HELP

Now I am going insane and maybe it will be best for me to do. I've been working with the daycare center, summer program, ages 4 to 11. New kids coming in every day. I just don't know what I suppose to do. These kids are wild, uncooperative, out of control and today I got in trouble be cause I touched a child's arm to direct him to sit down and I was in trouble. You can't touch the children at all. Now what am I to do with the children who don't listen to me and out of control. I'm not saying I hit him or even touched him in anger, I just took his arm and showed him the table. ( oh, now I remember why I got out of childcare) If this was a rule at my other job, there would be people all over the floor. I have to hold their arm. I tried so hard to have a nice day today also. We made bracelets, we played all morning. Yesterday we made cookies and watched a movie. I just can't get these kids to work with me. And then I touched a child's arm and I am in trouble. I give up.

Do you have an opinion?

So here is the low down, the girl they hired over me at the daycare center, got fired today. And guess what? They asked me to fill in for the summer. I just don't get what I am doing wrong or right, how ever you look at it. Now the in home care I do wants me to work 3 12 hour shifts in a row, all week end. Now what seems better? Days, 8 hours, with 3&4 year old or the 3 nights with the elderly? I could do both I guess but 76 hour weeks are a bit much I think. When it rains it pours. Decisions on top of decisions. Give me a yell out if you have an opinion.

No good deed goes unpunished

Things they are a changeing. I put my two week notice at the daycare and they would not take it. They want me to stay on as a relief person, I guess I can do that, maybe. I don't want to leave the kids, really. We'll have to see how it goes. Now for the home health? They gave me a great schedule, two 12 hour nights with my little old lawyer and two 8 hour nights at a beautiful group home for the elderly. Well it worked for 2 nights at least. You see, one of the residences wasn't feeling to well, up going to the bathroom every hour. He turned shocky and I could not find any information about his meds. I called the one I was to call and got no information. I called my new team leader(woke her up because it was around 2 am) got no help, then I called the person in charge of the homes. Well I got to take my first blood pressure and vitals, I gave a breathing treatment, he seem a little better but still was complaining. He got up again and promptly fainting in the bathroom. Its a small bath and two people don't fit. I was standing behind him. I grabbed from behind to keep him from slamming his head on the bathroom sink. I maneuvered his head between the wall and the sink, put my knees be hind his to get them to bend and tried hard for him to hit his head, hard, on the floor. I made him as comfortable as I could and called for help again and I wasn't taking no for an answer. It took two of us and a hoyer lift to get him up and in his chair. There were no pillows to give him. No blankets and no instructions. I took vitals again and they were good. Listened to his yelling for the next two hours and took care of the other resident and noticed my back had a twinge. I was told to write it up. I just finished my shift and went home (25 miles away) to sleep. Long story short, I had to go in and fill out new forms and see a doctor I got my prescription for muscle relaxers and got called again to take a drug test. I didn't get home till 4pm and was removed from the group homes. Oh well.