Horrible CNAs! Need to vent

[Chad_KY_SRNA]

I worked 10-6 last night on the alzhiemers unit and I am about to loose it this morning. I come in at ten and there is an arguement over who has to work 10-6 on the ICF unit. One girl who is next in line to work a double is argueing that she can't because she and her man don't have any gas. They are dirt poor drug addicts... anyway she is trying to make this other girl who has already worked a 16 hour double stay and work 24 hours straight. The nurse covering the unit doesn't care but the skilled unit nurse had been told that if anyone stayed it would be the girl who was in line for it, she has been dodging it for 2 weeks. Well the ICF nurse cries. After shift change the other girl on the ICF unit goes to the "store" and stays gone thirty minutes, comes back with a pack of cigarettes for a resident and says she is taking her ten minute break in her car. She drives off and come back in thirty minutes. She abandoned her residents for over an hour. I told the nurse that if she left again I was calling the DON myself. The nurse calls DON, left a message. Later both ICF CNAs were asleep in the facility lobby with a call light going off, I tell the nurse, she wakes them up, they answer the light and one of them goes back to the lobby and lays down, the other goes down the hall to an empty room and lays down (I noticed the door was shut where it had been open). Nurse makes them wake up. All this time they only did two bedchecks one at 2:30 and one at 5:00 when they had to get everyone up. :angryfire The CNA that left got wrote up, the nurse was waiting to hear from the DON before she wrote them up for sleeping. Not to mention that she should have written them up for neglect. From the 9:00pm bedcheck until 2:30am no one dried those residents. I felt bad about going to the nurse until I learned that they had only done two bedchecks then I felt like they needed to be reported.

[Chad_KY_SRNA]

Sorry that it has taken me almost 24 hours to get back on here, they fired them both at 4:00pm yesterday. After talking to the DON she begged me to come in and finish the one girls shift. They pulled one girl into the office and fired her while I went home and changed. They called the other girl at home and let her know she was fired. Then while at work one of our residents that everyone loves passed away, both of the girls on the floor with me were in hysterics. I finally got the linen together and got one of them calmed down enough to help me clean him up. Well we were just finishing the last bedcheck when I got a call from my momtelling me that she was going to be going to the hospital when I got off from work, she's been sick and it was getting worse so I left work to ride with her to the ER. She got nebs, a chest film and some antibiotics and steroids. I didn't even change from my scrubs. I skipped anatomy lecture today because I had been up for so long and would have probably fallen asleep in class. I am glad that they got fired so soon. I just hope that they replace them soon so that everone isn't having to bust their butts covering their shifts.

[snowfreeze, BSN, RN]

Horrible CNAs still working are because of poor management. You need some spine from the adminsitrator all the way down to the CNA. The attitude starts at the top.

[Blackcat99]

Good luck Chad. I'm so glad they fired those 2 CNA's. I just hope they will be able to get 2 new replacements ASAP. Sorry to hear about that patient that died. Sorry to hear about your Mom getting sick too. It sounds like you have had one hell of a week!!! Hope things will start calming down now. :)

[25(2)+2]

i am a cna and med aide and i feel for you. some of the aides need to find different lines of work. rudeness, neglect , and failing to do what is expected makes for very difficult working conditions. it makes the whole shift look bad when a few are not behaving appropriately. some of these aides think hurry get the job done no matter how it is done. i would much rather work with the ones who are a little slower but do a good job and treat the residents with respect. i feel that people who don't put their hearts in their work have no respect for anyone including themselves.

[25(2)+2]

i am a cna and med aide and i feel for you. some of the aides need to find different lines of work. rudeness, neglect , and failing to do what is expected makes for very difficult working conditions. it makes the whole shift look bad when a few are not behaving appropriately. some of these aides think hurry get the job done no matter how it is done. i would much rather work with the ones who are a little slower but do a good job and treat the residents with respect. i feel that people who don't put their hearts in their work have no respect for anyone including themselves.

[Nurset1981]

The other nurse was actually waiting to see if it was ok to write them up for sleeping!??! I'd have done it right then and there, and made sure they were docked for the trips to the store and for the time they were sleeping. Write it up!!! The more you write up the more they have to do something about it. I worked it this craphole with the same situation and let me tell you..they waited and waited to fire this girl regardless of all the times I had written her up. So she's 1:1 with a patient who falls a cracks his head open..not on my shift thank god. And when the state came in to investigate they ripped them a new one when they looked at this girls record. There were at least 10 disciplinary actions in her file. So my advice, put it it writing,talk to your DON and administrator, and personally I wouldn't take the keys if that CNA was on the floor. If they don't do anything about it, I'd be looking for a new job, but I'd be sure to report them to the state first. Good Luck!