fuzzywuzzy CNA

I remember them telling us in CNA class to never tell a patient you're short staffed. Why is that? As long as you're not whining about it or refusing to provide care because "you don't have time" I don't see what the problem is. Is it better to let...

Our administrator made a fake profile and tried to friend a bunch of people on Facebook! Just to get dirt!

I have a lot of residents with contracted hands, which get all moist and smelly inside. When I wash up these residents I do the hands first and after doing my best to get them dry, I take dry washcloths and stick them in the resident's hands and stuf...

It would be nice if they all had splints for their hands. Nursing has repeatedly put in for those through the therapy department and the requests get ignored or "lost." The facility only seems to care about private-payers. I do use hand rolls, but no...

I've never worked in a hospital, but I think it depends on the person, the shift, and what part of the hospital. My friend used to work in LTC and now works in the critical care unit at a hospital and says it's much easier-- you do less stuff for the...

I like being a CNA. Obviously there are bad things about it (dealing with annoying people, condescending superiors, etc), but most of them are things that you'll encounter in pretty much all jobs. I don't plan on staying a CNA for life though. I don'...

Dementia residents are one thing; sometimes it can be a trial-and-error thing figuring out what the best approach was. The young guy in the OP is an entirely different story. You have to try not to get flustered with them and only do what is reasonab...

I know exactly what you mean. I had a really hard time starting out, probably because of my anxiety about it. Try to relax (easier said than done, I know), because once you stop freaking out things automatically get a lot easier. Focus on safety for ...

I wonder why she won't tell you about the book until you register. That seems odd. My book was included in the price of the class and they handed it out to us on the first day.

Just bring a witness in for the residents that have been accusatory. You don't have to do it for everyone. In my facility if someone makes an accusation they will actually care plan for them to have 2 CNAs all the time. In my experience the people t...

I do it while "writing things down." You can also count them while taking the pulse if you're good at multitasking. Count the pulse in your head and and every time you see them breathe in press one of your fingers down a little. Then when you're done...

I don't wear mine. I kept thinking I was going to scratch someone with it. And one time a resident grabbed my hand and squeezed it to steady herself during a transfer and squashed my pinky finger against the stone, which REALLY hurt. It's not good fo...

Like someone else said, supplies in LTCs suck, even the good facilities, and if you want anything decent for the residents you have to buy it yourself. And if the person can self propel, then putting foot rests on their chair is a restraint. And sham...

Healthy young people hardly ever get C-diff. You mainly need to take care not to pass it to the other residents.

I used to get annoyed when I suspected someone called off for no reason. I don't anymore. I understand that people need "mental health days" and that the reason they called off is none of my business anyway. As long as I get to go home after 8 hours ...

I work with someone who insisted that without DST, it would eventually be "dark at noon." I'm like yeah, if we ONLY set the clocks back every year without ever setting them forward again, or vice versa. But she kept saying her piece about darkness at...

It genuinely doesn't bother me when a demented person does this. I'd rather have that than combativeness. But the few times that an alert person had made comments... eww. It makes me glad that I work in a nursing home where even the rehab unit doesn'...

Yeah! I'm very fond of my total care patients. I feel a connection with them that a lot of my coworkers don't, and caring for them is so satisfying, and almost meditative for me, whereas the walkie/talkies just exhaust me. Then again, I'm a TOTAL int...

Oh yeah, I have no patience for those people. I HATE it when they put the light on and then stand out in the hallway! Even if they DO realize how busy you are, they don't care and get frustrated anyway because they want you to provide special treatme...

I don't think total care people are that bad... it's the walkie-talkies that MAKE those patients difficult. I work on a unit with a lot of total care people and if it was just them I could go up and down the line providing care, but we also have a nu...

It gets easier as you get used to it. And you also have to decide what your priorities are. I work day shift and we're supposed to have everyone dressed and out of bed by 11 or 11:30. Some of my coworkers will spend the whole morning just doing AM ca...

Nursing home, 7-3. Most days I work on a unit where most people are total care, but we have some hardcore bell-ringers too, just to make things more difficult :) Usually another CNA and I will follow each other around before breakfast and work togeth...

Places don't normally hire outside people for 1st shift, because everyone wants it. There's usually a waiting list of people already working there who want to move to day shift and chances are you won't be at the top of that list for a while. The onl...

I work with someone like this. She drives me up a wall. I swear, she makes things harder for herself by going out of her way to avoid helping other people, and if you do something for one of her patients she acts all awkward and states that you didn'...

Sorry about all the mixed tenses. I work in a nursing home but I haven't done second shift in a while.