Aides

[RatherBHiking]

We have special ed aides and kg aides. I've worked with some awesome aides who will go above and beyond. However, more often than not, at every single school I've been to, I have aides who are conveniently so busy every single time one of their kids has an accident and needs their clothes changed and they bring them to me. They aren't busy. They just don't want to. How do I know this? Because they literally stand there, or talk to office staff, or play with their phone or whatever as I do it. So I found out that yes it's their job, not mine. I went to my principal who makes excuses for them and says he will talk to them. I go up the chain and find out, well if the aides are too busy it falls to the nurse. Ok but they aren't busy. I went to the teachers and the teachers said yes we know and we have told them it's their responsibility but it doesn't stop. One day an aide brought a wet kid in and I pointed and said there's the stuff and walked out thinking the aide would take care of it. Nope, they waited on me until came back! I feel bad for the kids. I don't want them to think I don't want to help them. It's not that big of deal but it's just the principle of the thing and it causes me to get backed up in my work taking care of this while they take a 40 min planning period and hour lunch every day that I don't even get. ?

So should this topic be aides who don't want to do what their job is or the administrators who don't make people do their job? Either way, I'm so irritated.

[kidzcare]

1 hour ago, MrNurse(x2) said:

I will never forget the night my head nurse (I really have been doing this a while) worked our floor. She took the nursing assistants aside after seeing nurses answering more than the NA's and introduced them to the call light and explained that she did not want her nurses busy with bed pans should a code occur because NA's CAN do bedpans, they CANNOT run codes. It is about responsibilities and not about status. She was the best manager I ever had and respect her to this day. Tell the para's that they have responsibility for this (or a few) student(s) and that is it, you are responsible for the whole school and even if it looks like you are doing nothing, it is important for you to be available.

Very well put!

[BunnyBunnyBSNRN, ASN, BSN]

20 hours ago, OldDude said:

Where in the real world could you get away with that type of job performance?

You've never worked for the federal government, have you?

[OldDude]

8 minutes ago, BunnyBunnyBSNRN said:

You've never worked for the federal government, have you?

No...

[kidzcare]

11 minutes ago, BunnyBunnyBSNRN said:

You've never worked for the federal government, have you?

My dad used to say that private industry will hire 3 people to do the work of 5 and government will hire 5 people to do the work of 3

[EnoughWithTheIce]

I was actually pulled one year to assist a staff member with toileting by a lift.It took at least 20 minutes, sometimes more.

In a nutshell, I had to leave the clinic during noon med pass time to assist daily. One day they called for me with an emergency on the radio while she was literally hanging in the air. I just said "I am unavailable."

It was not a true emergency that they called me on - only a front office perceived one. However, the light bulbs finally went off and they realized that they needed me in the clinic during that time.

[Mango Juice]

6 hours ago, MrNurse(x2) said:

I will never forget the night my head nurse (I really have been doing this a while) worked our floor. She took the nursing assistants aside after seeing nurses answering more than the NA's and introduced them to the call light and explained that she did not want her nurses busy with bed pans should a code occur because NA's CAN do bedpans, they CANNOT run codes. It is about responsibilities and not about status. She was the best manager I ever had and respect her to this day. Tell the para's that they have responsibility for this (or a few) student(s) and that is it, you are responsible for the whole school and even if it looks like you are doing nothing, it is important for you to be available.

This is what I was trying to say. ?

[HPofBC]

We had a very high needs kiddo who had a specified aid. Mind you, this girl has no educational or medical background and kind of fell into the job...SHE IS INCREDIBLE! She is a very young, single mom, who I think everyone assumed would suck or tap out, especially considering a big part of her job is changing his brief, feeding, etc. She is my right hand, not only with her students, but the entire school day. She is ALWAYS there to be an extra hand and field kids coming in while I attend to her little guy. That said, the rest of our SPED and blended classroom aids are useless as far toileting, changing clothes, giving tissues, tying shoes...let's see what other gems I've had...REMEDYING A KID NOT HAVING A COSTUME FOR THE HALLOWEEN PARADE...