Charge nurses double standards

[passive sambo]

Any nursing home CNA should know this after year one. You cannot warm up to your charge nurse, you know the one that walks up and down the hall and yells your name? She already has a favorite often filthy or lazy, refuse to answer her call lights while she is charting or enjoying the down time after sloppily finishing her group.whenever they work your bitter ***** of a nurse can crack a smile. Not all nurses have a pet, but the ones that do let them so what ever they please. Yells at you for putting a clean glove on in the hall to pick up drop food but let's her filthy cna walk down the hall with a dirty diaper and a soiled chuck without a bag to the soils linen . he has brown stains on his gloves and touches the door handle. Or does rounds and gos from room to room with the same gloves. After his germ spreading is complete he will hide in a patients room and only creep out to answer lights. At least he does his work. Even if you feel iike a shower just watching him.the other one talks crass with the patients and is always telling them she is too busy. She joins you at the station and the room she just walked out of lights up. Time passes and she is looked at magazines from aroundnothing, cility. The nurse says nothing, you start getting nervous after 10 minutes and notice the lay one has disappeared, to get the light? Nope she would have answered it by now. The DON show up out of nowhere and the charge nurse wants you to get it. Mr smith wants to get ready for bed, sit on the toilet ( fall risk you have to watch,) brush his teeth and get in bed. You come back to the station and your lazy coworker tells you she is going on her break. That kind of stuff was normal part of my day . I wanted to hear other double standards. What did your charge nurse let her favorite CNA do or not do?

[klone, MSN, RN]

Was that cathartic for you?

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

It seems someone just had a really bad shift....

[Paws2people]

I can't even make sense out of any of the op's threads...

[MPKH, BSN, RN]

Reading your other threads, it seems like you have issues with your co workers at work, namely your Charge Nurse. Take it up with management if the problem persists but please pick your battles.

[nursefromcali]

If she's seems not professional and affectiong the patient care it should be brought up to the DON.

[passive sambo]

Disclaimer: I invite people to share stories that are related to the topic of the thread. The situation I described above is one of many I have encountered in my past. I am not looking for advice on how to deal with nurses that play favorites and their CNAs that slack off. In the last decade I have developed some strategies. But that will be another thread, this one is just a place to for people to describe double standards they have put up with.

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

Yikes! I got quite confused with all the pronouns flying around. I thought I had it straight and then the "he" turned into "she" and I got lost.

I know you say your not looking for advice, but if you are going to post a rant like that, you are going to get some. My 2 cents: talk to the DON. If they are not going to do anything, you have to live with it--although it seems like that is getting unhealthy--or get a new job. I had one job as a CNA and 3 jobs as an RN--I have never seen that kind of favoritism. Stop pretending that it happens everywhere. Either do something about it at your current job, get a new job, or deal with it--although if you go with the latter, you lost your right to rant about it.

[passive sambo]

I feel that this thread is only atrracting nurses that are taking my story personally.. I have worked in 5 places and have encountered favoritism in 4. They relationships fall into three categories. If you are interested I will start a new thread when I have some time and describe those relationship's and how i was able to deal with them. I will use a more neutral tone so as not to confuse readers that I am angry.

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

I feel that this thread is only atrracting nurses that are taking my story personally.

Umm, no. That is all.

[klone, MSN, RN]

I will use a more neutral tone so as not to confuse readers that I am angry.

You mean you're NOT angry?

[sallyrnrrt, ADN, RN]

i would, but im not,

i did clear my throat..........

and the point i guess, when i am in charge i expect ALL to do their jobs, and provide the level of care safely, and cordialy as the resident or patient may require :)