sweetjot

Im in the same situation. I have at least 48 residents on every shift, and I work as part time in 3 different units, so I can't really keep up with what's going on. I don't know what's going to happen everytime I walk into the unit. I got 6 days orientation and that's it. All I can promise is to finish the med pass, and charting. I rarelly had time for dressings and never had time to do MDS. I guess everyone experience these thing at the begining, just try your best!

ONA's union dues are summarized in the table in this link http://www.ona.org/ona_members/members_faq_and_tutorials/dues_and_membership.html

Thank your for this reply, it's really detailed and now I understand. My representative is so busy I hardly see her, but I'll study the contract first.

Thank you for the reply. I think my problem is I don't understand how union works. Because we are all under the same union and pay same amount of union dues.It's with ONA and ONA has a stander for RN wages, how come their contract doesn't follow the stander? I've being to other homes and they offered me 29.36 and they are under ONA. At first I thought this 26 thing is a mistake, because the union rep told me to show her my offer, if this is mistake they can fix it. But when I saw the contract I knew that's what I will get. I'm not complaining about it, but I want to know how union works, how come it allows the employer to pay nurses less than the minimum wage for RN that they posted?

I'm a new grad and I'm currently working as part time at a nursing home and my hourly pay is 26 plus in lieu of benifit 8.5%, which is less than the ona wage standard. The place I work has ona representive and the collective contract says to pay entre level RN $26+ 8.5% lieu of benifit. I'm just wondering why we are with the union and we get paid less? We pay a huge union fee every month and the hourly rate is much less than others. I think this nursing home is privately owned, does that make a difference?

Thank you, I went to 2 places and the reception got my resume, hope it works out~

Thank you! It's good to hear that it is a good agency! I will ask how many hours of work they can give me per week before I sign up then!

Congrats to you !!!

I think they don't really know what's happenning...All we can do is to wait... Nobody I knew from school got the results yet...

Thank you linzz, I'll keep trying~

I did, I'm really interested in LTC, it's my #1 choice acctually. I'm handing out resumes to all the homes that I can find, so far there is only 1 reply:(

Good luck! CNO is so slow..........

Ya, that's the only place I hear back so far. I hope it's a good one. Thank you loriange14. It's tough year for new grads.

Thank you for your input! I do feel a little weird about it. How did you find out tho?

I went to Ryerson, none of my friends got it