Advice, what would you have done in this situation?

[squatmunkie_RN]

During shift change I had a pt ask for pain meds, I was pulling Dilaudid, wasting, and doing my med checks in the med room when a oncoming nurse frantically comes in the med room and says pt in room __ needs a bedpan NOW! Her family was at the nurses station beeyotching that their mom needed a bedpan and no one was moving fast enough.

Everyone could see I was pulling a narcotic. I was busy. The lazy nurse aids were sitting in the station watching the clock! No one told them a damn thing. The other RNs/LVNs in the station, gossiping, didn't lift a finger.

So I, with Dilaudid in hand (meant for another pt) went to go put the pt on her bed pan. The next day I find out the oncoming CN wrote all the nurse aids up. My directer talks to me about this later and says "You need to learn how to delegate, we all work together on this floor..." I should have told her everything that truly went on, but I just left it alone. I'm a recent grad, I don't want to stir the pot...

But I just have to say, I despise (some) of the aids on my floor. They are lazy, and they get paid for it.

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Did I mention when I got in the pt's room I got an ear full of YELLING, that their mom had been waiting for 10 mins. And her IV was beeping, and "whats your name, who's your boss...I'm reporting this... yadda yadda yadda"

(I know this seems like a rant...but, I just had to get it out)

[steelydanfan]

Good for the CN for writing the CNAs up. She was right to do so here andmust have been good and ticked to do it. Hopefully this was the start of getting them in line. If they don't do as told you and the other nurses need to write them up and continue the paper trail so they can be let go if need be.

You do need to learn to delegate. She was spot on here as well. As a new grad you might be trying to keep the peace and not make waves but part of your job is delegating to others. If you don't then patients will suffer. You can do it in a polite yet firm way. If they don't comply you write them up.

Exactly. You make no friends and garner a ton of respect by making people accountable. You are not in your job to be liked or loved, you are in it to ensure the pt.s are cared for. Period.