Job: Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) (United States)

I feel that certified nursing assistants should get paid at least $12.00 an hour for the simple fact that we work the hardest and are exposed to all of the diseases that the patients have, yeah

I understand nurses pass medicine but we have to help them when patients are out of hand. We have reposition them every 2 hours give all patients bed baths and dress them if they are on the get up list etc.

Our jobs as a CNA are very important to the pateints/residents also to all nurses who appreciate us. I have many certificates through out my life and I am only 28. You would think I would have gone further. My plans for the future, RN. I am stuck working at the lowest paying hospital in this area, literly speaking, I have many years experience and get paid less than $9 an hour CRAZY. That is life! No one to blame but your self. There are schools out there and anyone can do it. I have 6 kids and a loving husband we support each other. Our goal to finish school with in the next 5 years, so we don't feel like a nobody in life when really we are the most important person in nursing. GOOD LUCK to all.

My advice would be to NOT settle for the first wage offered you. EVERY employer I've had for the last 3 years has offered me the lowest wage possible. I actually worked for minimum wage for 3 months (as a CNA) until I found a better job. Most recently I was offered 60 cents more than minimum wage. After 3 years experience that's a real kick in the gut. This is hard work. I am done settling for the first wage offered me. I WILL not remain a CNA because unless I work for a hospital, I can't seem to find a living-wage position. I'm going to change professions but while here I will NOT settle for minimum wage!

No I dont believe that I am being paid fairly because I have been a CNA for 7 years and doing this work for about 9 years. I think I should be paid at least 10.50+ .50 for every year that I have been a CNA.

honestly the pay for what i do and have to put up with doesnt seem fair,were always short handed ,theres always extra for us to do ,stressful situtions

i feel i am being pushed around in my worke place ihave 4 years experince;only make seven dollars seventy three cents /hr while i train new cna's who were hired in starting pay nine seventy five hr. plus, i have being doing four person's job while nurses are sitting playing solitaire on computers and reading love romance books while telling me to check patient's iv pump's. i am tired of being forced to do nurses jobs while they are getting payed big bucks. we are suppose to be a team. fifteen times waking up patient in middle of night to find nothing is wrong with monitors while the nurses are sitting at the desks laughing at me talking about the money they are going to spend.braging about every thing they have. they make me feel like i'm there for them to be there slave. i think the work load should be equal and aids that work as hard as i do derseve better respect.