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not ALL CNAs are lazy but the ones that are make others paint us ALL with the same brush....I have been called lazy...by the nurse sitting at the desk on facebook while chatting with the unit clerk... because i try to use my energy wisely...when i go to toilet, shower, feed, change, reposition a patient ...i take a look around me at their room...if it needs trash taken out or linen change done or meal tray removed...I DO IT WHILE I AM ALREADY THERE...i work with other cnas that run constantly to do the same things...pt calls out...needs brief changed...cna goes in...oh there are no briefs...out to get ONE...back to room...oh there are no wipes...out to get a pkg...back to room...oh i need some chux...out to get ONE....back to room...oh i need some help...call out to desk...wait for help... sorry but this is incredibly frustrating to me...however nurses see her running and think " oh what a great aide she is " meanwhile patient is lying in wet or dirty briefs while she gets everything together to do the task...and said aide is named tech of the year..

one of the many reasons i no longer have any desire whatsoever to continue in the nursing profession....the "customer" is NOT always right and since when did healthcare become customer service anyway? One of the reasons our healthcare system is broken

took my CNA training through osu...didn't cost me a thing but after i got my license i had to commit to 12 months out of the next 24 in a long term care facility...i'm gonna have to work while i'm in school and i'm wanting experience right? so why not....those 12 months did NOT have to be consecutive months either. classes were mon-fri 8-5 for a month...class site as well as clinicals were at grace living center in Jenks

as a former nursing home aide...we LOVED the kinds of families that were there to provide assistance and comfort to their family member....i had several families that would help not only their loved one but the roommate as well and any other resident they could...also had quite a few of the ones that were there as "watchdogs" to try to "catch" us doing something wrong!! There are 50 patients that need hygiene assistance and feeding, dressing, walking, toileting and there is only one of me with maybe another aide on a good day. I am currently going through this with my grandparents... They still live in their own home, he is 93 and she is 82....2 weeks ago he fell and broke his arm and things have gone down hill from there...they now have hospice care, and home health...people in their generation do not accept help easily especially with the kind of care he is requiring... I now work in a hospital and more often than not the worst cases of "abuse" come from people that are being cared for in the home by loved ones

i'm not even a nurse yet and i'm already thinking of leaving healthcare completely!!! Sick of families that think that their loved one is the ONLY patient in the hospital and i had better jump when they need anything! also sick of management that plays favorites among the her employees! I am 39 and the other techs are all in their 20's...just because they are constantly running here and there the nurses and nurse manager have decided that i am the lazy one.... not taking into consideration that my patients have all been offered a bath and if they wanted one have had, the rooms are clean, trash empty, laundry empty and meal trays picked up, and patients are turned q2 and changed when needed. I believe in gathering everything you need before going into a room not running up and down the hall and in and out of the room 14 times because you forgot something...so yes i have a few minutes more to sit down and chart or ....yikes even go to the bathroom!! Sorry for the vent just very very disgusted with healthcare right now!!

just don't react...that's what they want!!! I am glad patients can't hear what goes on in the breakroom..lol!!!

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we do a family holiday the saturday before christmas...started that before i went into nursing so that christmas day we can open gifts, stay in our pajamas all day if we want and the kids can play with their new stuff and mom doesn't have to try to get everything together to go somewhere. Now that the kids are 16 and 18...if i were to try to wake them early for gifts i would get growled at..lol!! Our unit puts up a list of holidays in october and you rank which holiday you want off...1 being "i absolutely MUST have this off" to 5 meaning "meh..doesn't really matter to me" If i work thanksgiving I will have christmas off and vice versa. Personally i would rather the people with small children have off christmas morning... I have been known to split shifts to make that happen....Now when grandkids come along that may all change!!!

only have a cell and work has its very own ringtone...I decide whether i answer it or not!!

kids are mostly grown..we usually do a big family gathering the sat before christmas...the hospital where i work is pretty good about alternating holidays...i was scheduled to work thanksgiving last year and off christmas...this year is my year to work christmas docs are awesome and usually stay very late discharging as many as possible the days before holidays and then we usually wind up on call for the holiday!! That being said...i knew EXACTLY what i was getting into when i started in the medical profession

no one may say anything about it but you can bet your behind the people you are helping see it and will in turn walk through fire to help YOU when and if they can!!

This is one of the many reasons that i am rethinking nursing school...have been working on pre reqs one class at a time while working full time and raising two kids for 5 years and now thinking maybe nursing is not where i want to be...so sad!!

i am an aide...worked in ltc for two years....will NEVER do it again!!! Just because of the "politics" involved. As one other person posted...that is what happens when you work in a field that is mostly women...worked in manufacturing on a team with 9 men and myself....never had any problems, if they didnt like something you said or did, they told you about it...simple

I am 39 and just finishing pre reqs for nursing program. As a previous poster said there is a generation where a high school diploma was sufficient to get a good paying job. I use my experience going back to school to tell my 16 and 17 year old kids that they need to finish high school and think about either college or a vocational program because gone are the days when a high school diploma was enough for a good job.

the med/surg floor i work on actually has student nurses doing clinicals from the school i am attending...All the student nurses and the instructor keep telling me i am ahead of the game because i already am a CNA and know some of the basic stuff already!!

i work in a small hospital; we have our first name in larger font and last name right beneath in smaller font. About a year or so ago we had a male pt in his 70's, alert and oriented decide one of our techs was really cute so much so that he took to calling multiple times during shifts both day and night to see if she would answer the phone; when told that no she wasnt' on shift at this time, he wanted the unit clerk to give him her schedule; when that didnt' get him anywhere he started showing up on the unit at random times looking for her; then after security told him to knock it off he started waiting for her in the parking lot. Keep in mind this young lady is in her mid 20's and totally NOT INTERESTED and is in fact by this point scared to death to walk to her car. We ALL started covering our last names!! I wear my name badge on a reel type badge holder and when i notice it has flipped backwards i flip it back; if it is flipped over and someone asks i flip it over and give them my name

As an aide in a hospital i would much rather work with a nurse that has been a CNA before they became an RN. They are much more willing to help rather than walk to the opposite end of the hall to find me and tell me that "mrs. jones needs to go to the bathroom" when they just walked out of Mrs. Jones' room to come find me!!! They all aren't like that but there are a few!! Sorry if that offends someoneShift+R improves the quality of this image. Shift+A improves the quality of all images on this page.

the hospital i work at has ALL private rooms...walked in to one the other day and found not one or two family members but 8....2 sleeping on the couch, 3 sleeping in chairs that had been brought in from other patient rooms and you guessed it...3 more including 2 young children on the FLOOR!!! While i can understand wanting to be with your loved one...this patient was in her 40's alert and oriented and in the hospital overnight for chest pain rule out Just don't understand why people think the hospital is an appropriate place for a family reunion!!!

i think they had around 200 applications and accepted 90 for this fall

Every nurse or tech has their "kryptonite" ....those that say they don't are probably fibbing.....does it keep them from doing their job? NOPE that's where the professional part comes in...doesn't mean it doesn't bother them....u just get on with the job at hand as someone said previously.....you will get to the point where you can talk about it over lunch :)

The nursing home i used to work at? not a chance in he**!!! the hospital i work at now? my mom had her knee replacement surgery there and will have the other done there as well

only taking one this semester....cellular biology...last pre-req before i can apply to the program AGAIN!!! grrrr....running out of financial aid and patience!!

I work in a facility that gets mostly rule out for chest pain and most of them are ambulatory and there for a 24 hour observation stay. I offer them a shower and set them up with supplies or if they arent feeling up to a full shower..offer them a sponge bath. Most of them say i would rather wait till i get home..i chart that i have offered and that they declined. a bedbound pt is a different ballgame altogether....take 10 minutes tops to do a bed bath and a complete bed change with clean gown!!! I have a tough time doing a bed bath when there are 14 relatives in the room and they WILL NOT LEAVE!!! i have asked as politely as possible...do you REALLY need to see me give mom/dad/grandma/grandpa a bath!!!??? we do however have one nurse that WILL NOT take no for an answer....it does not matter how many times the pt refuses me and then consequently her....her way of thinking is EVERYONE MUST HAVE A BATH EVERYDAY NO MATTER WHAT!!! While i do realize that people feel better when they have had a bath...must we bully them?