So I have had about 6 days on the floor at the LTC center during my CNA training, 3 days and 3 evenings. The evenings aren't so bad, and I'm really starting to get the hang of it. The days are a different story. Instead of my trainer letting me be her partner and helping her do all of HER work, her partner can't keep her head out of my trainer's orifice. So when I work with them, I either have to just stand and watch, OR they tell me to do something, then take off and hide from me (pathetic, huh?). I have got to do a few things, but nothing like I SHOULD be doing. I am NOT comfortable with the training I am receiving on this shift. I still don't know what to do, what time to do it, who I will need help with transferring, etc. Not only is the training on this shift terrible, but the trainer's partner is CONSTANTLY running her mouth about somebody (me included, she seems to especially hate me). I tried getting into the paperwork they keep at the nurses station to see if I can find the list of what to do, when to do it but as soon as I touched the file, this horrible partner was yelling for me to come "help" her with a difficult resident. These people really stress me out. The partner doesn't care to be rough with residents and badmouth them. They complain that so and so has rang ALL DAY and they don't need help with this or that and this one said this.. it is awful. I am new to healthcare.. I sure hope it's not like this everywhere..
It's the same at the place I'm doing my clinicals at. There are a few that are really nice there, but mostly they act as if we are just a bother... When we ask for help on something, they will just be like "I'll get someone for you" but never will. A girl in my class said that there were 5 CNA's standing in the hall and they all told her they'd get someone, but there were 5 right there and she *as well as others in my class* said they stood around talking and laughing for like 45 minutes... which is the most we've ever seen any of them, because most the time we can't find them at all!!! It's sad! I do love the residents there though.
I think what makes ours suck so bad is that dinner is a HUGE ordeal...as none of our residents can feed themselves, so it takes about 2 hours. Then we have to take our break, so by the time that's over you only have 2.5 hours to take care of 10-17 residents AND clean AND bed check...which is nearly impossible to do well (as it equals out to barely more than 10 minutes per resident). BLAH staffing. OUr only downtime is the very beginning of the shift when our residents aren't home from school or workshop yet, and then we're busy thinking about how much we have to do when they DO get home.
So you're running on more of a schedule than I am. Our dinner doesn't take long. Many of the residents that needed feeding have passed away and there are only about a handful left as far as I know. In LTC I usually get 20 or so residents. But then again, the acuity isn't nearly so bad.
Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.
Find your best charge nurse at work lpn or rn, you know the good one who is always willing to go the extra mile and take a little time out of there day like me to help there aides, cozy up with them maybe even become buddies and eventually have a chat with them, this is a good way to cover your own @ss, and a good nurse will always take up for their aides, and I garuntee if he/she comes down the floor and sees this behavior they will put a stop to it. Hey I was an aide once, now I am an sicu and er supervisor, hang in there you will make it.Rod RN, BSN
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Our dinner doesn't take long. Many of the residents that needed feeding have passed away and there are only about a handful left as far as I know. In LTC I usually get 20 or so residents. But then again, the acuity isn't nearly so bad.
Catlover71
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When you are done getting your training and licenser switch to home care.