interceptinglight CNA

:heartbeat I've been at the LTC facility where I work since August. This is my first CNA job and in the beginning it was a shock and a discouragement. Never have I worked so hard for such little pay! When I was awarded with my certification a...

Hello ShaynaSmart -- I'm really glad you shared this experience with allnurses. It really caught my attention because I just completed a certification program called 'Mental Health First Aid'...and one of the experiences that we discussed was the in...

I submitted my resignation today. I will never work in long-term care again. Twice in the last 3 months I've been written up for a resident fall -- again because of failure to have alarms on a wheelchair. In my most recent disaster, a resident...

Sometimes CNAs don't realize how difficult a nurse's job really is. The pressure on nurses today is incredible with the unreasonable amount of responsibility that they usually have to shoulder. I'm sure this nurse just lost it with me because of ho...

I've never seen a CNA that I worked with ever kiss a resident that we were caring for -- except for one. There was this cutest little gentleman, a dementia-ridden fellow who tended to give the staff a lot of heck all the time with his defiant combat...

I worked in a special Alzheimer's unit at the LTC facility that I was employed by. Two of the residents there were men and only one of those two was ever inappropriate with any of the female CNA's, mostly they were totally harmless and not at all a...

Take the class. We had 2 guys in our CNA class and I preferred to work with them because they were just nice without any of the 'female politics' and competitiveness that I sometimes felt from my classmates who were women. Sometimes they were also...

That's something you will find in most health care facilities. They have an almost hostile attitude toward students, because they know the student is going to put schooling first and their slave-wage job will most likely take a back seat. Wishing ...

I especially loved this: "When I push you away when you are trying to help me--a wash perhaps, or getting dressed, maybe it's because I have forgotten what you have said. Keep telling me what you are doing--over and over and over--Maybe others will ...

^^^That comment there by student forever is great!! It's wonderful to get such a personal reward out of knowing you are helping people in such a personal way -- however, CNA's are only able to give help that's very temporary in nature and that is w...

You mean slapping the monkey?

I'm not much of a Morality Nazi, so if it had been me on the other side of that locked door, I would have knocked loudly and addressed the hospitalist to tell him he was needed and that I would come back shortly...then I would have walked away to giv...

Yeah, I thought of that, too. Sheesh the noises could have been him taking care of some very private business.

Dear Lady will you PUUH-LEEEASE just swallow that mouthful of food you've been chewing for the last 5 full minutes so when I assist you with another spoonful it won't just slip-slide out your mouth and onto your lap again. To the people I work with...

Aaaagghhh...anybody who grumbles so much about you sucking probably forgot how much they sucked when they first started out, as we all did at one time. Don't let it get to you!! :loveya:

Quote from ShelbyRN1: "To all those who have attacked her based on an honest inquiry you must surely be the one's who are the nasty, mean nurses she is speaking of." And... "If you are offended by this, you are part of the problem." Excellent. Ju...

Did I hear right? '...the poor techs...' Really? Someone actually acknowledging that the patient care techs/CNA's sometimes get dumped on with tasks that the nurses just don't want to do? I may faint. **swoons**

Thank you very much for this sensible response to HouTx. You properly cited your source of information and effectively defended your post and the motivation for writing it without saying anything in an offensive way, even though you may have been o...

I was sick with a sinus infection and bronchitis for nearly 3 months when I first became a CNA in a LTC facility. Much of that time I was too sick to work, yet I couldn't afford not to and I had no medical insurance at the time so I couldn't afford ...

The ER scribe job sounds fascinating!! With that position you would definitely learn a lot about the ER environment and the medical experience would be invaluable for your career. It is more of an administrative position rather than a direct-care p...

Any employee within earshot of an alarm should run for it as soon as they hear it and not wait for someone else to get it; at least they may be able to stop someone from falling and just let them know the aide will be with them shortly. You should ...

Nurse_Wretched, I just love your screen name. It has such an 'Eeyore'-kinda feeling to it.

Christ was the ultimate example of self-sacrificing love, nursing is most certainly a career in which one could express such values every day without even being religious.

When my little preemie son was in the NICU in 1996, an older nurse told me of the days before pulse oximetry. No alarms to alert a nurse to a sudden drop in the baby's oxygen level.....all they had to go by was a change in skin color.

We didn't study any Anatomy at all in my CNA class, mostly just "the knee bone's connected to the foot bone" and stuff. Piece a cake.