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I need help. Recently I looked up my CNA certification and it was suspended. I'm worried because I am a nurse now. I don't know the reason but if anyone can help me figure out how certifications gets suspended, it would really help. I'm super confused because I havent worked as a CNA for months, is it because I havent been employed as a a cna?

I am still in orientation at a SNF for about three weeks, it has a generous orientation period of one month. The thing is I find myself dreading to come to orientation, I feel so unhappy. The staff to resident ratio is 1 nurse to 38 residents. Some of the residents are challenging: hard to give meds to, accepts meds only from certain people or wants meds at a specific time. Their families are also hard to deal with and will ask you a lot of questions, one even wants to go in the shower room to watch the CNA give a shower. I had the wound nurse yell at me because a res had a wound that wasn't healing, I didnt know about this because I was new. we have on call nurses that requests not to be in this unit. I have a lot of fall risks in this unit. AM shift nurses made me mad because they basically use me to get out on time, they wont even let me do med passes and finish charting for them so I had to tell the Unit Manager so I can learn how to med pass. There are two occasions where they had a staff shortage and I had to work by myself or with another orientee which I didnt think was safe without a preceptor. They wont put another nurse there either so I would be by myself in one week. Do you guys think I should look for another job or should I just wait it out and I have these anxieties because I am a new nurse.

Don't worry. Once you are a nurse, usually most of that anxiety goes away because you are so busy. I use to be shy and have social anxiety. After I became a CNA, that all changed because working with patients and coworkers really build your social skills. Just a warning though, nursing can be cut throat. I cried a lot when I starting the nursing field, but you get to build thick skin. They don't joke around when they say nurses eat their young. Don't feel bad if you make mistakes ( as long as they are not life-threatening). It is a learning experience. Your self-confidence will improve once you learn that you have made a difference in someone's life and with experience, you will know how to handle situations. And remember, if you get bull from a patient, don't take it personally. They are sick, anyone sick is not going to be very happy.

No you won't hate nursing if you don't like being a CNA. Its probably just the conditions you are working in. I actually like being a nurse now better than I was a CNA. There is a lot more responsibility, yes, but you are not ordered around like a dog and get treated more with respect. It will also make you a better nurse, believe me. Plus the pay is doubled. I still help my residents with toileting and help my CNAs answer the alarms. I just hated it when I was a CNA and the nurse would always blame stuff on me when I am busting my butt not to have any falls and the nurse would be charting in the nurse station and ignore alarms. The best nurses I ever worked with as a CNA were CNAs themselves once. Since this post is a year ago, hopefully you considered nursing school.

I just graduated LVN school and I feel I should be happy but I feel so depressed. I felt my time in nursing school was cheated and took way to long to complete. I have started this journey since even before high school and now I am almost in my thirties, I cant afford to pay for private school so I had to enter this long wait list. I went through school working full-time nights with two children, its taking me so long to take the NCLEX because I have to refresh on content I couldnt study on while in school (no time, couldn't retain it). I did get good grades though but I suck at these NCLEX questions. I am also an introvert person, couldn't stand the loud mouths in my class, but I wasn't stuck up just tired. I also felt sorry for my professors, I was really stubborn and always having a nervous breakdown during class. Didnt even go to graduation, didnt have the energy or motive to. But a lot of my residents always tell me I am the kindest person they ever met, some even wrote me a letter after they get discharged. Anybody else out there that feels miserable after nursing, especially parents who couldnt spend time with their children

Hello calexis20. I honestly wouldn't recommend it unless you can reduce you hours somehow. I understand you have an apartment so you must work to support yourself. I just graduated last year from LVN school and it was really hard. I have worked 40 hours at a SNF nights, five days and eight hours each since my work wasn't flexible (they wouldn't let me reduce my hours either). Plus the guy who makes the resident assignments always puts me in the hardest section so I couldnt study at work either. Let alone, I had two small children. Problems I faced was that I wasn't retaining anything and I missed a lot of class or late. It isn't good for you physically and emotionally, I had a lot of crying spells and nervous breakdowns throughout the whole semester because of fatigue and that I miss spending time with my children. Luckily my professors and family were very supportive or else I couldnt have made it. I didnt even go to graduation, I made a lot of enemies in class who either thought I was stuck up or stupid since I wasnt very responsive during discussion (sorry, your brain doesnt function very well when you average 3 hours of sleep every day), however my grades for the three semesters were two Bs and an A. I'm just warning you of the problems you may face but if you don't have kids, I think its pretty doeable to work those hours. Good luck, I know you can make it. Congrats on starting your journey to nursing!