Hi there, first year nursing student here. I earned my CNA license this summer and started working as a CNA in a nursing home a month ago. Everything started off at this new job very well, the company is good, the facility is brand new, and things were smooth. Recently, I made the change over to Morning shifts in order to work with my school schedule a little bit better. Around the time I made this change, I slowly started dreading my job. It’s gotten to the point where I’d get very depressed and I haven’t even shown up for duty my past two shifts. I’m not sure if I should continue as a CNA or if I should get a different job for the time while I obtain my BSN.

Because of this whole ordeal, this is making me question my passion for the Nursing field as a whole, since being a CNA is way simpler than being an RN and emphasizes the very basics of nursing morals, right? My patience can run very thin, I get annoyed by how picky the residents can be, I hate how my facility has a huge workload difference between day/evening shifts, and it doesn’t help that I’ve had two RNs and one LPN say some slick things to me that almost threw me over the edge.

At this point, I really don’t know whether I should even pursue a career in the Nursing field. As a kid, I used to enjoy the idea of caring for a patient towards better health, but I’ve realized how nasty humans can be and how much I can dislike the human race as a whole.