jennersue

I have worked as a charge nurse in long-term care for five years. I have found that long-term care is not a profession that many people (including CNA's) want to get into. I do have some excellent CNA's but at times I get some that do not care about their work. The problem that we have at our facility is not having a large enough selection of interested CNA's to hire so that we can weed out the CNA's that are lazy. CNA's at my facility are only paid $6.15. Let's face it, until coorporations want to pay for the amount and quality of work expected nursing homes will continue to struggle with not enough help and poor quality help. Nursing the elderly is a very difficult job and state regulations is putting more and more pressure on facilities. When are nursing homes going to put up the money required to give excellent care? ------------------