CNA Dinky

So i have been a cna at a LTC for about 3 months now and im beginning to wonder if i got in the wrong field. The LTC i work at specializes in dementia and alzheimer's we also take all other kinds of mental patients as well so we arent a typical nursing home. Everyday since ive started i come home and do nothing but think about the residents and how poorly they are treated. We have most everything they need at the place including doctors, dentist, x-ray,labs, foot doctor, ect..... As soon as you walk on to the floor and look at the residents feet you can tell their feet isnt taken care of their feet doesnt even look human its sickening. There is no respect for the residents rights what so ever and i cant stand that. I stay late almost everyday because i dont compromise their care just so i make sure i clock out on time. i have battled with depression for a long time and i thought that maybe getting into a field to help people would help combat the depression but its made it worse just watching the residents. i cant give the care they deserve and ive been wondering if i should just quit. My LTC is a state job it pays very very well and the benefits are sweet but i hate the feeling of selling out my morals and most people would love a cna job that pays this well but the money just isnt worth it when it comes to how poorly they are treated.......

wow lol some of these recent answers are funny XD. no im not reginachanana2660 and i dont think all nurses dont know what they are doing just the ones who decide to walk away from a resident who is known to have very high blood pressure to go see about taking other residents to the activity floor when getting the bp is only going to take a minute at most. and the nurses that knew what they were doing was the house supervisor and the nurse on the floor. my floor supervisor was the one that just walked off. and the doctor was never called by any of the nurses so.........

lol my supervisor is one of those nurse that "dont know what there doing" because she walked off knowing that this guys bp was more than likely high and decided getting the other residents to the activity floor was more important. :smackingf

yeah you read right. after the house supervisor recorded the numbers i got she almost instantly started talking to the nurse on the hall about his prns and the hall nurse said he couldnt have anymore till 3:30(i think thats what i heard anyway) because he had gotten some bp meds from the first check this morning. i think the issue was his bp was high and the doctor wasnt notified. i had figured since the house supervisor recorded his bp earlier that morning she was the one i was supposed to tell seeing how she was standing there waiting for me to get his bp again. but at the end of the day everyone wanted to know why i only reported it to her. and it freaks me right the **** out that my lack of judgement in the situation caused so much confusion and questioning

yeah that would be a nice skill to learn. cause the machine we got is kinda crappy the cuff never stays on. and the machine even read that one of the other residents had a pulse of 192 today lol

and about the machine........i cant take it manually i know that if a residents bp is high like that on the machine we take it manually but he just had surgery on one arm and for some reason there is a restriction on taking his bp with the other so we cant use either arm we have to do it with his leg which i have not been trained to do

thanks man i never thought of it that way. and i will remember that circle. i feel like shat about the situation but i guess i should look at the end result which was the resident was okay. and i learned a very important lesson

thanks for the replies everyone. the nurse on the hall was his nurse and as i said the house supervisor did talk to his nurse about his bp meds right after she got the numbers. and believe me after this incident every time i have an abnormal vital sign im telling my halls nurse and my supervisor XD

Hi everybody im gonna start off by saying iv been a cna for 3 months now and i ran into my first situation where i have no idea if i did the right thing or not. here is the situation my supervisor asked me to get one of my residents vitals so i grabbed the machine and went to it his bp came out to be 201/103 or something close to that. my supervisor and the house supervisor was standing right there recorded his vitals and told me to come back and check it again after a few hours. well second time coming around to check it my supervisor and the house supervisor were both present before i started and while i was getting his bp again my floor supervisor left leaving just the house supervisor and myself there. i get his bp it was higher than the check from earlier the house supervisor recorded it and started talking to the nurse on the hall about his prn meds or something like that(im not sure what that is but i know for sure she said "prn" and the resident being looked at) well at the end of my shift my unit manager pulled me aside and asked me who i reported it to i told her the house supervisor. then my unit manager asked me if i reported it to any of the nurses on my floor i said no because i reported it to the house supervisor. now that my long story is over i ask you nurses with your knowledge and experience did i do the right thing or did i make a mistake in thinking that reporting it to the house supervisor was enough?