Jen411

Hospital interview tomorrow... If this Director of nursing cancels again its probably ment to be..Keeping my fingers crossed!! I did all that paper work for like an hour for that nurse agency and the man who runs it said he would call me if something came available.. well he never called... But anyway this nursing agency sends you from what I gathered to ltc facilitys as staff relief. Friday I start orientation again at a ltc facility. I was called by 2 other hospitals as well 40-45 minutes away.. not sure about those.. All I know is I'm sick of getting 2 steps and doing orientations!!!!!!!!!! Wow I would be peed-off too!!! Someone obviously isnt doing their jobs at that hospital.. Lack of communication seems to be the problem.. keep me updated on how it goes.. wish you luck!

Not sure if you bought scrubs yet.. But walmart's are normally affordable. I will tell you tho I'm not sure if anyone else had this problem but their scrub pants are OVERSIZED.. I suggest you try the pants on in the store if you can. I wear a Medium, the Medium fit like a large! I had to by a small.. and let me tell you my scrub pants are the only pants I have in small lol

Congrats on your new job! From going from LTC to the hospital was a culture shock. It was weird seeing LPNs at the hospital I was at anyway, being my peer and not my supervisor. Hospital was busy, But I believe alot easier then LTC..IMO anyway

Wow, that lady is very unprofessional and obviously doesnt know her information.. I would be highly p'd-o as well. Hopefully once you start that it would be as dysfunctional as the orientation. Just remember incase that lady tries saying you didnt show up to one of the orientation days keep all paper work so you can show how messed up it was from the getgo Wish you good luck!

For mine it was 2 days and wore told to wear "business casual" attire... 1st day policy and procedure,rules,etc etc.. 2nd day videos,schedule,some clinical stuff in "staff development" office.. Taking each other's vitals manually,being taught some of the computer charting,quizzes, etc.. Id badges and thats about it.. Good Luck!

Hi I haven't checked the boards for a few days, so Im just seeing your message. I didnt go back to the hospital. I got called last monday for an interview at another local hospital but on their long term care unit.. Well today she left me a message on my voicemail saying that she had to cancel my interview because she was sick and didnt think she could make it through the day?? and that she will call me next week. ((rolls eyes)) 3 weeks Ill have to wait for an interview, and she wasnt even sure when I spoke to her last monday if she even had a position available.(Since someone just quit and blah blah blah..) She called me? and asked if I wanted to come in for an interview or if I wanted to wait until she knew she had an opening? I'm thinking well an "interview" then she will keep me in mind incase she has something and I can make an impression.. Otherwise I'm just going to keep looking.. Unfortunately there's not many more places for me to apply.. So I went to a nurse staffing agency today.. I will have to travel 40 minutes away from home but until I get something set in stone, fulltime-wise I guess I have no other choice. I will be getting paid $14-15 dollars an hour and paid weekly which is a plus.. Hopefully something good will come my way..and soon before I loss my mind. I wish you luck on monday! Its a holiday will you get time in a half?? Not getting orientation prior to working personally gives me bad vibes from the get go.. Not knowing policy and procedures prior to working , thats scary. Let me know how it goes!! The first day will be alot to take in im sure, it was for me.. What I should have brought in the first day, that I brought in the second day was a small notepad... That may help you remember everything that is thrown at you the first day.. Good LUCK!!!

I did have the "trainer" all 3 days, when she wasn't pawning me off. I mean they were decent to me, but the last day I worked when my "trainer" threw me under the bus and claimed I didn't finished the charts on 2 patients when they were her patients that really p1ssed me off! and made me feel like a slacker which I am not. Working with her I felt like I was slacking off she talked more then she worked and I had no other choice but follow her around. I did mention to the lpn who also worked with us that I had no clue I was to chart on these people(since I worked with this lpn all morning) and she just blew me off. I really did try to correct the problem and I did what I was told and charted on these patients. The manager called me back a few hours ago and basically said she couldn't switch shifts for me. She would like if I would come back and train with someone else. But still with my old "trainer". Thats fine and dandy but I am so nervous even paranoid to go back there. The environment there is not the greatest with the lpns loosing their jobs.. I just don't know what to do. I do have an interview next Tuesday somewhere else.

I don't blame you, These facility's preach about hostile working environments and verbal abuse and so forth... But they never practice what they preach. Pick and choose favorites is common unfortunately everywhere you go. There's a saying my old workplace coworkers would say "it's not who you know, it's who you ****" I bleeped the last word but I'm sure you get the hint if I knew I was not guilty of such, I would have refused to sign the write-up, and ask them to provide proof I was the one who caused the actually harm. Since you resigned you were probably off anyway. Noone deserves that type of treatment. You can only be a doormat for so long.

My thoughts exactly. I explained this to her as well and she stated she "didnt think there would be any further problems". Easy to say that when your not actually on the floor working side by side with the girls. I noticed the other shifts dont have much communication with each other. So that's why I figured it would be safe if I went another shift.I hope they would give me a chance on another shift, but then again she said she wasnt sure if they were still available. The environment wouldn't be the same on dayshift with the same people. After me making the report. I know deep down it wouldnt. Otherwise I filled out applications else where today so maybe its back to square 1.

Well Update on the situation... So I called and basically resigned thursday night, Not very professional to leave a message on the nurse managers voicemail. Ofcourse she didnt get it until today! She called me this morning and I explained what happened and how I felt reguarding falsification of records,the princess comment,etc. She said the girl I trained with said she didn't feel as tho there were any problems, and she apologized if I felt offended and that she would even do my rotation schedule of 3am to 11am and she said I was doing good, and would like me to come back. At this point I kinda feel awkward going back to the same shift,Im sure my trainer (as she talks to everyone!) told everyone I wasnt coming in because she was calling me "princess", and I made a complaint against her. I know at my previous job when you heard people making complaints against another coworker you looked at them like a snitch and that coworker would be treated "differently". I told the unit manager I would prefer to go to another shift. Unfortunely that may not be an option for me. Shes suppose to call me back later today to let me know if thats available or not. I dont know what I should do? Do I returned to dayshift, knowing everyone knows I didn't show up for two days due to the way I felt I was being treated? Or do i cut my ties with this hospital?? I feel so torn! I feel as tho maybe I did jump to conclusions and feel I let myself down and didnt give the hospital a chance. My biggest flaw is always worrying what people think of me.. Ugh I mean thankfully they did call me back today to discuss what happened but 2 no call no shows? Thats immediate termination. Anyone ever be in this kind of predicament? Advice?

Well said!

I know the feeling at the ltc facility I worked the same would happen.. I wish they had an on call this, give them beepers if your beeped get your butt to work

Congrats on your new promotion!

I worked until I was about 37/38 weeks on a hard short staffed dementia unit. If you work in one of these units to sun-downers your belly is target practice. Their are some residents that want to touch your belly and are always saying "Be careful your pregnant" and then there are the others who hit and aim for the belly. Be careful! I had to still lift and pull, sometimes you will find that you have good coworkers who will go over and beyond because you are pregnant. Because they remember how it was:) and then there are other aides who dont. Long hours on my feet and always having to pee were bothersome, but otherwise I was fine. Now getting into the car to drive to work was a problem my belly pushed on the steering wheel. I'm short so I have to have the seat up when I drive,hence the belly squashed:eek: As for morning sickness this was my second pregnancy and thankfully I was blessed with no morning sickness or anything. But my sense to smell increased and smells like burping colostomy bags or the smell of resource(aka ensure) made me turn green. I found if I put scented lipgloss or lotions that smelled like food(chocolate,cake,etc) under my nose it helped me through the "rough times" lol

It was my 3rd day of actually working on the floor. This women I worked with were in their 40's/late 40's maybe? It wasnt like I was working with 20 some year olds. I'm sure its not like this everywhere. But in the current situation at the hospital this is probably why I was treated the way I was. On the rotation deal. I was unaware of any rotation when I was hired. The Director of the nursing dept ask what shift I wanted to work.She gave me an option of days,evenings,nights. I choose dayshift. Normally places I have worked in the pass LTC there is no rotation, unless you signed up for Overtime or whatever. So during orientation a few of the other girls I was with mentioned they were on rotation? I was confused because this was never mentioned to me, I was in the dark. I mean what happened if I was unable to work, would I get in trouble? I'm sure you will do fine. I have 14 yrs of cna experience and felt like a complete idiot. Congrats on graduating! I wish you good luck with the new job

today wasn't the greatest, I'm considering quitting. My trainer keeps calling me princess, which is starting to irrate me! kinda reminds me when someone calling you hun, very unprofessional IMO ! I ignored her anyway the Lpn I thought liked me and I was clicking with I think was getting annoyed with me. after 12pm it seemed as tho I wasn't doing anything right and she seemed as tho she was avoiding me. My trainer Aka fellow cna threw me under the bus towards the end of day. The lpn asked why charting wasn't completed on 2 pts who my trainer did care on in the morning and I didn't even step in their rooms all shift , and I knew nothing about! My trainer says that what's the "princess's" job , and looks at me and says get to it!!! ok well if that was the case I think she maybe should have told me I had to chart on these pts before the shift was almost over. we had some major downtime and she never said anything I don't feel comfortable charting on anyone I didn't do care on or even know anything about. I tried explaining what happened to the LPN she kinda blew me off. Ugh with someone new I believe tomorrow because I can guarantee the lpn won't want me tomorrow. I'm torn! not only that but I get my "parttime schedule" and I'm working 3am to 11am!!! nice rotation! 8 days in 2 weeks which is nice but the 3am shift is NOT! not even a asking If I'm available to work this shift or not.. ridiculous. my day consists of this 0700 get report sheet,start vitals on everyone,get report from our team rn 0800-0900 breakfast trays,bed baths,charting,fill linen cart 0900-1000 15 min break,charting,bells,vitals 1000-1100 downtime for the most part 1100-1200 lunch 30 min./down time 1200-1300 post ops come rolling in,vitals,lunch trays 1300-1400 rounds,vitals,bells,charting,no 15 break??? 1400-1500 downtime ,bells , chitchatting waiting for 2nd shift sounds simple but when who u work with have no routine and talks more then work . I could just explode!!!!

I did weekends at a LTC facility for 5 years. I enjoyed it for a long time since I had 5 days free to take my kids to their sports,etc. I got paid a nice weekend bonus which was 3 dollars above base rate and shift dif. I did doubles(16 hr shifts) on the weekend when I could, which is where I got my big $$$.

Oh yes I did Vitals.None manual tho. Then they had i/o papers taped to the front of the beds.You would put their p.o intake on those. Alot like I said were NPO tho since they were pre-op. Bedbaths, moving beds around from room to room. The Lpn's did everything the aides did..They also did Iv's from what I gathered.Which the aides did not. everything was ok up until 12pm when post ops were on q15 and q30 vitals. Not saying its anyone's fault but the girl I trained with today kept talking and talking it was hard for me to keep focus when she was talking about her vertigo,chocolate intake,personal life and not just with me with everyone! even the housekeepers. Not to be rude or ungrateful for her help but I honestly got a headache and still have it. She didnt have me punch out for lunch, she didnt tell me when I could take breaks. If she wanted one she would say ok I'm hungry. I'm with her another 2 days. I feel bad for when i dont work with her on Frday and I'm with someone else, they probably will be expecting me to know more. This was my first day and I got thrown from this one to that one, and then left on a computer with flow sheets I HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT. I'm one who will jump right in there and do what I can to help out, But today I feel as tho i learned nothing and probably screwed up charting on people's vitals. I feel horrible. Hopefully you will have better luck then me

Well today was my first day. Overwhelmed isn't the word for it. My day started off with the aides/lpns deciding what team they will be on, then off we went.. room to room the lpns did the vitals(automatic vital machine) then the lpn told the aide what the vitals were so they could chart them in the laptop/portable computer. There was approx 8 pre-ops. Then after that was done some am care/bed bath's. then "alot" of chit chatting while the pts ate breakfast but most were npo. Some am care charting,I&O'S,breakfast intake.turning down beds,fixing beds breaks then q.15,q.30,q. hour,routine vitals. the girls used blank post-its by the room number to mark down times so you knew what time the next vital was to be done. This went on post-op for 3 hours non stop. New patients coming, the morning patients leaving. Hard to keep track!! The aide I was with also did bladder scans, but I did not get to see these since she had me on the computer. (hence I never did one of these) From only working in a nursing home, I am truly overwhelmed. I'm sure I had messed something up today, probably alot. I even forgot what brachial meant.. I'm nervous and frightened to death to see when I am by myself.The aide I was with today was nice ,talked to everyone more then she worked about every and anything. Not a big deal. In the morning before I punched, everyone was lined up to punch, sure enough 2 aides were talking saying so you know your training someone today? The aide I ended up having said I hope she's ready to wipe some ***, im in no mood. Made me feel special. She obviously didnt know I was who she would be training. Boy I dont know if I'm cut out for this.God help me! The routine in the morning is ok, the afternoon is so fast-paced it gave me heart palpitations!

OH I know what you mean the hospital was more or less eager to pass along their mission rather then what the job was on the unit I would be one. Med/surg (the clean side). Ill post after work monday and tell you what the routine was. Thanks :)

I start Monday, Although I really hoped to be starting this week. I guess I will just have to cross my fingers and hope for the best. The Unit manager called me to give me a start date today but other then that I have no clue when the heck I work,schedule wise. Plus in orientation girls had said they were on Rotation?? I'm thinking Wait *** is that?? Swing shifts? That was never discussed with me whatsoever. As I can only do dayshift not second shift. Anyway. I just hope all guess as expected :) Ill keep you all posted..

Yesterday was my last day of orientation, and when we as a group took a walk through on the units where we will be working, the looks on the staffs faces were horrible. The staff looked at the new hires as if we killed their dog or slept with their husbands. Seriously! I've been in nursing for a long time and I never felt like that before, where I broke out in hives and literally start having heart palpitations. When we returned to the conference room with the Staff Development Rn we were with all day, I asked her how the staff's morale is over in the hospital.I said because it didn't seem as tho we had a warm welcome. She replied What kind of welcome were you expecting? I said well maybe a smile, or smirk,something that kinda made you feel comfortable or you know greeted? I wasn't expecting balloons and a cheering committee by any means. But I know in the past where I previously worked if someone new started I'd smile atleast or be somewhat friendly. (in my first post in this thread the hospital is phasing out the LPNs and replacing them with RN's and Cna's) I have never felt so disliked in the work place,before I even actually worked. I'm very in-tuned and pick stuff up on people's facial expressions,hand shakes things like that. It's a flaw of mine at times because I read into people and my first impression of people is what I normally keep. I don't know what to do now. I let go 3 other jobs for this one. Ugh

I accepted a med/surg position at a local hospital. This week I started orientation, a met 3 other aides who also were hired for med/surg(2 on infection side/1 on surgical side where I am as well) All of us were hired the same week in April. Myself and another aide have experienced but were only offered Part-time. When I interviewed I said I preferred full-time but she indicated only Part-time positions were available. ok. So the other 2 aides in orientation the one has no experience being an aide, she thought she was getting a clinical secretary position. But turns out she got an aide position. She got her call the day after me and was offered Fulltime. The other aide has no experince as well but was offered full-time as well. she said they called her at the end of the same we all of us were called. It seems to me as tho they gave full-time to the girls who they could start at a lower rate due to their experience. And the ones with experience paid a little bit more but only gave part-time positions. This really ticks me off. Not only that but Im pretty sure during the interview I was quoted my rate would be 14.05. Today I inquired and it's 13.35???? argh!!!! this really irks me? Am I wrong to be kinda p'd off??

I'm finally starting May 2nd!!! Almost a month from when I was interviewed. a week to check references a week to be scheduled for a drug test @ the hospital & wait for FBI finger printing to come back a week later to be scheduled for appt with employee health and complete a one step FINALLY I START..I guess I expected to start work in like 2 weeks like you would with LTC...

This statement is very true. I worked at the same LTCF for 10 years and this was very true for me and my coworkers unfortunately. The cna's were treated like dirt. Which is a shame because they are the hardest worked in a nursing home. The only time my coworkers and I got our 15 minute breaks was if we smoked. I honestly cant tell you how many times I was practically ******* my pants, from holding it in and not going to the bathroom when I had to, because it was that busy. In LTC I found dayshift works better together then second shift. Dayshift was faster paced and your day went super fast, compared to second shift. Home health/private duty: It was ok. Travel/wear and tear on your car is a con. Your doing private care,light housekeeping and making meals. Pay is low as well. My one friend does Hospice and she gets paid more then normal private duty. As for Hospital? I don't know yet? I start May 2nd lol. I've been an cna for 14 years. I can tell you anywhere I worked,It was never the work I disliked. I loved my work. It was the people I worked with I didn't like. The people you work with make your job what it is errr the environment you work in.