Charge nurses double standards

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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?

Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
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 :)

Why are you taking this personally??? :sarcastic:

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I'm very sorry that you are obviously not happy with your current co-workers, both nurses and CNA's.

My confusion is with your request for other CNA stories. This is a nursing site. I'm sure there are other forums more suited for your request.

Good luck to you.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
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.

Please - no more threads.

You are posting multiple threads complaining about NURSES on a NURSING website. What's not to take personally?

What your motive might be, I cannot fathom.

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Hmmm. If the OP is a CNA, why do I see the credentials BSN, RN after their name in the original post? I'm not sure if this is a glitch or what, because it's not following their name in the other posts in this thread. Just the first one. Odd. (Sorry if this sounds confusing, not sure how to explain it)

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
Hmmm. If the OP is a CNA, why do I see the credentials BSN, RN after their name in the original post? I'm not sure if this is a glitch or what, because it's not following their name in the other posts in this thread. Just the first one. Odd. (Sorry if this sounds confusing, not sure how to explain it)

I don't know why you see those designations. I don't.

OP describes him/herself in the position of CNA multiple times. Not to mention the multiple descriptions of his/her duties.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
Hmmm. If the OP is a CNA, why do I see the credentials BSN, RN after their name in the original post? I'm not sure if this is a glitch or what, because it's not following their name in the other posts in this thread. Just the first one. Odd. (Sorry if this sounds confusing, not sure how to explain it)

I don't know why you see those designations. I don't.

OP describes him/herself in the position of CNA multiple times. Not to mention the multiple descriptions of his/her duties.

I don't see it on the original post on the first page, but I do see it in the shortened blurb from the original post at the top of the second page.

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.

I 've worked with both CNAs and nurses similar to what you describe. In my experience they ALWAYS got what was coming to them. When I was less experienced I was manipulated a time or two by this type of CNA.I learned my lesson-I can recognize a brown noser at lightening speed. The kind who comes to me after my day off and reports something about a resident and then says " I told Suzy Creamcheese RN but she didn't do anything" . I don't entertain that crap.Working with an aide/nurse combo like that is challenging because they seem to enjoy keeping the unit in an uproar.

You need to keep your head down and your mouth shut-do your job and go home.

Also-let's talk about your screen name. Unless you are referring to the martial art you should know "Sambo" is a derogatory term. You prefaced it with the term "passive" and made it a double whammy, IMHO. Just thought you might like to know

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
I don't see it on the original post on the first page, but I do see it in the shortened blurb from the original post at the top of the second page.

Yes, I can see that too. Very strange.

I reported the discrepancy.

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I call shenanigans. Your screen name is offensive and racist and trollish, dude. "Passive Sambo?" "Sambo" has a racist history.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sambo.aspx

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I don't see it on the original post on the first page, but I do see it in the shortened blurb from the original post at the top of the second page.

Same here. Glitch I guess.

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Yes, I can see that too. Very strange.

I reported the discrepancy.

I've noticed that on several posts (not just this OP).

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I don't know why you see those designations. I don't.

OP describes him/herself in the position of CNA multiple times. Not to mention the multiple descriptions of his/her duties.

Yes, I know the OP is a CNA... That was my point. It looks to be an Alllnurses glitch of some kind. I'm not the only one who sees it. It's only visible to me in the original post though.

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