Now I know it will be hard work, that I am prepared for...
However, since I have been interested in becoming a CNA while going through nursing school I have heard everything from positive experiences to horror stories. One girl told me CNA's basically deal with the nastiest aspects of nursing and for the lowest pay. She told me I would be changing adult diapars all day for $7/hr.
Now I don't mind changing adults, but I at least need to know I can pay my bills if I take this job.
Also a local hospital offers paid training to become a PCT, so maybe if it's truly "paid" I should go for that instead....?
Yeah and if you don't put your parents in a nursing home, then you will be the one wiping their butts.
No one seems to have a problem with the gross stuff involved in caring for babies, and if they do, they get used to it. The difference is that everybody loves babies, but as a society we don't value our elders.
The RN I worked with recently had to clean up the sputum because I was in the restroom. She didn't leave it for me, she cleaned it up. We both hate it, and we both were gagging, but it's part of a nurses job.
I'm in IL....I make around 17/hr at my hospital job. Its a super easy job at a smaller hospital. I still stay on as registry.
I took a much less paying job (around 11.50) because its experience with more acute patients. I figured it would be better experience with nursing school.
I was just offered a position making a base pay of $10.75 with shift differential of $1.25, so $12/hour. I intered at an ALF a few months back and they did 12 hour shifts, no shift differential at $8.00/hour which is less than I made working at the home depot. I was so insulted, but it's an ALF, you don't do as much CNA work (if the ALF is run properly anyways).
Without getting too political, Ive found that CNAs in "red states" are generally the worst paid, and CNAs in "blue states" are paid much better. So if you live in some really conservative anti union southern state, you probably arent going to be paid a living wage as an aide.
I live in a "blue state" that tends to be pro union, hence I probably make a lot more than some aide in Alabama, Georgia or Texas doing the exact same job.
Something to think about the next time you vote, or choose not to vote.
I was so insulted, but it's an ALF, you don't do as much CNA work (if the ALF is run properly anyways).
fuzzywuzzy, CNA
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Yeah and if you don't put your parents in a nursing home, then you will be the one wiping their butts.
No one seems to have a problem with the gross stuff involved in caring for babies, and if they do, they get used to it. The difference is that everybody loves babies, but as a society we don't value our elders.