3. “I would say the most frustrating part of my job is seeing extremely sick patients, totally paralyzed and living on ventilators, with no family ever around and being a full code. So unfair for those poor people.”
—Cassie Hagglund
4. “The most frustrating thing about being a CNA is working with other CNAs who are merely there for a paycheck…they show it by how they treat even the sweetest person. I understand and know some residents are tough, but some don’t understand what’s going on and some just can’t do a lot about the problem!”
—Melissa Beeman
I also get frustrated with the state telling nursing homes how to staff, it is a lot of work, and the residents get frustrated when they have to wait until you can get to them, while you are with another resident. More CNA’s better care.
I’ve worked all shifts and currently on night shift so some frustrating things that I dealt with in 17 yrs of being a cna: that one cna that gets the patient all wild up and then you’re left to deal with the behaviors of the patient, having group sheets that aren’t updated & finding out that person went from being a hoyer to a sit to stand lift or that they went from a thickened liquid to thin liquids, but I think the most frustrating thing I have dealt with is that the 2nd shift nurse will wait until 9:45p to give a suppository to that one patient and you know it will be minutes after coming on that the patient will have a major blow out… and there is no linens in their room. And the other 8 things listed before mine, I will also agree with.
What makes it all worth wild is to get that one person who says Thank you for all you do, the smiles on that persons face, the families that think high of you.
But for me, I had once had 2 different jobs at the same time (one in home health and the other in a nursing home) and after this one client went to the hospice home, I would continue to visit this client. Anyways, it was right before Thanksgiving and I got stopped in the hall at the nursing home job by one of the family members (of the client that went to the hospice home)… found out that, that the guy wanted to see me. I went and talked to him & out of all of his caregivers, I was the one he wanted to ask me to be his New Years Eve date/caregiver to his grand daughters wedding. That was the best New Years that I had ever had.