BroomQueen

That's what I was thinking. She got off work Saturday 330am and doesn't have to be back at work until Monday 7am, there's 15 1/2 hrs in between getting off shift and getting back on, MORE than enough time..

Are you a new CNA? I would think you'd be used to redicule from high and mighty nurses by now LOL. I'm an LPN now but I was a CNA for 14 years prior. When I was a CNA I've come across the same thing by a nurse who thought he was too good to answer call lights and give bedpans. No you shouldn't have been embarassed, it is the nurses responsibility as well to answer call lights, we are not above that or putting bedpans. I frequently do for my CNA's when I see they are busy doing rounds, helping pt's ect. In actualality it's the nurses fault the patient was incontinent and she was just stressed about the admits and the fact that she had to do something she probably deems beneath her. Don't stress out about it. If it does happen again though don't hesitate to try and talk to her in private or go even above her if necessary. Everyone is there for patient care and the nurse has to be able to do her job as well as yours if need be. Don't let her see it bother's you, some of them get off on that crap and will do it purposely again. Just do what you can, you can't be everywhere at once. If you ever get your nurses license, rember this moment so you never do that to another CNA, I have and it's kept me humble, I never have problems with my CNA's :)

Thanks for the laughs so early in the morning, great way to start the day LOL :w00t:

Being sued over what?

Well personally I'm not sure about BSN and all that, I'm just a lowely LPN :thankya: BUT, my class only had 7 students in it and the other instructors didn't feel that we were enough to 'validate' an entire ceremony so they said we could wait and get pinned with the class following us, 3 months after we would have all graduated, taken our test and hopefully become LPN's. Well needless to say we did NOT wait lol. We decided that we would have our OWN ceremony with our own $ outside of school and just do it that way.. So just talk it over with your peers and see (I'm not sure if you said how far away you are from graduating) if everyone could pull some $ together, rent a space somewhere, make it a potluck instead of catered and just get some decorations. Have a guest speaker, maybe a favorite teacher or choose one amungst yourselves to do the introductions. You can usually order pins offline or even at a local scrub shop. It could still be a very nice ceremony, and hell, just to 'stick it to the man' (and out of professional courtesy of course ) Invite all of your instructions and 'higher ups' that had anything to do with your course studies. Good luck, I hope you have a good ceremony

thanks for responding. well no 1 actually said which 1's i had to do so hopefully i got 'em all. i found a site that is board certified and auto reports to ce broker and it was $15 a year i got all 24 hrs done tho

are these the ONLY REQUIRED ceu's? i just wrote a thread asking about all the required ones, ive only been lpn 8months and completely forgot about ceus. those are the only thigns i can find that say required online but those are changes, im trying to find out ALL teh required ones i have 4 days left aahh! thanks to any responses :)

ok so i totally forgot about ceu's ive only been a nurse for about 8 months and of course i remember 4 days before it's ALL DUE. please ive looked online to find required ceu's. i called my job my unit manager told me hiv/aids, medical errors, domestic violence, that adds up to 5 hours i think and i need 24. what other REQUIRED ceus's do i need and do i just fill in the hours with whatever ceus's interest me? i signed up for an online ceu test thign whatever but unfortunately it doesn't tell me what i NEED just gives me a huge list to pick from. im really stressing out about this so any responses asap please, thanks! :)

I agree, I worked night shift for 12 yrs as a cna and I've been a nurse for 6 months and stayed on 11-7. I have an 8 yr old and it's always been the best shift. I work when he's home asleep and I sleep while he's at school. It was a little more draining when he was a todler as I didn't want him in day care so I pushed through till vouluntary pre-k was available. You're body will get used to it and so will you, probably to the point to where on your nights off you wont sleep much 'cuz you're used to staying awake, that's my problem anyways. Nights are not boring, they're very busy because everyone else in the facility things all you do is sit on your you know what so they pile up job after job on you, trust me you won't have a problem staying awake you'll have plenty of work to do. Good luck, all you can do is try it out and see how you like it, just give it a little bit you're body will need to adjust to a complete time change :)

From your post it sounds like they hired you, let you go through orientation, then let you go because you were not "fast enough" and only gave you 8 days orientation as a new grad? What shift were you working and what specific areas did you find that you weren't going "fast enough" or having difficulty the most in? I was a cna for a SNF for 2 years when I grad they gave me 2 weeks all 3 shifts then through me on teh floor, luckily since I had been working there I got the nurses to show me alo while i was still a cna. I found it very overwhelming at 1st, time managment is HUGE and I'm still learning some of the paper work and it's been almost 6 months. From the sounds of it they didn't want to dedicate their time into training you and probably shouldn't have hired a new grad in teh 1st place. Not all facilities are like that though, don't give up. Next job you get, get a list of required job duties for that shift and make a checklist, of course there's goingto be more than that to do but I found that extremely helpful in the begining, kept me from running around so much. Good luck! :)

Hey every1. Well, I'm having a slight problem at my job. I work night shift and the nurse I work next to is constantly complaing and it gets to the point to where she throws things around like papers or empty boxes, slams things like charts and other objects, constantly saying things like "I can't take this BS anymore, I'm quiting, this is rediculous ect.." She brings her personal life to work and she's just totally out of control. It's to the point to where no one wants to work with her, cna's or nurses, and on her nights off every1's mood is completely different. We're relaxed, can chit chat, have a nice QUIET night, and every 1 comments on what a nice night it is it's quiet and relaxed ect. She has every1's nerves on edge and she just causes so much stress. She has tempertantrums every night and she's just a tornado in that place. Not may ppl say anything to her when she gets outta control like that (which IS every night) because they don't want to make it worse. I have said some things a few times and trust me it DOES make it worse. She starts cussing and throwing things around if I take out the trash under my desk and not hers, or if 3-11 leaves even 1 single peice of paper on their desk, everything is 'the end of the world' type of situation. Seriously I don't know if I can take it anymore. I like where I work, I like the staff and the patients. I was a cna there for 2 years before I got licensed and usually going from cna to lpn in the same facility generally doesn't work it's working out really well for me but I'm to the point to where if she doesn't quit I'm going to have to leave and the cna's are begging me not to leave them I don't know waht to do. Going to management wouldn't really do anything because even if they talked to her she'd just come in crying (yes she actually cries tears over things as little as no1 taking out the trash) and it woudl make it worse for every1. Any1 have any ideas on what do to besides leaving a job I really do like? BTW changing halls is not an option, every1 has permanant hall including me. Thanks! :)

Have you tried seeing what other fields are available to you? There's so much an RN can do. What is it about LTC that is overwhelming? Are you a floor nurse or in a mgnt position? Maybe that particular place you're working just isn't for you? I wouldn't give up quite yet, like I said there is SO much an RN can do. Look n the paper, ask friends, see what other jobs are out there and see if any of them seem interesting. Good luck :)

you work 3-11 huh? i understand things gotta be passed off cuz there just ISN'T enough time to do everything and if there is you're 1 lucky you know what LOL.. it's just an everyday thing and it's like even if i dont leave something for them i get these side glances, im gonna try just to shrug it off i just dont get the whole nurses eat their young thing, i mean what's the point? it would be much more condusive to a work environment and patient care if we just said ok i'll take care of it until it becomes a problem that someone is just flat out lazy and im far from that

Hey everyone, well I just got my license and been working at a nursing home for about 2 1/2 months (I worked there for 2 yrs as a CNA before/while I was going to school also), I work night shift and it seems no matter what the nurses coming on 7-3 just complain about everything. I know I'm new and got alot to learn and I do all my job duties and occasionally ask ?'s if I've never done something before then I do it after I understand and alot of the times we work short on 11-7 so I ask 7-3 things and they just act like I'm the most idiot nurse they've ever met. Now besides them I have gotten several compliments about my performance and how quick I'm catching on so IDK I'm just frustrated that a few specific ppl are treating me like I'm incompetent, I didn't come out of the womb with LPN on my forehead and either did they, is this normal and should I just continue what I'm doing and just shrug it off, because right now because of a few ppl I'm really just wanting to go somewhere else and yes I know I'll have that problem other place, maybe they're just treating me that way because I was their CNA for 2 years and now they have to treat me like an equal? I just know I'm about ready to leave a job I like if this doesn't quit. I've talked to one of them but still feels like getting the cold shoulder. I hate feeling like when I leave in the morning that I'm gonna get a call for the DON over something rediculous because they don't like me, I'm sure you know how I feel we all gotta go through this right? Any suggestions on how any one else handled the 'rookie' aspect of all this? Thanks :)

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