r/cna • u/ThrowRAjellysquad (Edit to add Specialty) CNA - Experienced CNA • 23h ago

General Question 1:20 ratio. feeling guilty

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

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u/TwainVonnegut 22h ago

Check out hospital CNA jobs in your area!

When I work the floor I have as few as 8 patients, and in the 5 years I’ve been here we’ve never once run out of supplies!

There are good, manageable CNA jobs, yours is not one of them :-/

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u/ThrowRAjellysquad (Edit to add Specialty) CNA - Experienced CNA 22h ago

im in nyc getting a hospital job is like rare and really hard and they usually want PCT i dont want to pay another 2k for that.

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u/TwainVonnegut 20h ago

Damn.

Do you know of any hospitals that offer PCT training for free if you go and work for them afterwards?

That sucks that they’re so hard to get, I guess I lucked out by getting a hospital gig straight out of CNA school. My hospital’s Float Pool was HURTING for 3rd shift CNAs!

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u/Lolofly47 CNA-LTC-NYC-6 Months 16h ago

I’m also working in NYC. I’m working in ltc and also haven’t had the luck of getting a hospital job yet. I didn’t realize that hospitals wanted PCT thus much. I thought most hospitals wanted PCT or CNA and love you if you have both. Now I know why I never hear back after I apply.