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Hey guys, now you're making me want to. Ha ha, I am a cna am working at an assisted living, which i like but the pay sucks, 9 an hour. I am not just there for the money, it's a great thing to do, but it's the residents that don't respect you. But the...

This is a bit out of the subject line and I have never had to deal with this befor working as a cna. What if a resident abuses you verbally? Theres never no word of that in our handbooks. Tonite at dinner I was across the dining rm when I heard anoth...

You said it just right! They sometimes are like that, You see a lot of abuse and neglect at some facilities. When I first started here at my job now I was yelled at for taking a lady out of her room past 9 pm, and she is so pitiful, very isolating ki...

classes here in nc are 6 months. That is two nites a week, 5 hrs each class. I was glad to get the experience of a longer class because the skills test is very precise. The state written test is easy, but the skills is not. Some of my classmates fail...

My personal opinion on this thread is that you people would rather attack people on the thread than your patients. This is not good, everyone has their own opinion and thats ok. I say, Deal with it.

I felt honored to read your message. You are a winner! I am a very troubled mom with 3 children (grown) one has schizophrenia. He has had it prob. around 14 was when we started seeing withdrawal signs and having loads of trouble in school. He is 28 n...

I am a cna, I love my co-workers, office staff and all of the residents. When we do kitchen help the dietician is uaually critical of things we do. She will not allow us to wear gloves when cleaning the plates, says it's not a home looking thing to d...

I am a registered cna. I am learning slowly that the other co workers will not be of much help to you. For some reason they don't welcome new staff. Anyway thats what I have found out on 3 other jobs besides the one i am at now. You have to learn qui...

I really doubt you would even touch the tip of what it's about. Hopefully you will get over your shallow thinking and grow up. I don't know if you have children or not, but if one gets schizophrenia I hope you will be able to show compassion. I don't...

sorry nrsang97, it was angel fire. Sorry also that the whole thing got blown out or porportion. Take care , I am only a cna anyway, too old to go any further. I love my job and get great rewards of helping ppl. but no, i wouldn't want to work with th...

I feel sorry for you nrsang97. Hold on to "your baby".

.........too paranoid to shower, that the water is contamidated,(smelly dirty bum)..........no he don't try to pick up nurses or any women, but yea, he has been so sick that he would be a "dirty bum" if his parents didn't love him unconditionally to ...

this is kind of sad to me. i have a son with paranoid sz and he doesn't try to pick up women, but he has to be reminded to shower and brush teeth, their cognitive thinking is very weak and need a lot of coaching. my son is genuine and caring, paranoi...

Isn't NORMAL just a setting on your clothes dryer???

things do happen to them sometimes. We had a supervisor that was a non caring cna, med tech. Screamed at us when we did extra care for the patients. Saying we were making her job harder. Loving your patient and giving them words of encouragement is m...

This post was very beautiful. It has reminded me of being kind to my residents no matter what. You don't always have to feel that you like them, but it is our duty to be kind. And just maybe they can learn from our love how to pass on love to another...

That is believable, they will take it to the limit! I am a cna, and continously this resident pulls her call bell and she cannot get up alone and is dead weight. She asks to go to the bathroom, after getting on a gait belt and practically wedging her...

wow, that is a lot of money for cna, i make only 9. where do u live?

where in the world do you live and where do you work? In NC cna's make anywhere from 8 dollars and hour to 9 dollars. Top pay on weekends would be 13. I make $9.

I am a cna, am soon gonna be trained for med. tech. , what other certificate could I get maybe online that would help me to move up a little more. I work in an assisted living, so far I am a reg. cna and qualified activity director.

This one resident at my place always asks us to apply lotion to her back everynite, now she has gone further to tell me to massage it. turn her bed down, get clothes from her closet, this is an assisted living mind you, this lady can do anything for ...

I am a cna, 52 years old, I wanted to do this because i love to help people and try and make a difference. I knew I was too old to persue a RN carreer so I only went for cna. I find that it's more like housekeeping than caring for the residents. Do o...

I am working at an assisted living on 2nd shift. Yes the bulk of the job is laundry. Table cloths, napkins, sheets, towels, wash cloths, plus the residents that have baths, do their laundry and changing their beds, washing more sheets. Resident cloth...

I would do some volunteer work. I am a cna and that is how I got started, I went to this really nice assisted living and asked to sign up for volunteer work and told them i was a cna, immediately the next day i was there and by 2 days hired as cna. T...

I agree, it is about MONEY! Not wanting to hire someone for the cleaning.