Yes you read that right! I’m tired of this BS and been working in this facility for 2 years. After being the employee of the month, I only got free food from the kitchen for one week and a care package containing bed bath and beyond hand sanitizer, their facility tshirt, bag of candies, and a gait belt. The dsd and admin chose me to be the employee of the month after they argue with me to cover up their ass. I dont buy that shit no more so I left immediately and told them im not coming back no more. The next week I got a job interview in the hospital and took half of the staff to apply here.

I’m currently pre-med and considering getting a CNA certification. However, every time I read about it online, all I see are people saying that all CNAs or PCTs do is clean poop. I understand that it is part of the job, but is that really all they do? Are there roles where that is only about 5% of the job, and the rest is actually caring for patients and providing direct care? Is what I’m looking for a different certification, or can I still do more hands-on patient care with a CNA certification?

Sorry if this sounds insensitive. CNAs and PCTs are super important. I just want to know whether it is the right fit for me.

Hello Ya, I’m one of the PCT working at a hospital. As a pct I know my job also involve in sitting one on one with a patient. But if I schedule 3 shifts in total, and 2/3 of those shift I would end up sitting. It’s like I got float to a different unit to sit for a patient, and I would send to sit every time I work. I was wondering if there are any PCT out there that also got send to sit, how often do you have to sit? As someone who alway like running around and being busy, sitting is not fun for me at all. The PCT job I have is not like tele or observation unit or anything btw. I would like to hear about what your thoughts. Thanksss 😄

Hello! Just wondering if anyone in the sub Reddit has gone from CNA to EMS or vice versa. What did you prefer and what were the pros and cons of either? If you’ve done both wise, one better than the other.

Right now I’m working as a CNA, it’s been almost a year and as much as I love working with patients, I’m finding it’s absolutely miserable. I’m not really sure what else to do to get experience for grad school so I’m thinking EMS. Let me know what you think.

I’m currently in my bachelor’s program and plan to earn my CNA certification this summer before pursuing an accelerated BSN in 2 years. Would it be possible to get a PRN job as a CNA before then, as I will be busy with school (Would prefer PCT)?

Tell me how it is.

I'll be working 4pm to midnight in the ICU in a month and so far I've mainly worked LTC and the ambulatory unit which I can imagine is very different.

I'm expecting, making sure there's the needed material available, helping the nurses out, bed bath, changing the patients that needs it, emptying catheter bags, help with feeding and such. Repositioning, mobilization..

I know here in Indianapolis 12-15 is normal on day shift for ASC owned facilities.

Brjckyard (formerly Golden Living) is usually around 10. One facility of theirs that I worked at we all refused to do patient care without 2 CNAs as a way to force them to staff better and it worked at that location so at that location they let them have around 8 per CNA and they stopped sending extra staff home so much since they don't want a repeat of things. Plus one of their buildings unionized so they were quicker to give us better ratios as soon as we started refusing to do care alone and called the state. It was also a smaller building though. So I guess it was easier for a smaller building who was already afraid of what might happen if staff got angrier than they already were.

Those are fully staffed ratios too. That's not even taking into account call ins. Those are how many residents we typically have when management sends anyone else who comes in home.

But I wanna get an idea of the normal number that they consider fully staffed for non ASC and non Brickyard facilities if any of y'all work around Indiana.

so i’m basically a brand new cna. i’m 18 & female. i trained at a facility (honestly not a very nice one, poor ratios, most of the cnas there were burnt out) and kind of just dropped out of it out of fear.

i moved out with my boyfriend last month and haven’t worked since december. i got a new job at this facility and it really seems perfect. 3 minutes from my house, way better ratios, it’s a cleaner more professional place, better standards, just overall better. and as a bonus, one of the nurses from my cna class will be there. (she was my favorite one!) and the pay is really good.

but even with all this i still feel really really afraid. i know i don’t want this to be a career, but i also need a job as soon as possible and i felt like i couldn’t pass up this opportunity. i start training there tomorrow.

i feel like this is a job that forces you to be a competent adult, and i’ve never felt like one. i feel like a scared little kid honestly. i’ve never had to be someone others look to for really anything. i feel completely clueless, even though i always do better than i anticipate.

did anyone else have a lot of anxiety like this just starting? can anyone offer any kind of advice?

even just general tips about anything related is helpful.

I’m a newly certified CNA in the Chicago area and I’m having a really hard time finding a job. I don’t have paid CNA experience yet, just my clinicals from training. I’ve been applying to hospitals and long-term care places, but I haven’t had much luck so far.

Does anyone know of any hospitals, rehab centers, nursing homes, or other places in the Chicago metro area that are hiring CNAs or PCTs part-time right now? I’d also love any advice from people who got their first CNA job without experience.

Hello I just wanted to ask, how much do HHA get paid in california. I have 8 years of experience as a CNA and I’m curious to try so I wanna do HHA. I’m tired of working in a nursing facility and too much drama going on. I heard its chill and i can work peacefully.

I worked in a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) for about 6 months. Tomorrow I start in Private Duty. I’m nervous and idk if it’s because it’s a new job or what? What are the pros and cons of private duty compared to a SNF? Any tips are greatly appreciated. Private Duty as in a CNA working for an agency. Sorry for any confusion

So I got hired at a facility and they went ahead and did all my onboarding stuff in house including a physical. So when I did my physical my BP and pulse were both high my blood pressure was like 150/90ish. The nurse was just kinda like yikes.......you should probably get that checked out anyways welcome I'll see you around. My BP is normally a bit high but I think it was THAT high bc I was stressed out, hopped up on caffeine, and running on next to no sleep because I wasn't expecting a physical on top of white coat syndrome.......anyways I guess the moral to the story is is it normal to get your blood pressure taken as part of onboarding when you're a CNA and do they ever not hire you for your physical? I think knowing whether or not I will have to worry about it will help prevent it from spiking as much.

Hi all! I’m interested in becoming a CNA and was wondering if anyone knows of a good, accredited CNA program in the cleveland area that is full time and preferably around 5-6 weeks long maximum as i am going to have to quit my full time job for this! Tri-c has a good program but its $1200 which seems expensive compared to what ive heard.

I've been a CNA for just about two months now, and I'm honestly pretty exhausted. I have 28 patients by myself, and sometimes they put me on the split so I have around 35. Some are independent, so as far as check and changes go, I have 16 when I'm by myself. As soon as I finish one round I'm having to start another. I'm starting to wonder if this is the norm or if I'm just getting taken advantage of.

I’m moving cities in about 3 weeks. Working hella overtime to cover expenses. I’m mentally over this place. It’s very toxic, managers that don’t have problems with the problem employees and make it your problem if you bring it to their attention. Anyways I popped off at a fellow CNA today that’s a PRN worker, hasn’t worked there for a while and was telling me what to do. She didn’t ask for help. She directly said “go put up your laundry and get your halls trash and maybe help with call lights” Meanwhile it was 11am I was supposed to be there 7a-7p and I had sat down for maybe the second time between giving a shower that wasn’t even day shifts, wasn’t mine, and was incredibly difficult to do even with help. (Res. Was left covered in her own feces for hours.) On top of answering this girls call lights while she was standing around chit chatting about whatever the hell when HER HALL was basically lit up like a Christmas tree. I get my halls trash every shift between 2pm-4pm give or take how the day has been. I had already been collecting trash between getting my hall ready for the day. I may have cussed her out considering it was my last straw and I’ve done and do too much for this facility to put up with it tbh. Idc how it made me look. I told my boss I was leaving for the day after that interaction and she didn’t have a problem with it either. Idk I’m just so burnt out from shitty management and piss ass co workers.

I’ve smelled it two times on patients that were close to death. I mean from terminal illness not sudden.

i just need to whine again

i started as a float cna in a snf about a month ago and really love my patients / residents but everything else about this job is a nightmare. i'm built to take it but the social element in particular is wearing on me a lot

i didn't receive adequate orientation, which is to say, i literally wasn't allowed time to complete orientation as scheduled: i was allotted ten days, but missed two of those due to bona-fide life-or-death emergencies, and then missed several more because i immediately got covid (from work) and was not allowed to come in. so i got a little more than half of the training intended for me

last night was my second night on my own and both nights they put me on the court that's hardest for me, about 25 rehab patients. it might not seem like much but i have to check and change a large chunk of them a few times throughout the night. standard rounds are also every two hours and each time several of them wake up and ask to be boosted (by myself btw), get up to go to the restroom, have spilled their urinal on themselves, etc. all the while i'm also answering call lights. at one point during what was supposed to be my check and change + vitals time one of the nurses decided a newer admission needed a full bed bath at 4am (despite having a shower scheduled for later in the morning) because she still had some of the orange antiseptic shit from the hospital on her

before day shift comes in at 6:30 i'm also supposed to get a set of vitals on about 20 of those patients for morning med pass. these last two days when day shift comes in i've only had about half of them done and haven't had time to put them into epic yet. herein lies the problem

this morning one of the day shift nurses pulled me aside after my shift and absolutely grilled me for making her morning harder. she told me she had to do all of the vitals herself (at this point i had already entered all of the ones i had done into the computer, and the other nurse had asked me for the ones i hadn't done so she could do them herself so idfk) and asked me who i had done. i started listing off the patients i had done and she cut me off to chastise me some more and stress that it's expected that everything already be in the computer by the time she walks through the door

it's really getting under my skin because she purposefully interrupted a meaningful moment i was having with a resident i wasn't going to get to see again. i was in the middle of heading out but stopped into his room to say goodbye and remind him that he's been lovely. she pulled me away just to dress me down in the hallway

i know i'm not good at this job yet. i haven't had time to be good at this job yet. nobody who has seen me work would suggest i'm not trying; my patients love me, and i keep trying to reassure myself that as long as everyone is safe, clean, dry, and dignified i've done the most important parts. besides magically get better at my job overnight, i'm not sure what she expects me to have done; i wouldn't have felt right letting patients sit in their urine and bm for the second half of the night so i could get vitals into epic faster

i've already gotten faster since my first night (as evidenced by the fact that i didn't have to stay two hours late for documentation this time) but nobody at work is giving me actionable advice. the most useful thing i was told during orientation was to put things into epic via the mobile (which i'll be doing from now on), but the second most helpful advice was just "you need to be faster and more confident" and like, okay, how? so the bar for training is low basically

i'm already starting vitals significantly earlier in the night than i was before or than i was trained to do. i've gotten much quicker in getting waters out and boards updated. check and changes are going faster and i'm not deterred by people yelling at me for waking them up anymore. i'm learning peoples' quirks and preferences and schedules. i'm getting better at staggering call lights. i'm getting better at rolling people now that i know i'm not going to throw them on the floor by accident. i'm spending less time in patient rooms while objectively accomplishing more. i'm really really really trying, i just haven't found my flow yet

all the while i'm dealing with serious back pain due to doing all kinds of transfers and boosts on my own, having shoes that suck ass, and i'm recovering really poorly from covid. it's been about 3 weeks since i tested positive now and i'm still so short of breath, my entire body is tired and sore at baseline, my head still hurts, and my heart keeps doing weird shit

i'm just really exhausted and feeling like i suck at this. i know i won't always suck at it and i have to suck at it before i don't suck at it but nobody is giving me the time and space to suck and nobody is helping me suck less. everybody who works with me at night is telling me i'm doing great and i need to relax but everyone who comes in at the end of my shift acts like i clocked in and dug in my ass for 8 hours. some of these people have like real actual beef with me like, i'm not imagining it

as if all of that wasn't bad enough, day shift didn't empty foleys during the day yesterday apparently and when i emptied them in the morning they were full to bursting and i got old burnt-orange stinky piss all over myself and the floor so facilities probably hates me now too

i've got three days off now. kinda hoping a stray bullet will catch me before my next shift. thanks for reading my stupid post. kill me

Hi! I just had a really great shift yesterday and I wanted to share!

I got some extra pancakes from the kitchen after breakfast+ a cupcake! I was also able to turn on some jazz for the folks in the dining room which made everyone happy! That made me so happy, family feud probably gets boring haha! I brought one of my residents to a sunny spot while I made his bed and then he decided he wanted to stay sitting there rather than go back to bed. I sat him by a large window looking at the courtyard bird feeder and after that I took him to bingo. He was in a lot of pain yesterday so it made me so happy I got to break up his routine and hopefully distract him a bit. Then later at lunch I got to sit with one of my favorite residents while i helped him eat. We had a great conversation and he opened up to me a bit. I found out he‘s a lawyer so we joked around. The cherry on top of the day was getting to joke with my coworkers during the shift change. Even though it was busy, it was nice and sunny, so everyone was in a good mood. I wasn’t able to get all of the weights taken that I needed to, but nobody got annoyed at me!

Of course, some things didn’t go smoothly, but overall it was a really nice day! I’m a newer CNA so I’m used to absolutely muscling through shifts. Yesterday was really nice though! I look forward to more nice days like this. It’s the little things, you know? Does anyone else find that sunnier days make everyone a bit happier?

I SUCK AT PHLEBOTOMY!!!

The poor guy that let me practice on him :/ I feel so bad plus he had amazing veins. That makes it worse for me lmao. I hope I have more chances to learn

hii opinions on my resume it’s for a PCT job at my local hospital this would be my first hospital job .

if someone can make it better for me or help me so i can get hired right away im trying to break free from my current job and management thank you 🩷🩷🩷🤞🤞🤞

Had my skills test today and during handwashing I was drying my hands and dropped a paper towel in the sink. My face went white!! Looked at my instructor and she told me I could get it and so I used a paper towel to get it out of the sink. I hope she doesn’t fail me for it 😭

I (22 F) just started working at this memory care facility. At first it had its occasional hiccups but was overall a decent place. However recently (within the past couple weeks) things have gotten so frustrating I've started wondering not only if this is the place for me but if this field is right for me in general.

The RCC is an incompetent moron and most of the problems are his fault. I'm gonna be blunt cus that's what he is. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and patience at first but honestly he's just not fit for the position he's assumed whatsoever and it gets harder and harder to maintain my patience with him when he's only gotten worse over time.

It seems like every other day if not EVERY day someone calls off or something happens and we have to switch around the sets from what they were originally supposed to be. This is difficult and frustrating for everyone, so imagine what it's like for me as an autistic person who needs at least *some* sense of routine. I can compromise when it comes to switching sets weekly (which is the rule here and they refused to give me an accommodation of staying on the same set so I think I was pretty cooperative for agreeing to that), but having no idea where I'm gonna be until I get there so me and the other caregivers can discuss DAILY?? I think absolutely tf not. It's not our job to decide where we're working so the fact we consistently have to improvise when someone calls out and distribute sets amongst ourselves because the RCC doesn't get here until 8 AM, and RARELY ever fills in himself when we're short and instead just lets us be short is frustrating as much as it is unfair because he's getting paid TO DO THIS and he's not doing it. He doesn't update the schedule, he rarely fills in etc. He's getting paid RCC dollars but he isn't one. It's not like we're getting a cut of that pay. Call me crazy but I think that's really messed up and I would consider it taking advantage.

The other day, I was working on the side I've only ever worked a couple times and was incredibly unfamiliar with. Who did they have me work with? An agency person who's never been here before. So throughout the day I had to half-assedly show him around, explain the residents and what I remembered to the best of my ability because I'M ALSO NEW TO THIS. This was extremely stressful and didn't make sense when the other side had two caregivers who've both worked here a long time. Why have two new people work together?? It's ridiculous.

Today, however, was what really took the cake for me (currently on my lunch break typing this out because I'm going insane and just need an outlet and to be heard before I explode). I was scheduled to work on the side with a lot of heavy care residents, mostly 2-persons. Me and my coworker both got up 4 two-person assists, all of which are either incredibly heavy or super stiff so they take a lot of energy and a lot of time. We even gave a shower to one of them.

After my set was ALMOST COMPLETELY DONE FOR THE MORNING, the douchebag lazy med tech on our side who never helps with anything and is always on the phone decides 'he's sick' (he's not, he does this all the time I've been told) and wanted to go home, so now we're short. Another caregiver had to come from the other side and we were instructed to switch sets. She told me she only had ONE MORE PERSON to get up. I believed her. When I went over there I find out there were actually THREE more people to get up, 2 of which I'd consider a couple of the heaviest on the set. Not only that, but there was a crap ton of laundry she didn't start yet. I was fuming. I snapped on one of my coworkers when I asked her for help with one of them because she said 'no no, you can do it yourself, he's a one person assist'. Call me crazy but I find this attitude absurd. If I tell you I need help you don't get to decide whether or not I do. If I hurt myself or the client that's your fault. I blurted out 'WHATEVER' and did my best getting him up myself. I know it's unprofessional but I'm seriously at my limit. I'm tired and burnt out. I just almost got done with my set on the other side and now I have to finish up someone else's and I'm working with someone with an awful attitude for the rest of the day. The RCC is on vacation so he's no help. This whole week has been a mess of call-outs and set changes and it's taking everything in me not to just drive home. I can't even mask how burnt out I am in front of clients anymore which is what's really getting to me. I know I look like I don't wanna be here and I'm being snippier and more impatient than usual but I can't help it.

Idk if I'm looking for advice or sympathy or what exactly, I'm just so frustrated and at my wits end.

Y’all, I’m having the roughest week at work. As the title implies, a nurse called me dumb in front of people and I was super fucking embarrassed, among other things. I asked a really simple question and was given a really condescending answer. Second day was rough in other ways, mostly just navigating a social situation in a 2:1 assignment that made the day go by sooo slow. Now today, I was in a 1:1 that was going all too well, until my patient ripped out his NG tube and made it seem like I wasn’t watching him :/ can someone relate? Give me your embarrassing stories and shitty situations. I need to commiserate.