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I'm done, I don't wanna be a cna and apparently if you don't wanna be cna you may as well not be nurse is the general consensus. So screw it I don't wanna be cna I'm not doing cna work the only reason I got it was for school anyways, I can't take the negativity and the ****** attitudes and the cliqueiness its pathetic childish and the complete disregard for residents. I've been doing this for 5 months and I'm done...no more I'm withdrawing from nursing school I thought it was my passion but these jerks have just turned me off of it. Even asking advice all I hear is if you can't handle cna work then nursing isn't for you because even as a nurse you will still do cna work like it happens everyday, its discouraging. Am I disappointed yes but do I care anymore...nope!

well in iowa you have to have your advanced cna before you are allowed to work in a hospital, i've applied other places but they want 6+ months of experience which i'm almost there. look i don't mind being a cna but ltc really is not for me. i actually want to work with autoimmune patients i really want to go into nursing informatics or research nursing. i think my dis pleasant mood is because i took a 5 dollar pay cut to work as a cna because i heard it would make me a better nurse. and i'm drowning in debt and cannot live this way anymore, i want to be a nurse but it seems like a very difficult road ahead and i find it discouraging. " [color=#333333]if you hate what you're doing now, you probably won't like what you will do as a nurse. nurses don't get to say, "well i'm the nurse and you're the cna, so you're going to clean up all my messes for me, and i'm just going to give meds and do "nurse" stuff." there are nurses out there who have that attitude, but no one likes them. you have to be a team player, and you have to be willing to do even the menial tasks." also when people use this kind of language i find it very discouraging, that is one thing i dislike about the nursing field is peoples attitudes towards each other, it seems like a very cliquey and cut throat industry even more so the less education you have. i don't like sure but instead of saying "well then you shouldn't be a nurse" give me alternatives. i am developing and learning and i'm not the best critical thinker, i'm a late bloomer, its not completely my fault i have no idea what is out there so if you have the experience and the knowledge, teach us newbies, show us guidance, "be a team player".

Thanks guys I'm looking for blunt honesty I'm just feeling kind of lost at the moment I don't know if it's depression or just generalize anxiety and apathy but either way I'm just looking for direction. Guess I'll just stay right here and focus on school were I'm at...gotta bring my grades up though from the sounds of it.

I want to leave Iowa, I don't want to live here anymore I was going to school for nursing at a local community college but at the rate I'm going it probably going to be another 2 or 3 years and I don't want to wait that long. I'm looking at moving to Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, or Austin. Anyone living in those areas and can give some good advice on schools? Anyone go out of state to go to school? Cause I'm ready I need to spread my wings and leave the nest.

Nursing has always been such a strong pull for me and I want to be a nurse so BAD, even though it does seem to take forever! I have family that are nurses, I have family that are Drs. and admire nurses, I know people that are nurses and they all love it! But I'm CNA right now and I can't stand it! I've been a CNA for 3 months now and I can't get over it. I don't want to wipe bottoms, feed and dress people, shower people. I love my residents don't get me wrong, but I don't want to do this day after day for the next 2 years until I finish school. I know it will make me a better nurse and I have no problem doing it but I just don't want to do it every single day and I know most nurses do not do it every single day, some nurses like the one's I work with are great and will help out sometimes if we are really strapped but for the most part they do wellness checks, push meds, and do paper work among other things. Please don't hate me but I don't want to be a CNA while I'm waiting to get into nursing school. I don't want to work in LTC and I don't know about HHC. It's just not my cup of tea and no matter how much I do it I just can't get over it, give me blood and guts arm deep in an abdominal cavity and I'm fine, make me pick up poo off a shower floor then wipe someone's bottom, nope! Doesn't matter how much I tell myself I'm professional and to make it one more day, still gag and sometimes vomit (never in front of a resident, so far). It doesn't help my facility is a horrible horrible place to work from what I've heard about other facilities. But it's even starting to make me reconsider being a nurse which is leaving me kind of panicked! Because I WANT IT! Plus any other place I apply at want's me to work overnight because that is what I do right now and I want day or evening hours. I'm sorry of the wallotext but I need to vent my concerns to others that maybe can help suggest better options for me at the moment.

WOW!! You just described the facility I work for exactly!!! Your not in Iowa are you?

I'm right there with you!! I just passed my basic CNA in April and I am not fond of LTC it is doable and it does get easier but its very hard to tolerate I do not know how people do it everyday for years!!! I am only dealing with it because 1. I need the job to live, 2. I'm trained so why not do what I am going to school for, 3. it will give me strength and knowledge as a nurse to move forward in my career and I've heard it really does make you a better nurse. Other professionals can tell the difference between a Nurse that has done CNA work and a Nurse that has not. It does get easier and to be fair I didn't do post mortem care in my clinicals, I didn't do nail care, I didn't get shower experience, so do as much as possible because I am so green to CNA care. Once get some experience look for Home Health or get your Advanced CNA and get on in a hospital that's my next move. From one newbie to another good luck!

This job has just been getting worse and worse because of "low census" they are cutting people left and right, reducing hours and expecting twice as much work, I'm not even coded in their system as a C.N.A., I'm more of a universal worker and trying to find a C.N.A. job in home health or other contract work because I know it pays more. I'm determined to find a real C.N.A. job just LTC is not for me and I know that is were most C.N.A's are employed. But everyone wants experience and I don't have it because technically I am not a C.N.A. I don't do any C.N.A. work expect help one resident into her bed, this job just has me so discouraged, but I'm not giving up I finally got a call back for a senior community as a C.N.A. working 7 am to 7 pm shift with a yearly schedule a friend of mine works there PRN. I hope its better somewhere else because if I run into this bad of company again, oh and ItalianBellaGirl I'm following your blog.. good job!!!!! And thank you all for your support it really means a lot because I have been so down about this one job lately.

Hey Guys, I'm not sure if I want to do this anymore....I'm currently a resident assistant for a very poorly managed company and it has completly turned me off of even wanting to be a nurse now. As part of the nursing program its required I get my CNA, which I'm trying to get a real CNA position with a better company. I've wanted to be a nurse off and on for a few years now (I'm 26) I kept exploring other subjects but always came back to nursing. I don't feel I have passion for nothing else, I love science, people, technology, I love discovering and questioning, I love learning and nursing seems to encompass everything I enjoy but I hear so many horror stories of being and nurse. The negatives seem to greatly outweight the positives of being a nurse and it so discouraging to me. And my job is not helping in any way. As a resident assistant with his CNA, I do not do CNA work, my hours worked do not count towards the CNA registry so if I stay here I still have to pick up another job anyways as a CNA to stay active and current. I work the overnight so my night constists of cleaning like, nitty gritty down and dirty housekeeping because we don't have housekeeping in our department, which to me is ridiculous, I was hired to care for people not scrub floorboards and toilets, forgive me if you don't agree but I am frustrated because I was never told I would be doing this it was not part of the job description, I am required to fill in for dietary as well when needed, I am scheduled weekends, doubles, never guarunteed set days off and coming from customer servie/IT with set schedules and days off to me this is foreign, is this common in healthcare? I just feel like I am being grossly taken advantage of and I work with multiple people with **** poor attitudes, this 1 job has turned me so far off working in healthcare I am not sure if I even want to pursue being a nurse anymore. They say first impressions are everything and my first impression work in healthcare related field as just competely blown me away. The benefits are horrible and there is not even a shift differintial for working overnight I am paid a set pay whether I work days, evenings, overnights, doesn't matter no shift pay. Help advice? (sorry for the typos I'm on my phone) Also I'm not comfortable in LTC and wondering what else I could do with my CNA while in school I only have the basic at the moment so I am not yet able to work in a hospital until I have the advanced CNA even then I hear its almost impossible to get into a hospital anyways. I'll do LTC work and it pays the bills and I still care for and show compassion but its not my first choice. I'm just not sure and you guys are really my only source to turn too when it comes to advice. I have gone home literally in tears because of the BS I have to put up with and I'm so disappointed with myself I thought nursing/healthcare was my calling and now I just don't know just over this one job....I know nothing is perfect and life sometimes just down right sucks and some people are just downright dumb and hard to work with but please tell me I'm not over reacting? I'm trying to get into homehealth care as an aid and have applied at some other places but I'm just not sure anymore like I said I'm competely turned off of being a nurse from this job.

Its ok ya when I was hired I was hired as a resident assistant for their overnight shift but its turned into housekeeping and dietary lacky, I got my CNA last month while working as a resident assistant but have not been given the tittle and more housekeeping and dietary duties are being dumped on me and I did apply for a home health aid position with another company, I've heard this company is the worst company in iowa to work for so I am doing what I can do get out, don't get me wrong I don't mind light house keeping but down and dirty housekeeping eff that noise if I wanted to clean floorboards and stock shelves I'd go work for Molly Maids and walmart. But I'm trying to stay away from LTC I'm not found of LTC I'll do it but its not my first choice once I get my advanced CNA I can work for hospitals but until then pretty much home care and LTC!

I AM a CNA.

Thank you guys for you kind words and support it is very much appreciated, I just applied for a home health care position so hopefully I can move on from this environment, I've been working since I was 16 so I know we all have "those" days but when its everyday all the time its tiresome and I'm trying to run out of there fast, I would love to work in a hospital but here in Iowa anyways you have to have the 150hr CNA class and I haven't taken it yet hopefully will take it next semester. And sorry for the typo's! But again thank you for your support!

Hey everyone! I'm Ryan and I just passed the CNA exams last month and I'm currently working as R.A./C.N.A. for an assisted living home and trying to get on at home healthcare facility. I've worked there since March as the overnight and shift and I just feel like the epitome of a pee on! We do not have housekeeping and so I am the house keeper which makes me angry because I took this job expecting patient care. On top of the ridiculous task of housekeeping (I'm talking down and dirty scrubbing floorboards, dusting sculptures, wiping doors housekeeping) I'm expected to also restock items in our pantry which to me is dietaries job, and as well as do other cleaning tasks that have not been finished because of the other shift blatantly not doing it! No nobody wants to work as a team and its creating a very hostile environment, even my supervisor has attitude, she runs this facility like its high school, those that do a good job and work are rewarded with constant criticism and more work and those that do nothing and have poor attitudes are not expected to do anything more then whats required, she plays favorites and is very two faced, everyone is very two faced and it has left a very bad taste in my mouth as to whether I want to be a nurse now or not. Should I these jerks sway my vision of what I expect healthcare to be? Is it always going to be constant cattiness and poor attitudes? I know nobody is perfect and everyone is different and such but it seems the hostility and negative attitude is more profound in nursing then any other industry I've for. This "first impression" has left me sour and now I am unsure of my future! So is it just me? Because this facility run completely backwards to the way I was trained in my C.N.A. classes and it making very anxious. Thank you for your support to a newbie!