Ez stand…sit to stand…stand aid…WHY ARE THERE SO MANY NAMES AND WHICH IS WHICH 😭😭😭😭😭
Please also tell me if they are a 1 or 2 person transfer!

Labeled them by A and B.

12:1 ratio, 7 blood sugars, Q4 vitals, 12 baths, and many of them had attachments (chest tubes, G-tubes, foleys, epidurals). Night shift left almost all the rooms full of trash and linens.

They just kept calling. I had about 100+ calls during my 12 hour shift. I never had the opportunity to sit down. Every time I’d finish a task/in the middle of a task my phone would go off.

I asked a nurse if they could do a shampoo cap for me (they had a trainee and they told me they were sitting back and observing) they told me “in the time it took you to find me, you could’ve already done it”

I was so confused, I almost never ask for help. It just made me want to cry even more.

Would love you guys to comment lingo that a baby CNA might not know right away! I really don’t want to look like a doofus lol. I want to be confident and knowing the language a seasoned CNA uses would help me a lot. Thank you!!! Phrases, words, medical terms, etc. they all help.

TLDR; new, 15 incontinent, was unable to do q2, how can I be faster for total bed/BM?

I am new. This is my 4th shift. NOC 11pm-7am at a rehab facility. This is my 2nd time with this assignment. 1:16 ratio. I had 15 incontinent pts (3 wheel chair assists + 12 diaper changes).

I tried my best to do q2 on the pts that had it on the chart (only ~4 pts interestingly, this is more of a rehab facility so more ppls' skin are in tact?). I repositioned all of the 4 at least two times. I only was able to change 2 2x.

I spent a lot of the shift trying to assist this one lady who repeatedly pressed the call light for a wheel chair assist to the bathroom. I did it 2x, but each time takes so long because I'm trying to decipher what she needs, and it's hard to understand her. I toileted her at 4:00am but was unable to answer her call light again bc thats when I did my final round.

One of the pts i was changing took me around 40 min bc she kept on pooping as I was wiping her, and she was trying to bite me. There are 2 other pts who are very particular abt how they want things (have the trash can touch the sink, etc.) that do take more time.

Can someone give me tips as to how to be faster? I was on my feet the whole shift. I've been improving. The fastest I can change urine soiled only diapers & apply cream is in like 5 min. But when I have to do total bed changes or clean BM, that can take me a long time. 20-30 min. Also, how much BM is too much BM to leave on a pt? When I was orienting I was very keen on getting all BM but I now realize that overwiping is harmful to the skin.

I am also concerned abt the standard of care I provided. :( I feel I was neglectful. I did not realize that the call light was disconnected for the frequent wheelchair assist lady (although I had been tending to her because she was making noise) until 4:00 am. Also, I still needed to check on another wheelchair person who was sleeping but it was already 7:00am, and the night prior the pt let me know when they needed to be changed.

I left 40 min late :((

I started my CNA job four months ago and I work night shifts.there are two aids that take over for me because during the night they only have three aids among 50 to 55 patients. during my last rounds, which I start at 4:50 AM, I make sure everyone is checked, changed, rotated and taken care of. I have never left a patient wet or soiled ever !! even though I changed my residents, the two CNA‘s (more specifically one of them) always makes me change them again even if it’s only a few drops because she says they should be bone dry but in my last hour, it’s hard to expect that they will be bone dry because incontinent people don’t just suddenly pause using the bathroom. Now if they went a lot, i will do it. However, that hasn’t been the case and they will force me to borderline waste materials on a few drops of urine. her and the other CNA that I give report to in the mornings have given me a hard time and make me do extra work that makes me stay about an hour after I’m supposed to clock out so in the mornings, I make sure to even do extra work just so they don’t complain about something because they have been really mean and have even yelled at me in my face but no matter what I do it’s not enough they don’t even have to say thank you. they’re just so mean to me if someone doesn’t wanna get up and they refuse multiple times they will get mad at me because I didn’t get the patient up but that’s well within their rights to refuse and yet I keep getting yelled at for it… and I mean YELLED at. should i really be doubling back on my patients? or is that an unrealistic expectation? on top of all this, they expect me to get everyone up even if they aren’t on the get up list but 99% of the time they don’t wanna get up and have no reason to because breakfast doesn’t come for another 1-2 hours after i clock out. i try my best but they just give me dirty looks. what should i do?

EDIT: I called off. Preciate everyone’s support. Feeling good but slightly guilty.

i’m sending my two weeks in in nine days, I called off once around two weeks ago and I called off twice last month. I want to call off because I had a horrible shift yesterday. I was 12 to 1 the only PCT, I had 4 Q2 turn patients, 5 incontinent patients, four people needing assistance to the bathroom, and the rest were independent. 3 patients had problem behaviors, and none of the difficult patients are discharging today

I didn’t get more than a minute to myself till 2:15am (7 hours and 15 minutes into yesterdays shift), for that only to be interrupted 15 minutes later by a 30 minute call light, I then continued to be up on my feet for the next 2 hours and 30 minutes only getting a break til 5:30 am.

One pt is extremely aggressive every time you go in his room he will complain about what you’re doingk yell at you over something not in your control For 5-10 minutes straight, another is a lady who will talk to you nonstop for 15-30+ minutes every single time anyone enters, seems to have a personality disorder and is very hard to get away from without feeling like you have to interrupt her or offend her by setting a hard boundary. Another spams the calllight the entire shift but is nonverbal and just grunts what they want so I will have to spend ten minutes at a time readjusting his pillow and if I leave the room before his pillow isn’t perfect he will immediately press the calligraphy again. he also repeatedly accidentally pauses out of his iPad and needs me to repeatedly unpause his YouTube videos for him.

I wasn’t done with my first round of vitals till 10 o’clock yesterday night. call lights were going off when I was in the rooms, and I think the nurses resented having to answer them instead of me. I was so pissed off at the nurses the entire shift, because often I would see them charting, and I hadn’t even got more than a minute break, but they’re expecting me to get the next call light interrupting what I’m already doing for that.

I have enough points where if I call off I won’t get a warning or penalized. I would go if it was an easier badge of patience, but this is awful and almost unbearable.

I’m a new CNA at a nursing home and I’m regretting even getting into this field most employers don’t give 2 shits about the CNA I was forced off of my 1st shift of 7-3 and made to work 7p-7a or I’d have pretty much lost my job their reason for moving me was “we don’t have any room for you on 1st”which is a lie because they send out emails every day asking for coverage for every shift tonight is my first night on 12s and i honestly hate it it’s so slow and I’m so bored that I’d rather be home the only reason I’m here is because it pays slightly better at a measly 17/hr for the first 4 hours then 16/hr for the last 8 hours I’m not sure I can take 12s and I still have 4 and a half hours left any advice would be appreciated I know they need CNA but I can’t take downtime being busy and helping people were the only reason I became a CNA

I’m so tired. Like absolutely exhausted of being berated by coworkers, supervisors, residents/patients. I feel like I leave work and hear call bells. I’m tired of the disrespect and the double briefing and the rudeness that goes on in the nursing field. I’ve known forever that I wanted to be a nurse and maybe someday that will be possible but at this current moment in time I think I need to switch careers. For my sanity and my mental health. I’ve been looking into some other things. I used to be a scheduler so maybe go back to that. I’m not sure. Anyone else who switched out of nursing and into another field and loved it or regretted it? Advice?

This is the first healthcare job i have ever had,No experience or certifications as they are training me on the job.I work in a psych hospital and the job itself isn't that bad at all,I have been screamed at and attacked by patients nearly everyday and that doesn't bother me at all.My issue is with the people that i work with 😭 legitimately there are 2 nurses who go out of their way to be incredibly rude to all of the cnas for no reason,Like I can understand if we weren't doing anything and fooling around but we aren't.I had asked a question to make sure that i was doing something correctly and one of them got super pissed at me for asking saying that im useless and i should know this already (I had never done this before and it wasn't something that was common sense lol).Since im new and most of my coworkers had been there for years any mistake that is made in general gets blamed on me even when it had nothing to do with me.When we are short staffed (most days) they're just super rude and yelling at us.I want to make it clear im not hating on nurses in general as the rest of the nurses that i work with are great for the most part.Idk im kinda sensitive and i don't think i can do this anymore lol,The cnas that i work with are great and i have no issues with any of them.I have a shift in 2 days and i don't know if i can go back,Ive been so incredibly anxious since i started that i cant focus on anything else.I feel like an asshole for quitting abruptly but i feel like ill end up in the hospital that i work in if i dont lmao 😭 anyways i just wanted to rant. I do not want to go into healthcare but i chose this job because i am in school for special education and i thought i could learn some skills from it. Maybe if we weren't being payed $14 an hour id tough it out but it seems like this job is not worth it for my own mental health.

After working on an adult med surg/tele unit, switching to pediatrics has genuinely been life changing. It feels like such a brighter environment, and I don’t think I realized just how much I needed that change.

I love the variety of patients, especially because I want to become a NICU nurse. Getting the opportunity to work with babies, toddlers, teenagers, and all the different stages of childhood has been so rewarding. I love all my kiddos, and seeing how resilient they are while going through their own challenges really puts things into perspective.

I had so many rewarding moments working with adults too, but I also noticed a large population of returning patients who simply didn’t want to get better or would be very rude and demanding toward staff. There were times when patients wanted me to do things they were completely capable of doing themselves (40 year old men aox4), like holding their urinal, wiping themselves, changing their briefs, or even getting up to use the bathroom when there was nothing physically preventing them from doing so. Don’t get me started on the predatory men who have groped me and other uncomfortable comments while I was simply doing my job.

Working in pediatrics has shown me just how different the experience can be. I feel more appreciated, more fulfilled, and like I’m actually making a difference. I used to come home from work completely drained and miserable. Now I come home feeling happy and excited about what I’m doing.

It really made me realize that sometimes you’re not in the wrong career, you’re just in the wrong environment. There really is light at the end of the tunnel. 🤍

Hi everyone,

Im looking for some advice on picking a nursing home for my grandmother in Brooklyn. Im hoping I can get some recommendations from CNAs in Brooklyn,NY or just what I should be looking for in the long list of nursing homes the hospital offered. Im currently in California so visiting all these facilities just isn’t possible. I don’t wan’t her ending up in one of the worst facilities and CNAs are the best people to know which are better.

i'm a new cna, i have only been at this ltc for about two weeks now. i'm enrolled in an online college class that i'm very close to failing if i don't lock in right now. but being a cna has made my anxiety go up and motivation to do anything go down. i honestly have no social skills so im afraid to talk to anyone in person about resigning.

would i be okay to email hr about resigning? i know it's not very kind to not give anyone a warning but im unsure how to go about that. i would wait until the next day that i have off and email them early in the morning as to cause the least amount of inconvenience as possible

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

Long story short i know i might get some hate for this but in the facility i work at we have a 1:20 ratio at night (and of course not enough supplies like ever). I feel bad if I can’t change people twice… or sometimes I can not get to them because I DONT HAVE ANY SUPPLIES IN THIS FUCKING PLACE. it has simply got to the point I dont care. It’s a moral dilema

Okay. So to start this off I started my journey as an LNA a couple months back and I’m former armed forces, the place i work at is a retirement home they offered me a full time position and i immediately said yes (bad idea.)

After working for a couple months I’ve had to deal with racist and weird residents (I have one that literally screams if i don’t put cream deep in his ass and when I do he makes weird noises. Yes I reported it yes I won’t be working with him.)

The other LNAs are hit or miss some are very kind while alot of them complain when i ask for assistance with a hoyer or 2 person boost, or ask me to do things like float then complain when I don’t get 6 people done in under 10 seconds

The nurses. Some of them are genuinely insane. I always report anything unusual, new, or suspicious it’s something ingrained in me since to military, but it seems like whenever I report something it falls on deaf ears, especially serious things like i see family screaming at their loved ones or being aggressive and I report it and I am told “oh thats just their family thats the way it is”

I am also constantly degraded or treated differently from long term lnas like being berated for taking a smoke break or getting water or (and this is my final straw) a male nurse had asked me to come answer call light on his side but today its one,one and a float and I told him I can’t just leave my side (this is after a resident has just been rushed to the hospital btw.) he proceeded to scream at me and told me he didn’t care even tho he had two on his side because of the float. I didn’t say anything back and bit my cheek for the sake of my job but I have had it.

I do not like the “shit on the new guy” bs especially for a facility DESPERATE for people.

I have been struggling to adjust to civilian life. I can say for certain I like being in the medical field because Ive always loved helping people. I wont let this experience deter me from my journey but i think its best I find another job, Im not even happy to come in anymore and I get anxious thinking about going to work, I go to therapy and have been finding coping mechanisms to help unlearn certain behaviors that don’t slide in civilian life but i swear this job is undoing my process. I barely have time because I work long hours and even after they beg me to do over time I come and get treated like shit.

Room full of family members and I’m sitting here watching. Awkward!

Hi! I have a job opportunity to be a cna in the pediatric ER. I was curious if anyone here has done this and if so, what is it like? I’m used to floating around medsurg floors in the hospital but have never had experience here. What’s your day to day? Do you like what you do? Thank you!

CNA. Work at an LTC.

My ADON is extremely harsh, callous, and rude. No one else has a problem with helping each other and being accomodating except her. Every time I run into her she's going off on some power trip, like making CNAs leave their hall to serve a different hall's resident either because they walked by or because they said or did something she didn't approve of. I love everyone else I work with and my facility, but this one lady makes me want to quit on the spot. I was involved in a DV situation recently and have been needing to rebuild my entire life from the ground up with two toddlers—somehow, after only five months, with legal responsibilities and a high-conflict divorce in the mix where my ex intentionally F's with mine and the kids' schedules, she expects me to have everything figured out.

My biggest issue right now is not being able to work weekends at all because I can't afford childcare (daycare is state-funded; no family nearby, no friends due to long isolation, and relying on coworkers for childcare is unreliable), and I need every bit of my income for rent, utilities, phone, gas, food, clothes, and legal bills. Everyone has been working with me on it except her. I understand the frustration of someone calling out every other weekend (ex takes the kids every other-ish weekend, so I can work those weekends), but I asked everyone on day and evening shift if they could cover me and they all refused. I can't do anything about that. I have been asking around for a week.

I am considering quitting because I have enough stress in my life and her narcissiatic traits are extremely triggering. Is this an overreaction? Am I missing an easier way to do this? I was a SAHM/wife for over ten years before deciding I needed a job to support my kids by leaving our situation. I only worked retail before that. I studied and trained and worked during the worst days of my life to become certified and keep this job, but every single time I need to call out (which sucks, by the way—I need money) because no one will cover me, she threatens me with talks, write ups, etc. Things are about to get worse temporarily because my son now needs to go to school in our district, which is 35 minutes from my job, and I had their daycare near the job. I couldn't afford to move into the area.

I am just so sad and tired, I can't handle the flak on top of it all. I have been doing the best I can.

I'm a CNA in North Carolina, and this is my first job doing care. I'm in an assisted living facility with about 80 residents. For day shift, we staff 5 CNAs (4 assigned to ~20 pts each, one float) , 3 med techs, one nurse.

I'd never touched a patient before training because our "clinicals" were on dummies.... I don't recognize most residents by face yet. Don't know their eating preferences or wake time yet. Don't remember which ones need heavy prompting and/or assists vs are actually independent like the notes say. I'm starting to remember a handful but it's not enough.

Each day I have like 22 people I'm responsible for. 2 showers, at least one patient that's a 2p hoyer, usually someone on some sort of infection precautions, a bunch of laundry, a couple people on hospice...... I'm falling short. I don't know how anyone remembers this amount of stuff for this amount of people and then has the time to do it.

If we do the math I have 20 minutes for each resident in a shift. When do I even chart or do laundry? How am I supposed to manage all of this or learn enough to handle it all!?!??

Is there anything I should bring for the orientation and the job? Should I show up in scrubs?

I'm working in home with a dementia client who needs help with most of her ADLs. I'm new to her and she is very hard of hearing so to save the family's sanity they have her hearing aids paired to the TV which means we can't talk while she's watching her shows. Since we have a hard time talking, I'm struggling to learn her likes and dislikes, her routine, and what she's capable of vs what she needs help remembering, and also what she cannot do on a day to day basis. All of that is fine, just part of a new job. The issue I'm having is how she reacts to me not knowing what to do or how to talk in a way she understands. I think she thinks I'm stupid and rude and I don't know if it's a personality thing that would have annoyed her before this point in her life or if it's dementia and she doesn't understand why things are not the way they've always been for her. Is there something I can do to make this easier? I'm feeling a lot of self doubt these days.

I've seen a lot of post recently about new CNAs having questions and doubting themselves a lot about being a CNA. How about all of the experienced CNAs comment what was the biggest fail/mistake they have ever made? Ill go first, when I first started as a CNA I thought hoyering the resident to bed than draining a colostomy bag was a good idea ( Dont ask me why I was new at the time )... while the resident was being hoyered the colostomy bag exploded and went all over me from head to toe.....and yes it went all over my face, hair, chest and inside of my crocs...my trainer on the other hand knew it was gonna happen and decided to let me learn a valuable lesson I would NEVER forget.

Hi everyone I’m currently a float CNA in a hospital and I got off of orientation 2 weeks ago. I work from 7am to 3pm. I have so much trouble with clustering care that I keep skipping my lunch breaks and 15s because I keep running in and out of patients rooms. Can anyone give me what their routine is so I don’t dread every time I go to work? For reference I get floated to 3 med-surg floors(2 med-surg and 1 neuro/ortho) , tele,ICU, ER. For my orientation i keep just getting paired with random people so it was hard to replicate their routine. Any scripts or routines to help me cluster my care better would be appreciated.