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Thanks for all your input. I have decided to leave the nursing home. Unfortunatly I do not believe the aides plan on changing. I do NOT speak down to the aides or give orders. I ask nicely for them to do something, then if not done I state in a normal tone voice that it needs to be done according to the DON. In either case, we get one of two responces.....they turn and walk away and do as they want or stand and argue. As for being in a superviso ry position, I dont like it but each nurse is in charge of their own section. They will not bring in another nurse to be in charge of both section. I have suggested they schedule us with a experienced nurse. One new nurse and one experienced. That way the new one has a person to ask questions of and get directions. When it came to having to walk someone out of the building, each time the experience nurse put it on me. Stating she did not want to have to deal with the aides. I do not like having to spend my time learning to babysit when it should be spent learning nursing. I have come to the conclusion the RUNNING is the best thing to do. As for the advice as to having team meetings, that was tried by two other nurses and it did not work. During the team meetings the aides would get up and walk out saying they did not have time for this. As for giving them pay raises, the company is not going to do that. During orientation we were informed raises were no more then 25 cents a year. Everyone at this home is completely over worked and tired. Nurses and aides both. We are expected to work with skeleton crew and do more work then is possible for anyone to get done. Today I was offered a position in a doctors office and have accepted the position. It is less pay but better hours and have others there to learn from. Again thanks for your opinions. It helped in making the decision.

Hi, A friend of mine and myself from nursing school ended up working in the same nursing home together. We are both only 3 month old nurses. We are very discouraged and need advice. We work in a place that we are each responsible for 40+ residents. We have cna's that work with us that unfortuanatly have a long history of "being in charge" when the DON or ADON leave the building. I will not go into everything they do but would give a few things so you will understand. When one is asked to do something, they will tell you what their opinion is and do that no matter what you say. When told they are doing something different from what DON has said to do, they will do it their way or say you were screaming at them, they call in and just say they dont feel like working, when getting ready to give meds to a patient sitting next to nurse they took the patient to the shower room and lock the nurse out, tell the nurse how to give meds, patient care is not the best but not the worst either. Basically the problem in this facility has been the cnas have been allowed to do what they want and how they want it for years just to keep staff. We have reported food fights, cussing in front of residents, not turning patients, their attitudes, all of it. They talk to the aides but nothing changes because they know they wont lose their jobs due to low number of workers. We have agency in to pick up staffing numbers. We have been told by the nurses that are there this will not change. That they stay because of the residents. We have been adviced by them to just go in and do your job and let them do what they want. We care for over 40 a each...meds, tx, NOR ect...it takes us every minute we have to do our job. But we have to stop and do the cna work to make sure our patients are cared for. I do not mind doing that...it is just they are sitting in the break room while we work their job. They say they are short staffed and cant do it all. But even when they are full, less gets done. It is not a bad place to work but I do have some concerns such as we are both charge over our sides of the home without anyone of any experience around to ask questions of. We have had to learn crash courses in how to handle many situations. On the postitive side, we can and do, call our on call supervisor for advice or to find out how to handle a situation. How does a new nurse deal with all this? I have been an aide for years, never have I seen aides this out of control or allowed to run the place. I knew taking this job it would be a challenge learning the nursing skills and all the procedures for paperwork and such. I never realized that the aides would be over me and I was to say nothing. Am I wrong in being frustrated. It has been reported over and over....even wrote one up.

Thanks for the input. I do not want to come across as whiney. Unfortunatly we have put our foot down and all that happened is we got it stepped on. We are not the only ones with this problem. All nurses there have the same issues. During one meeting between a nurse, aide and DON, the aide cried about how she felt she was being picked on and the DON cried with her. The DON did set her straight on the rules before the meeting was over. But she left the office to go back to the floor to do the exact same thing she was in the office for. Then said she was never told to do it different! This goes on and on each day. The place is so short on help of CNAs that they know they will not be disciplined. I am currently looking for a new position elsewhere. I am tired of talking to a brick wall. Have been told this place has the worst reputation for this problem and many nurses leave after starting. thanks

Hi, A friend of mine and myself from nursing school ended up working in the same nursing home together. We are both only 3 month old nurses. We are very discouraged and need advice. We work in a place that we are each responsible for 40+ residents. We have cna's that work with us that unfortuanatly have a long history of "being in charge" when the DON or ADON leave the building. I will not go into everything they do but would give a few things so you will understand. When one is asked to do something, they will tell you what their opinion is and do that no matter what you say. When told they are doing something different from what DON has said to do, they will do it their way or say you were screaming at them, they call in and just say they dont feel like working, when getting ready to give meds to a patient sitting next to nurse they took the patient to the shower room and lock the nurse out, tell the nurse how to give meds, patient care is not the best but not the worst either. Basically the problem in this facility has been the cnas have been allowed to do what they want and how they want it for years just to keep staff. We have reported food fights, cussing in front of residents, not turning patients, their attitudes, all of it. They talk to the aides but nothing changes because they know they wont lose their jobs due to low number of workers. We have agency in to pick up staffing numbers. We have been told by the nurses that are there this will not change. That they stay because of the residents. We have been adviced by them to just go in and do your job and let them do what they want. We care for over 40 a each...meds, tx, NOR ect...it takes us every minute we have to do our job. But we have to stop and do the cna work to make sure our patients are cared for. I do not mind doing that...it is just they are sitting in the break room while we work their job. They say they are short staffed and cant do it all. But even when they are full, less gets done. It is not a bad place to work but I do have some concerns such as we are both charge over our sides of the home without anyone of any experience around to ask questions of. We have had to learn crash courses in how to handle many situations. On the postitive side, we can and do, call our on call supervisor for advice or to find out how to handle a situation. How does a new nurse deal with all this? I have been an aide for years, never have I seen aides this out of control or allowed to run the place. I knew taking this job it would be a challenge learning the nursing skills and all the procedures for paperwork and such. I never realized that the aides would be over me and I was to say nothing. Am I wrong in being frustrated. It has been reported over and over....even wrote one up.

I just got done with my PN exam a while ago. I tried the PVT and get a pop up that says I have an open registration at this time. I cannot reregister. Is that a good pop up? it does not tell me to contact any one...but does not let me go to the cc page either? ok it just said delivery successful.....and a good pop up!!!!!!

It was just approved yesterday from what I can tell. Many of the other students have just changed to "approved" status on their site. I dont want to call the board yet. Was just wanting to know if I can register with pearson vue now since it says approved or do I need to wait till I have a hard copy in hand. and also does pearson vue give the actual ATT paper work

I sent my paper work in and continental website says...approved. But have not received a hard copy in mail yet. I know I need to register with Pearson Vue next. My question is do I have to wait to have that paper in hand to register with them? I have went to their site and started to register but when I get to the credit card page I stopped. The paper I get from Continental is it just a approval letter? From what I am reading on this forum I am thinking that Pearson Vue actually gives the ATT. Is that correct? We were told by our instructor to mail the paper work in and then we would probably have everything back in and be able to take state boards by end of this month. We graduated Aug 4th. It has been 2 weeks already just for the approvel which no one has received a hard copy yet. How long does this take? Betty