Hello.. I need to get this off my chest...I HATE MY JOB! I've been a CNA ( nurses aid) for 20 plus years now..I'm currently been with my facility for 16yrs now and the changes over the past years are incredible..the stress level is more than I can bear..I love my resident's...it's all the other Bullsh** that is really getting to me...I really need your input on the thing's that I've seen that just aren't right..my DNS should be fired and never allowed in this position ever ever again..I also want to mention that the DNS is and has been on a power trip having this position for quite awhile now (she was our infection control nurse for years but when the DNS job became available no one wanted it so it was offered to her as a LAST resort..) problem's have been brought to her attention that are legit and she makes excuses for whatever the problem might be twist's word's or the person talking to her about legit problem's get's burned in the end..The charge nurses are allowed to verbally abuse the aid's and the DNS will back the nurse's no matter what..In the DNS eye's every LPN/RN is gold in her eye's and can do no wrong..they come first! You can't go to the Administator because he has no back bone and everything that is mentioned to him (following the chain of command of coarse) go's right back to the director (DNS) and boy your really in deep sh$% then.. Here are a list of things that are/is wrong..
We are mandated to have 12hrs of inservice time a year..until about 2yrs ago when we got a new Staff development nurse our inservice time was doctored for at least 7yrs..yes I mean we never had even 6hr's of inservices a year..I would love to know if the facility is and can be held accountable for the forging of our names on the supposed sp? inservices we we legally entitled to..
Told our 15 minute break in the afternoone is a thank you for your hard work break..but they don't have to give you that break if they don't want to! I thought that was the law if you work 8hrs? I can't seem to find out if that is true or not? I work in Connecticut..
Our 1/2hr lunch is paid for by the facility..told if we are late for our lunch break tough luck if you only get a 15 minute lunch..
We chart on our resident's using computer's..I've seen CNA's several times chart during their lunch break because there's so much work to do they can't leave at their scheduled time if they don't chart at that time..meaning no lunch for them..That is so WRONG..
We have a supervisor who's daughter is a CNA and work's on the same floor with her mom (was alway's a big no-no because of favortism sp? and had to work on opposite floor's or shift's)..the daughter goe's into the scheduling book to see who's working or tell's her mom she doesn't want to work such & such day so her mom just erases her name off the schedule..It's not like anybody can go look at the SUPERVISORS book! Not to mention if she has any problem with another co-worker and voices that to her mom where do think that senerio would go?
The supervisor also has a best friend that work's on the same floor nd they stick together like glue..this best friend is a PHYSICAL/VERBAL ABUSER to my resident's..you can't report this because #1 she's best friends w/the supervisor..#2 They are of different race...#3 the director is all for backing the nurse's..#4 you WILL lose your job..
The nurses will gang up on you if they don't like you..make sure that they get you written up for something even if it isn't true..because the DNS will back them..
Resident's are all suppose to be treated EQUAL no matter what...but we as in CNA's are to give some resident's SPECIAL treatment because their family member's donate money & when the family is with their mom or dad and tell the nurses that the aid's need to make their family member #1 over anyone else because they donate x amount of dollar's.. CNA"S are TOLD to take care of them first! What you don't think that some of our less fortunate resident's don't see the special treatment? BULLSH%#..............
That's just a very FEW problem's I have with the facility..I know I should just look for another job..but I won't get paid what I'm making plus I get 1 month a yr paid vacation a year..There is so much more that I could write but it would take hr's to write..I really want to take the higher up's down..they don't deserve the positions they have..There is so much crookedness sp? that you wouldn't believe it if I told you.. Please tell me what you think!
We are mandated to have 12hrs of inservice time a year..until about 2yrs ago when we got a new Staff development nurse our inservice time was doctored for at least 7yrs..yes I mean we never had even 6hr's of inservices a year..I would love to know if the facility is and can be held accountable for the forging of our names on the supposed sp? inservices we we legally entitled to..
Told our 15 minute break in the afternoone is a thank you for your hard work break..but they don't have to give you that break if they don't want to! I thought that was the law if you work 8hrs? I can't seem to find out if that is true or not? I work in Connecticut..
Our 1/2hr lunch is paid for by the facility..told if we are late for our lunch break tough luck if you only get a 15 minute lunch..
We chart on our resident's using computer's..I've seen CNA's several times chart during their lunch break because there's so much work to do they can't leave at their scheduled time if they don't chart at that time..meaning no lunch for them..That is so WRONG..
We have a supervisor who's daughter is a CNA and work's on the same floor with her mom (was alway's a big no-no because of favortism sp? and had to work on opposite floor's or shift's)..the daughter goe's into the scheduling book to see who's working or tell's her mom she doesn't want to work such & such day so her mom just erases her name off the schedule..It's not like anybody can go look at the SUPERVISORS book! Not to mention if she has any problem with another co-worker and voices that to her mom where do think that senerio would go?
The supervisor also has a best friend that work's on the same floor nd they stick together like glue..this best friend is a PHYSICAL/VERBAL ABUSER to my resident's..you can't report this because #1 she's best friends w/the supervisor..#2 They are of different race...#3 the director is all for backing the nurse's..#4 you WILL lose your job..
The nurses will gang up on you if they don't like you..make sure that they get you written up for something even if it isn't true..because the DNS will back them..
Resident's are all suppose to be treated EQUAL no matter what...but we as in CNA's are to give some resident's SPECIAL treatment because their family member's donate money & when the family is with their mom or dad and tell the nurses that the aid's need to make their family member #1 over anyone else because they donate x amount of dollar's.. CNA"S are TOLD to take care of them first! What you don't think that some of our less fortunate resident's don't see the special treatment? BULLSH%#..............
That's just a very FEW problem's I have with the facility..I know I should just look for another job..but I won't get paid what I'm making plus I get 1 month a yr paid vacation a year..There is so much more that I could write but it would take hr's to write..I really want to take the higher up's down..they don't deserve the positions they have..There is so much crookedness sp? that you wouldn't believe it if I told you.. Please tell me what you think!
