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!

sf bay area, home care $11.00/hour

i am 5'3 & weigh 110 pounds. personally, if you learn the right techniques, it'll be fine. if you end up working in a facility, you can always go get someone to help you with a 2 person assist. i know plenty CNA's who are smaller than i am & do fine. good luck :)

do you know how to reschedule exams? i didn't keep up with my CEU's & had to take the CNA class again. i arrived to take the exam & my teacher had used my old address on the form instead of the new address/new form i had filled out a few wks before....

does anyone know how hard it is to open a school? (or, how easy it is?) just am curious...the schools in my area are so unorganized. how do they do this?

if you want some experience, see if you can work part time for in home care or assisted living. they usually only require CPR.

this has already been mentioned, but try home health. or try in home care. you can work for almost all the non-medical in home care companies as a caregiver without being a CNA. or try assisted living.

i have done private care as a hospice aide. but most of the places around where i live (sutter medical) require a home health aide certificate, which i don't have i actually find hospice very rewarding (not to say it's not emotional)

just curious--why did you major in biology in the beginning? you must be one smart cookie:)

my assisted living training was 5 days i believe. 2 days in assisted living, and 3 days on the memory care unit. depending on what kind of ALF you're working at, it should be pretty easy. the hardest thing for me was meal time. this also depends on what shift you're working. i would hate my life if i work the morning, since you have to get every up & ready for breakfast and lunch. it just got so chaotic where i worked. we each had 25 residents, and maybe 2-3 who didn't want to come downstairs to eat. then we had to serve everyone, and everyone had a choice of the meal & drink. none of these things were written down, you were expected to memorize what everyone would want. needless to say, i chose to work on the memory care side more often than not. we had 10 residents each, and the day typically involved changing, showers, breaking up fights, and helping the feeders. i really enjoyed it so much more than working on the assisted side--and yes, some of that had to do with the attitudes. but hey, i'd have an attitude too, if i paid $5000 a month to live somewhere. my point--just relax :) as long as you care about your work, your residents, you'll be fine. :redbeathe

Haven't really seen a "current" thread for CNA salaries. I'll start. $11.00/hr--Working for home care company in Contra Costa County, CA