I will probably make someone mad but I just needed to vent about this issue. I work at a hospital in Oncology/Medical. The cna/tech responsibilities are to do vitals, blood sugars, bathroom duties, and turn pt. I constantly hear some of them say that the nurses treat them like slaves when all we did was ask them to do a blood sugar. In the mean time I have one pt. dying, hanging blood on another, one is complaining of chest pain, I am getting a new admit, and still haven't charted, and they can't do a freaking blood sugar because they are too busy sitting on their a@# talking on the phone. I will say that not all of them are like that. We have a few that are wonderful at what they do and I let them know that they are greatly appreciated. I don't mind wiping a butt or doing blood sugars when the cna is busy, but if they are sitting there while I am running around like a crazy person and then gripe when I ask them to do something, it really makes me mad:madface:. Does anyone else see this behavior?
I tell all new graduate RN's if you want your CNA to do as you ask treat them nicely and you will get everything you ask for.
ITA with you. But in some cases even that will not work. I guess what we are trying to figure out is what do you do with that rare CNA that does not respond to the normal adult teamwork type atmosphere. It may just be that we all have to grin and bear it.
BTW this will be useful info to LPNs that all of sudden find themselves as "charge nurses" on an off shift - especially in LTC. What a shocker for me when I went from the day shift to the night shift and found that I was expected to run the unit.
You will get your way when you are nice and as I tell all new graduate RN's if you want your CNA to do as you ask treat them nicely and you will get everything you ask for.
In a perfect world, yes. If only that were true in the real world.
kcochrane
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ITA with you. But in some cases even that will not work. I guess what we are trying to figure out is what do you do with that rare CNA that does not respond to the normal adult teamwork type atmosphere. It may just be that we all have to grin and bear it.