CandyCandelmo1

I spent 30 years in finance before researching my break through into Nursing. I started my prereqs at my local community college, took a paid CNA training course, got my CNA and BLS certificates, quit my job in mortgages making $33 an hour and started a CNA job in a longer term/rehab nursing home. I didn't think I was sensitive to smells but was proven wrong with this job. I was really shocked at the condition of the place. Coming from finance, the offices were beautiful and new. This nursing home was clean but so old, with broken equipment everywhere. I was also surprised that there was no air circulation system. At a nursing home one would think there was a system where smells were being sucked up into an air purifying system, but no, the stench of urine and feces just lingers in the air. I would go home with the smell of urine in my nostrils. I was also surprised by the people I began working with. A LOT of experienced CNA's do nothing and expect their "partner" to do their work for them. I understand the need for people to work together, but I cannot stand for lazy, entitled CNA's doing nothing while I do their work for them. A lot of these CNA's find ways to not be good CNA's.