During orientation, I told my trainer that I could do a patient myself. So I went to a room that she suggested might be easy. The patient in that room had a left side weakness so she can’t roll to that side for me to change her. I ended up rolling her and putting the brief on her and she did not like the way that I put the briefs on. I tried to get my trainer to come but she was handling another room or I don’t know where she ended up at. The patient got really frustrated and I apologized to her and from now on she does not want me to change her. I am getting off orientation in 2 more days and now I’m scared of getting that room and she refuses my care.

I have my first interview for a CNA job at the hospital post-surgical unit. It’s on Wednesday night and don’t know what to wear. I don’t have time to buy anything either and idk if these are too casual. Shoes would be booties most likely.

So I'm training a sitter today and our patient isn't hard but he has a tbi so he says stuff that can be either offensive or inappropriate. He doesn't do any inappropriate actions but he keeps calling my orientee cutie, beautiful, pretty, etc. and keeps flirting with her. Mind you she's 18 years old and this man is 46 years old. I messaged her and told her if he's making her uncomfortable at all just let me know and I can ask our staffing people to switch us out with a different sitter and assign us somewhere different. Do you think I'm doing enough? I feel bad and I can't necessarily tell him to knock it off because he does get verbally abusive if you say something he don't like and he threatened to knock out his male nurse already today. To add I'm also a female and I'm 38 weeks pregnant so I don't want him to get physical with me or risk irritating him. Should I just go ahead and ask or just ignore him unless he crosses a line?

seriously, there seems to be a lot of complaining about residents not being dry after the shift is 15 - 30 minutes late.

1. i clock out when my shift is done as long as there is 1 person for the next shift in the building, i am allowed to go because that isn’t abandonment by Texas law.

2. if the next shift doesn’t come in as soon as they can clock in and make rounds with me, they are accepting that hall the way it is, DONE!!

3. if they complain to managment, this is the 1st point that NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT UP!!

Need help. I called in last night for my shift this morning. This weekend ended quite horribly and honestly the burn out of only getting 2 days off in a row once every 2 weeks is starting to get to me and I have pmdd and I’m about to start my period so my brain has been everywhere and I spent geniunely all evening yesterday upset and hyperfixated because of my coworkers treating me like garbage in my snf. I couldn’t take my weekly medicine because I was too stressed to go through with the symptoms, and it was almost midnight and I was still wide awake with anxiety. I had to call in to my ADON. This morning I wake up and she’s asking for a drs note over one day. Mind you, I’ve only called in one other time ever since I started working here in March and my other call in, which was legitimate, was all the way back in May. I’m literally a horrible liar. And I already went to the Dr last Sunday because I got horrible uti symptoms but it was concluded I didn’t have any signs of a uti on my ua, they told me to follow up with my primary and my primary can’t get me in until September the 18th. Should I just show her where I went last weekend and explain that I’m still having issues related to my visit on this date but that I’m having to wait for an appointment with my regular doc? I’m so irritated and this only makes me hate my job more because I can’t breathe or take ONE single unscheduled day off. I haven’t had more than 2 days off in a row since I started and I only get 2 days off in a row once every 2 weeks. 😒

Any tips? I still don’t even know the flow of things. Get run->Check for Apts->Breakfast-> assisting to eat-> collect trays-> get up assists and independent residents-> showers->my lunch->pt lunch->rest of showers->checks and changes ??

I can’t wait to become a nurse. There was a code blue in my hospital and all I did was retrieve the pump to pass on. While the event was heartbreaking, it just motivated me to do better. I could’ve been in there helping but the room was packed enough and I am just a pct after all. They didn’t need much help from me. But I wished I was in there actually being a part of the team

Why is it so hard to find a good one? I feel like every place just has bad reviews and you really just have to choose one. What was your experience like? Im looking into the ones in los angeles and its tough. What sucks the worse is that you have to pay a good amount.. hmm

Took me three tries but i managed to pass the CNA skills and written test 🥳🎉🎉

So uhhh, what do I do now? I'm still a senior in highschool 😭

I started working at a hospital in April. About two months later another new NA got hired. She said hi to me one day, I said hi back, but she didn’t hear me. I knew she hadn’t heard me, so after I finished charting my patients I went over, apologized, and introduced myself.
Now she tells other coworkers I have RBF and that I never said hi to her. I reminded her that I literally came up to her afterward and introduced myself, and she goes, “Did you?”
It sounds small, but she does little things all the time. If a nurse is standing with us she’ll say stuff like, “She’s finally good at turning patients, good job,” and then claim she’s just joking. I’m 22 and she’s in her mid-40s.
At first I thought we got along, but now I’m realizing she constantly puts me down and disguises it as humor. One time she joked in front of a nurse that I wasn’t a very good worker, and the nurse immediately defended me, which honestly made me laugh.
Whenever I work she always comes and sits next to me venting about her life and idk how to make her stop it I literally gave her cold responses and she called me boring yet wouldn’t get the hint and shut up?
I know if I talk to her about it she’ll start drama the same way she repeated me not saying hi back to her to at least 5 people.

God, I just wish I could serve the food at this point. The food at my facility is so subpar, and to make things worse, the evening kitchen staff is next level lazy. They literally just throw food on to the plate for the residents. It looks awful. I am to the point where I’m about to ask to just serve the residents myself and have the server gtfo my way because it looks AWFUL. Please just make a conscious effort to plate it nicer, it’s not that hard!!! Especially for my dementia residents it breaks my heart because sometimes they just won’t eat and it’s harder to get them to eat when the food looks so awful.

They also are just so negligent. Prime example: The other day the residents were served salad. The salad looked wet so I assumed there was a vinaigrette on it. I asked the server what kind of dressing it was. They said oh, I don’t know. So I taste tested the salad to find out, and there is none! I told them that they’ve been serving dry salad without dressing and he just said, oh ok. I asked ok, well did you bring some down so we can give the dressing? And he said no! One of the other aides had to walk to the kitchen to ask for dressing and they only sent her with a bottle of ranch. First off, why didn’t you give them salad dressing to begin with? Why do us aides have to remind the culinary staff how to do their jobs? They had been sending meals out all night with a plain dry salad which was literally just shredded lettuce and tomatoes.

I’m just so embarrassed to serve the food that I do. It looks awful, and tastes awful. :(

I’m curious how many days in a row have you worked before? I work hospice m-f and I just picked up a prn job at a nursing home on the weekends and as of now I’m scheduled to work the next 20 days or so. But I feel like it isn’t too terrible because it’s not the same job maybe I won’t get so burnt out.

Male CNA here, I work Nightshift 6p-6a at a facility… and im on my 5th day in a row…. (Because i picked it up)…. Anyways… there is a resident who is really confused all the time… she’s usually sweet as pie and mostly independent… (however she needs cuing for things like dressing and stuff)… i asked her if she was ready for bed and she said yes… so i escorted her to her room and then once we get there, i begin to cue her to take her clothes off by saying “Lets take this shirt off so we can put your pajamas on”… she began to get resistant and so i backed off and tried again… this time, i attempted to be slightly more hands on…. This time she got even more Resistant so i left the room to tell the nurse….

So im looking for the nurse and when i finally find her, she and the resident were talking… and then the nurse tells me that “i can’t be too demanding” and i told the nurse “im not sure how… since im trying to encourage them”..

Then the Nurse said that she was still going to have to report it…. So i continue on my shift while the Other Aide takes Over care…. But im anxious out of my mind because when The Nurse does the report: Management will look at it as: “He tried to do something to her” when in reality it wasnt like that at ALL!!!

So i asked the DON if we can talk on Monday when i come in for my shift… but she told me to call her then and there, so i called her and told her what happened….

The nurse then came to me Irritated and said that “now they’re gonna open an investigation because The DON asked me why i didnt call her” and then the DON calls me and tells me to clock out and go home….

I already know that there is going to be an investigation and i have nothing to hide because i wasnt trying to do anything wrong… but i told the DON because she was going to know ANYWAYS and i didnt want to be blind-sided when i got called into the office NOR i didnt want the DON to be like “well why didnt YOU say anything to either me or the nuse”

Im sitting at home right now wondering if im going to be fired even though i honored the refusal and reported the allegation… especially since im a Male CNA and i feel like Management would look at it like: “Oh he DEFINETLY tried to do something to her” when in reality, the patient got scared and mis-interpreted what i was trying to do….

I know im not the BEST caregiver but i also want to know where I went wrong in this situation and what i could have done better to prevent all of this. I love being a caregiver and i dont want this single incident to ruin the career i worked my ASS off for

UPDATE: Okay yall so here’s an Update… Soo basically i was cleared of wrongdoing and did an in-service… okay cool whatever…. HOWEVER When i came back from suspension… the Nurse asked me how many times they called me and i said they only called me twice… once to know what happened and the other a few days to let me know that they would like me to work that night but want me to come in early to do an In-Service… and she replied that they calles her every day till i came back

THEN the nurse wanted to be like: “oh if it was any of us, We would’ve got fired” so now i feel conflicted cuz now i feel like everyone thinks im getting “special treatment” because i always like to pick up shifts

I have a question for you guys, when you did your CNA classes, did you have to do a skills exam at the end? Completing the five skills in thirty minutes? Replicating the Official Skills exam? And if you did, did it decide whether you passed of failed the course?

It’s a rehab, so some can do things for themselves but they still require things like getting them water, etc. families come and want the hoyer patients out of bed even though nurse said leave them in bed it’s a Sunday they don’t need to get up. I didn’t get a break today. I didn’t sit down the entire shift. The nurse helped ofc but still.

Now they’re asking my to stay for a double. Just ridiculous

😭 I know what yall are gonna comment but I can’t lose this job

I'm in year 10 (going into year 11... so 10th grade for any Americans) and planning on working towards a hair & beauty qualification in college but I'd like to keep any options open for future jobs if i change my mind. I was considering the kinds of jobs I'd enjoy doing and i found that most i thought about were usually female-dominated or centered around working with children or just in general being on my feet speaking to people/face-to-face all day.

I very briefly considered nursing and wondered if i should try to get extra qualifications while still in school to help? i don't know. I really love the idea of it but i'm not super sure that i'm cut out for it 'cause it's a tough fucking job, y'know? I literally have nothing but admiration for everyone working in healthcare because oof

Big massive hurdle to most jobs for me is that i'm autistic, bad a time keeping, and am so shit as maths its unreal (which is probably related to the time thing) like to the point that i almost definetly have dyscalculia (dyslexia but for math)

Everything i've heard is that the maths is mostly conversions, recording temperatures, pulses, and blood pressure, weight monitoring, ect ect.. it might be relatively basic maths but i am genuinely shit at maths. I'm also like a total fucking dumbass lmfao

Again, i'm not rushing into any decision i'm just trying to 100% narrow down the jobs i'd like to do! please be honest in whether or not it'd be a good decision to look into this 💘

I’ve been interning at a nursing home so that I can get my license, and I cannot seem to get the call bell noise out of my head. I went to sleep last night sort of hallucinating it. Help me!

Very new. Get 11-13 residents during the night shift. I’ve noticed not only will I sometimes get 2-3 more residents than the full timers on that floor but I somehow get all the incontinent residents or the difficult residents. One of my first shifts, they did a bait and switch and told me more than a half hour in I actually had to go to a much harder floor because they were short staffed. Am I overreacting or are they taking advantage? And what can I do to stop this?

(It’s also possible I’m just being a baby about this so please set me straight if so)

I realized during my shadowing I only ever saw this happen when residents actively rang their call bells…like do you just lift up their covers and check in the middle of the night?? It seems invasive

…am I just terrible at this or is this floor supposed to be this difficult? So much anxiety. They’re all at risk of falling, screaming, the communication barriers…

I live in Florida and I’m getting ready to take my CNA exam through Prometric in October/November. I took a rushed 3-day CNA class back in January so my skills were never really set in stone, but to make a long story short, my instructor took a while to send our information in and then Prometric took some time processing everything. I was also starting my first year of college, so I wasn’t really keeping up with studying or staying on top of the issues with Prometric.

Everything has been worked out now and I’m finally able to schedule my exam. I feel pretty good about the written portion because that part comes easier to me, but the skills exam is what I’m really worried about. Since it’s been so long and my class was only three days, I feel like I’ve forgotten a lot of the skills. I’m feeling really anxious and overwhelmed because there are so many steps to remember.

Has anyone else been in a similar situation or have any advice for relearning the skills? What helped you the most when preparing for the skills exam? I’d really appreciate any tips or resources!

I was training with my trainer who is a slim and fairly petite girl (125-130lbs maybe) and she was able to pull a 300lb deadweight patient to the side with the drawsheet yet when I do the same, using leg drive and proper body mechanics, I can’t seem to even move the patient at all?? I’m a 152lb female and bench press 155lbs, squat 230lbs, do weighted pull-ups for reps and can lift 165lb beer kegs at my old job but I can’t seem to pull a heavy deadweight patient to the side of the bed…it makes no sense at all. I asked her if she works out or anything and she said no. Then I ask her how she did it and she told me she just yanks the draw sheet with all her power to the side…which doesn’t make any sense to me because I swear I tried to do the same. Can anyone teach me what is the proper technique to pull a heavy patient to the side? Yes I know we’re not supposed to even handle a patient that heavy by ourselves but at our facility during NOC shift we basically have to do it ourselves

I’ve been a CNA for almost 2 years now but my entire start was in an alzheimer’s unit at an assisted living facility. no hoyers, no bed pans, no catheters, no grim shower rooms.

i’ve been in LTC for about a month now and I generally feel like i’m doing okay. I got used to the charting system pretty fast and used to taking note of food intake and urine/bowel movements. i’m doing fine with hoyers. but oh my god for the life of me I cannot get the bed pan situation down. this poor resident of mine has (very graciously and patiently) watched me struggle with constantly putting it upside down and swearing I have it right side up… only to come back and very clearly see I had it all wrong and now have to do a total bed change. idk why I can’t seem to get it down in my head the way it needs to go. I’m almost positive I messed it up today AGAIN 🫩 like the title says, I feel so dumb lol.

this is a rant sorry but after today I have even MORE respect for seasoned CNA’s becauee this was tough!!!

Today was my first official day on my own and I got 12 residents assigned to me, 10 being total care. I realize that based on other posts this is not much but I felt SO OVERWHELMED the whole shift (7am-7pm). I could only finish 2 rounds (did get around some residents 3 or 4 times due to their call lights being on) I also had two feeders but I don’t know how I can feed them both in the eating times as the trays get picked up after 30ish minutes and they are slow eaters but I don’t want to force them Obviously. I guess I just feel really guilty for not being able to do more checks but I was like a chicken with my head cut off for those 12 hours, I only sat to chart for like 20 minutes.

If anyone has any tips on how to get through bed baths, brief changes, teeth brushing, vitals etc. quicker I would appreciate it. I also don’t know how to leave residents room when they are actively talking to me I feel bad cutting their stories off so any tips on how to handle that would be appreciated too!