being a cna is awesome right?

[ampilon]

i want to thank you for welcoming me to your group. Now lets get real. Yes being a cna is about helping others and blah blah blah. but lets face it it sucks too. You are hit, kicked, spit at and called anything those people can think of and don't give me that crap about how they don't know what they are doing because thats a bunch of bull. Now i would like to know where our rights come in. where is it writen that we as CNA's should have to put up with abuse from the resident. I do NOT remenber reading anywhere in my many pices for paper work I had to sign that said i give up the right to have any respect given to me from those " residents" . :angry-nurse:

[suebird3]

Welcome to the site!

Your statement on how aides are treated also could go for us nurses, too. Yes, some residents/patients are demented, but what about the ones who aren't?

[cougarnurse]

Glad to have you with us, ampilon!

I agree with Bird; there are some who know what they are doing.

I hope you also find your way to the CNA Forum, the Rubber Room, and the Daily Thread. Great places to se-stress when needed. Hope to see you often!

[cali510]

Welcome to the site. Hope you can find a place to work that is more pleasant. Feel free to come here to vent anytime.

[Marie_LPN]

The last nursing home i worked at, if we had any questions about our own 'rights,' we went to the social worker of the facility. I had to do this a few times because i was getting days of being assigned to a very combative resident, not only was this physically unsafe, it was mentally and physically exhausting.

There's only so much people can take, and for everyone's well-being, stand up for yourself, ask for another assignment, or ask for a break from certain people.

[being a cna is a crap job]

being a CNA I am unhappy and miserable and depressed and i feel trapped. it's the same thing that describes what i am in transition to what i am not. after i've been off for a few days or a day when i realise i have to go back i feel myself fill up with dread, fear, anxiety, and every imaginable negative emotion. I don't want to go back. i don't want my job. it is not the "wonderful career" it is said to be quite the opposite. if it was i wouldn't be writing this now. it's a trap the nursing posters are a trap tactic they use like the army when they need new recruits. one resident said she doesn't want me working on her and that's fine get somebody else then. you know what bothers me though she said she doesn't like me and that i'm crazy. well she's right about me being crazy but the good kind of crazy. lol. it started when she didn't like my spanish so fine only in english with her. then i was caring for her she didn't like that either. then for rounds i went to check her but she waved me out. there's this male resident who i don't feel safe and secure with doing by myself after the personally traumatizing episode in the shower where he was truly verbally abusive and i feared he'd fall. it didn't help how after i was told by the head cna that he hits and has struck her. i fear this. there have been times when i'm asleep i wake up in anxiety and tears. i found out how ****ing two faced those *****es i work with are i work with. they said it wasn't fair to 'them' that i didn't do him. so i'm doing him under force against my will even though they go in with me. and told me to leave the door open i'm still alone with him. they don't care. what put the nail in the coffin i walk into the cafeteria one night i find them all discussing me and my supposed friend said she was going to go to the office about me cause she said it was unfair.

[being a cna is a crap job]

where i work nobody has rights. nobody has them. rights are an illusion. there are no "benefits" from this job. i miss my old job as bus monitor

[being a cna is a crap job]

the other night at 11:30 pm a half hour after i was supposed to have clocked out a nurse aide came up and looked at me and said "you're mandated". i almost had a heart attack when i found out this was not joke. my ride was already there and i live faraway and they sprung it on me. it would be different had they told me in advance not when i'm going home right now! i had a fit. then they call me and say "you're not mandated" cause she went to the wrong floor. and i'm sitting in the lobby cause i sent my ride back thinking that i was. i shouldn't have passed my cna test.

[Ricu]

Hi "Crap job,"

The job you chose is indeed a very challenging one but the stuff you're describing isn't in the job description. It sounds like you're in a bad facility and maybe at the bottom of the seniority pile too. If you've been there long enough to be well aquainted and still feel as though you're getting the crappy end of the stick, look for a new job.

You will be surprised at how different things are from one facility to another. If you think LTC might not be a fit for you, consider rehab or acute care. Another environment will let you discover how gratifying CNA work can be.

Let us know how things go.

Good luck,

R

BTW, with this under your belt, you know just what NOT to look for when job shopping.

[nursinghumor]

Not every facility is the same I agree, and the style of management can make a tremendous difference in the job satisfaction of nursing assistants.

An interesting article discusses the turnover rates and how the attitude of management can affect it:

“Leadership Styles of Nursing Home Administrators and Their Association With Staff Turnover” reports that two style of management among nursing home administrators have a strong effect on CNA turnover. By far the highest rates (168% a year) in a broad study of nursing homes nationwide occurred at facilities run by administrators who neither solicited input when they made a decision nor provided staff with information to make decisions on their own. Rates were lowest (44% a year) when administrators led by consensus, soliciting and acting upon input from their staff. “Encouraging contributions from caregivers and granting them the power to make meaningful decisions in their work can be transformative,” the authors conclude."
http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2...uses-turnover/

Hope that is helpful.

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.4nursing.com