muffinCNA15

i am employed by a home care company, not the same as home health, but sometimes i do feel more like a maid as opposed someone who is there to help you with personal care. my company recently got fed up with the cna's having to clean out peoples garages and do other familys laundry, so now we have a 10% limit on household chores. if you're there for 4 hours, you can only spend 10% of your time cleaning etc. other than that, ehhh its okay. i mean you get the one on one care which is great. but sometimes its so boring.....

yea I know davita does offer training but I'd have to get hired first... :)

I'm a CNA and my ex boyfriend is a RN. he was in his last semester of nursing school when we started dating. I used to read his nursing books all the time. :) I think that one aspect of our relationship that was good was that we both had jobs/careers where we cared about people. So I think that was a big reason of why we got along and kind of thought the same way. we did however break up, he met a nurse and now they're getting married lol. glad to hear you have great CNA's @ your clinicals. Some are not so great but it's wonderful to hear the girls where you are, are doing such a great job. :)

no one in a serving profession which would be nurses, teachers, etc would really be able to put a price on what they do. yes as a nurse you will be exposed to life threatening diseases but you'll be paid more than enough to live on. I don't know of any nurses who don't know where their next meal is coming from. I would hope that people who go into serving professions would not do it for the money, but some people do and that's never going to change probably. yes it's hard to find nursing jobs atm, but think of teachers who all get laid off every school yr as well. imho, nurses wages are great. I'm a cna and I don't ever think that I don't get paid enough to do what I do, because honestly I'm not thinking, oh I just made eleven bucks the past hr and was almiost hit by a dementia client or am doing hospice on a aids patient etc etc etc. I just try to help the people. I don't know, it's not a job to me. It's just what I do every day. Not to sound corny but that's the only way I know how to say it. anyway, it would be nice if everyone was paid enough to have food on the table no matter what job they have, but haven't seen that yet.

I am not a lpn/lvn but am thinking about enrolling in school this summer for it... anyway I am a cna and I work as a caregiver for home care companies. Most lpn/lvn in my area (ca) work in ltc or home health. Me...i would try to work in ltc to see what the nurses do there, and get used to having alot of residents/patients at one time. In home health you are lucky and only have one @ a time. if you are able to get hired at a hospital as a cna, that's great exp too but in my area, there are only rn's @ the hospitals except rehab. anyway good luck! And ask your instructor for advice & the people @ your lpn school :)

bay area california home care 11.50/hr 14/hr if the clients are a couple like husband/wife etc benefits, med/dental after a yr if you work 30 hrs a wk

actually most of them found jobs in davis or sac, and I would be okay with that commute. Not expecting to easily find a job, just thinking that people move with the high cost of living here and that sort of thing....

yea I know the job market is pretty bad. But the lvns that I know found jobs rather quickly so just urious.

hi, I am considering enrolling in a LVN program at the end of this summer, I would graduate next december in 2011. My question is how hard is it to obtain LVN employment right now in CA? I live in the east bay. I am thinking I would work in home health but would take any area really. I am a CNA, not sure if that sort of exp would help me get my foot in the door anywhere. Advice? Suggestions? Opinions? All welcome!

do you guys know where any programs are in california? i live in the SF bay area.

i live in california, the programs i've seen require CNA before HHA

how is the pay in CA? i live in the bay area. i am a CNA, i work as a home care aide. thinking about taking the HHA course, i'd like to work for sutter hospice or a private home health agency.

i work for a whole bunch of home care companies (i'm a CNA) is it worth is to take the home health aide course? i'd like to apply to companies such as sutter, and the home health agencies...

wow! thanks so much for all of your replies!! i can't imagine working in a hospital or in a facility because i have been a private caregiver/CNA for the past 6 years. one of the home care companies i work for is opening a CNA/Home Health Aide school next month, and I am wondering if I should go ahead and sign up for the HHA course. I don't really see how it's different from what I do now, but I'd like to work in hospice and all the job postings I've seen require HHA. I've done hospice as a private caregiver and as a CNA through home care, but I've never worked in home HEALTH. alot of my clients have home health services--the nurse comes 2 times a week, physical therapy 2 times usually and the home health aide comes 2-3 times a week. some of the nurses come in like a tornado and leave alot of stuff behind (trash etc) and some are very calm and professional. I am used to the car issue--I use my care for home care and I am used to having to always eat out or bring food to work and hope it lasts me though the day. But I really love the one on one interaction and I can't imagine how people are able to provide such quality care when they have more than 1 patient. 28/hr for LVN sounds great. The LVN's in my area start at $25 at a SNF.

hi, i am a CNA & i work for various home care companies. i am wondering how nurses get into home health. here's some questions, if anyone can help me out, that'd be great :) 1. are there jobs for LVN's and RN's in home health, or does it more pertain to RN's only? 2. why did you go into home health? 3. what do you like about it? what do you not like about it? 4. are you paid per visit or salary, or hourly? what's your average salary, if you don't mind posting :) anything else that you'd like to add, would be wonderful. thanks!