TheAwkwardOne

I just noticed this too, but I'm still a bit confused with the whole CE thing... so since it says we don't have CE requirements when renewing our license, does that still mean we have to have 12 hours of CEs each year? Also, is there a way to get these CEs online do you think?

I've been told that the nurse's side of things when the State Surveyors arrive is much more difficult than the CNA's side. But what can I expect to happen during a State Survey as a CNA? I'm 18, and I'm a new CNA who has been working at an LTC facility for almost a month now, and I'm still rough around the edges. I'm still getting the hang of everything, but just when I'm starting to feel a LITTLE comfortable with everything, State shows up on my day off (which was yesterday). And I'm coming in to pick up an extra shift tomorrow... this is my very first survey, and I'm really REALLY scared and nervous... Not to mention I was ALSO told that we'd be working with one less CNA on my wing, so now the CNA staff working that wing has twice the amount of residents to care for on one run. I'm even MORE scared and nervous because of that - I already get stressed out from being assigned to more residents... this survey is making me feel worse... Any advice would be greatly appreciated...

Have you ever gone to work and then come home and realize you forgot to do something important or you forgot to tell something to the other CNAs during report or forgot to do report at all? I'm always going home worrying about what I forgot to do, thinking that I'm going to get in trouble for not doing my job completely. Did that happen to you when you were first starting out? I forgot to give report to the PM shift CNAs and MIGHT have forgotten to chart for one of my residents... She was feeling sick and didn't want to get dressed or take a shower even though it was her shower day, and I feel like I didn't chart her correctly or didn't chart at all for her (I might have skipped over her charts on accident), and I forgot to tell the PM shift CNAs all this for report, and now I feel like I'm going to get in trouble because they might think "Oh she didn't do her job. She didn't even give this resident a shower or get her dressed!! This resident is now saying she's wondering when she'll take a shower and hasn't gotten one all day!!!" Am I just overreacting?? I'm really scared that I'm gonna get in trouble/get written up for this!!! I took care of her as she requested, but I feel like if anyone else was to ask, there's no proof of it on paper... I'm a totally brand new CNA, and I always come home worrying about the stuff I forgot to do or didn't get to like ^^ this!!! How do I overcome this, and has this ever happened to you when you were a brand new CNA?

As a new CNA, I'm still learning how to manage my time better, and I'm still learning new tips and tricks to make me work faster. But while I'm still learning on the job, I just can't get everything I want done in time. So far I've been turning in incomplete vitals (like I don't have time to finish getting blood pressures on certain people, and I don't have time to get weights for other people), and not all of my tasks for the residents can get finished during my shift, and I just feel absolutely terrible because I feel like I'm not doing my job well and that I'll get in trouble for not having everything done especially vitals... Have any of you experienced this when you were first starting out as a CNA?

I'm a newly hired CNA, with no prior CNA experience other than clinicals, and I just got done with four days of training. I went through my first day of work by myself, and that was a total wreck. The rest of the CNAs were picking up my slack, and that was also embarrassing. Now I've just been told that State should be coming in this week or next week - some time REAL SOON - and my stress level just went back up. I'm brand new, so of course I'm gonna be slower than everyone else. I was given a difficult run my first day of work, and now I've changed groups and have brand new residents. Well, they're not completely brand new, but I've trained with them for ONE day out of my four, so I'm still getting to know them. They said my group's supposed to be easier, but then again, I'm still new to this job... I'm still learning the ropes to the facility, and I'm literally learning as I go. I'm slow, I'm small, and sometimes I need help turning residents or getting a sling from a lift underneath them; but now that State's coming, I also have to worry about the new "rules" they want us to enforce and I'm not even used to those new rules they're applying such as when we're feeding people. I was told that it's basically going to be like the CNA test, only it's happening at a real nursing home - and the surveyors are gonna be there watching you. When I took my State test, the rules they had then are a lot more different than the rules they have now. The rules they have now aren't even common sense anymore. It's ridiculous. I'm stressing out because I don't want my name to show up on the official report saying that I screwed up several things. I don't want people to know that I'm one of the ones that screwed up, and I bet you I will screw up at least SOMETHING because I'm totally new. Any advice to give to someone who's totally new, still getting used to how everything runs and where everything is, and has State sneaking up on them?

As a newly hired CNA, I was finally exposed to charting during my very first day of training. I was given this binder that had the odd numbered room numbers and its patients, and I remember that next to the room number, there was "-1" next to it. For example: Room 303-1. I remember charting three patients and that I was really slow about it because I was just now getting the hang of charting, but something didn't seem right after I left the facility. Each room has two patients, but then I don't ever remember seeing any tabs that said the room number and then "-2" which indicates the second person that's in the same room. I'm so scared that I might have forgotten to chart those patients... I come back tomorrow for another day of training... what do I do...? I'm scared that I might not have charted correctly and might get in trouble... or that my trainer might get in trouble for something I'm responsible for but didn't mean to do... This is my very first job, and my first day of TRAINING... I'm so scared I might get in trouble...

I just got certified a couple months ago, and I'm through my first year of college, and I've never had a real job before. Being a CNA is going to be my very first job ever, and I'm really, REALLY nervous. I have yet to send in an app/be interviewed, but when I called them to see if they accept students that can only work for like two months before going back to school, they said yes. They also said they were thinking about hiring me as on-call. What does it mean exactly to be an on-call CNA and how does an on-call CNA get paid? Is it worth being an on-call CNA? What if I don't have my driver's license yet, and I accept the job as on-call?