It's a short article but one of the most useful, down to earth, ones I've found. The search is still on, so who knows what might pop up.
This one recommends taking 'mental health days' when you need them, vacations, cutting down your hours if you can afford to do that, switching shifts if you're bored with the routine of your current one ... changing to a different job if you really can't take it any more ...
And I kind of have to laugh a little at the 'bored with the routine' bit. It's not exactly a problem for our particular 'teams'. We don't have any given shift teams and never know to which unit, hall, or co-workers we will be working with from one shift to the next. There's just no consistency. At all.
On with the search ...
Here's another one, same source, which is one with articles written by CNAs for CNAs - people we might actually be willing to listen to because they might actually know what we need to hear. This one has a piece I found pretty interesting on Focus Groups and Team Building.
Give it a gander and see what you think. Much of this is perfectly viable and would probably be valuable if given an actual chance to succeed.
And that's about enough of this for tonight. It's past my bedtime, I'm in the middle of a four-day stretch (which I don't expect anyone who's never been a CNA to understand as : what the heck, only four days in a row and you call it a 'stretch'? : is a perfectly understandable reaction IF you've never done the job), it's been a difficult week in more ways than one, and this woman is heading for some hopefully healing sleep!
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