FraidoCat

This initiative seems like it is designed to control costs. Here's hoping it works.

I think my DON lied through his teeth. He told us that the reason they are getting rid of the CHUX is because the company is trying to get a head of the new State regulations next year. And of the regulations is that if a resident wears a brief he/she can not use chux because it's a "dignity issue". It sounds like BS to me. I'm gonna look into it.

That's against the law. The minimum wage is $7.25/hr. I make $10.00/hr in KY working LTC.

Do you plan on working in LTC or a hospital? In LTC you'll be doing a lot of toileting, dressing, shoving pureed grool down half-concious throats, things of that nature. Hospitals are probably different.

I think it's evident that you are prone to calling CNA's lazy. You don't even know me and you called me one. Pathetic really.

Yes, in fact I am a CNA in an LTC and I resent your brash generalizations. It's interesting to me that a CNA can work hard from the start of their shift, to the end of their shift vitually non-stop and still be called 'lazy' by some dullard nurse or administrator. At least try to be original. My point, which is seemingly lost on this thread is that instead of droning on about the supposed laziness of CNA's, perhaps we ought to examine the culture and structure of LTC's.

HA! There it is again, that corporate phrase that means, "just shut the hell up and do what you're told, I don't care how".

Not necessarily. A CNA aspiring to be an RN won't be doing the same thing on a Med/Surg floor than he/she would be doing at a LTC.

If, god-forbid, my mother were left to lay in a pool of urine and feces for a longer than reasonable time, I would ask the DON why he/she doesn't staff his/her facility appropriately.

There's a doctor?

Leave the field then, because if you honestly believe that patients aren't getting the care they deserve because of the CNA's then you are delusional.

Depends. What avenue do you want to go in Nursing? Don't work at an LTC if you don't plan on working geriatrics or LTC once you get your RN. Hold out for a job at a hospital.

Feel free to tell me in a PM. I love reading unfiltered truth about insurance companies.

I admire those nurses in California, if only the rest of the countries nurses would get on board.

160k? That doesn't make sense. The max an undergrad can get in subsidized and unsubsidized in 57k I thought.