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Greetings!! I know this is an LPN/LVN corner and I am posting here because this is the program I am looking to get into (hopefully in September). So, I had started out taking classes geared towards the ADN Program but decided that the LVN path was be...

Oh shucks y'all must be tired of hearing this over and over again.. ~sigh~ - no response *pout* - trying a different way here lol. Oh well..hopefully someone will come along and offer some help.

Can a CNA be mandated to stay OT in the next shift because another CNA called out?? Am asking this because it happened on my floor...and today a fellow CNA tells me that only nurses are mandated, not CNAs. Tx.

Wow..I had no idea we could get mandated to stay. My situation was different. I work 11-7 so that night we had a full house with only 2 cnas - its a hospital ward - with two 1:1 which makes the acuity high. However, there were 4 workers scheduled for...

I think it doesn't matter which profession one is in, a lazy person is a lazy person. Personally I jump when a bed alarm goes off (I work the night shift on a psych ward as a "Mental Health Worker" ie CNA lol), and for good reason. I would hate for a...

Back with a totally different scenario :). My facility's HR dept called me in today to ask if I would be interested to fill in an Activity Assistant position that previously went vacant. They have been interviewing for the last 2 weeks and I guess th...

AAArrrrrgh!! for the first time in ages I've met a patient I cannot stand. Granted I work on a Senior Psych Unit at a local hospital, I do not know how much verbal abuse we should take esp. coming from an alert and orientated pt. x3. So the hospital...

Take it in stride maddiem. A step at a time. I was super duper nervous when I started out. I was afraid to get into pt's rooms, do adl's and I was really slow. Fast forward, 2 years - am an activities assistant at the ltc I started out at. Honestly, ...

Yay!:yeah:Sounds like it went pretty well! I hope that you get the position. You'd see a difference and get a break for sure! Thanks for the wishes. :)

Baubo516 I wish you all the best in your interview!! I have been an Activity Assistant for a month already. Its not physically demanding..just mentally I guess but you can deal with it am sure. I just usually bump into people with all these ideas abo...

Am wondering if its just the nursing home I work in or is this common?? Geez! They're coming up with new rules and regulations, CNA's are being written up, fired, some have handed in their resignations and others have gone per diem..mostly because du...

oh goodness! It is such a relief to know ours isn't the only one going kookoo for cocopuffs! 'I'm heading off in a different direction... :) Yeah, I think the craziness is everywhere. It definitely is ay my facility. Dondie'- Well my dear Dondie,...

So the ADON calls for a brief meeting today at 10:30am. We show up at the nursing station...CNA's, the Unit Manager, the unit nurses..and two other people I didn't quite know who they were lol. So anyway, she starts reading each CNA's assignment and ...

@Fuzzywuzzy, I did ask about going per diem but they said the facility doesn't allow going over 40 hours. I guess this applies to everyone but CNA's coz I have sure worked way over 40 hours so many times. :) I suppose I'll pick up a couple of private...

:) Thank you all so much for the support & positive responses. The Activities Director actually came in looking for me today and caught me smack in the middle of giving a shower lol but, yes, I did go over for an interview and she expressed how s...

Hello everyone. just me... again lol :). This time however, I'd love to know how other LTc's have their times worked out. So my shift starts at 6:45am - 2:45pm. The place I work at came up with this policy that we can just get ONE resident dressed be...

Fuzzywuzzy, your idea of having them cleaned/lotioned then back to their jammies sounds like a very good idea :idea: :). I normally get away with getting two people dressed as I argue one of my residents is cleaned and dressed by the 11-7 shift. So e...

There are some colleges that offer the theory part of CNA course curriculum online. But one cannot learn the complete CNA course online, as you can’t have practical hands on training experience there. Therefore, if you come across a website that i...

Ashmeg87, frustrating doesn't even start to express it. I love my residents and I love the service I give (at least most of the times lol) as am sure so do most of us..but oh my! by the time its almost 2:45pm we are literally running out the door wai...

This is not to mention also that she talked to my assigned resident too, who every now and then has spells when she 'wants to die' and she keeps saying 'ok, goodbye, am leaving now, am going to die' and this aide told her 'when you get there say hi t...

Am a very sad person right now. So confused on what is expected. My scenario. I work on a dementia unit so most of the residents of course make little sense when they talk. However, I have had several instances where you can actually have conversatio...

Thank you so much for all your encouragement. I have decided that I will not be bullied into silence. If asked again, I will still stand by my story. I saw what I saw, and it made me uncomfortable. Its funny when I talked to one of the nurses she tol...

Thanks KatieP86. Its good to know that I've got support and that I did do the right thing. I haven't been in such kind of a setting for long (nursing home/rehab center) so I really don't know if this things do go on and go unreported. I just know wha...

....3 months down the road..I think am still a fairly new CNA in the geriatrics Ltc environment:igtsyt: but I couldn't help but smile. It is very true what you say. I couldn't apprehend half of what was being done or had to be done on a whole shift b...

Anyone in the dementia unit with stories to tell about sundown moments? I normally do the 7am-3pm shift and just as I was about to get comfortable in my routine I one day picked up a 3-11pm shift. What a difference in the same residents I had earlier...