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I believe people have no conscience anymore. where i work someone stole the battery out of the laptop at one of the stations so now there is no computer there to use to make papers you need to go to one of the other stations. where do people get there nerve.

maybe i should of worked that a little differently. We are getting paid to take care of them and whether it is out of our taxes or directly out of their wallet they still deserve to be taken care of the way we would want to be taken care of. Someone once said to me that a residents bed was not made right and that resident is private pay so would i go in and fix it. That is sooo wrong, it should not of mattered whether he was private pay or not the bed should have been made right.

I work 3rd shift in LTC and have given showers to residents that request them before dayshift arrives. I had one resident who wanted his shower at 4:30 am on Thursdays and it was his right so I gave it and another who wanted hers no later than 5:30 and I had no problem accommodating their wishes. Other aides have told them they must wait till dayshift arrives. In my opinion it is all about what the resident wants....remember they are the ones paying our wages.

I transferred for PA to IA and my DON did what needed to be done for me.

thought about going to work in the hospital but enjoy getting to know the residents LTC and also thought about being a traveling aide but haven't for the same reason.

i work 3rd shift and when we are fully staffed 2 of us to a wing of about 35 residents, and we get between 8 and 10 people up in the morning. However now i work in the altzheimers wing and have 8 residents by myself and really like that too. I liked the main wing but had ankle surgery so was placed in the altzheimers unit full time. when my ankle heals totallly i will probably pick up the shortages on the main floor when i am off.

i failed my test the first time also. My son gave me a bit of advice that was quite helpful. he told me to pretend i was teaching the instructor instead of thinking the instructor was watching me. it calmed my nerves.

when he wants things he wants them right away there is no making him understand he is on a tight budget. he doesn't think things through. there are times he shows me respect and other times he is yelling at me just because i tell him no. he can't just relax he constantly has to be doing something or sleeping. there is alot more i could say but he is sitting here pestering for a cell phone.

my son is paranoia schizrophrenic and he moved back in with us. He is driving my husband and I both crazy. Does anyone have any suggestions. I feel bad for him but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to help him.:icon_roll

Haven"t been here in awhile. I have been quite busy. My son who is schizrophrenic moved in with us and I had to have ankle surgery. I fell on down my steps going to the laundry room and hit my ankle going down. My son is in PA for now but will be back this month sometime. We are trying to see what we can do for living arrangements for him. I feel guilty for saying we can't handle him....but we just can't. I know this isn't the thread for this but you wondered where i have been.

On 3rd shift we work together as we only have 2 aides for almost 40 residents. we get 8 people up in the morning and we each take 4. we are responsible for 1 persons shower on a thurs. morning because he requested to have it before 5 am. It actually goes quite well. You are right about being taken advantage of. I do feel taken advantage of when some of the aides you are helping take it for granted but most of them do appreciate the help. I recently have taken a position in the altzheimers unit which leaves me on the regular floor only 1-2 nights a week. I really like it and since I am only part time on the regular floor I feel like alot of the responsibility has been lifted off of me. Thank You for your input

I don't chart the things that the other aides are responsible for. On third shift we are not responsible for any particular resident we work together on all of them. I have worked at this facility for almost 6 years and the supervisors know that I stay later to help the shift out. They only assign one aide to do showers. the aide showering residents that day had to give someone a whirlpool which is located on another station. The person I showered after I got done with the first 2 was getting upset because she had to wait. I enjoy my job and the girl giving the showers appreciated my help and the RN thanked me for staying and helping out.

Does anyone out there feel like they are taking on more responsibility than they should? I work 3rd shift in a LTC facility. Here is an example of what I am talking about. This morning I was going to give showers to 2 of the residents. One of them it is our responsibility to shower and the other I do because she prefers me to wash her hair because I am very particular about how i wash it because her scalp gets very dry. In the mean time someone else wanted a shower also and the day shift girl was giving another resident a whirlpool bath. I wound up showering her and 3 others. Did not get out till 8:30. I just couldn't see making them wait. One other thing that makes me feel overly responsible is when I am working on the floor I prefer to do the paperwork myself just so I know it was done.

maybe this is the wrong thing to say but sometimes dayshift feels they are the most important shift and the rest of us are there filling in our time. my theory is that every shift is busy and we are all needed. contrary to what dayshift may think there are times when every other shift is just as busy as they are it is just a different kind of busy. i think everyone should work each shift for 1 month and then we would appreciate each other a little more.

i am only a cna/med aide but let me tell you about my night last night. I came into work thinking i would be on one station all night when i was told at 3 am i would be working on a different one because they were short. that was fine with me. no problem. the first half of the night i did all the extra duties we must do as aides putting linen in the rooms passing ice cleaning wheelchairs etc. then i go over to the other station at 3 to find no linens in the rooms and no ice passed. the aide that was there with me told me the aide who left at 3 told him the linens and ice were passed. then i go to get a resident up and she was left with her socks on all night long she had an indention in both her legs from the elastic. the other thing that gripes me is when rom charting and behavioral charting gets done right at the beginning of the shift. what happens if there is an emergency and a resident is taken to the hospital. what about when you here other aides who have no patience with the residents. i as a nurses aide feel like a real B----. i never used to complain and tried to have compassion for my fellow workers but the more i do this job the more consciencious i get about what i am doing. i don't think i would want to be an rn just for the fact i know that my personality would change radically for the well being of the residents it has somewhat already.

i have been working nocs for 6 years now. sleeping patterns are the one thing i really hate about it. i usually get home between 8 and 8:30 lye down around 9:00-9:30 and wake up around 12:30- 1:30 stay up anywhere from 5-7 pm and stay in bed till 10 and then get up and ready for work. I went on prn this summer and for the first time in 6 years i really felt well rested. i am back on full time now. on my days off there are times i go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 9 or 10 am. sometimes i wish i never went back to full time.

i work in ltc facility 3rd shift. One night as i was doing rounds i walked into a lady's room to find her eating her feces. she then informed me that her chocolate tasted kind of funny.

i am a cna/cma in a long term care facility. it is to your advantage to become a nurse's aide. one of the main reasons i feel this way is because you will be the cna's boss when you are the nurse on the floor. by being a cna at one time yourself you will know first hand their resposibilities and what is expected of them. i can honestly say that the nurses that i work under that have been cna's first have more understanding of what we do and therefore there is more respect for each other. if i was going to go into nursing i would definately want to have been a cna first.

here i sit should be sleeping. i work 3rd shift. my sleeping patterns are crappy to say the least. usually i get home anywhere from 8:15- 9:00 am. sit up for an hour or two then go to bed for anywhere from 2 to 3 hrs. get up and lie down anywhere from 5-7 pm and awake at 10pm and go to work. on my days off i sleep more than i am awake can be anywhere from 12-15 hours. does anyone else have this problem. i have been working 3rd shift for over 6 years.

may i ask where in wisconsin i am in iowa and have been a cna/cma for over 4 years and am not making $11 an hour. i am about 1 hour from la crosse.

looks good on the schedule but doesn't matter whether they work or not as long as they are there. if state comes you are fully staffed. frankly i would rather be understaffed or in my case alone on the floor than have someone who is there in body only.

and some people think noc shift is a walk in the park. those of us who work it know better.

i work in a nursing home. we have to aides on the floor for about 35 residents. we do rounds every 2 hrs. we get 8 residents up and dressed in the morning. one of them is basically independent i wash her back and make her bed empty her trash etc. the rest we do most of their cares and make their beds etc. we give at least one shower each morning except the weekends. during the night we have a schedule of chores cleaning wheelchairs, kitchenette, bedpans commodes urinals, putting towels and washcloths in rooms for morning, passing ice, putting linen in rooms for bedchanges, cleaning lifts, answering lights,and i am a med aide so when the nurse is busy on another floor i sometimes help pass meds. i also like to get the shower room ready for morning, and we clean brushes combs and razors. there usually isn't anytime for boredom. i don't mind doing these things because it helps make it a better place for these residents to live.

where i work i guess basically it is a lack of communication. the other night i got a call by the rn on staff asking me to come in at 10 instead of 11 just so someone could leave an hour early. when i went in last night for the 4 hrs i told the asst. DON that someone had called in and she was ok with the fact i worked. the thing is the person in charge neglects to get approval sometimes. i guess the thing that bothers me most about the overtime issue is the fact that people just call off because they don't seem to want to work. i don't think they realize they are not working in a factory that we are taking care of people and must be responsible enough to come into work when we are scheduled. the place i work has enough people on staff but they get burned out because of people calling off.there isn't any incentive for people to come to work. no shift diriffiential, 25 cents an hour for weekend pay, and nothing extra for coming in when you are not scheduled.

i work 3rd shift and last night i was asked to come in at 7:30 instead of 11:00. i really don't mind the overtime but what bothers me is we are told not to work overtime by the facility and that it must be approved. whenever they are short due to people calling in it seems it is always the same ones that are willing to come in and fill the slack. there are times we get letters from the mgmt that we must watch our hours. it is hard to refuse when i get a call because i know how it is to work shorthanded. it is unfair to the other workers and even more unfair to the residents. does anyone else have a problem with mgmt and working overtime?