amason2021

I recently started at a LTC. And got offered another job at another LTC. How to step down at the primary LTC as PRN? The facility I was offered at today seems lovely.

I left a facility after three weeks in August of last year for the first few issues you mentioned for a hospital setting and best decision ever! And one facility I worked at as a cook, they pulled the same holiday stunt as you mentioned(because two dishwashers were dating, how they allowed that is because the administrators son was the supervisor and the dishwashers and super were best friends, dish people had a kid together and wanted to celebrate with the kid, as if I don't have a step kid myself), this one I'm glad they fired me because they have a host of problems after that.

Received a phone call yesterday to set up an initial phone interview for tomorrow with a recruiter. Any tips on how to ace the generic questions guaranteed to be asked at some point by the recruiter and potentially the hiring manager and potential peer interview? I'm really wanting to be in the department as a pct because I plan to segue into a nurse in the same department after schooling.

Landed an initial phone interview on my dream unit. Any tips on how to field any general questions to ace it and the interview with the potential hiring manager? It's an ICU position.

Same here. At the facility I left, 6 pm to 6 am. After two weeks, I couldn't do it. Apart from bed checks every two hours, and popping people up for breakfast, I couldn't take much of all the down time(among other issues at that facility). But I got lucky at a facility in the city where I was born and raised initially : five days a week, 8 hours, dayshift, lovely staff, lovely facility lovely residents( for the most part) and I work weekends I don't have my step kid. I couldn't refuse the offer, even tho I make a dollar less. But it's worth it.

Lazy nurses(a lot are great, but there are few). A few ungrateful people(but that's every where). Aides/pcts(for hospital people) who refuse to help you when you're busy, but then call for help when THEY NEED help, like really? Condescending attitude from said lazy nurses/unhelpful pcts/aides.

I HATED Ortho when I was in hospital setting. I found my calling(s) in surgical oncology and tele. Loved every minute on both units except my home unit of ortho/neuro/uro(liked the manager but hated ortho, and it was a combination unit of three specialties).

I have no problem with my wages. Just short staffing and others giving me attitude for no reason, OR my personal favorite(insulting others):“she doesn't know how to measure intake" by a seasoned CNA to other aide, about me. Uhm, yes. Yes I do know how. Just because I haven't been in the game long enough, doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing. And the facility I finally got on does offer the extra pay for nights, with 12 hours(which I like from hospital setting to boot, I can get more done in 12 than 8's) and I'm closer to home.

At the hospital where my old unit is at, I had 10. And we were busy. Sometimes I had lazy nurses who refused to help(and I still swear the nurse knew our admit had covid and she refused to tell me till the admit hit the floor, had me give the visitors water even tho she had less going on I.e no drs calling, no meds, nothing, and I was busy, then I got covid from the pt and the visitors!). And sometimes I had more while others had LESS. It's like, th?

The facility I work at is under new ownership. But the cattiness of the staff(most are pleasant to begin with) is down right ugggh. And a resident, who is now hospice due to brain cancer, was groping the aide every time she gave care(and management did nothing prior to resident getting the hospice diagnosis, and she told resident it's inappropriate more than once and she had enough yesterday she refused to go in to give care because of it). And one of my trainers and our administrator got into an argument over lack of hoyer slings and not getting a female resident out of bed due to lack of said slings my first day on the floor. Sigh. I thought this was a nice facility and would be a change of pace for me. Is it that bad or is it 50/50?

In Indiana( I assume Illinois follows the same guidelines), its two showers a week.

The facility I tried to interview at(couldn't hire me until I was on our state's CNA registry, which I got on 1/17/25 with reprocity status, sp, correct me on that), they told me to call when I did. I did that, got scheduled for an interview, then found out they don't have hours, but will keep my background, my application, and my active certification for the state I reside in(yay for being dual certified in two states) for if and when the need arises(yay, I guess). Silver lining is I got hired for another facility today, that's a half hour close to home for me, in the same state. I start that facility that hired me today on Monday.

Has anyone becoming burn out after three months?

Even tho I like hospital setting, but with the unit I'm on and the massive amounts of favorites(even night shift has noticed it) and I'm burning out as a pct on our unit as a result(other units don't have the problems and have noticed our unit is bad enough staff from other units won't come to us to pick up and those who get floated to us LOATHE our unit, and I agree with them), I'm excited to have an interview at a facility in my hometown. The drive may suck based on where I live at presently, but I'm remaining hopeful on getting back in LTC. Just at a better facility where they do clinicals for the CNA classes FOR the local community college in my hometown. They asked me to bring my drivers license and social security to make sure I'm actually the person I said am and not an imposter. And they also asked if I'm certified, which I gladly said I am(just in another state with good standing with them), also asked when I got certified(July of this year). And I will be taking my paper certificate with me to prove my certification(and then transfer that back into Illinois so I can be certified here and Indiana).

Not long but I'm seeing I hate Ortho. While floating on our tele floor, I found I love it as a pct because of teamwork between the nurses and normal tele pcts is much better than ortho.

Pretty much me as a PCT. But I'm ready to go to another unit because I'm dreading going to work every day just because of our unit. I love other units tho. They're more laid back but I'm hating ortho in general.

When I was a transporter at my old hospital eons ago, we made the switch to khaki. Worst color ever.

Even tho I found my calling in cardiac, I still can't resist the pull of LTC. Is it bad I want to come back into LTC but at a different unit as a CNA?

Even tho I'm only a PCT on an ortho floor(I'm not bashing ortho nurses and pct's, I've grown to despise ortho in of itself), I found my calling on our cardiac floor. Family history on my mom's side and the general love and flow of teamwork are pulling me to this unit/speciality. And I was all smiles. The constant beeping from the heart monitors I tuned out but could watch the rhythms and I can ask a nurse what they mean and he or she can tell me without attitude unlike on my home ortho unit(which a lot of nurses and pcts have major attitudes when you ask them questions, just based on observation). And the heart is a fascinating organ when it comes to procedures(even tho some such as heart transplant recovery is initially done in ICU then they move to cardiac).

In Indiana, we also remove IV's and blood sugars, but we also can tie restraints if the need arises. But we can't remove foleys.

AMEN!!!! Even on my unit, some nurses refuse to even do that, even if they aren't busy. It's like,if you aren't busy, you see me in a room with another fall risk patient tolieting that patient, and answer the call light and ask if I went to the room you just answered the light for, you can just as well do it too. And you have a trainee who can do it too if she's not busy.

Ha! A lot of day shift techs I work with do the same thing: kiss butt with nurses, or managers as with one tech(and this tech is also a tattle tale and is generally hated by most other techs, me included) and or the secretaries.

Ortho/neuro/uro and I despise it. Especially the ortho side of it. When it comes to getting patients up post surgery, our therapy never tells the pcts(who mainly help get patients up) and it drives me nuts. I volunteer on other units and found I love tele and surgery/oncology.

That's what I did at a nursing facility. I had turned in my two weeks, but left sooner because they made me take two halls again. It's unsafe as heck.

Yes, I did.