FED UP CNAS!!!!

greeniebean · Jul 14, 2009

Well I work short staffed every weekend, My LTC's policies are crap, some workers get away with murder while others get written up for no good reason, the residents care is the last thing the administration cares about...need I go on?

marineswife0809 · Jul 14, 2009

lol well see this is crazy!! i can write all day about disasters in the ltc. its really bad i pray i dont end up in a ltc or my family--tellthe truth admin. dont care because @ the end of the damn day its all about $$$$$

mochabean · Jul 14, 2009

I work on large unit and I'm tired of the floor being understaffed. I could have 20 patients and have 4 different nurses ask me,"Can you get vitals? Can you clean this patient? Can you get this patient a meal tray?" This one nurse asked me could I feed a patient and I told her I was busy and she'd have to wait. She huffed and said,"Never mind! I'll do it myself!" Well, duh!

Then you have your lazy nursing assistants. This past weekend there were 3 of us. I had attended to all my complete care patients, changed bed linens, tidied up the rooms, and even fed a patient. One of the nursing assistants was pulled to sit and I had to take on her patients. This girl only had 2 complete care patients, it was 11 AM and they weren't even bathed. Most of her patient's had extremely dirty bed linens, the rooms were extremely cluttered. Do you think I took care of it? NOPE! If we both get paid to be nursing assistants and I can take care of all of my patients, then there's no accuse for that other nursing assistant not to have done anything!

Another thing that's funny is that when I first started as an NA, everyone only cared about bathes, vitals, accuchecks, and pulling linen. But when I started clearing away cluttered rooms, making beds, shaving, combing out matted hair, wiping bedside tables, and changing dressings, all of a sudden its a major PRIORITY now. Yet when I walk past the rooms covered by other NA's the rooms are filthy and patient's look like ragamuffins, laying in soiled briefs and sheets. I've noticed that when I work with some nurses, they have no problem asking me to do things. But when they work with other NA, especially the one's who have bad attitudes, they don't ask them to do anything.

I had a bad weekend and I just wanted to get that off my chest!

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Jul 14, 2009

I'm sick of people:

Our administrator and the DON. They're so fake.

One of the charge nurses, who gets ****** off at every little thing and doesn't lift a finger to help (she's the same one who "didn't know" how to set up a meal tray). Last night I was helping another CNA hoyer someone into bed. I walked out of the room with an armful of laundry and this charge nurse ****** at me because one of my residents had gotten up by himself and set off his alarm. She left him sitting in the bathroom by himself so she could wait for me outside the door of this other room. She was mad because I didn't respond to his alarm... I didn't hear it! If I hadn't left my hall to assist my coworker she would have been yelling at us for that because the patient has an overbearing family that would have tattled on us for not getting their mother in bed at precisely 7 o'clock. It's this type of thing that happens all the time. 2 call lights come on at the same time, you answer one of them and you get yelled at for not answering the other. I don't care if you refuse to wipe a butt with a 10-foot pole, but please stay out of it!

This girl who's been working there a long time who always gets the easiest assignment. And then on the rare occasion that she doesn't get it, she goes crying to the supervisor and they switch it back. She works part time too. You can't suck it up and do a hard assignment once out of the 3 days you work?

Lazy people. A lazy DAY is one thing. I'm just sick of people who are lazy all the time. Sitting at the nurse's station "doing paperwork" for an hour. It doesn't take that long! Documenting that all your people "refused" to be repositioned. Ignoring call lights. Acting like you deserve a reward every time you do something you were supposed to be doing in the first place.

marineswife0809 · Jul 14, 2009

ooo call lights that an issue--in the ltc i worked ITS EVERYBODY RESPONSIBILTY TO ANSWER CALL LIGHTS--NURSES(LPN-RN) ACT LIKE THEY R TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD TO ANSWER CALL LIGHTS. LAZY CNAS RUN IN HIDE IN ROOMS-OR LEAVE THE UNIT. THIS WHOLE FIELD IS A MESS. CNAS DO EVERYONE ELSES JOB IN THE BUILDING-TELL THE TRUTH DIETARY SHOULD PASS N PICK UP TRAYS.LAUNDRY SHOULD COME GET THE SIOLED LINEN.HOUSEKEEPING SHOULD CLEAN THE ROOMS AND MAKE UP BEDS.NURSES SHOULD DO THEIR OWN VITALS BECAUSE MOST OF THE CNAS MAKE UP VITALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comfortably_Numb · Jul 14, 2009

Coworkers.

Yeah, the job itself is stressful, but I've been at it for a few months and am getting better at it. There is one hall in my building that I absolutely love, and when working with those residents, I am actually fine with what I do.

But when I get treated like crap and yelled at by coworkers (the DON moved me to the hall I like for the rest of the week and one aide was LIVID about it), I don't handle that well. I deserve better. I don't handle hostility well.

I think I like the field itself.. I just don't like the conditions I work in and some of the mean people I deal with.

I am thinking of moving onto home health once I get more LTC experience.

CNAmonica65 · Jul 15, 2009

I got fired recenly because, another CNA verbally abused me throwing the F word out and verbally and physically abused a resident! I reported to the DON and 2 days later i got ******** fired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about that???!!!

mochabean · Jul 15, 2009

ooo call lights that an issue--in the ltc i worked ITS EVERYBODY RESPONSIBILTY TO ANSWER CALL LIGHTS--NURSES(LPN-RN) ACT LIKE THEY R TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD TO ANSWER CALL LIGHTS. LAZY CNAS RUN IN HIDE IN ROOMS-OR LEAVE THE UNIT. THIS WHOLE FIELD IS A MESS. CNAS DO EVERYONE ELSES JOB IN THE BUILDING-TELL THE TRUTH DIETARY SHOULD PASS N PICK UP TRAYS.LAUNDRY SHOULD COME GET THE SIOLED LINEN.HOUSEKEEPING SHOULD CLEAN THE ROOMS AND MAKE UP BEDS.NURSES SHOULD DO THEIR OWN VITALS BECAUSE MOST OF THE CNAS MAKE UP VITALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's interesting about housekeeping. They make up the beds once a patient is discharged, but they don't make up the beds while the patient is there. Then they only work 8-hour shifts, so after they leave it's the NA's responsibility to take care of trash and spills. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

kungfu_panda · Jul 15, 2009

ooo call lights that an issue--in the ltc i worked ITS EVERYBODY RESPONSIBILTY TO ANSWER CALL LIGHTS--NURSES(LPN-RN) ACT LIKE THEY R TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD TO ANSWER CALL LIGHTS. LAZY CNAS RUN IN HIDE IN ROOMS-OR LEAVE THE UNIT. THIS WHOLE FIELD IS A MESS. CNAS DO EVERYONE ELSES JOB IN THE BUILDING-TELL THE TRUTH DIETARY SHOULD PASS N PICK UP TRAYS.LAUNDRY SHOULD COME GET THE SIOLED LINEN.HOUSEKEEPING SHOULD CLEAN THE ROOMS AND MAKE UP BEDS.NURSES SHOULD DO THEIR OWN VITALS BECAUSE MOST OF THE CNAS MAKE UP VITALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with this 100%! It's already enough having to do ADL's for 8-10 residents! Why do CNAs have to do everyone else's work?

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Jul 15, 2009

well, i gotta say I never make up vitals, but as for the rest of it... yeah. It would be nice if we didn't have to do every little thing. Not having to worry about trashcans and laundry and beds. At my facility we recently stopped having to wash leftover dishes after the kitchen picks the carts up. Now we just have to shove the whole mess in the elevator. It's nice.

10ACGIRL · Jul 15, 2009

All theses complaints I have just read is the very reason I am trying to become a Medical Coder. Do not get me wrong! I love my residents at the ALF but I need a challenge of a different kind and better pay WITH RESPECT!