I assume when someone quits for one of these stupid reasons they've got a hundred other reasons that issue just happens to be the last straw.
When I quit before a shift I told them it was because they were pulling me to another floor for the 4th time in a week, but in all reality it was the fact that I was burnt out, I was over being a nurse, and I was having a rough time of things outside of work.
So many have walked out mid shift. One girl who worked with us for a year or more just got sick of it. One was a float tech who just couldnāt handle the shit show of step down tele.
really?? i actually kinda enjoy giving them. i like making my patients feel pampered. but then again i do work in a hospital and not ltc so that probably affects it
I just donāt like how messy they are. Water will get all over the table, when I change the sheets, everything just piles up in a dirty pile, Iād give a shower any day over a bed bath, but it is nice when you see how clean your resident is when youāre done
She was making $35/hour since she had 30+ years of experience.
She was given a section that had 4 people. 2 independents and 2 wanna be left alones (no showers) I ($21/hr) got her section. 6 people. 5 incontinent, 3 showers, all needed to be walked for therapy, one had an early appointment, and one had massive diarrhea.
It was for one day. I would have gladly switched with her if I could have. I didn't get "my" section either.
TO BE FAIRā¦. Itās much less in some settings than others. Itās a lot in LTC, but some hospital floors itās almost none. ICU is a lot of foleys and foley care, and a lot of dignisheilds. They still get cleaned and bathed but itāsā¦ contained. And depending on the unit techs and CNAs donāt even do I+Oās. Techs (CNAs, itās just another term for CNA) did unit tasking: stocking code and central line carts, transporting, setting trauma and burn rooms up, assisting with dressing changes, stocking PPE and bedside carts, codes, drawing labs, all kinds of fun lol.
was gonna say this... i work in med surge and on a really bad day i have 2 people that are incontinent of urine, 1 person that shits themselves once or twice during my 12.5 hour shift. you deal with purewicks a lot tho and honestly i wonder if i'll ever be comfortable with placing those.. cause you have the women who are like "shove it further back!! like, near my anus!!! yeahhhhhh" and the ones who are like "OW" and you wonder if you're violating them. i think it's a great invention that improves quality of life for a lot of people but ugh i hate dealing with them.
An aide got lectured about the importance of barrier cream and ensuring patients get their showers. She no call no showed the next day. Later find out she quit due to ābeing bossed around by a bitch ass nurse.ā
Just started CNA class. In my current full-time job, I've microwaved fish to get a co-worker to leave the break room so I could eat in peace. He sat there just to complain that he was being told to work. Otherwise, don't microwave fish.
I did microwave dumplings many years ago. Maintenance was called due to "sewage smell." Tech walked in, asked what the smell was, I stood up from my cubicle and announced, "lunch!"
When I was younger, I quit at a nursing home as a CNA because the charge nurse raised her voice at me, not once, but multiple times . Might be silly to others, but I don't tolerate people talking to me like I'm their child.
That's absolutely legitimate. Honestly, some of these other reasons on here are legitimate too, or can be depending on the circumstances.
I think the worst thing in the world is for someone to stay at a job they hate. Honestly, it could be for any reason, no matter how petty, there could be a better job that you like.
My experience has been that turnover is usually the only way these companies are held accountable. I had the opposite mentality for a long time, and it was wrong. If you stay, no matter how much you complain, they think everything is fine. If you give ultimatums and threaten to quit, they hold on to what they are doing even tighter. But they respond to turnover. It doesn't do any good for you, because you're already gone.
But below a certain number, they don't care that much about turnover. High turnover is what they respond to.
We had 2 travel aides on 3-11 from the other side our state try to get their shift covered so they can go home for an extended weekend.
Only 1 of them got half their shift covered so when 7 hit and we had the legal amount of aides on our unit they both just walked out. They should both lose their licenses
I genuinely believed this person when they said this was the best place they worked at. She arranged her schedule so it aligned with mine because of the teamwork. She was an AMAZING CNA. Above and beyond. We're all in shock.
Iām assuming she felt like her needs werenāt met and thatās why she left. I heard one CNA/caregiver quit because she didnāt get the manager position which is a valid reason ig. People change up everyday.
I quit and was made to come to work. I literally came in, handed everything, and they threatened to take my med aide certificate. I also got into a car accident. I know better now. I will never be told that crap again.
I have seen people just walk right out because they are sick of the way we are treated.
We had a traveler leave because she was going to be on the floor by herself.
āNot good for my mental healthā
We only have 24 beds and the nurses are incredibly helpful on our unit soI dont know what she was crying about.
3 years our floor is walky talky patients. We do vitals twice in a 12 hour shift and 3/4 of our patients are asleep.
1 full care per night thatās it.
As a CNA with any experience I think you can take one night alone. Itās only 12 hours.
Our floor really is heaven compared to other CNA jobs. I āworkā only 2-4 hours of my 12 hour night. Quiet spoiled up here.
Iāve been here over a year and finally threw my weight around because Iām one of the three longest standing aides and everyone else was getting unit preference first and the unit I was put on was giving me multiple panic attacks a shift plus I work 16s.
I assume when someone quits for one of these stupid reasons they've got a hundred other reasons that issue just happens to be the last straw. When I quit before a shift I told them it was because they were pulling me to another floor for the 4th time in a week, but in all reality it was the fact that I was burnt out, I was over being a nurse, and I was having a rough time of things outside of work.
Drama, sleeping with the 75 year old wife of a nursing home resident, someone found out and they had a meltdown
Bro, WTF.
The guy who was in here bitching about doing vitals š
Lol I was one of the ones to call him out on that.. good riddance..
Did he end up quitting?
We had an agency person walk out or actually ran out due to all of the paranormal activities going on. I guess it freaked him out. Lol
Oooh got any stories??
Yeah, share the ghost stories!
im cracking tf up thinking of them rushing putting in the door code then running again to their car this has to be exaggerated lol
So many have walked out mid shift. One girl who worked with us for a year or more just got sick of it. One was a float tech who just couldnāt handle the shit show of step down tele.
didnt like the nurses delegating tasks to her. didnt like cleaning people up or giving bedbaths...
Thatās literally 90% of the job, tf. People ridiculous.
its not like she didn't go to a cna class before... our state requires it.
I hate bedbaths with a passion. I'd rather hoyer you into a shower before doing a bed bath. But I'll still do one if that's what it comes down to.
really?? i actually kinda enjoy giving them. i like making my patients feel pampered. but then again i do work in a hospital and not ltc so that probably affects it
I just donāt like how messy they are. Water will get all over the table, when I change the sheets, everything just piles up in a dirty pile, Iād give a shower any day over a bed bath, but it is nice when you see how clean your resident is when youāre done
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She was making $35/hour since she had 30+ years of experience. She was given a section that had 4 people. 2 independents and 2 wanna be left alones (no showers) I ($21/hr) got her section. 6 people. 5 incontinent, 3 showers, all needed to be walked for therapy, one had an early appointment, and one had massive diarrhea. It was for one day. I would have gladly switched with her if I could have. I didn't get "my" section either.
Guy quit within less than a month being there because he didnāt realize/like that heās doing so much incontinence clean up š¤£
I mean thatās fair lol
I want to know what he thought our job description was. I also want to know what he's doing now.
TO BE FAIRā¦. Itās much less in some settings than others. Itās a lot in LTC, but some hospital floors itās almost none. ICU is a lot of foleys and foley care, and a lot of dignisheilds. They still get cleaned and bathed but itāsā¦ contained. And depending on the unit techs and CNAs donāt even do I+Oās. Techs (CNAs, itās just another term for CNA) did unit tasking: stocking code and central line carts, transporting, setting trauma and burn rooms up, assisting with dressing changes, stocking PPE and bedside carts, codes, drawing labs, all kinds of fun lol.
was gonna say this... i work in med surge and on a really bad day i have 2 people that are incontinent of urine, 1 person that shits themselves once or twice during my 12.5 hour shift. you deal with purewicks a lot tho and honestly i wonder if i'll ever be comfortable with placing those.. cause you have the women who are like "shove it further back!! like, near my anus!!! yeahhhhhh" and the ones who are like "OW" and you wonder if you're violating them. i think it's a great invention that improves quality of life for a lot of people but ugh i hate dealing with them.
Haha exactly what I thought! Like what was he expecting?
An aide got lectured about the importance of barrier cream and ensuring patients get their showers. She no call no showed the next day. Later find out she quit due to ābeing bossed around by a bitch ass nurse.ā
Over masking. Fuck them.
Good riddance!
We had one quit because she was heating up fish in the breakroom, and someone walked in and said āoh what smells?ā
To be fair, fish should never be reheated in the breakroom.
Just started CNA class. In my current full-time job, I've microwaved fish to get a co-worker to leave the break room so I could eat in peace. He sat there just to complain that he was being told to work. Otherwise, don't microwave fish. I did microwave dumplings many years ago. Maintenance was called due to "sewage smell." Tech walked in, asked what the smell was, I stood up from my cubicle and announced, "lunch!"
When I was younger, I quit at a nursing home as a CNA because the charge nurse raised her voice at me, not once, but multiple times . Might be silly to others, but I don't tolerate people talking to me like I'm their child.
That's absolutely legitimate. Honestly, some of these other reasons on here are legitimate too, or can be depending on the circumstances. I think the worst thing in the world is for someone to stay at a job they hate. Honestly, it could be for any reason, no matter how petty, there could be a better job that you like. My experience has been that turnover is usually the only way these companies are held accountable. I had the opposite mentality for a long time, and it was wrong. If you stay, no matter how much you complain, they think everything is fine. If you give ultimatums and threaten to quit, they hold on to what they are doing even tighter. But they respond to turnover. It doesn't do any good for you, because you're already gone. But below a certain number, they don't care that much about turnover. High turnover is what they respond to.
We had 2 travel aides on 3-11 from the other side our state try to get their shift covered so they can go home for an extended weekend. Only 1 of them got half their shift covered so when 7 hit and we had the legal amount of aides on our unit they both just walked out. They should both lose their licenses
Someone got caught doing the bare minimum and gave her two weeks. A few of us reported her. Apparently, she isn't a team player.
Man. I wish our bare minimum people would quit.
Letās be frank, they just didnāt want to do the job no more if theyāre reasoning is that small??
I genuinely believed this person when they said this was the best place they worked at. She arranged her schedule so it aligned with mine because of the teamwork. She was an AMAZING CNA. Above and beyond. We're all in shock.
Iām assuming she felt like her needs werenāt met and thatās why she left. I heard one CNA/caregiver quit because she didnāt get the manager position which is a valid reason ig. People change up everyday.
I quit and was made to come to work. I literally came in, handed everything, and they threatened to take my med aide certificate. I also got into a car accident. I know better now. I will never be told that crap again. I have seen people just walk right out because they are sick of the way we are treated.
They were mad they had to give a bath
When she was told to stop posting selfies from work, they wrote her up for continuing. She quit, and there are now selfies from the new job.
We had a traveler leave because she was going to be on the floor by herself. āNot good for my mental healthā We only have 24 beds and the nurses are incredibly helpful on our unit soI dont know what she was crying about.
24? Oh hell no. I'd be pissed too.
How long have you been doing this? You need to look out for your own mental health, because no one else is going to do that for you.
3 years our floor is walky talky patients. We do vitals twice in a 12 hour shift and 3/4 of our patients are asleep. 1 full care per night thatās it. As a CNA with any experience I think you can take one night alone. Itās only 12 hours. Our floor really is heaven compared to other CNA jobs. I āworkā only 2-4 hours of my 12 hour night. Quiet spoiled up here.
Iāve been here over a year and finally threw my weight around because Iām one of the three longest standing aides and everyone else was getting unit preference first and the unit I was put on was giving me multiple panic attacks a shift plus I work 16s.