I'm working at a nursing home as a nursing assistant until I get accepted into nursing school, but I just wrote out my 2-week notice to quit because it's the shittiest job ever. It's always understaffed, often 3 NAs and 1 nurse taking care of 60 totally dependent patients. Management actually encourages drama, and accuses you of being lazy if you actually do your job right b/c they want you to look quick, never mind the fact that you're not wiping down their BM-caked bottoms and letting them get bedsores. The other NAs are often hired out of desperation and I wouldn't trust some of them to take care of my dog. Oh yeah, I was making $6.90 an hour for this. The facility claims to be a charity and a blessing to the elderly, but all nursing homes are nothing but businesses that take advantage of people who are too senile to complain that they're left in their feces for 8 hours at a time. To top it off, state is being called in b/c a patient was strangled in his bedrails when he tried to crawl out of bed and wasn't discovered for hours. I love helping people, and I love the patients, but the work environment is grueling, impossible, and hellish. I can't take it, and I'm not going along with the management's orders to pretend like we're always fully staffed and capable. I'd rather shoot my parents than put them in a nursing home. When I'm a nurse, I'll at least I'll be able to choose fields.
That said, I'm going to apply to Hooters. I refuse to strip in Houston due to licensing. Any advice? If I don't get a job there, I'll try waitressing in general because it's actually less stressful and can pay better than what I'm currently doing. Yeah, you have to put up with rude people, but I've had dirty old men grabbing my tits and getting away with it by playing senile, I've had bratty princess patients who screamed at me and reported me because they wanted more ice cream never mind the fact that their roommates were drowning in their own mucus, I've been beaten up by Alzheimer's patients, I've had families scream at me because they wanted me to put their already skinny mothers on crash diets, and to top it off, I once had a senile old man who gets into his diapers every day, plays with it and even eats it, and threw it in my face and mouth once. In waitressing or retail, at least I won't be responsible for 20 people's lives in impossible conditions.



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