Anyways, my name is Nick(im straight by the way)haha. Anyways I am new here, I just got my CNA certification in July, and I started a new job about 3 weeks ago. I couldnt handle the stress of it and just tonight had to quit. I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a law regulating how many residents a cna should be able to work with in a rehabilitation center(its more like a retirement home)? This is the first job I had that was night shift, so it was hard to adjust, then they threw at me 22 residents a night. Like I said, i am just starting off and I am only 19, so this is a whole new world for me. Even my instructer for my CNA class said that they were handing off to many residents, even for night shift. So I would like your input, maybe I should be in a different section.
1-19 pt's is a lot, but if you're gonna be working night shift in a ECF, the ratios are def gonna be crappy. Sad but true. 9 times outa 10, it's all about the almighty dollar, and the administrator isn't gonna change that. Maybe you should think about trying to work in acute care, where there are less pt's, just higher acuity.
2-I don't give a rip who ya sleep with. In my experience, live and let live. I will say that in nursing, you'd better expect to be tolerant LOL. I've worked with gays, lesbians, and all in between. A nurse is a nurse is a nurse. I care bout how you do your work on the job, and how you can react in an emergent situation(work in ICU here).
Hi I'm Mark (I'm straight too btw hurr hurr), I'm an RN and I used to work as an aide at a nursing home. We'd have 30 pts for 2 CNAs with a few of them being total care. It really does depend on how much assistance the patients require on whether an assignment is fair or not (we call that acuity). There is no law that I'm aware of that governs CNA staffing, sorry!
Maybe we can get a gay male nurse to weigh in on this ratio issue?
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1-19 pt's is a lot, but if you're gonna be working night shift in a ECF, the ratios are def gonna be crappy. Sad but true. 9 times outa 10, it's all about the almighty dollar, and the administrator isn't gonna change that. Maybe you should think about trying to work in acute care, where there are less pt's, just higher acuity.
2-I don't give a rip who ya sleep with. In my experience, live and let live. I will say that in nursing, you'd better expect to be tolerant LOL. I've worked with gays, lesbians, and all in between. A nurse is a nurse is a nurse. I care bout how you do your work on the job, and how you can react in an emergent situation(work in ICU here).