the patient needs this and the patient needs that. Like something for pain, or they need some MOM or something like that. I feel like I'm bothering them and I'd like to do it myself to save time, but it's out of my scope of practice. So that's one of the reasons why I want to be a nurse. But if I could get at least $10.00 more an hour what I'm making now in this day in age, then I'd stay a CNA. I like not being involved in all that political junk. I hate some of the headaches that the RN's have to go through, and even the LVN's. I just enjoy the bedside part of the CNA job. If that makes any sence.