FED UP CNAS!!!!

CoffeemateCNA · Jun 17, 2011

To the lady in OT:

WHAT IN THE WORLD do you mean you gave a full bed bath to a resident (as part of their rehab), but skipped over their lower legs and feet and saved them for me to do? Yes, I appreciate you helping get someone's bath out of the way (well, PART of it), but really, would it have been THAT hard to spend an extra 45 seconds cleaning their legs and feet before putting their TED hose on, dressing them, and putting them in their chair? Thanks to you, I will have to transfer this obese person back into the bed, undress them, run a whole basin of new bath water and soap, and waste yet another precious washcloth and towel, not to mention 5-10 more minutes of my time (which I do NOT have to spare). Thanks for the consideration. Really. I hope they have a nice big loose BM waiting for you when it's time again for therapy.

pumpkinking · Jun 17, 2011

That staying 7 minutes after my shift is up is unauthorized overtime. That family members think THEIR parent/grandparent/whoever is THE number one priority in the whole facility. (No, I will not call the police in your mother's roommate bc her dentures are missing.) That the one second you sit down for the 1st time in 4 hours, the nurse suddenly notices and reams you. The list goes on....

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Jun 17, 2011

We can't rest for one second or we're getting nitpicked. It's like the facility isn't satisfied unless the CNAs are miserable. Every day they are doing something to make our jobs harder or picking on people about stupid things that don't matter. Always criticizing. Nothing is ever good enough. I'm so tired of it!

canigraduate · Jun 18, 2011

We're scheduled short on purpose. Then someone gets sick and has to go home. Then a patient gets rowdy and has to have 1:1. And now I'm on the floor by myself. And the nurses keep asking me to do things they are perfectly capable of doing, because apparently they are too busy with their 5-6 patients and I'm not with my 32. And when I email my manager, she says me being by myself is due to factors outside of her control. Right. I guess she thinks we were adequately staffed in the first place.

CoffeemateCNA · Jun 19, 2011

Fed up with the nurses that think that all CNAs are lazy wicked communists that are secretly planning to overthrow the nurse(s)' power so that we can rule the floor ourselves. Fed up with the ones that think we break every rule on purpose and that we don't care, especially the ones that have never truly worked the floor (in our role) a day in their lives. Sure, you can do the skills, but you can't do the job. Get that straight. Oh, and 4 months as a nurse intern does not make you a CNA expert. Those of us that have done this job for years are insulted by that insinuation.

P.S. I throw linens on the floor.

jessesgirl13 · Jun 20, 2011

I'm still considered a new cna. I've only been doing this for a little over a year. I got hurt 2 times in one year. the second time was actually another aid's fault, but my don actually said to me that "when you're off light duty, we're going to have to review your employment here." seriously? when i wasn't injured i worked 50 to 60 hours a week, i float to any and every unit, with out complaint, and the staff actually likes me. and now you're going to fire me because SOMEONE ELSE SPLIT THICKEN MILK AND DIDN'T CLEAN IT UP? imo, whatever. throw out a really great worker.

LaterAlligator · Jun 20, 2011

Hey coworker with the IQ of 6: if someone is trying to pace restlessly but is a fall risk TOILET HER. If a resident is alert & oriented and doesn't want her nightgown on at 4pm DON'T put it on her anyways; it makes her feel embarrassed to go into the dining room and it only saves you, like, 3 minutes of time. She'll happily let you change her into PJ's on the toilet right before bed. And for the love of Pete don't insist that you're going to a recently deceased resident's funeral to represent Our Facility when you cannot even say the name of Our Facility correctly.

northernguy · Jun 20, 2011

I am fed up with brown nosing aides who continually point fingers at and blame other aides in order to make themselves look better. I have been in meetings where I speak up about problems that make our job more difficult, only to be directly undercut and contradicted by some of these brown nosers, who claim there is no problem, that its all the other aides fault. Whats infuriating is that in some cases these same people have complained countless times about the very things I brought up, but once in front of management they get all weak kneed and their suck up reflex kicks in, and they cant help but try to down other CNAs.

This cattiness seems to be a widespread phenomenom when it comes to CNAs, and its been the one thing Ive never been able to get used to after transitioning to health care from other fields. This is part of what makes this job so difficult, and its a driving force behind the ridiculously high employee turnover we have, and the appalling work conditions so many CNAs experience. We hire and fire so many aides I sometimes feel like Im working at some minimum wage fastfood job.

Sadly it is these aides who usually win the argument, as no DON wants to hear that their decisions might be wrong or making things unneccessarily hard. Its easier to just blame the aides for not working harder or being more competent. So it seems like the aides who last the longest and have the ear of management are the ones that are hardest on other aides and never object to any decision or care plan by those above them, even when doing so would improve patient care.

LeighaChristineSN · Jun 21, 2011

I'm fed up because: we are understaffed, we never get to spend enough time with the residents, the sign out front says "assisted living" so why the heck are they admitting people that require so much care, we are required to serve the 90+ residents dinner, that we work 8 hour shifts but do not get a single break, that the meanest resident in the place is the directors grandmother and so no matter how awful she is nothing is done about it when some residents get scolded for the silliest little things, that some co-workers tell the newly hired not to answer anybody elses call lights unless you are specifically asked even though you may be sitting doing nothing, the ungrateful residents, the fact that it is the same problem everyday with the same people, sore feet, pain in the back, missing gait belts, no more applesauce for people who need it making you late on your med pass, out of stock lancets or test strips, a million escorts in one hallway, stupid administravie staff, always being asked to work on your day off then feeling guilty when you say no even if it's your only day off in a nine day stretch, getting paid so little for a very taxing job, whing about charting mistakes that are not life and death, dietary aides that believe they are the bottom of the totem pole... Raise your hand if your unhappy with your job *raises hands* .

Bbo.W · Jun 21, 2011

I am sick of being sick!
:barf01:

ME TOO! I am tired of caring for people w/ upper respiratory infections/sinus infections/bronchitis/pneumonia w/ no masks or gowns! Also sick of my 4 kids catching the same bugs :-( If people are sick and I am responsible for providing care for them, the appropriate PPE would be helpful!

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Jun 21, 2011

brown nosing aides

RIGHT????

It's not about how hard you work or how good you are at your job... it's all about how good you are at kissing butt! Makes me sick!

Poi Dog · Jun 21, 2011

We can't rest for one second or we're getting nitpicked. It's like the facility isn't satisfied unless the CNAs are miserable. Every day they are doing something to make our jobs harder or picking on people about stupid things that don't matter. Always criticizing. Nothing is ever good enough. I'm so tired of it!

If that's the case, then my facility MUST be the happiest place on earth.

:smokin: