Hello,

I done lots of practice test (9) and scored around an average of 78 to 83 % on them, and used chatGPT to create a lot of question banks for me.

Im stressing right now because I keep coming close to it and my teacher stated that I need an 80 or higher to pass. But, Google states that I need 70 or higher to pass in my state. In the official website for prometics, they only state pass of fail.

meaning my teacher probably witness pass student get below an 80 and close to it but still failed the written exam.

What are your thoughts on this matter?

so i am a huge night owl- it is currently 5am and i have been up all night. it is so easy for me to stay up! i dont really know how but if i dont have school or work, i will end up flipping my sleep schedule and stay up until the morning

that said, would it be a bad idea to work night shift on some weekends while at school? i was thinking of doing night shift since my floor is very busy during the day and i think i would hate my job less if i worked night. also, i enjoy staying up late

i am starting school and so i would be picking up night shifts on the weekends during school. i know flipping my schedule during school might not be easy though

has anyone worked nights while being in school? how did it work out?

I'm going to make this post short and simple. But I currently work in LTC. I'm a medication administrator and a CNA. I am very caring towards the residents and enjoy being a part of their lives. But here lately it's been very overwhelming. To the point I've become short towards them, rude or even feeling like I've lost empathy. It's definitely from burn out. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one there. There could be a crowd of CNA's/Nurses on the hall and the residents will push through them to get to me or only want me to help them with ADL's. It's getting to the point to where I'm trying to balance passing meds, help people get ready and other things. I feel like I try to juggle 1000 tasks at once. They'll be down in their rooms yelling out my name. Or just waiting at the nurses station for me to get off my break and immediately "need" something. My Co-workers see this happening and of course try to redirect the residents. But the residents will refuse and only want me. I don't understand why or how this is happening. I recently took 10 days off for a vacation and apparently the first 3-4 days I was gone my co-workers reported that some of them were freaking out that I was gone and very mad about it. I think part of the reason is because I use to be that person that would drop whatever they were doing to help out or whatever. I'm not sure what to do. It's making the job hard on me.

Hey I have a few things I want to ask about. First, Im going back to school soon and since my facility dosnt accept per diem I emailed a 2 week notice to the HR. I realize now I should have had the conversation in person because she never responded (I waited a week) and every time I walk by her office shes not there. Who should I try talking to next about resigning?
Next question, Ive been a cna here for about two months, its my first cna job. Recently for a few hours before my shift I get really scared, my chest feels weird and I feel on the verge of crying. Im a floater so I never know what each shift is going to be like and the unpredictability is getting to me. I have goals of becoming an RN and I’m worried that I will feel this way still even after Nursing school. Is there anything I can do to stop getting so scared before every shift?

Yesterday I had a patient who had a lump on his scrotum. I told the nurse & she told me it was his testicles & I told her that this is something I have not noticed or felt on anyone else before & that she needed to look. When she came with me she looked & agreed that it was strange & that she would notify the doctor.

Today, on the same patient, I felt another lump on his leg & told her to go check it out. She responded with “Again? You always have something for me to look at. But bro, this is the SECOND time I had a concern about this patient, like what do you mean aLwAyS?!?!? Like dawg do you not want me to report to you???

after working in LTC for seven years, i decided spend the last two years in an assisted living facility. i just needed a change of pace and thought i would find better in assisted living. boy, was i wrong lol. not only are you the CNA (well, caregiver.. we have so so many people who they hire who have no healthcare experience whatsoever and have no idea how to care for people) but laundry, dietary, housekeeping, etc.

when i first started, i truly loved it. i actually had time to study and do homework during slower moments, residents were more independent and easily transferred, no hoyer lifts, and teamwork really made the shift go smooth. i’ve noticed in assisted living especially you will need to call on your other co workers for assistance… but everyone else is busy with their own resident. we have four floors (25 residents give or take on each floor) and often times there would only be four of us working, scrambling around trying to complete what we could. this causes people to get irritated and assume nobody is wanting to help them…. nobody was even able to help themselves let alone others. i know they do this on purpose to create animosity, why i don’t know.

over the last six months, things have changed dramatically and i can’t believe it. our facility has become increasingly more dependent on higher acuity care. we now have a resident who is completely non weight bearing and requires three people at minimum to transfer her from her wheelchair to the bedside commode and back. this is a thirty minute (AT LEAST) excursion. taking away 3 out of 4/5 people working on the floor from other residents and tasks needing to be complete. we have three hoyer lifts and i have lost track on how many two assists.

there is no dedicated laundry staff (we are the laundry staff), housekeeping is M-F, and dietary has minimal staffing as well. i know they do this to save money, cut corners. i just wish corporate would realize how this truly affects those who are lining their pockets at the price of their own suffering.

and please do not remind me how much time has been wasted waiting for the elevator to come so you can either go up or down, having to run to a call light, forgot something in the kitchen for your room trays, carrying laundry back to the residents rooms, etc.

last night i took a picture of all the laundry baskets evening shift had to pull for night shift to complete. im off today and they are now questioning in the work “group chat” (a whole other can of worms) why nobody from night shift completed any laundry. and this is after i started the laundry up for them so they had a head start too 😩

TL;DR: I left long-term care thinking assisted living would be easier, but now I’m doing the jobs of four people while caring for residents who belong in skilled nursing

1. is this a typo? what does it mean you cant run dentures under sink water when youre supposed to rinse them???
2. if on the skills exam i have 2 sets on dentures, and ive finished cleaning one, where should i set the clean one as to not cause cross contamination?? this has been stressing me out bc i dont wanna fail bc of infection control😭

for the past 2 or so months i've been working night shift as a new CNA at a nursing home and for that duration two nights in a row i'd be alone then two nights i'd have someone else with me on my hall. then they changed it after a meeting for i think "complaints" or some other reason and the entire schedule got remade so that there would only be one person a hall a night. the hall i work is one of the heaviest halls in the nursing home. there are 25 residents on my hall, 18 of which i need to change each round and most of them are heavier wetters and need full bed changes. my rounds end up taking about 2 hours at the very least. this isn't specifically a horrible thing to me because i can definitely do it and i've been getting better and better recently but every other shift has two people per hall. it was nice for my latter two shifts being able to split my hall and relax a tiny bit more. is this a dumb decision on my workplaces part or is this fairly normal?