CNA's: Whats the worst thing you've seen your Nurse do?

[parumph]

Just wondering what all you NA's have seen in your time in the trenches. I really hadn't seen anything bad till last week.

Coming up on morning med pass. The career-LPN covering my shift decided he had to give a lady a shot, while she was standing up, just off the toilet, and getting cleaned. Nothing like a nurse coming in on your blind side with an exposed needle loaded with god knows what, needing to stick someone in the shoulder so he could move on to the next room ASAP. He didn't announce himself till he was in the doorway of the bathroom 2 steps away. And of course he didn't stay and help.

Anyone else got some bad ones?

[virgo,student nurse, CNA]

They give meds while patient is in the room,then come out the room " ohh so and so needs to use the bathroom". Really? You couldn't put them on the toilet you were just in there.

I understand nurses are busy, but please.

I saw one nurse walk right past a resident who was throwing themselves out of their wheelchair ( despite the belt) the client succeed in throwing themselves out of their chair, and fell right on the floor in front of the nurse. She walked right over the client and asked the other two aides doing toileting to pick the client up off the floor. She quit after that incident.

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

Telling me to just make up vitals for a woman who never lets you get them (it's hard to take a BP when the person is thrashing around and screaming). They were only routine vitals, but still. YOU make them up!

And then a while back I had the nurse from hell who micromanaged every little detail of what the CNAs did, constantly changed her mind about what the "right way" of doing things was, slowed us waaaaaay down by pulling us in several different directions at once and then got mad when we didn't finish early enough to give her the I & Os on time. She yelled at us all the time (literally raising her voice), berated us in front of residents, visitors, and other staff, and pitted us against one another. She couldn't even leave the housekeepers alone! I don't remember a single day that someone didn't end up crying. All of us that worked with her on a regular basis had anxiety and trouble sleeping. Some people quit. When she retired it was such a HUGE relief.

[orangetkdgirl]

Usually I work with the most awesome nurses, but there are 2 particular ones that I'm not fond of...

One of them also works at a school during the day then comes to our facility (long-term care) in the evenings. She's dead tired when she comes in and has a bum leg, so she tries to get everything done as fast as she can so she can relax and do paperwork and get out on time. Well, one night I had a resident who really needed some hemmorhoid cream, so I went out and asked her for some. She said "I don't have time to give it to her"....really?! It takes like a minute or two to get the tube from your cart, come to the resident's bathroom and give it to her and leave!! I was just appalled that she wouldn't do this (and they were pretty nasty hemmorhoids too). She also generally doesn't like being told that a resident needs some sort of cream. I'll tell her a resident has an open sore, and she'll annoyingly say "well then give her some cream" (question btw: do any other cnas apply on barrier creams/antifungal to your residents, instead of the nurse?)

The next one...boy is she a piece of work. I don't work with her often, but I know what she's like and I've heard awful stories too...she works overnight shift, and apparently she has taken over a drawer at the nurses' station to store her things, which includes a blanket. She'll apparently sleep most nights, and then the great thing is she'll tell off the aides for nodding off. WHAT? Then one night an aide went to help a resident, and the resident was upset for some reason and calling her names and saying she was horrible and whatnot. The nurse comes in and then starts joining the resident in talking badly about the aide, like she wasn't even there! Then later she comes out and tells off the aide for being horrible and getting the resident all upset. She also treats one of my favorite nurses horribly. She'll come in and they'll try to start reporting, and the bad nurse starts telling off my favorite nurse about how messy the station is and tell her off for not finishing something (the bad nurse is also notorious for not getting things done, or trying to make someone else finish her work). Oh, and when I had just started working, like my 2nd or 3rd day, she didn't even introduce herself, she just said to me "I hate the sound of call lights so there better not be any lights on tonight". ~_~ Oh, I'm sorry I have 3 people who want to go to bed NOW and there's only one of me. >.

Good thing I don't work with these nurses often.

[Everlasting904]

LOL these are all somewhat funny. I know a nurse at my faciliy who works nights (11-7) comes in hair sticking straight up on her head..scrubs look like they have PRESSED WRINKLES on them and after doing her report with 3-11 nurses she goes in the medical supply room and sleeps until a little after 5am and starts her med pass && to top it off she doesn't bother putting out a vital sign sheet for the cnas. *Nurse of the Year*