FED UP CNAS!!!!

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ANYBODY THATS A CNA PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY YOUR SO FED UP!!!!:down: BECAUSE I AM!!

Other CNA (holding back-issues of US Weekly in hand): "Gosh, I am SOOO incredibly bored. They stuck me on the easiest assignment and I have absolutely nothing to do right now. I'm gonna come help you get all of your people up. I always like to help out when it's needed."

Me (sweat dripping down forehead, running around like a maniac): "Wow!! Really?? Thanks so much!! You have no idea how happy that makes me. I could totally use your help!"

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. I can't believe I still fall for this crap.

Fast forward to 15 minutes later-----

Thank you for helping me. Thank you for:

-getting up a total of 3 residents (after which you realized the work wasn't worth it anymore)

-picking up my Hoyer lift residents by yourself and tossing them in their chairs and not even putting their slings under them. Can't wait to figure out how I'm going to get them under them later

-leaving them in dirty clothes

-not changing their briefs or even toileting them AT ALL

-not brushing their hair

-not putting on any glasses or hearing aides

-not putting on their safety alarms

-not attaching the foot pedals to their wheelchairs

-leaving their blankets, sheets, and used chux on the floor

Thank you so much for "helping me." I spent twice the time you "saved" me when I had to go behind you and clean up the mess you did to my residents once management and families came in and saw the state of them -- for which *I* got blamed and scolded by the nurses about. I hope you enjoy reading your back-issues of US Weekly while you sit at the nurses station and pig out on the food you got from dietary because you told them "it was for a resident." I certainly look forward to the next time you and I work together again --- NOT!

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).

OMG I worked with one lady who would stand in a room talking to another employee for hours, always while we were short, I'd be running around sweating bullets-and she'd been an aide for so long, she made as much as a nurse-I tell ya, there were a few times she was REALLY lucky I couldn't find her lol.....................

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I want to freak out on other CNAs (and nurses!) that change the residents' radios and TVs to programs that the residents obviously wouldn't want to watch if they were aware of what they were watching or were physically able to change channels/stations themselves.

99.99% of my residents don't want to hear Eminem "Just Don't Give A ****," Fergie sing about her lovely lady humps, or T-Pain talk about how he's going to buy shawty a drankkkkkkkk (I got money in da bankkkkk).

They also don't give a flying crap about a bunch of immature adults hanging out on the beach and going clubbing and making millions for doing it (Jersey Shore) or watching a bunch of teenage mothers fight and bicker with their baby daddies (16 & Pregnant). Desperate Housewives isn't high up on the list, either.

While the staff may love more contemporary entertainment [not many of the younger staff get kicks out of watching Andy Griffith unless they're making fun of it], it's about the RESIDENTS (well, I should say it's SUPPOSED to be).

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Specializes in geriatrics, dementia, ortho.

Our assisted living manager decided that since supplies were "over budget" this month, she would wait until August to get more wipes EVEN THOUGH THOSE ARE CHARGED TO OUR RESIDENT'S ROOMS! She's not a nurse and never provides care for any of the residents. She is lucky that I didn't leave the plastic bag full of diahrrea soaked washcloths in her office for HER to go rinse out in the hopper. Argh!!

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Specializes in PACU, LTC, Med-Surg, Telemetry, Psych.
Our assisted living manager decided that since supplies were "over budget" this month, she would wait until August to get more wipes EVEN THOUGH THOSE ARE CHARGED TO OUR RESIDENT'S ROOMS! She's not a nurse and never provides care for any of the residents. She is lucky that I didn't leave the plastic bag full of diahrrea soaked washcloths in her office for HER to go rinse out in the hopper. Argh!!

They are probably having trouble getting paid for this, but they are not going to tell you.

Many Nursing Homes (and some hospitals) are run by management companies on behalf of absentee owners who use this as an investment. Supply Cost is sometimes one of the things that determine bonuses or if administrators get to keep their jobs.

I have also seen this happen right after state/ joint commission inspection season when facilities had to blow their budget on agency to make the 'appearance' they do not operate short.

If it helps, wash towels tend to do a better job of cleaning diarrhea, especially tube feeding poo. The wipes just are not very absorbent and it takes the whole pack or more with major blowouts. That is, until the facility starts running out of linen because underpaid CNAs or Laundry Workers start to get disgusted and trashes them. What I do is to be sure to bring a flat sheet to put on the floor to put the soiled towels (Do not put it on the floor.. staff or family will FREAK OUT and it is filthy). Then, just fold up the sheet and put it in the barrel.

It can get worse. I have even been to one or two that make resident families buy diapers. If no family, then exposed to air.

Let's not talk about pads (or lack thereof).

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I want to freak out on other CNAs (and nurses!) that change the residents' radios and TVs to programs that the residents obviously wouldn't want to watch if they were aware of what they were watching or were physically able to change channels/stations themselves.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves!

When I worked in geriatrics, I had a few coworkers that would always turn on Gossip Girl in the residents' rooms. One time, a nurse came in and said, "Why don't you put on something that she'd like to watch?" and the aide replied, "oh, we watch this all the time, she likes it!"

Yes, I'm sure that 84 year old woman cares whether Blair is sleeping with Nate or Chuck this week.

I work in pediatrics now, so it's not AS bad - their radios are all turned to the local top 40 station and are usually left alone. However, there is one aide who has been known to leave talk shows on in the room of 4-11 year olds (yep, that's great. They need to hear about a woman who is pregnant by her husband's brother, etc.)

What irks me more, though, is the language some of these girls use in front of the kids. These kids (and some are adults, at least as far as actual age goes) are severely developmentally disabled, and as such, less than a quarter of them can talk. I've heard aides in the room doing pm care while gossiping about "that motherf*@$ing b!t@ch, as soon as she pops that kid out I'm going to beat her @$$", etc.

Okay, it would be unacceptable to say that in ANY resident's room, but these are little kids! Would you say that in front of your own child? Well, maybe you would. I wouldn't be surprised.

I've tried reporting one of them before, but unfortunately nothing was done.

I adore my job, but I swear to you, some of my coworkers are just awful.

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Let's not talk about pads (or lack thereof).

We got a new administrator this year, and she took our incontinence bed pads away this year. I work in pediatrics and frankly, most of these kids can flood the bed in one go, and over half of them are tubefed, which means regular blowouts. So, their beds get soaked nightly despite anyone's best efforts, and they start to smell. Who gets blamed for the smelly mattresses? The CNAs, of course. Drives me nuts. (And it's so unsanitary. Ugh.)

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Specializes in PACU, LTC, Med-Surg, Telemetry, Psych.
We got a new administrator this year, and she took our incontinence bed pads away this year. I work in pediatrics and frankly, most of these kids can flood the bed in one go, and over half of them are tubefed, which means regular blowouts. So, their beds get soaked nightly despite anyone's best efforts, and they start to smell. Who gets blamed for the smelly mattresses? The CNAs, of course. Drives me nuts. (And it's so unsanitary. Ugh.)

You are not part of the 'Interdisciplinary Team' and have no say so in care other than to report skin issues, maybe i+o's and vitals. You are supposed to tell a LPN or RN so they can present this.

Sad, isn't it?

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I am sick of the gossiping that runs rampant. Is there a cure for diarrhea of the mouth? Maybe a good ol' whappa with a slipper, yes?

:sstrs:

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I am sick of the gossiping that runs rampant. Is there a cure for diarrhea of the mouth? Maybe a good ol' whappa with a slipper, yes?

:sstrs:

A slipper? I would settle for no less than a steel-toed boot. If you are going to hit somebody in the mouth, might as well take some teeth when you do it.

Oh, and did you hear what Kelly has been doing with the new administrator? She is getting some pretty good "overtime" if you know what I mean. :lol2: Wait. What?? That's not what you heard? Well, I heard that from a reliable source. The housekeeper from the second floor heard it from the maintenance worker on five whose ex wife's second cousin's brother-in-law's sister's baby daddy saw Kelly and the administrator at the bar last week. What was it that you heard??

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Tired of CNAs pouncing on me as soon as I walk in the door, wanting to give me report so that they can leave 20 minutes early. I really don't care that your kid has a doctor's appointment or whatever lame excuse you have this time. Go boo hoo and whine about it. You pull this crap every day and I don't believe you anymore. The schedule says you are on for another 20 minutes, and I'm sticking to it. You always show up 15 minutes late when it's your turn to relieve me, so I seemingly always have to stay late. If you don't come early to relieve me, don't expect me to do the same for you. Why is it that it's OK for you to go and gossip with others for 10 minutes before coming to get report from me, yet you jump down my throat when I take 20 seconds to ask a coworker how their terminally-ill parents are?

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Specializes in PACU, LTC, Med-Surg, Telemetry, Psych.
Tired of CNAs pouncing on me as soon as I walk in the door, wanting to give me report so that they can leave 20 minutes early. I really don't care that your kid has a doctor's appointment or whatever lame excuse you have this time. Go boo hoo and whine about it. You pull this crap every day and I don't believe you anymore. The schedule says you are on for another 20 minutes, and I'm sticking to it. You always show up 15 minutes late when it's your turn to relieve me, so I seemingly always have to stay late. If you don't come early to relieve me, don't expect me to do the same for you. Why is it that it's OK for you to go and gossip with others for 10 minutes before coming to get report from me, yet you jump down my throat when I take 20 seconds to ask a coworker how their terminally-ill parents are?

They actually give you report before taking off? Other than 'here they are.. go check them' or asking the boss and being gone before you get there?

I must had been in the wrong facilities.

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