I'm a 22 year old male whose been a CNA for a little over a year. I've been at my current nursing home facility for 4 months now and I love it so much I want to continue working there after I get my LVN. I know every resident backwards and forwards and nobody has ever complained about my hall during shift changes, I'm just a good CNA.
All my nurses love working with me and some of my CNA coworkers will fight to work with me because they know I'm fair and I always make sure everyone has an even load on the hall. If they pick up one of my residents because I was busy, I pick up one of their residents.
Recently I had a semi-no call no show. I called in saying I'd be late because my babysitter hadn't showed up yet and I couldn't get ahold of her. My babysitter is my mother in law, she finally got ahold of me saying my baby's mother tried to commit suicide and is in the hospital. I was so distraught I didn't call the facility back telling them I was late. I did however go back to work as soon as my rotation started back and told them what happened and that she was now in a mental hospital. They really got on to me for not communicating and told me how difficult it is for the facility to work short. They gave me a written warning.
A couple weeks later I worked 2pm-6am and didn't wake up until 15 minutes after my shift started. I raced over there, clocked in, and sneaked onto my hall. They told me they were fine because they were full-staffed before I got there and someone might even have to go home. However the ADON saw I was late and blew a gasket. She told me I already had a warning for not communicated and I'm now suspended without pay until further notice.
My supervisor and nurses were all upset, they don't want to lose me because they say I'm one of the very few good CNA's that come through the door and other people who are late never get in trouble. It's in corporate hands now whether to keep me, and they'll base their decision not on my work as a CNA but on my time sheets. My supervisor wrote them a letter telling them what a good CNA I am, but she still told me it would be best to start looking for another job, you all know how corporate is :/
I guess my question is, will it be easy to find another job with a termination on my record? My supervisor told me they wont tell them I was fired, they just give them the dates I was employed. I'm still not convinced though.
