Lorissa

Is that really what you want to do? You will be doing most of the work that has to deal with pee and poop. You will be answering lights constantly while every one else sit on their a.. Every single person in the building except kitchen help will be your boss. If i was 21 again I would have done what i could do to stay out of the field. I have done it for lots of years and hated it. Loved my residents but hated the lazy staff. The nurses who leave me as the only one on the floor so they could smoke cigs all day. The nurses that would come in and sign their name so they could hide in their office so i could work a floor alone which was illegal and hard on the residents. Lots of nurses who like you are not as deserving of respect as they are. Stay out of it. trust me. there are better jobs out there.

Maybe because they are making a low wage and figures the nurse is sitting on her a.. so they can. Yes patients need care and paid attention to but, the system of nursing should change so that CNAs are not treated like they are treated. The way it is now will give most people in their position a bad attitude. I am sure your CNAs are the cream of the crop since most decent people would not give a job like that the time of day. Honestly who wants to do all the physical work while the ones making any money sit on the a.. almost the entire time they are at work. Not only that they work CNAs short often and honestly CNAs need to be obsolete so that the nurses have to run like they have expected us to all this time. That i would like to see. I got out because I hate it. I started feeling like I was only their to wipe a.. and do all the dirty work.