Hello,
Well after three months of nearly killing myself and crying after work as a CNA in a low grade nursing home, the oppurtunity to pursue my dream job in EMS has finally come up. I will be taking a 9 week course to become an EMT-Basic and then work on an Ambulance after. I absolutely hated being a CNA and the whole nursing field period to be quite frank. My fisrt few nights as a CNA were beyond bad!!! I often work as the only CNA for about 13 residents by myself with no help, and you cant get no help, because when the other CNAs on the night shift are finished there rounds there watching TV and texting on there phones. I would often have to change 300 pound people by myself I would literally be sweating buckshots when i would finish. I am always behind on my work my shift is 10pm to 6am and i would always leave at around 6:45 cause I am always so behind. Not to mention we have an LPN who has been fired from every other facility in the area, who will literaly write people up for the smallest wrinkle in a drawsheet. Then I had to put lipstick and bras on women something I did not want to do, nor did I know how to do because I am a male. TO ME FROM MY EXPERIENCE working in a nursing home as a CNA is like working in an ER, you have to move with an ER pace to get your work done!! IM BEYOND FED UP WITH THAT JOB and CANT WAIT to quit in 2 weeks and begin career in EMS!! PLEASE TELL ME THAT being an EMT-Basic is not as stressfull and overwhleming physically day in and day out like THIS JOB!! Thanks!!
Well after three months of nearly killing myself and crying after work as a CNA in a low grade nursing home, the oppurtunity to pursue my dream job in EMS has finally come up. I will be taking a 9 week course to become an EMT-Basic and then work on an Ambulance after. I absolutely hated being a CNA and the whole nursing field period to be quite frank. My fisrt few nights as a CNA were beyond bad!!! I often work as the only CNA for about 13 residents by myself with no help, and you cant get no help, because when the other CNAs on the night shift are finished there rounds there watching TV and texting on there phones. I would often have to change 300 pound people by myself I would literally be sweating buckshots when i would finish. I am always behind on my work my shift is 10pm to 6am and i would always leave at around 6:45 cause I am always so behind. Not to mention we have an LPN who has been fired from every other facility in the area, who will literaly write people up for the smallest wrinkle in a drawsheet. Then I had to put lipstick and bras on women something I did not want to do, nor did I know how to do because I am a male. TO ME FROM MY EXPERIENCE working in a nursing home as a CNA is like working in an ER, you have to move with an ER pace to get your work done!! IM BEYOND FED UP WITH THAT JOB and CANT WAIT to quit in 2 weeks and begin career in EMS!! PLEASE TELL ME THAT being an EMT-Basic is not as stressfull and overwhleming physically day in and day out like THIS JOB!! Thanks!!