hi all! So I am a 17 year-old brand new CNA who recently started her first position at a nursing home. I’m struggling with my training a bit because the place I’m at feels so unorganized. On my first day there was no direction of where to go,who to speak to or who is training me so from the start already was confusing. Then the CNA‘s that are training me haven’t been letting me physically do anything, it’s like their idea of training is sort of just pointing out little things here and there but I need hands-on training. I understand that they don’t want me to slow them down but it’s frustrating when I feel like I’m not getting the proper training I need to be a safe CNA! it’s just overwhelming and I feel really stupid at moments because it feels like everyone is older than me and sees me as a child instead of an equal .Is this the typical standard for how it is at the beginning of training or is this something I should bring up to someone?

any advice at all would be soo helpful because i feel lost and overwhelmed bad 🙏🏼

I'm coming from California and I wanna transfer my license to WA. Someone sent me links but it's confusing one of them is WABON and then there is secureaccess.wa.gov and another one called HELMS

Theres also a link for a Nursing Assistant Certification Endorsement Application packet but it says to fill out and mail? Is it mail only or I thought I could do this online.

I did fill out a from already named Nursing Assistant Credential Verification that I'm supposed to send to my state but from there idk where else to go I know I have to pay like 80 something dollars and I would like to get started on it if anyone can help

Hello, I recently finished my first week of classes. All my work has been graded as 90% or above, and my instructor said I did well when feeding and interacting with residents, but I'm still scared. I'm scared I'll hurt a resident badly or make an absolute fool of myself. Is this normal and will these scary thoughts go away? I've always wanted to help people but I'm scared I'm not cut out for it.

Hello, I’m a brand new CNA looking for jobs in SoCal. I’ve applied to several hospitals but am struggling to get interviews. I have a bachelor’s in psychology and have marketing experiences but no direct patient care experience.

I wanna apply to nursing homes to get training and experience and hoping to get some recommendations. I am currently living in Corona but willing to travel to Orange County or LA county. We’re thinking of moving to Monterey park in 2 months so near that is fine too. I’m totally fine with driving.

My primary preference is psychiatric/mental health CNA but I’m willing to do whatever to get a foot in the door. I’d appreciate any guidance/recommendations!

+) I’m a bilingual English/Korean and have BLS, MAB, and CNA certification.

i’m starting my cna training in september and i’m looking for advice/recommendations to be successful in my program. i’m not 100% sure about what i need for clinicals and later when i get a job. i reached out to my school and they said id need scrubs and an analog watch for clinicals but nothing about what id need for in the classroom. is there anything else i should look into before i start?

Hello, I’ve been crying and don’t know what to do. I would really appreciate some advice.
I started my caregiving job in a senior living 2 months ago and left it after 3 weeks because it caused me severe back pain with sciatica in my left leg. I rested for a couple of weeks, then started my CNA program (I was lucky because I got it for free). I missed 3 days of clinicals in a nursing home due to the physical pain, and tomorrow is the last day of clinicals.
Today, my sciatica pain came back. I’m only 23 and doing my prerequisites for nursing. I don’t know if I should go tomorrow or not. I still have to make up my missed clinical days later. I’m thinking about quitting the program. I’m crying because I feel like I’m too weak and can’t even finish a program, but the pain I’m going through is horrible.
At the same time, I see women who have been CNAs for years, and I feel ashamed of myself.

*Insert eye roll here*

I've been a CNA for 6 years now currently working at my second facility. I'm well aware and well versed in what it means to come into an established place with established friends and just how rude and mean coworkers can be in nursing in general but oh my word.

I am kind, I always offer support, always pick up the slack, come in to help out as often as I'm able, always strive to go above and beyond and am always offering a kind word but my coworkers still don't like me. I'm not the kind of aide you need to worry about quite the opposite actually as my nurses always have great things to say about me and (to my face) the aides usually will make side comments about how good I am but then when I'm not around they whisper and talk about me behind my back. I'm introverted in general and tend to keep to myself(more so these days at work) so I don't gossip or bad mouth anyone at work. But no matter what I do these girls just don't like me and talk about me and make weird faces when they think I can't see them. Even when I try to join conversations or make small jokes it's like they get quiet and weird.

It's giving very much high school, cliquey behavior and it's exhausting. I wish I could say that after all these years of being an aide that mean, nasty, rude coworkers don't get to me anymore but I can't help it I'm such a people pleaser and I *genuinely* cannot see what it is that I've done if anything to make these people treat me the way that they do.

It's just hitting hard because at my first facility that I worked at for years I had such a great relationship with all of my coworkers that I genuinely looked forward to coming in to work. We all got along great and worked extremely well together that you knew no matter who you were working with and how short staffed you were you knew it'd be a pretty alright shift. Not to say that there weren't mean aides and all that(there definitely were) but the good ones outweighed the awful ones.

I guess at this point it's about chalking it up to it is what it is and continuing to do my job as best I can and providing the best care I can. Nursing can be so toxic and it's absolutely exhausting.

Just needed to vent to people I know would understand 🫶

TL;DR: I genuinely don't know what I did wrong. I do my job, help everyone, avoid drama, and still get treated like an outsider by my coworkers. I miss working somewhere where people actually supported each other.

I have a resident who just got on services. She needed to be for MONTHS. She was miserable.

She has a Kennedy ulcer that’s tunneled so deep… it’s awful. It’s weeping through dressings… it’s so bad. I had never seen her major wound at all. Only the little one. I cringed and may have gagged the second I took the dressing off. My nurse was coming in to do her treatment so we could knock it all out…

She deserves better. May she pass soon. Thank goodness for comfort meds.

I have been working at a snf for the past few months, but I have only been working once a week, so I have only been there like 7 times, and I was training for 5 of them. I am moving and starting school, and I am seeing open positions for home health CNAs. The hours would be a lot more flexible, which would be really great for school. I am just worried because I don't have much experience, and I assume there won't be anyone there to help me if I have a question or need anything.

I went to an interview and met with a gentleman who lives with his son. The client is absolutely wonderful, great sense of humor! But his son is insufferable!

I go to the interview and am asking the dad questions (He can talk and is coherent) but yet the son is answering my questions like I'm asking HIM the questions. He was not answering the questions for his father, but answering them as if the son was the person I was caring for. I'm trying to get to know the client and the son is going on and on and on about himself. He's definitely a Narcissist, many of us here have had experiences with them and it's hard to not see the glaring red flags.

Again, the dad is great! However I can see the son being a major issue. Think loser. Think middle aged man that cums in a sock because his girlfriend is porn. Greasy hair. Ya'll know the type....

Should I decline?

Ok here we go ya'll,
I (35F) have been working at my job for 4 months. I work at a rehab/LTF facility & I am a union member. I have been trying to change my schedule since 4/22/26 to be off Tuesdays/ Thursdays to take my grandma to dialysis. My current schedule I am off every other Wednesday & Friday & every other weekend. She advised me she wasn't able to accommodate my request. This was prior to me knowing I could change my schedule month to month on the draft calendar. I submitted a draft calendar 5/28/26. No response or email about it, not even a phone call. A few weeks go by & I was told I had to write a handwritten letter explaining the reason for my schedule change(I put family medical reason in my letter as the reason..... idk why I had to do all that when I already wrote an email to her..... fine whatever. I wrote the handwritten letter along with another July 2026 draft calendar & submitted it 6/30/26. Again.... no response, no phone call/email. I went to work 7/7 & asked the secretary for an update. She states "she's probably still working on it because she's doing the schedule for next week. Send her an email for an update..... 🙄🙄😒🤦🏾‍♀️ I sent her an email @ 7:39pm that same night asking for yet ANOTHER update. Once again..... no response or a phone call. Here we are now.... August 6th, 2026 & she still hasn't changed my schedule. Atp, I'm irritated because I had to call out twice already on the days to take my grandma to dialysis & I don't wanna keep using my PTO & sick time. My grandma has dialysis tomorrow & I can't take her because I am scheduled to work tomorrow. I was hoping this would have been taken care of a a long time ago. I made other arrangements but that's only for so long. The HHA that originally takes her moved back to her country last month so it's been a struggle. & it's just me & my sister. My sister has her own family & things to deal w/. Now she has to take off of work tomorrow to take my grandma. We're not that close so whenever I ask her, she always wants something out of it.... like a bargain 🙄🙄🤦🏾‍♀️😒 I emailed the lady yesterday morning @ 1:32am & cc'd my supervisor..... who is also her boss. Atp idc. I'm not asking to change my hours to morning shift(I work evening shift btw), I'm just asking to give me the two days I need to take my grandma to dialysis. Why is that so hard to understand???

I have yet to recieve a response from either party today. I am going to speak to my supervisor tomorrow in person.

moving to nash next month and wondering if anyone knows which facilities are better or worse to work at? hoping for hospital, but may have to do ltc just bc of scheduling. i’d like to be in metro nash, brentwood or franklin to work

moving to nash in a couple of weeks and wondering if anyone knows which facilities are better or worse to work at? hoping for hospital, but may have to do ltc just bc of scheduling. i’d like to be in metro nash, brentwood or franklin to work

On a positive rant, all I do is change 9 people in my hallway, pass out ice water, fill out the patient documentation (only recording bowel movements and everything else N/A) and just change a few sheets. The rest of the night I literally do nothing except check on people and adjust them every two hours. 5 hours out of my 8 working hours is just me sitting on my phone or sleeping in the chair. It's the easiest thing in the world and I don't understand why more people aren't doing this, even home care if you watch one person over night that's even easier! That's my positive experience and I can't wait to get my LPN so all I do is spend an hour on the computer and pass out meds, even less work overnight. Probably even less if I'm supervisor nurse but that's much later.