Filled out universal job app. Called back in less than 24hrs. Interviewed less than 15min. given position on day shift. Company was really in need of experienced help that could start immediately. Was not asked many questions other than a brief overview of my work history. There were not many questions asked to me. Mainly why I was applying for the job, how many years experience I had. etc. Usually, after the employer finds out that I have over 17 years of experience in the field, and ten of those years I spent in mid level management, they are usually ready to hire me. I am not pounding my chest about this, it is just the way that it is. It is difficult to find a CNA that has lasted 17 years in the field; many of us have been burnt out long before and have went on to different job industries. To find a CNA that ha toughed it out for over 15 years is to find a rare an committed soul. Especially, in the fact that they have not moved up the career ladder yet, for whatever reason, and become a nurse, or other advanced degree. Then to find one that cared enough to get extra training to manage other CNA's in a group home for persons with mental retardation. Well, those are not jobs that people typically go into unless they really have a heart for working with people. It is not an easy thing to do, and it is physically and mentally taxing, then to add the managing other people element onto of it, and you are just asking for someone to need a doctors appointment for an anti-hypertensive medication. The interview process I went through at Meeker was short and to the point because they never spend much time interviewing CNA's. These low level health care workers just never typically stay around more than a month or so before moving on, or on the rare occasion that they do end up being worth their salt and staying on, then they figure they will put time into them then. The first 90 days for a CNA at any long term health care facility I have ever been employees at is a bit of a honey moon period. You don't really matter, and are not seen as part of the team until you have dedicated yourself to staying longer than that. Many do not! Most are there for a few weeks until the nurses find that they do not have their heart in it, and then the nurses ride them until they finally just quit in the middle of a shift. I cannot blame the nurses for this behavior, after all, it is the nurses professional license on the line if they are the charge nurse on that shift. They want to weed out the bad CNA's. Of course then if the nurses do find a CNA that cares and is worth their salt then they start throwing extra tasks and responsibilities at them, and the CNA eventually burns out from doing their job and part of the nurses as well. The nurse however, is so swamped because they are the only treatment/charge nurse on the floor for over 40 pts. It is an entire big mess of too many pt's not enough workers, and the upper management sitting in the offices saying they do not care as long as it all gets done and no incidents happen, no one goes to the hospital, and the state does not get called in on an abuse or neglect complaint!