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You can make the alarm to where she can't reach it. Or you could also leave it alone, if she knows how to take it off and turn her bed alarm off and remembers how to do it everyday then she must not be that demented, as pp's have said. It's her right...

I had a resident tell me stop throwing her around like a sack of potatoes & then there was one woman who started patting me on the chest & when I asked what she was doing she said "Playing patty cakes!" & the same woman also asked me "Hav...

I find 20 an hour in a hospital hard to believe. Sorry. Maybe you are thinking of another job or heard wrong.

Briefs for night shift. They always forget to pass them out. Usually someone has the key to supply, but even then I usually end up having to use other residents briefs on residents they aren't assigned to. Family provides briefs for my facility and t...

It's hard to get a CNA job in a hospital with no experience. If you change your mind about working in a nursing home try finding one with an alzheimers unit or wanderers unit. It's a lot easier because there is little to no lifting involved and usual...

I started out working double weekends, so it took me 2 weekends to get the hang of it. I wasn't familiar with my residents yet either. Don't worry about being slow, it's expected. My first day, my partner came in a room while I was doing patient care...

It's extremely easy where I'm from (Tyler, Texas) to find a job. I could walk into ANY LTC in my area, and I literally mean every single one.... and immediately get a job with only my 6 months experience. The medical help wanted ads in our newspaper ...

We have some combative residents in our facility. I think it is uncommon for a nursing home to have none that are like that. The dementia and alzheimers will cause fear and confusion. We have one woman with neither that is combative just because she ...

It's better to over wash your hands then to fail by not washing your hands enough. You won't fail for washing your hands more than you are supposed to. You are supposed to wash your hands at least between each task.

I think you should use the bedside commode since the bathroom is small, and ask for another cna to help.

I work 6-2 shift at the nursing home I work at. I'm having some financial issues right now and was offered a job at another nursing home for weekend doubles (Saturday and Sunday, get paid for a 5th shift but don't work it). It will add up to about 60...

The experience is good. I know a lot of people in LVN school (we call it LVN in Texas) that work weekend doubles as CNA's to get them by. Usually weekend doubles is 4 shifts, on Saturday and Sunday. And as a bonus for working those shifts, MOST nursi...

I think you should give it a little more time. But if you still feel the same way in a few weeks, then maybe it's time to switch fields. CNA is pretty much the bottom of the totem pole (as well as the back bone of nursing, especially LTC's). From a C...

We get paid bi-weekly. Every shift is 8 hours, and that includes a paid 30 minute lunch, and 2 paid 15 minute breaks. Any time after 40 hours is overtime pay (time and a half). There are holiday differentials and if you cover a night shift and you wo...

Watch with a second hand, pens, highlighters, a 1 inch binder, and spiral is all we needed. Everything else was provided. You could get your own stethoscope and bp moniter but I doubt they'd make you buy that.

Check for any workforce programs in your area. The way I found my class though was just calling every nursing home in my town and all surrounding towns. I probably called about 50 places and found 3 that offered a 2 or 3 week class, for free, in thei...

The smells don't bother me. I think the reason why is because the nursing home I work at has an awesome housekeeping staff, when you walk in you don't smell nursing home at all. Incontinent care smells but it doesn't last long so I don't really do an...

In my facility if you aren't doing anything and you see a call light go off, you AT THE VERY LEAST poke your head in the room and see what's going on. If you walk past a call light and continue on to your smoke break, that is in a way... neglect.. an...

It will get better, keep your head up. In every job I've ever had, my first day was always kind of rough. Getting lost in a hospital is not uncommon, just make mental notes to remember things like room numbers. Hope your second day goes better. :)

In my facility it is the same pace as the day shifts. This is because there are less CNA's to each hall than there are in the day. We do changing and vitals every 2 hours as well as other tasks. I have never heard of a universal employee either, and...

The class and exam are relatively easy as long as you pay attention and have common sense. The work is hard and fast paced, but very rewarding. I wouldn't be worried about the class. Just make sure not to act immaturely about certain aspects of the c...

All CNA training programs are required to have a background check before accepting students into the program, this is a new policy. If you got your certification, no one is going to take it from you for something that happened 5 years ago. If a felon...

Thank you! Makes me feel a lot better about it. :)

I'm taking the NET pretty soon. It will be my first time taking it. My school only requires the NET test, CNA, background & drug screening to get into the LVN program. So the test is extremely important that I do well on. What can I expect as fa...