guest05/03/16

Well you guys broke me. I lost my patience and snapped. It's hard when you feel attacked for posting a SIMPLE question/opinion. If you don't agree move on. And your right. This probably isn't the forum for me. So I'll delete my account. Good day to all of you.

It's different in every state. I couldn't take this class until I was a junior at my high school. Everyone's getting uspet because I'm a teenager on a forum for my career profession and putting my own opinion out there.

First of all, I didn't say ALL AND EVERY SINGLE Nurse, CNA, etc are "mean, rude." I said most/some. I used to not take confrontation and assertiveness well but since I started working altogether I've gotten over it and make sure to do better the next time. Second. I am not 16, I'm 17 almost 18 (in 3 months) and a junior in high school. I barely have ANY of the life experiences any of you have so get off your damn high horse and give it a rest. This isn't "trolling" but a genuine question to why some CNAs/nurses/etc are so mean and *******s to people that are stuck in a place they don't want to be in., and I do not hand out meds. The med techs at our facilities do. I said that the residents WANT me too, but since it's outside my scopes of practice I don't go near meds until it's an ointment for a pressure ulcer or for a hemrroid. Third of all. Most the CNAs at my facility are stuck up mean people, naturally. We all come across people like that in our lives. I did for sure my junior high years. It's what triggered so much mental/emotional health problems for me. I'm not even graduated from high school yet but I'm doing far more than any highschooler is these days. I'm a part time college student, work two jobs, maintain a healthy relationship between me and my family, my boyfriend and the few friends I have. I paid for my own car instead of having **** handed to me I worked my butt off for it. I'm working my butt off to get to where I want to be. I'm planning to go to nursing school next June. An 18 almost 19 year old getting her prerequisites for nursing school. Get off your high horses and try and look back at your own adolescent years. I'm starting to regret making an account on this stupid forum.

I do a great job at what I do. And I can be a CNA and will be a CNA. I am totally okay about her passing. It's understandable that you may think that. But my boss wants to promote me and raise my pay and I haven't even been there for 4 months yet. And the other CNAs there have been there for a while and haven't been promoted or naything, I wonder why. Oh, because they abuse the residents there and don't treat them with the least amount of respect. I hate my coworkers because they don't treat me or help me out when I need it. And they like to start a lot of HighSchool drama in a professional setting. Some of my coworkers I love to death and wish them the best, but others like the one I was talking about needs to be revoked from her job. I do my best to keep professional and have helped even the crappiest of CNAs, nurses, and other healthcare employees even if I don't get the least of a thank you. Working with these people have changed my outlook on life. I used to hate everyone and hated life, but working with geriatrics I have been taught so much. Yet again, I'm a 17 year old junior in high school and have no knowledge about the world as you all-mighty-wise nurses do. I appreciate you putting your opinion out there though.

Missingyou, thank you for your kind words and trying to help me out. A lot of people on here aren't aware of me being a VERY young adult and I'm only a month and a half into CNA work/experience. And my instructor/teacher told me that you just kind of have to learn to deal with it and see what your boundaries are. I did report it to my boss (I have text messages as proof.) but that CNA is still there. Her sister used to work in our facility too but she was fired for physically abusing our residents and taking pictures of our residents and putting it on social media ( big, big NO-NO) so I see where the abuse is going. She says she's quitting anyway but she should have her CNA license expelled. My heart hurt so bad to see her do that to our resident. She can't help it, her brain is basically dead and she's mostly incontinent. Nothing has been done yet so I don't know where to go.

Billswife, I feel bad for everyone when I'm not there to help. I feel bad for my manager because of what he deals with daily. I feel bad for the residents sometimes because of the neglect and abuse I see from other CNAs to them. And I feel bad for the CNAs. I understnad some get upset and fustrated and can get mean, everyone can. But some of them are the downright mean people in the world that are just mean people naturally. just so everyone knows, I'm still new to this job field and I'm younger than almost all the people on this forum. Just so you know, I don't know everything and have as much knowledge as you do.

Nurse Leigh, in my state. We can work under the care of a nurse and CNA for 4 months before having to HAVE our certificates. I started taking my CNA class my second semester of my junior year in high school, then I started working at my facility in March and will be taking my exams on May 19th and 31st. That's only 2 1/2 months of CNA work/experience. My employer will also be paying my exam fee. That's how it is in most of the US. I have emotion/mental health problems that sometimes interfere with school, work and relationships (family, friends, etc.) but I'm okay now, all I was looking for was some ways to cope with it and vent out to people who MAY know what it feels like and have stories to share. I'm not asking for other comments or sympathy. Being almost 18 and still having trouble dealing with death (due to losing someone to suicide last year.) it's hard to cope with sometimes.

Pangea reunited, It was a picture from a national park but now it's a picture of a cartoon. I love your avatar though, sea turtles are my favorite animal

Thank you, and I feel so bad for them on days that I'm not there..

From my own experiences and seeing things. I honestly want to know why so many CNAs and nurses are so stuck up and down right mean/rude. Not only to me, and other CNAs/nurses, but to their patients and residents also. Their are a lot of terribly mean CNAs at my facility I work at. A lot of the residents hate them and prefer me to help them with their ADLs and even giving them their meds because they don't like the nurses/med techs and other CNAs. It's hard because you have all these people wanting you to care for them and you can't. Why are some of you so mean/rude? I'm not attacking anyone to targeting anyone. I'm just genuinely curious to why some of you nurses and CNAs are so mean. Do do you agree?

I may have over exagarted (I tend to do that when I'm emotional.) a little bit about when I said I love her more than anything, and etc. I didn't just visit HER I visited all the residents in our facility. And when I said I hate most the CNAs I work with its because they are not good CNAs and should have their certificates taken away. I was working with a CNA that's around my age. We had a resident who had a BM on a rocking chair instead Of a toilet. And the ther CNA scolded her like an animal for pooping in the house. She pointed to the chair continuously and said "look what you did." "You know better." And did not handle the situation well. The resident told her to shut up over and over so I took her to her room to finish toiletting her and the resident say there and told me how nice I am and how sweet and kept thanking me. She has very bad dementia so she can't help it. The other CNA wasn't checking in on her residents and that's why the resident had a BM on her chair. The CNA that informed me of what was happening just turned to me and said "woah" and pointed. She didn't rush over to try and stop her from doing it. And didn't try helping me at all, she just kinda laughed and went to the charting station. A lot of the CNAS don't like me because I tend to care and do a better job than they do (I've been told.) Or I'm just "annoying to them" but it doesn't really matter if they like me or not. My residents care and ask me when they'll see me again or if I'm coming to take care of them, that's what really matters. All I know is I work with really crappy CNAs that hate their jobs. And constantly complain about it. If you hate your job, don't work here then. It's that easy. Being a CNA is hard but it's very rewarding in the end. I'm glad I got to make an impact on my residents and that my resident that passed away, passed on peace.

I've been working at my facility for almost two months. They moved a resident from the assistant living side of our facility to the memory care unit where I work. I fell in love with the resident they moved in. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to help her since I'm still new and she had a hard time communicating. But once I started to work with her she found a place in my heart. Then last week (April 17th) I found out that she fell and shattered her hip. My heart fell into pieces. She was at a high fall risk since she wasn't fully coherent and was wheelchair bound. I hate the other CNAs I worked with because they didn't do her hourly checks (it's bolded "safety checks 2q hours" on her resident chart.) and they didn't care about her the way I did. I was constantly in there. Before she fell she seemed to be declining. She wasn't eating anything and barely had any water. So I made sure she always had an ensure and water. I toiletted her prn. I did everything I could in my power to make sure that resident had the time of her life. I even visited her when I wasn't working. She passed away yesturday at 7:15 pm. Friday night I thought she had passed away in my arms because I was doing her unconscious oral care. She had cheyne stokes so I told the med techs, said my goodbyes and left. That was the last time I ever got to see her. I love that woman more than life and it's completely tearing me apart. I keeping it inside because a lot of people aren't empathetic or sympathetic when it comes to losing someone you barely know. I was with her for only a couple weeks but that woman left a huge imprint on my heart. I even befriended her hospice nurse and family. I can't cry at work and when I'm home it doesn't come out. Her funeral is in another state and just for family which breaks my heart even more. I honestly don't know what to do. I don't want to go back into depression again.. But I feel it may happen. Ps. Sorry for this being so long..

I'm a junior in high school right now and I'm taking the CNA class for our local community college in Utah. I'm taking my written and skills exams on May 19th and May 31st and I'm SO nervous. I honestly didn't think I'd be so stressed. I'm also working as a NA at an assisted living memory care unit and My teacher told me that my employer would pay for my exams but my employer says otherwise. Then there's the test days/weeks. The first week is the 19th, I'm taking my written exam, the 20th is my boyfriends birthday, and the 21st is my dance competition. Then the 31st is my skills exam and I am such a scatter brain I'm so scared I'm going to fail. I cannot fail because nursing/CNA is my passion and I want to become a nurse/anything in nursing/medical feild. I've made CNA my life. My entire life revolves around my residents. I'm either at home, school, clinicals or at my facility. I'm such a scatter brain and don't know what to do.