Cora_Ann

Hospitals and having a BSN are not all that. You are still just as stressed and honestly will not make that much just coming out.

I'm sorry but what does having a 4.0 have to do with it? You forgot to get a TB test and if you have ever done anything in medicine you would know that you have to have that done regardless.

Another helpful thing is anytime you go in there try to bring a nurse with you so they can witness what is said. I work in a similar facility and this will save you from them being able to say what you did or didn't do.

You left without telling anyone!!! I'm sorry you didn't feel well, but you should have gone to the charge nurse and told them. How would you feel if someone just left and didn't say anything? If you had said something they could have worked on getting coverage so you didn't leave the other CNAs short handed. And what about the CNA that now had to cover your group and theirs?

I have had to wear every color of the rainbow; right now we wear hunter green except for Friday's when we can wear what we want. Nurses normally wear royal blue

I am very fortunate that the LTC facility I work for allows me 3 eight hour days during the week and one 12 on weekends. So I work 7-3 and then have school 5:30-10:30

I have done both LTC and the hospital and honestly I would recommend you try LTC first. Because if you can make it doing that you can handle anything. I really enjoyed the hospital, but it's not all that. In LTC you can build relationships with residents and your coworkers. As much crap as I can talk about LTC it's really a good place to set a foundation.

I am one of those hey I will try anything people lol. And I am just want to try something different. I have been a CNA since high school and everyone was always like nursing; but I am just not 100 percent about that and I have always wanted to try this. I think I would rather do this if I like it while I go to nursing school then be a CNA. Talk about burn out. I got a job at the hospital and I love it, but I want a change of pace. I have no kids and I am not married so why not.

Yes I know there is a big difference between a paramedic and an EMT. But you have to be an EMT before becoming a paramedic. At least where I live anyway. And I do plan on going on to that

Sorry for the lack of info! I am 27, and I live in a relatively small community. I actually went ahead and registered for my local fire houses EMT course . I will continue to work at the hospital as I do this. I am very excited to try something different. Thanks you all for your advice

No I am not already in nursing school; and yes I have done ride alongs and liked it. I am trying to decide what would be the best option. And I know in the end only I can decide that lol. I would just like to hear both sides.

I always thought I wanted to be either and ER nurse or work in the ICU. However I have been given the opportunity to get my EMT lisence and now I am wondering if I want to take the paramedic route. I would love to hear from y'all that have done both. I finally got my first hospital job after being in LTC and now I am ready for the next step; I am just not sure what that should be!

Respiratory or any of the mentioned above

A lot of people where I work (which btw I still do LTC PRN) have complained about this same thing. And yeah I have worked with crap CNAs which makes it hard. I also know the stereotypes of CNAs. And the responses I have got to this post have pretty much just proven to me how LTC nurses really feel about CNAs.

I hadn't to hear about because I am just a CNA I have no idea what nurses do, I am obviously awful because i have the audacity to say anything critical, among other comments..so how is that polite?

Why is it when other nurses and EMTs complain about LTC it's just fine, but when CNAs who do a lot of the work complain it's not? Believe it or not I can actually see and read enough to know who is actually charting and who is on the internet. I also didn't say every single nurse I said most in my expierence (or was reading not apart of your nursing curriculum?) Have any of you actually bothered to go on the CNA portion of this board and see what our opions or expierences were?

But you all do. Assuming I have no idea what a nurse does is making a pretty broad statement.

Please don't give up and look for another job! I have expierenced this myself. And just remember this is not the nurse that you want to be.

Anyone that says just a CNA or says we don't know anything can feel free to their job without us.

I didn't mean it to come across as judgmental. But honestly a lot of CNAs that I work with at the hospital have had a similar experience. So have you as nurses ever wondered why we as CNAs ha e left LTC I favor of hospitals or have chosen to leave the medical field all together? I did state that I do have nurse friends and have met a lot of great LTC nurses! When my grandmother was dying I will never forget the nurse that hugged me and told me all was going to be on and she said she called her husband to tell him that she will see him when she sees him; and stayed with me all night. There needs to be way more like that imo. And to say I have no concept of what nurses do..umm ok how do you know whether or not i'm in school??

There is no sharing an expierence on here or having an opinion obviously because if it's a negative one it gets turned around on you. All through high school I worked in activities at a nursing home and then became a CNA. For a long time all I wanted to do was work in LTC. But after so long of seeing things not be done and people not caring it was time to move on to the next thing. It's great that you all do care about your residents. By again this has not been the typical experience for me. There is no need to jump all over me and assume I am an awful CNA and person because this is the work expierence I have had.

I still work PRN in a LTC because I love the residents and I have friends there. And it's not a typical nursing home. It's a long term ventilation unit. So everyone is total dependence and the nurses could do a lot more to help. I learned a ton from this facility though and it helped me get a hospital job. Like I said don't make some blanket defensive statement.

Everyone is entitled to have different experiences and opinions. This is mine. If you love working in LTC and you take care of everyone then great. My expierence has not been that great so I got out of it and now this is the opinion I have formed from that experience. Same with of someone had a bad hospital experience or whatever it may be. As I said I have worked with some great nurses. And I have watched them get burned out because no one appreciated their hard work and the patient ratios were so high. Trust me if I found some great facility I would do it again. But don't judge me based on my experience or say this field isn't for me when you have no idea who I even am or how hard I work.

Wow you don't know my expierences and things I have seen go on in LTC. Or the amount of hours I have worked and residents I have taken on. I stated above I have friends who are LPNs.

I do realize that which is why I don't understand why an RN would want to that job. I love direct patient care. And yes we do have RNs that will leave their office and come help if we ask. Like I said I am not saying everyone. But the majority I have encountered I think got into nursing for the wrong reasons.