peppercat21

I'm in NY and started at $15, I'm at almost $16 now. Evening's are 10% diff and overnights are 15% diff.

I've been a CNA for about 1.5 years and I've never dropped anyone. I only know of 2 incidents in that time where others have dropped a resident. I've had 3 residents of mine fall on their own. One was trying to transfer herself, one slipped in the bathroom and the other was reaching for something. We have a total of 44 residents and I would say we maybe average 1 fall a week. But, it seems we have a string of a bunch and then none for a while. About the lifts, I've never heard of one slipping or anything but recently we had an in-service about that because the company sent us something about it. HTH

Day shift we have 8 or 9, 11 if there's a call out. Evening 11. Overnights either 15 or 22 depending on the number of nurses.

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I don't know if I can post a link to this here but in my facility we do a lounge program for dementia pts. It's a great program and can be found easily with a little googling.

We don't have any incentives but I make $15.46/hr on day shift. Evenings are 10% more and overnights are 15% more. Weekends are the same

I had one patient that started to decline very rapidly. She was very combative but never for me for some reason. Toward the end she had a very hard time talking more than a couple of words at a time. I was finishing AM care with her one day and waiting for an assist and she said, "You are an admirable woman and I am honored to have been in your care." It was one of the saddest and happiest things anyone has ever said to me. She lived about a week after that

The times are a bit different for us, dinner's at 4:30. Between 3 and 4:30 there's usually some activity going on. So we toilet people and get people up that take afternoon naps. Then dinner. In our facility they show a movie after dinner and we start putting people to bed. We don't have a time they have to be in and let them stay up as late as they want for the most part. Most want to go around 7-8. If they're able to you can go around when you get in and ask them what their preference is. Also we usually have 1 or 2 evening showers. We do our last rounds at 10. HTH

We get $15 for day with 10% diff on evenings and 15% on nights.

In our facility day shift has 8 or 9, evening 10 or 11 and overnight has 15-20. Overnights get 2 people each up. So mornings are a mad dash LOL.

It's much easier to talk to real residents then the manaquin! You can ask about their day, their lunch, their hair... It gets sooo much easier. Don't worry about what your classmates are saying either!