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Any CNA's (additional)     • Rance       Posted Mar 10, 2007
2:24 PM        One more major point about hospital (I cut off
previous answer). A very large area of complaints by CNA's (on
this forum) are with the nurses. In the hospital, you worked a
large portion of every day one-on-one with the nurses, unlike
LTC. I have been a 'cheerleader' for the nurses as opposed to
continual complainer. But, nurses at my place 'only' had 4-5
patients a shift --- not 20 to 30. Nursing, and therefore, nurse
assisting, is totally different in a hospital. Nurses work one-
on-one with patients, as CNA's do. No, not all --- some bad
nurses, some unhelpful nurses, some cranky ones, etc. But nurses
were more 'peers' in the hospital. In LTC, there always seemed
to be an adversarial relationship if there was any
'relationship' at all. I could go an entire shift only seeing a
nurse once. On a hospital shift