Angela89

I finally got some clarification today in our new hires meeting. 3rd shift gets about 35 patients each. It still seems likes quite a bit for total care. For the next three days I will be shadowing a CNA, so we'll see how that goes.... I surprisingly ran into one of my co workers from my old facility and she is working the same shift as me so it is nice to have someone I kind of know. She already completed her shadowing and was telling me they all were mean and didn't want to show her anything, I am pretty nervous after hearing that!

I try to keep gloves on me all the time, every time I pass my cart I will grab some to put in my pocket no matter how many I already have. Honestly, I have ran out of gloves sometimes when I needed them the most. I was in that situation once where I needed gloves but leaving the patient wasn't an option so I just didn't use them(Bad..I know but it was better than the alternative of them possibly getting hurt being left alone) That is an odd rule that you aren't allowed to carry gloves. I would sign the write up and move on. Just see it as a lesson learned for next time. Figure out a way not to make this mistake again. Good luck!

I am in Illinois. It is actually a really good facility based on ratings and reviews,it is one of the top rated. It doesn't seem like those shady places I read about. There has to be something I missed as soon as I heard 98 patients that's all I could focus on in my head

I am assuming it was a misunderstanding on my part, no way could they expect one person for 98 people, but she definitely said I would be working with 3 other Cnas, maybe it is 3 on a unit and we split the 98..but then why not say I would get 32 patients?....I guess we'll see what happens when I start.

This reminds me of something that happened today. I was waiting at the bus stop and saw an old lady crossing the street. She looked in her 80s and was REALLY slow,I felt the need to watch her and make sure she crossed ok, not sure how it happened but a car was like 3 inches from her waiting for her to cross, the lady in the car actually rolled down the window and yelled at her. I was so shocked that I actually yelled at the woman in the car. Before being a CNA I don't know if I would have been brave enough to do that but I feel someone had to stick up for her.

My mom was over spending the night, I asked her if she wanted a new pillow case and she said yes. For some reason my first instinct was to go grab gloves before I touched anything I was handing my husband his jacket one day, I had it held up so he could put his arms through. He was like what are you doing and just took it from me.

It is a skilled nursing facility. There are 294 beds in the whole place and she said I'd be working with 3 other CNA's at night, so it does add up to be 98 each. I am kind of hoping I misunderstood something! I have only worked as a CNA for three months so I don't consider myself experienced at all for 98 patients.

I just had an interview and got the job for an 11-7 shift and I am so excited as weird as it sounds 3rd shift is my dream shift. Apparently I will be taking care of 98 patients, I even asked the question in different wording(didn't want her to think I was put off by it) but again she said 98. Is this normal?I know you get way more patients at night but 98 seems like a lot..am I wrong? I did night shift a few times at my previous job and it was 30 so this is new to me!

Just when I think things are going good, I end up having a terrible day! I decided to just give this place one more chance and maybe get a few more months experience before I quit so soon. I was on that floor I hate today, everything went wrong. As soon as I got there I was confronted by one of the regular CNA's on that floor for not showering her patient yesterday. I asked this woman a ton of times to take a shower she constantly said no and didn't wanna get up. I told the CNA this and she got a huge attitude and said she never refuses for me(probably because she has known you for years??) I had to walk away before I said something like "Was I suppose to drag her out of bed and into the shower?!" For awhile I heard her and her friends talk in her language and I kept hearing the word shower.... We were also one CNA short so I had five extra patients (this is a total care floor so 5 extra is a lot) I honestly did the best I could, I worked straight for eight hours, I had no time to take my required lunch or I would fall even more behind than I was. The restorative nursing assistant kept constantly harassing me about everything, she had me in tears multiple times. Everytime I finished something and was finally able to go to the next patient I haven't visited yet, she calls me and says someone needs to be changed, someone needs to go to the bathroom. THEN she has the nerve to ask me why haven't you been to patient ...... yet. I am not brave enough to say I have been trying all day but you keep telling me to do other things. I have no idea what she even does, all the other RNA's are helpful but I have never seen her do anything except tell people what to do. I had a patient who took her diaper off, she goes into her room and tells me I didn't clean her good enough, thats why she keeps taking it off to scratch, then she says I bet you don't clean any of your patients good, so she washes this patient right after I did...and guess what? this patient takes it off 5 minutes later. I don't know what gives her the right to accuse me of not cleaning my patients good enough based off one person??? I am sure it is correct to assume she told her friend CNA's all about this so now they all probably think I am horrible/lazy at my job. I had no chance to make my beds, I was planning to do it after I took care of everyone, I made sure to take all the sheets off the beds so it didn't look messy so I wouldn't have an incident like last time with the patients family, well guess who walks in? The same family member as my previous post. That didn't go well. Same as before, she was in the room screaming and throwing stuff around, some of it was the roommates stuff I almost told her I don't care how mad you are you have no right to throw other peoples things. I really should have learned my lesson from before, but I really had no time to waste making beds before I took care of everyone. The other two floors are so great, every time I work them I think wow, this job isn't so bad...The patients are nice, the CNA's/nurses are nice and helpful. It is such a different world.

One is an Assisted living facility but it also has a memory unit and a rehab..so far this one of my favorites since it reminds me so much of my last facility that I loved. The second one says it is a post hospital rehab, it has one unit for short term rehab/orthopedic and one for long term The third one I think it is just Assisted living, they have their own apartments.

I'm sorry I keep coming to this thread to "complain" but I don't know anyone who works in this field in person, so maybe people here can understand my frustration with certain things! The lady who keeps calling me finally found me in person, she asked if I got her messages, I just pretended that I didn't....Since I am so bad at saying no to peoples faces, I am now working 4 extra days these next two weeks that I was scheduled off. Oh, and she left the room, texted me, then came back to see if I received the text..I feel kind of stalked LOL. The DON also made another comment about me. I had a patient who was refusing care, a CNA who knows him very well offered to help me (I made three of her beds during my downtime..we both helped each other a lot today) of course this happens while the DON is around and I hear her telling the nurse "she needs to learn how to clean him on her own" You would think she would like the idea of us using team work. I really don't know what I did to get on her bad side, she was semi nice to me in the beginning, now she will walk past me in the hallway and not even say hi or anything. Today I received three calls for CNA interviews. I just hate the idea of going through interviews again, I enjoy being a CNA, but I just don't feel happy where I am at.

I actually don't answer or respond to her, if that were me I would get the hint that this person doesn't want to be bothered, but within the last 3 days she has texted 3 times! I have only been here about 4 weeks and every week she is asking me to come in. It is really annoying. She has texted me at 12am once to work in the morning and she has texted me during work hours and when I didn't respond(i was busy working...) she would call me on the intercom. This is making me feel like such a bad employee because I refuse to come in on my days off, I know I don't have to, but still she expects me to. I have been applying to tons of places, so we will see what happens. Other than that incident with that CNA I have had no problems with my co-workers, they have all been nice and helpful. I just don't really like how the management handles things here.

I am starting to feel like this facility isn't for me. I am constantly texted and called about coming in on my days off and if I say no they get an attitude and ask why...it really bothers me, no one at any of my other jobs have ever asked me why, plus is it really any of their business? I have another job and most days I work as a CNA from 7am-3pm THEN I work my other job from 5pm-11pm..so I really appreciate any time I can get off and I now have to start avoiding their constant texts to me, you would think this person would get the hint after I didn't reply but she left two more messages. Another thing happened that really bothered me. I was in the lunch room on my break and the DON saw me and said "Make sure you do your rounds before leaving" I just said ok. I really had no idea where that came from and as she was leaving her and another CNA smiled at each other and the CNA told her thank you... Then as I was leaving, this CNA came up to me and said "did you work yesterday?" (which obviously she is aware that I did) I said yes and she said you had my patients yesterday, one leaked through onto her sheets and there was dried pee all over it(bed ridden patient) and she had to change the sheets and another patient said he asked you to make his bed, but you didn't. The first part I don't really understand. I left the previous day at 3pm....She didn't come back until 7am the next day, how does she know that happened when I was there? what about the 2nd and 3rd shift CNA? How is she for sure that was my fault? Maybe it was, I really don't know, but for her just to come up to me like that and accuse me? The second part....that never happened, that patient never asked me to do it, obviously I would if I was asked. i kept telling her he never asked me to do that, but she kept on repeating it over and over. I make my first noticeable mistake and she runs to the DON about it? Instead of discussing these issuses with me, the DON thinks it is appropriate to tell me this in front of everyone instead of in private, plus I had no idea what she was talking about until the CNA told me. I really want to start looking for a new job, but I have only been here for a month and I don't wanna seem like a job hopper. I think CNA changing jobs often is pretty common, but I still hate the idea of doing it. I really love working on the floors with the rehab patients, I would love to find a facility that only has them.

Today was a really bad day! I have been doing so good so far, I have been getting to know my patients, I now know most of their routines, except for one floor, the one I had a problem with in my previous post. Today was my first time back on that floor since my last post and I knew it wouldn't be easy. I was assigned 9 patients I have never had before, I was working so hard that before I noticed it was 12 already and I still was nowhere near done. The wife of one of my patients stared at me the entire time I changed her husband and it was really uncomfortable especially since I have never cared for this guy before. Every time I would glance over to her she was looking right at me! Now the bad part of my day. I had one patient who did not want to get dressed or anything, every time I tried to she started screaming and crying, so the nurse told me to leave her in bed. Then her Grandaughter comes and says she wants her dressed and in her wheelchair, so I struggle with getting this crying woman dressed. Finally at 2pm I have time to take my first and only break(I work until three) when I get back upstairs one of the CNA's tell me the family is complaining about me, so I go into the room and this woman is yelling so loud about how she never wants to come here and have her moms room looking like this ever again, she has everything thrown off the bed and thrown across the room, she is yelling about how I had one of her drawers half open, complaining about how her moms dentures are still in the drawer(I actually tried to put them in, but she took them out and gave them back to me but I didn't want to tell the woman this and engage in her argument with me) The way she was acting you would think I was neglecting her mother or something, who wasn't even in the room during this time. I was planning on fixing the room and bed up when I had time. Lesson learned for next time. I will have to force this patient out of bed just so I wont get screamed at by her family. I start to enjoy and be comfortable at my job and something like this happens and has me question everything again.

These first two are from the same lady...she always has some entertaining/odd things to say "Who cut your hair? You should get your money back, get me some scissors I will chop all of it off" Her: Why are you looking at me like that? Me: How am I looking at you? Her: Like I am dead!!!! Some random patient quotes I remember... "When you aren't looking, I am going to steal your pants." "You are so beautiful, you should be in the movies and not working here. Go to the movie making building and ask for a job right now"