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Another call in!!

i am so sick and tired of working short i could just scream! we had a call in again today. every single day for over a week a cna has called in and the person in charge of the schedule can not find someone to replace the cna. so instead of getting my work done in a timely fashion i am running around like a chicken with her head cut off trying to get my work done and help the cnas with their work. this is stupid and i am stupid for putting up with these unsafe conditions. i wish management would just fire some of these people that call in all the time. this is getting old really fast.

this weekend i was in charge of the schedule. i had one call in for one of the halls and i no sooner hung up the phone from taking that call in then someone else was calling in for the same hall. by this point i have completely had it and asked the cna if it was absolutly necessary that she miss work that night. she gave me the same story that the person before her gave me. what am i to do? make her come in and prove that she has a temp. i gave up it did not matter how much of a guilt trip i gave this girl, she was not coming in that night. so i put calls out and was only able to find one replacement of the two missing cnas.

the thing that makes me mad is the fact that they will not do anything to stop all of the call ins. it is one thing if you are sick, but for crying out loud not all of these people are sick. one of the girls calling in was seen at the bar by another cna. they will probably call me into the office for not being polite enough to the cnas that called in. now i am done with my rant of the day.

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Maybe if they had to go to school longer and put more effort into education they would take more pride in their job. Hope I am not offending anyone. I am a CNA. I do not mean that because you are a CNA you are not educated by any means!!:typing:redpinkhe

Watch out, as I think you may be offending---We have some wonderful CNAS that have no desire to be a nurse, even though they could out nurse some of the best of them. They are at a stage in thier life where school is not an option, they are happy with thier job and satisified with thier pay and have saved my butt on more that one occasion!!

Bad work habbits and poor manners does not have as much to do with education as it does with core personality. I have unfortunatly encountered many people with just a plain poor work ethic, some of them being RNs.

I am sure you didnt mean to offend, it just came out wrong!!!

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Oh, I am sorry I just assumed that this was in a hospital. Well then I don't know just lazy people. Maybe if they had to go to school longer and put more effort into education they would take more pride in their job. Hope I am not offending anyone. I am a CNA. I do not mean that because you are a CNA you are not educated by any means!!:typing:redpinkhe

CNAs that work in a nursing home are not lazy people for the most part. They have the same amount of education as the CNAs in the hospital. In fact, I was a CNA in a nursing home for many years before I went to school to become an RN.

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Watch out, as I think you may be offending---We have some wonderful CNAS that have no desire to be a nurse, even though they could out nurse some of the best of them. They are at a stage in thier life where school is not an option, they are happy with thier job and satisified with thier pay and have saved my butt on more that one occasion!!

Bad work habbits and poor manners does not have as much to do with education as it does with core personality. I have unfortunatly encountered many people with just a plain poor work ethic, some of them being RNs.

I am sure you didnt mean to offend, it just came out wrong!!!

I totally agree with you racing-mom4. I have also worked with both CNAs, LPNs, and RNs with the same lack of good work habits.

i totally understand. i work in a dialysis unit and i swear it is the same people calling in . some people even talk about collecting unemployment benefits so they don't even care about the call in's. one girl even admitted that it was nothing wrong with her. well 4 chronic call in people have since been fired and 2 we still have. it is very irritating to have 2 always work short. i just do the best i can and i let pt's know if we are running behind so they will know why such a long wait to be seen.

One facility I worked at was community funded, so the CNA's and CMT's both got top pay. They had an incentive committee, which I joined not long after starting. They had a policy put in place that if someone called in more than 8 times per year, they were automatically terminated. They also only accepted doctor excuses from the house physician. If you called in on a weekend, you had to make it up by working 1 or both days the next weekend (or you were terminated). Then, as an incentive to come in to cover those that called in, they received double time to cover a shift. This worked great in this facility and I loved the fact that they staffed according to workload and not fire code. For 60 residents, they had a charge nurse/CNA supervisor of both halls, then each hall (there were 2) had its own CMT/LPN/RN who passed the meds, did tx's, and documented. Then there were 2 CNA's per hall and one aide that floated and did nothing but answer lights on both halls. It was great; I really miss working there.

Blessings, Michelle

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