Tonight was difficult.
I do not find situations with the residents extremely stressful, it's other things.
Before we got to clinicals we were told to jump in and there wouldn't be a lot of hand holding. No problem.
Tonight everyone was reprimanded because we were not able to be found for a few minutes. We were all helping with residents. When we help with residents we provide privacy by closing the door. I understand that the instructor needs to generally know where we are, but the insinuation that some people were goofing off was just not right.
No one, and I mean NO ONE, has time to goof off. We run around like chickens with our heads cut off from the time we step in the place, until the time we leave. Personally, I was looking for the instructor and the instructor was in a room for a while with a resident. I walked down one hall and there were quite a few lights on. The one CNA there asked if I would help her quickly get someone to the toilet. I said, "yes". Was I supposed to say, "no"?
Then 15 minutes before we were due to go home a student needed help with a woman who had to use the bathroom. I got pulled from the room I was in. Everyone else (who lives no more than 20 minutes from the place) was on their way out the door, we were just getting started. I live 1 hour and 15 minutes away. Okay, so I went and got our supplies because she needed a few things done. We finished 40 minutes later. Okay, I can swallow that one. :smackingf
Here is what I cannot deal with....
Don't and I mean DO NOT even think for one minute that it's okay to insinuate that we are not working. I get home every night after 10pm (tonight 11pm). Back aching, feet aching, and everything else aching. While I'm there I am constantly working with residents and staff. If I'm not helping them I'm restocking supplies in rooms. If it's slow we have even been instructed to wipe down handrails and clean portable toilets. I have never performed housekeeping duties in my life, outside of taking care of my own home. So, there is no way, that the idea of "goofing off" should even come to mind!
Second, if we are sent to take care of one thing and you tell us in the midst of doing it...to do something else, don't chastise us because we don't have enough/or appropriate supplies and have to go get more. If we would have known you wanted us to do something else we would have prepared for it.
I can take a lot of things, but those are not included:down:.
Don't know if I will last another 2 weeks.