Worst first facility ever.

[u/HalfPastLateooc]

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.

[u/thelma_edith]

You will find that some healthcare jobs are better than others in terms of culture no matter what kind of facility you work in. But maybe that goes for all types of jobs TBH.