Watching Hawk Nurses,ugh!

Nursing Students CNA/MA

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Today was my 1st day on the floor alone without a preceptor on my new job. Well, I started out well being the 1st to do showers. I work on a 12hr shift. So every saturday showers are to be done. I have 10 patients a piece. And I have to give showers to 4 patients. Out of the 4 I have two patients who are on trachs/ pegs. So the nurses were watching me all day counting all my showers. I got 2 showers done. I only didnt give one shower to a patient because we had no stand up lift. And I didnt feel like a shower lift pad would support his weight. So two of the nurses went back and forward asking me why I didnt do the showers for 2 patients. I still had time to do another shower so I said Mr. Blah blah shower still can be done. I still have 5 more hours until its time to go home,:eek:. So I got the shower done and took the man off the trach's oxygen tubing. I told the nurse here he is going in the shower. I come back and she tells me that was fast. Are you sure you gave him a shower. Telling me I showered him too quick. She was such a hag about it. The other guy I was told he must get his shower the following day. My point is I was the only person going in and out the shower room. I only seen 1 other person give a shower to a patient. But I'm being the new guy I'm being watched. I just dont think its fair. When I'm the only one who gave showers and the only CNA who didnt double pamper my patients. Many of the CNA's on the floor put too pampers on the patients. So when they do they last rounds they dont have to turn the patient.:banghead: IT seems the nurses need to not watch me and watch the old CNA's thats been there for months. Why is it that the new person on the floor always gets hell? When the fact of the matter is they want to keep staff due to short saff? But then the wicked nurses are running they CNA's off. Also I asked one nurse to take the patient off the peg so I could take him to his shower. So she tells me to turn the pump off and unhook the peg.:no: This is her job not the CNA's. I hate these nurses! They require me to turn a peg pump off and unhook them, but they can't guide a hoyer lift or clean up a patient. Especially when I have never turned a peg pump off or unhooked a peg from a patient. I'm just happy I was able to be professional and leave my job knowning all my patients were taken good care off and dry. Especially to have all this done on my 1st day without a preceptor.:yeah:

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I think it is absolutely ridiculous that you are being expected to give 4 showers a day PLUS take care of 10 residents. Where I work we give 1 shower a day Mon-Fri...It's SO nice to work weekends (I work Wed-Sun)...However there is girl that is pregnant so she doesn't take a section...So on the days she's there (she's going on leave soon enough) I have to have 22 residents PLUS do 2 showers (she can't do showers either)...SO I went to the boss lady and told her it just was NOT possible!

Anyways can you maybe see about doing a shower a day or something rather than all 4 all at once.

Do the nurses have NOTHING better to do than harp on you?

OR is this a case of over-sensitivy? I had the same issue. I felt EVERYONE was picking on me. If a nurse looked at me wrong I'd cry. Eventually though I got a backbone and knew when to stand up for myself and when the nurse wasn't being mean, just concerned.

Have these nurses ever worked as aides? Because IMO nurses who worked as aides have a much better understanding of the CNAs job/work load. Nurses that haven't tend to think I should be some miracle worker and toiled 5 people at once, have everyone in bed by 630 (despite the fact that dinner doesn't get over at 7), plus take all the smokers out and back in whenever they want to!

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Well the issue is that I'm the only person who did 3 showers. All the other CNA's who weren't new had only did 1 shower and charted that they did four,lol. So seems that is going to have to be the case for me in time to come( charting showers when only doing bedbaths). Also, I'm not a over sensitive person I know when someone is being concern and just being a B&*$^. I say this because I'm the new person on the floor. And seems I'm the only person who is doing everything that is expected and more. Just everyone else know how to play their cards and not be honnest. As well, I know when the time will come to stand up for myself. Right now though I'm just feeling the air and the staff. So my main concern isnt to debate with people who are on a power kick but to make sure my residents are taken care of. And no I dont think the main stalker nurse has been a CNA before since she didnt even know how to use a hoyer lift. She told me out her own mouth when I wanted her to spot the lift I don't know how to use this.:confused: Also it is one nurse who is very nice to me and actually introduced herself to me. She also encouraged me when I was a little overwelmed. And when she came into the residents room she complimented my work and told me I did a very good job on the residents appearance.

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Unfortunately the CNA world is dog eat dog. As bad as this seems stick it out. IT sounds strange but understaffing is the best way to learn time management. Stay there until you get your skills down and can do assignments with your eyes closed.

Then thank them for the opportunity and go to a place that will appreciate you and not work you like a slave.

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Well the issue is that I'm the only person who did 3 showers. All the other CNA's who weren't new had only did 1 shower and charted that they did four,lol. So seems that is going to have to be the case for me in time to come( charting showers when only doing bedbaths). Also, I'm not a over sensitive person I know when someone is being concern and just being a B&*$^. I say this because I'm the new person on the floor. And seems I'm the only person who is doing everything that is expected and more. Just everyone else know how to play their cards and not be honnest. As well, I know when the time will come to stand up for myself. Right now though I'm just feeling the air and the staff. So my main concern isnt to debate with people who are on a power kick but to make sure my residents are taken care of. And no I dont think the main stalker nurse has been a CNA before since she didnt even know how to use a hoyer lift. She told me out her own mouth when I wanted her to spot the lift I don't know how to use this.:confused: Also it is one nurse who is very nice to me and actually introduced herself to me. She also encouraged me when I was a little overwelmed. And when she came into the residents room she complimented my work and told me I did a very good job on the residents appearance.

I'm not a CNA (yet) but I know what you're talking about because the same thing has happened to me at non-medical jobs. I always did my work but there was always someone complaining, yet no one said anything about the people who've worked there longer didn't do their work at all. I was the new person and I didn't belong to any of the cliques. After a while you notice who is trying to be helpful and who is on a major ego trip (unhappy and want to have a sense of control). People like the nurse who complimented you aren't plentiful. If more people were like her (positive and not negative) it would certainly make the work environment much better.:twocents:

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