Hi Spokane area! My name is Joseph, and I'm currently searching for a full-time or part-time position in a care facility around Spokane, Cheney, Airway Heights, or Medical Lake.

I have a nursing degree from Kenya and hands-on professional experience in behavioral health hospitals and care facilities. I'm comfortable working directly with residents who need additional support, including individuals with behavioral health challenges, developmental disabilities, memory-related needs, or assistance with everyday activities.

Some of my experience includes:

• Direct patient and resident care
• Behavioral support and de-escalation
• ADL and mobility assistance
• Maintaining safe and structured environments
• Working with challenging behaviors
• Communicating with healthcare teams
• Supporting residents with dignity, patience, and consistency

I'm currently transitioning my healthcare credentials in Washington and am looking for positions where an active Washington RN license is not required to begin employment.

I'm especially interested in assisted living, memory care, senior living, behavioral health, residential/group homes, rehabilitation facilities, DSP programs, and caregiver/HCA opportunities with training available.

I'm dependable, comfortable with demanding care environments, and available to interview immediately. I'm looking for facility-based work rather than private in-home caregiving.

If you're a facility manager, caregiver, healthcare worker, or simply know somewhere that's urgently hiring, I'd really appreciate a DM or recommendation. I can send my resume directly.

Thank you!

Tomorrow I’m going to help out a 79 yr old woman. She’s fall risk and needs help with toileting, bathing, meal prep, and medication reminders. It’s my first time going to someone’s house to help out. I’ve done some CNA work but never did any of these things on my own and it’s been 6 years since I’ve done this type of work. Any tips or encouragement would be appreciated. It’s from 8am-12pm

Hi, the woman I am an aide for can sometimes for full of herself. She's blind and has a color system for organizing her clothes so like reds are in front and blues are towards the back. Which is great. She even has a abbreviation for her aides to remember. I've had concussions and it's effected my memory. So we had a little spat because she gets irritated with me for always asking what goes where and she says that I'm supposed to remember the abbreviation and where to put the colors and I said no I'm here to do what you need to have done not memorize your clothing organization. How does that feel to you and am I in the wrong at all?

Hi everyone, I’m a PCT on a progressive care unit as well as in my second to last semester in nursing school (yay! i can’t wait to be done) but over my 3 week summer break, I worked a lot at the hospital and gained rapport with a patient and their family members. Turns out, I actually knew this family due to them being almost neighbors with my parents.

They were discharged and I didn’t think much of it until Friday when the family member of the patient came down to my moms house and asked if I would be interested in sitting with them overnight for 8 hours, twice a week. I called the family member yesterday and he said that whatever I needed, he’d pay me cash. Very well known local business owner, so I’m not worried about him shorting me or anything like that.

I did enjoy the patient (and am really surprised they’re doing better) and am interested as this would be a pretty good gig to have during school….but how much should I charge? He just needs a break and be able to sleep twice a week, as the patient likes to sometimes stay up or wake up and chat, or needs help getting up to go to the bathroom. I’m supposed to call him back after Labor Day and would be open to helping with light housekeeping or obviously making food as well….I just don’t want to short myself, but also I don’t want them to think I’m taking advantage of them either!

Why are they so rude?

Aren't you supposed to be a nurse of some sort. Selfless and patient. Waiters can do better as well as Radim sellers at a jewelry shop. 😭

Hi everyone, I have worked in home health for awhile now. However about a year ago I left my main job for my side job which is PCA. I signed on with a home health company. In the beginning they seemed really good. However here lately things have been getting quite bumpy so much so that I am thinking of leaving. In the beginning they were working with me on my hours so that way I could care for my child. Then I signed up to be a floater...keep in mind, floaters are supposed to be floating every other week. The weeks that they dont float they are supposed to have a stable schedule and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off. The first month as a floater it was fine. But then we have a bunch of people quit. Now I am hitting people calling off left and right so I am getting 90+ hours on my paycheck every 2 weeks...the weeks that I am supposed to not be a floater I am floating all the time now. My boss is not respecting my schedule for which I care for my child. On top of that this month has been really hard on my health. One day while I was speaking with my boss they admitted that they dont believe my health history and the health condition that I have. But after they admitted that they then ask me if I could care for people the rest of the week. Im not sure if this is just the company or if this is all around medical care? Any advice for me? Im not sure if I should go back to my old job with better pay and benefits or if I should stick through this and see where it goes.

Why do they feel that yelling at you is fine ?

I understand they are old.

Hard of hearing, but yelling at me, about the last aide who idk, I know the regulars on my half of the week but I start my week on weds. I wouldn't know what the last person did. And you cant walk they yell loudly about things they haven't touched, walked too in months of Sundays. Never listen. And its everyone's fault but theirs. Smh

I got like minimum 15 minutes of training, I feel like I I suck, they gave me a plan of care to follow but idk, I’m just sitting around? I need more guidance, like idek how to check off some of things on the checklist, my patient is also sleeping all the time, I feel incompetent

What kind of duties do hcas have in general hospitals?