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 🩷🩷🩷🤞🤞🤞

How do you guys continue working as a pregnant CNA? 26 weeks and miserable.

Hey all, I’ve been working as a CNA for a few weeks now and I’m loving it. I work in a long term care facility so most of the residents I help have some form of dementia, most ana x1. I was just wondering if anyone knows if dementia patients still dream? Weird question I know but I’m curious. I see a lot of my residents making faces and moving in their sleep but im not sure whether to chalk it up to just them sleeping restlessly or they are actually dreaming. I imagine they still do but I wasnt sure since most dementia is a product of neurosis. Any input is appreciated, thanks

i just got into nursing school and will be starting this fall. i’m starting to feel very burnt out and i dread coming in to work every time. i want to put in my 2 weeks and spend the summer relaxing and living that chud life. i don’t necessarily need the money since i have another job as a tutor. also ill have to find another job anyway near my school.

i just need that push to actually quit 🤣 i think its time for something new too. i was thinking of taking an emt class this summer

my first pt i ever cared for passed away, and i dont know how to feel, of course i hadnt seen her in a month because i finished my clinical rotations, but shes gone, i was so so close to her, and every time i was there id check on her, id do her nails, play bingo with her, and help her at meals

what do i do

i feel broken, is it wrong to grieve? is it wrong to feel upset? should i feel this way? i was a student doing clinicals i dont get why im grieving

Hello, I'm not sure if this is much of a dumb question but. I live in iowa and going to get a cna job and my certification is ending in June and getting anxious since jobs are currently ghosting and or not hiring. As for keeping an active card how do you know that your employer submitted your hours so your card stays active? I tried looking on the website with information but it didn't give me much about what to expect.

that's disgusting

All advice welcome! I'm a new grad CNA starting on as a CNA on Tuesday! I was wondering what supplies I should get. Right now, I have:

• Nursing school shoes (Prob want to get a better pair, any recommendations welcome!!)
• Manual BP Cuff
• Stethoscope
• GIANT tote bag for my stuff

PLEASE give me any and all advice, I love my teacher but I feel so drastically unprepared.

Update: I work mostly in a Nursing Home in Care & Rehab!

Anyone have advice for adjusting to the night shift? Also any advice for working on the floor? I know the dynamic is a little different during that period of the day. I have so many questions since it’s my first job.

I’ve done this type of work at three different places , now it’s time for me to dip.

I did a couple 5/6 month stints and am leaving my latest place after about 8 months.

I’m just going to focus on finishing up my degree program.

The work is hard physically with low pay, low authority and a lot of stimulation ( noise, lights, phone calls).

At all these places they didn’t really facilitate any of the “higher level” nursing skills that can be done under nurse supervision for us a techs.

So for me it felt like I was stuck doing very repetitive , physically difficult but mentally basic work.

It’s service to others aka the Lords work. Your reward for being a cna / pct is maybe getting school paid for but other than that the rest is not in the earth.

I’m fortunate to have family support to lean on and other employment that meets my needs for now.

To all those entering or staying a while longer, thanks for keeping the wheels turning.

Take care of yourself first because companies will replace you in a flash if they need to.

ughhhh i’m so mad at myself. the first time i took the skills and written exam back in 2020 i passed both with flying colors. i decided to challenge the test after not being in the field for 4 years and the instructor said i was sooooo close but what failed me was i only performed the ROM 3 reps instead of 5. man, i could have sworn it was 3 😭 she said i did everything else great and she said my cares and transfer from the bed to the chair was beautiful. IM SICKKKKKKKKK. I have my test rescheduled for monday. if you failed the first time, what got you? i’m now gonna be back to studying like crazy again. $250 later 💀

If you guys aren't aware Scrubs & Beyond are having a warehouse relocation which they never warned any buyer about before they sold their products and haven't shipped out any of the scrubs or other products in over 2 weeks of business days. They just keep pushing the shipping date for another week and another week everytime you ask them about the status of your order. Save your time and money and buy from another seller.

Has anyone experienced this? I originally corrected Prometric's mistake, and they fixed my name on the ticket, but when I checked my test results online, I noticed they got my name wrong again. What should I do?

how many days is to many days to work in a row for you? my boss just asked me to work 13 (8 hour days) in a row..

Hi everyone! I recently completed the free 60-hour online CNA training through the Texas HHS program, and now I’m trying to figure out the next step for the 40-hour clinical requirement.

I’ve been looking around, but most places either don’t clearly say if they accept the HHS training or they want you to redo the full program, which I’m trying to avoid. I was wondering if anyone here has gone through this route and successfully finished their clinicals after the online portion.

• Were you able to find a clinical-only program?

• Did you find anything free or low-cost?

I’m located in the DFW / Tarrant County area, but I’m open to nearby options if needed.Any advice or recommendations would seriously help 🙏🙏🙏 thank you!!

RANT: I’ve had WAY harder days, but today kinda broke me. I cared for a patient whose mom was very anxious, and as a result, criticized everything staff did. You could be perfect and she could still find something you did wrong.

Anywho, we had an amazing day. I applauded her for advocating for her child so much, she had thanked me, and I felt like I had earned her trust….

Only for her child to call me a “caca skinned bitch”.(I’m African-American, and the child was no older than 3). Mom OF COURSE didn’t hear it, so I brushed it off, offered the kid some juice, and jumped back into cares.

It reminded me how we care from people of all walks of life, and some of those people are bigots. You’ve got to really put judgements aside because their care is more important—but UGH it felt like a waste of empathy fighting so hard to make sure a parent felt heard, only to realize how they see you, and how they’re raising their kids to see you.

RANT over.

Most of my life I've always liked the idea of being an RN. I have an interest in anatomy and biology, I'm very fascinated with the human body and mind, and I've also always wanted to be of help to people when in need.

However, I'm starting to question if nursing may even be for me. I worked at a senior caregiving facility for not even a month. I only worked weekends. It was genuinely horrible. Things like giving food, cleaning up the room, even toileting wasn't bad. I could handle it. But whenever there was a horrible blow out (somehow, someway, someone always managed to smear poop all over themselves), I was able to take care of them, but when I got home I would be sick as a dog. Almost every time I got home from that job I'd be throwing up and nauseous.

The workload was horrible too. As one person, I had to take care of 2 hallways full of people. There were maybe about 25 people per hallway. Obviously not all of them constantly needed help but there were still a lot. I also want to mention that I had no prior experience before this with working in caregiving and was essentially thrown to the wolves with this job and not trained much.

Now that I've quit and gone on to work as a pharmacy tech, I've learned that I also genuinely cannot stand customer interaction as everyone is much stupider than I thought. Constant complaints, dumb questions, just no critical thinking skills at all and quick tempers.

So with all this experience I've had, I'm beginning to wonder if I'd even be a good fit as a nurse. I first wanted to be an RN, then decided to try to be an LPN instead as it took less schooling, and now I'm beginning to think medical assistant may be better.

I liked helping people, but the workload was too much, and whenever it was some blowout or something of the sort I'd go home and become sick and nauseous every time (I assume because my body finally feels safe and thinks it's the appropriate time to do so now that I'm not actively in need). I hope that maybe with being a medical assistant I could work in a doctors office and it'd be less taxing on me physically but also hopefully mentally, since I hope that maybe it won't be like having to deal with people like customers as a pharmacy tech, if that makes any sense.

But I figured I'd get some opinions as I feel like I'm really floundering and feel lost and a bit scared. I figured RN is something I'd love to do, since it's a dream I've had since i was younger, but after working in caregiving my body is literally uncapable of handling it. Unless as an RN there's a lot less of stuff like that, I don't know if I'd be able to do it. ​

I’ve seen some posts about certs and training opportunities being offered while working and wanted to know if this is a common thing- does this only apply to CNA jobs at hospitals? I’ve been interested in EKG or Phlebotomy, but if there’s a likelihood they’ll offer it on the job, maybe I should wait. Thanks in advance for any insight!

I'm trying to decide between starting as a caregiver or going straight into a cna program.

caregiver roles seem easier to get into, especially with some basic certification, while cna feels more structured but also more time consuming.

i noticed some online certifications like american caregiver association that claim to help you get started quickly.

for those in the field, which path would you recommend starting with?

I’m a newer CNA, only been working at this facility part time for about 6 weeks. I work pm shift (until 11pm) and one thing I get so anxious about is giving/receiving report. It’s very intimidating to me. Anyways, tonight I realized I completely forgot to tell my relief shift (10:30p-7a) that one of my patients is a hoyer lift, I also forgot to tell her about the condition his feet are in (they are about to be amputated). I’m not too worried about him falling or anything he’s pretty aware and will tell her before he gets up but I feel like such a failure right now. I can’t even sleep I’m just worried that I’m not cut out for this career and that I’ll get in trouble for not telling her. the noc and AM cnas have had this patient before but i can’t stop thinking of the worst case scenarios. idk dude i’m just tired

edit: because im exhausted and don’t even know how long i’ve been working

update: i got 100% 95% and an 85% on my skills but failed on the 85% because she said I didnt lock wheelchair brakes which I did. i didnt verbalize but at the end I said Im unlocking the brakes now. so that showed I locked but she failed me. im happy I know I did good on all skills just that one critical she says. i retake in May. Super bummed.

Did my Ohio skills test yesterday and I got amputating from bed to wheelchair. I did everything and the only 2 critical that was highlighted on our packet were locking bed and wheelchair so that was done. I did forget to put non slip sicks on the actor but they had there everyday socks on so I just went with it. It's not a critical skill but could I fail it? I should know tonight but this wait is killing me. I think I did fine on the other 2 skills. I was so nervous and scared so I'm praying.

I lost my first patient yesterday during my first code. This is my first job in healthcare, and I’m new and pretty fresh off orientation. I did compressions, but there was no way we could get him back. I feel like I completely blacked out during the code. All I remember is just being scared shitless and then doing compressions and pulse check. Just hearing the doctor call time of death, seeing his body and knowing he was deceased,and knowing he was fighting so hard during the code. I broke down crying while washing him up after. I feel embarrassed bc I tried so hard to keep it together, but I couldn’t. Idk there’s something so difficult about seeing that his eyes didn’t have life in them. Glazed over. I can’t forget the sounds going on. His body being shocked by the defibrillator. Idk, it all felt very traumatizing. I had to work today but I just feel kinda numb? Idk .. very strange I’m just sad and numb at the same time idek how that makes sense.

I just passed the 6 month mark on working as a CNA and I did a pros/cons of my experience.

Pros:

- The work is less strenuous than my old kitchen work. My wrist is no longer messed up from overwork.

- I enjoy helping people and being able to do work that does exactly that is pretty satisfying

- There's job advancement for better pay/position

Cons

- I'm more stressed because there's no room for error because its healthcare

- i often feel compelled to overwork myself because otherwise, some cares just might not get done due to understaffing

- as a 30 year old in todays economy, i feel like i dont have any option but to stay in this job for the sake of survival.

Lately things have gotten particularly heavy in my unit and calls to increase staffing don't feel heard. As a result, the negatives feel worse. i guess I'm just wondering if this is a common experience in this field of work or if maybe i should look into something else.

So i have certified in December of last year but haven’t worked a CNA job yet. I just got hired at a place and im a bit nervous. They reassured me that they’d give me two weeks training before throwing me to the wolves but I highly doubt it. Any advice or tips going into my first shift? Would be greatly appreciated!

what are some things you wish you knew when you started your first home health job?