uscgtrucker
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Your never to old to pursue what makes you happiest, at the age of 38 I gave up an almost 20 year career of driving truck to become a cna and loved every minute of it. Go for it.
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As a cna your answer made me chuckle, its true, we do end up doing a LOT of prei care however I will give the 2 male nurses we have on staff at the home I work at credit cuz they will jump right in there with you and help or do it themselves if things get to busy. As for "feelings" while it may not be my favorite part of the job its still a necessity so I try to to think about it to much and just git er done.
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Before getting into the nursing field I was in the Coast Guard and the went truckin after that
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As a cna who has witnessed pcw's do this I can kinda sympathize with you on this one. I have one that works with me and signs his charting Joe Sixpack-cna, when I asked him about where he went to school for his cna he promptly told me XYZ school but never took the certification test. To which I just looked at him funny. I think he got the point tho because now he no longer signs his charting with the cna after his name but rather the appropiate pcw. I have fam who are actuall nurses and have seen how hard they busted their hump to earn that title and would never even consider throwing around that I'm a "nurse" and it irks me as well when I see/hear my fellow cna's doing so
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No offense taken, i figured it was done in error. Been there, done that so I wont hold your feet to the fire over it lol. oh btw, in yours and Lisa's defense, its not that ya'll are trying to sound cold and uninviting. your just trying to be honest with people and not everybody reads that the same way. I personally never took (read) any of it as anything more then trying to be helpful and am grateful for all the honesty, otherwise we prolly wouldve made the mistake of moving there before we were absolutely ready and unable to make the transition, at least financially.
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One of the other cna's and I are always flirting back and forth and joke around about dissappearing into one of the empty rooms but never have followed thru. We do however have a couple coworkers that hook up on a regular basis but they do that outside of work so don't know if that counts.
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One of the biggest problems I find with the CNA field is that people come into it thinking "how hard can it really be taking care of old people, all they do is sit around and watch tv all day". Swear to God I've heard that! They think its going to be easy breezy but when they find out whats really involved they turn and run. Had they just done even the slightest bit of research and talked to a few CNA's they couldve saved themselves months of heartbreak (and backache). I personally have 5 people that I'm close with that work in the CNA field that I asked LOTS of questions of before even signing up for school. Another problem is no two facilities are the same, you have good ones and you have bad ones, if you get into a bad one right from the get go its gonna turn you off to the profession the rest of your life no matter what anybody has to say about the "good" facilities. I've only been a CNA since Aug 09 and absolutely LOVE it. Yes alot of days are a challenge but I got hired by a great company and work at home with only 4 clients. The guys I work with are great and totally make it worth coming to work every day, even on the worst of days. I truely am sorry that the OP had a bad experience but this all couldve been avoided had a few questions been asked before jumping in with both feet
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Aloha Mb, here a link to a list of facilities on the islands I found when we were researching moving to HI. http://www.theagapecenter.com/Hospitals/Hawaii.htm also it might do you some good to read the thread titled "island fever" if you havent already, lots of helpful info there as well as to the state of nursing from a couple of the people that already live there
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yay me i made someone blush hehe oh yeah, if theres one thing i DO know its tough aloha, we have 5 kids and have to dish that out from time to time. i knew that about the kisses, my kumu hula taught us that at our first class. shoulda seen the look on the wifes face when a total stranger kissed me on the cheek :kiss
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Lisa, Windward and everyone else who has posted here I'd like to give you all kudos. Thanks for your bluntness in some of your posts, sometimes the best aloha is the tough kind. Windward I particularly found your post on the charactaristics needed to live on island very helpful and while I consider myself to have most if not all of those I dont think I can say the same for my wife (or the 2 kids we'd be bringing with) so I'm afraid that soon after she was fob she would want to be bob (back on boat) lol. Also thanks for all the links, theyve been VERY helpful. I had contemplated subscribing to the local papers but wasnt sure if it was actually possible to have them shipped off island or not. Definately will be persuing that option asap. Lisa thankyou for sharing your moment of emotion with everyone, my wife has never been the materialistic type but I could so see my her in that story as she does have a few things that would either have to be sold or left behind that she recieved from relatives that are no long with us that would certainly cause that kind of reaction eventually. Even tho I havent been back in almost 40 years I still love the islands and will always consider them home but I think in the best interest of my wifes sanity and not having Hawaii become something we (see she) regret its probably best that "we" stay on the mainland and get our Hawaii where we can (ie polynesian festivals, hula classes, internet radio and some day an actual trip home). Mahalo nui loa again for all your posts and Lisa in particular for your patience in dealing with another mainlander asking the same old tired questions. Malama pono and maybe someday soon we can make it there and we can buy a round of drinks and thank you all personally. Aloha
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I totally understand where your coming from on the answering questions, I actually did read through some of the posts but at the time didnt have time to read through all of them before I posted my question. As for being "stuck" as a cna I dont really see it as that. I love what I'm doing, the reason I wont go any farther is I have this thing with sticking people with needles. I know, sounds kinda dumb, but its just something I cant do. I can clean up bodily excretions all day long but giving a shot or drawing blow or anything else that involves a needle makes me sick. I can administer insulin however but thats only cuz i cant actually see the needle on the unit we use lol.
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Aloha Lisa, Me and my fam were contemplating a move back to HI and the big island in particular but your post has me concerned. I'm a recent cna graduate and will have a 1 year experience in the field before we potentially move in july. is it really that difficult for cna's to find work on the islands or is that just specific to the island your on? Mahalo