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.

That phrase always made me laugh. I think it's a corporate/management phrase that really means, "I don't care how you do it, just shut up and do it." I actually laughed out loud once when our DON used it in a meeting.

Unions are good for nurses and CNA's. They insure that corporate greed doesn't get in the way of patient and employee safety & security.

Also, for those of you who mentioned the cost of tuition for both CNA and MA programs, this problem could of course be easily remedied if higher education were free at the point of service like the rest of the developed world, just stating the obvious.

Thank You. I agree with each and every word of this. I hate my job and I feel I was misled. I'm just biding my time until I can leave. Hell, I'm in nursing school but I don't even know if I want to continue if being a CNA in a LTC is any indication of what the work is like. I've been a CNA for 6 months and I am already burnt out. Management doesn't care and neither do most of the nurses I work with. It's like working at a factory on an assembly line and human beings are the product. The sad thing is, if CNA's would realize their power, they could really change things, sadly I believe most will stay in the dark.

It's easy. And half of the crap they teach you you will have to unlearn once you get a job. The CNA courses are designed to teach you what the state requires, they don't teach you how to be a good CNA.

Exactly. I was just going to mention. If CNA's are expected to do more for less then management might have problems. On the other hand of course, the corporate world has basically managed to convince CNA's that they are powerless, so most would probably just do what they were told.

Hello Fellow CNA's. Do you guys use CHUX? We used to, but unfortunately management in its infinite wisdom has decided to discontinue using them and I gotta tell you. I'M CHANGING MORE BEDS THAN EVER!! My LTC is making a big ruckus about the possible health reform proposals coming from Washington, they are using it as an excuse to cut all kinds of programs (obviously to increase the bottom line, imho, of course). So, what kinda bullcrap is your LTC doing to cut costs? Do you guys still have Chux?