I work as an aide, and today I was working the last half of second shift, 7-11pm. 11pm/midnight vitals and stocking are to be done by the oncoming (11p-7a) night shift. Now normally, I do vitals and stock to help the aide out, but today I was working the desk and a float pca came to work the floor. I didn't tell her to do the 11pm/midnight vitals because that is technically the responsibility of the oncoming aide. I did, however, stock to make it easier.
Night shift comes in and is ****** that vitals aren't done (not even bothering to thank me for doing her stocking) and tells me that I should have told the float aide to do the vitals, and that now is very late to start vitals (technically they are not due until midnight, and it was 11pm).
I'm a little ticked. In fact, more than a little ticked; I'm downright ******. I'm all for helping out others and am known for routinely doing night shift's stocking and vitals, but I do not think the oncoming aide(s) should come in expecting all their work to be done for them. If anything, that makes me think they are ungrateful. I don't come in at 7am expecting 7am/8am vitals to be done. In fact they are NEVER done (and they use the bs excuse that they don't want to wake the patient up. Hello! I have to wake patients up all the time to get vitals and stat labs. I don't have option NOT to get that stat blood draw or NOT get that needed BP, etc).
What would you do in my situation? I don't feel very comfortable confronting the aide, but I feel like maybe I should stop stocking and doing the oncoming shift's vitals, etc, because I feel like I'm being taken for granted.
Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
The oncoming aid is much worse than "ungrateful" she is bullying.Bullying in an attempt to have her work done for her.
Quite sure this is not an isolated incident.
This is lateral violence..... and management needs to be made aware of it.
Wha?? How on EARTH is that bullying or lateral violence?? Seriously, where in the OP is what she described bullying? You cry "lateral violence" so often it has become comical.
Wha?? How on EARTH is that bullying or lateral violence?? Seriously, where in the OP is what she described bullying? You cry "lateral violence" so often it has become comical.
klone, MSN, RN
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Wha?? How on EARTH is that bullying or lateral violence?? Seriously, where in the OP is what she described bullying? You cry "lateral violence" so often it has become comical.