Skayda

I’m a CNA and I’m a bit confused about something and was hoping someone here might shine some light on it for me. I have recently quit a long-term job, (I quit a few months ago), and the day I was leaving I was going to take all the copies of the ce...

I’m a bit confused about why they need to keep copies of my state ID and social security card as well after I quit, too. But, someone pointed out to me that most companies need to keep the certificates and stuff from the time you worked there after ...

Oh yes, burnout. I know thee well. I can guess, probably with 100% accuracy too, that every single one us has dealt with it at one point or another if they’ve been in this business for any amount of time. I started out working in LTC and then in smal...

Hey all! At the place where I work, a 5 resident adult family home, there is one resident who is on a level of aspirin daily that causes her to bruise very easily. She came back from a trip to the hospital with her arms black and blue from the IVs a...

I have been in the healthcare game for over twenty years first as an NAR and now as a CNA, off and on and I am pretty sure the 12 hours of yearly CEs haven't changed yet the WA state department of health have conflicting information. On Home :: Washi...

I took care of a 50+ year old down syndrome woman whose brother took her to an animal vet to be sterilized when she was younger. Anyone ever heard of something like this? Was it a common practice in the sixties/seventies for family of down syndrome ...

Never...EVER say "Looks like it's going to be a quiet night/day." Hell, don't even THINK that! Trust me! Lol!

These are all just priceless gold! I had one male resident with nightly incontinence issues we were told to 'double up' his briefs on and one night as I was helping him get ready for bed and putting his briefs on him he looks down at himself in the b...

I know everyone's experience is different but it seems like mine was a mixture of good planning and luck. After being an unemployed NAR who'd let her NAR lapse for ten years I finally came into a little money and used it to take the CNA course and co...

Hi all! I'm not the person in charge of such things but I've been asked by my employer to keep on the lookout and spread the word that we are looking for another caregiver to work weekends at one of our two beautiful Spokane Valley homes. Our cliente...

I recently took a job at an AFH whose provider has an autistic teenage son. She wants to place him in her AFH but can't until he turns 18, so for now, she is considering him a "visitor" even tho he lives there on weekend and caregivers are meant to c...

So, for the past six months I've been working for a woman who owns two adult family homes for elderly and developmentmentally disabled adults. I work three 24 hour shifts in a row from Friday to Sunday. The first few months I would always try to enga...

I wish all my clients and everyone I've ever worked for, will work for, thought like you! Too much of the time CNAs and Nurses are treated like servants and housekeepers.

Ah, Thank you, Lightx. The owner of the facility also has another AFH but her son doesn't like it there to stay overnight. He catches the bus to school from there and is picked up by his dad after school and he spends his week at their main house wit...

Hello again everyone! I have been working, since this summer, at a residential home for DD clients and for the most part I love it; there's no lifting, no toileting messes, no call bells. I cook, clean, pass meds and help the residents with their ba...

I just wanted to share something one of my residents said to me with you all today that had me biting the inside of my mouth to keep my serious face on that I thought you'd all enjoy. And there is a question right after. Here's the brief resident ba...

Adult Family Home

Well, I am a CNA and my duties include getting the people up, dressed, bathed, fed, medicated and then cleaning the whole house. Glorified maids and babysitters, in a nutshell. But it can very rewarding, too.

The "R" word is used in the care plans of the residents I care for at an AFH.

I would like someone in the Adult Family Home/Adult Boarding Home line of work to clear this up for me, please: My current employer, who owns and operates a six-resident AFH, recently mentioned to me in regards to a high-functioning new admit who a...

Oooh! So, basically it boils down to my boss lying to insurance about a resident's care level and giving the caregivers unnecessary work to do in order to collect a larger check? Okay, that's bad for both the residents who will suffer from lessened s...

Ah! Thanks! That makes sense. Lol. :)

I wonder why you need to be fingerprinted anew for each job in the same city state? I mean, it's not like your fingerprints change over time or do they, (other than cuts/scars)? Couldn't they just use the set they have on file from your first job wh...