FED UP CNAS!!!!

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

I am tired of the inconsistencies. One CNA was mandated to work 4 hours and then when I got mandated, I had to do 8 hours. Why? Because that aide is buddies with the DON. I did ask why I had to do the whole shift and was told to "suck it up.":argue::no::banghead:

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I can't stand gossip!!! It is pretty bad where I work, especially since there are only like ten of us that rotate shifts! It creates such a negative environment. And it's sad, because we work in a beautiful home with two very sweet clients, and it could be a very relaxed place. I think some people are just unhappy, and bring it to work.....ugh.....but there is absolutely no need to badmouth anyone you work with! So for me, it's not the job itself that I'm frustrated with, it's the "ya-ya" as everyone there calls it...yep, it's actually got a NAME. Guess the best thing to do is just come in and do my work, and focus on the clients.

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Specializes in LTC, L&D.

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i love my job as a cna. at my place of work the residents are not as demanding as some nursing homes. i however do not like working with demanding nurses who pick on me because i am a "newbie" and i am "quiet" and so that is her reason for not trusting me. one particular nurse followed me around most of the shift when she should be doing her job (charting..lol) and she complains to everyone "she is not superwoman" when she doesn't even lift a finger to answer a simple call light. she has a smokers voice and is loud and is always gossiping so everyone hears her. i refuse to be a nurse's pet and it is killing her. i also don't like working with lazy cnas who complain that it isn't right to be paid so low for a hard job, when she should just do her job. i have been physically and verbally abused but usually are the ones that aren't all there. i like my job i just wish they paid me more. the residents always tell me thank-you when i tell them that it is the end of my shift. i like being on my feet all day and i like feeling like i deserve a hot meal and rest at the end of the day. i love my job and am only fed up with bossy nurses!.

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).

OMG if I hear one more person call a brief a diaper..........................................

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OMG if I hear one more person call a brief a diaper..........................................

HAHAHAHA! Yeah, I know right ? We had a really cute little lady who had a suprapubic catheter but also wore Attends for bowel issues......she used to say to me.......'I think you need to change my Pampers' whenever she had a BM. :clown:

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Ohhh I am real fed up today..... just a warning.

I can't stand:

-Management is probably #1. And everyone who kisses managements a$$. I am DONE doing favors for them, coming in on my days off, coming in early, staying late, etc. No, I will not come in at 7 pm when you have asked me only an hour before and I'm already working an overnight shift. I will not come in and cover the shift when you can't even staff our shift. No, I don't care that you're desperate. Here's an idea: why don't you come in on your precious time off and work a weekend shift for once? You're on call once a month, you don't even know half of the residents names, so hey- here's your chance to learn!

-Not enough supplies yet the administrator has conveniently bought new curtains for the sitting room.

-Call outs, call outs, call outs! I highly doubt youre actually sick 10 times a month, and if you are, maybe its time.for a physical at the doctors.

-Nurses who don't help. We actually have a nurse who literally sits on their butt and watches us run around with sweat dripping off our foreheads... then has the nerve to ask us to get a blood pressure for a antihypertensive medication. No one wants to work with this.particular nurse, but according to management they have rainbows shooting out of their butt, and everyone should be more like this nurse. Then the nurses who go above and beyond get treated like crap by a the bigwigs.

.....Ok, I feel a little better now =)

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ohhh i am real fed up today..... just a warning.

i can't stand:

-management is probably #1. and everyone who kisses managements a$$. i am done doing favors for them, coming in on my days off, coming in early, staying late, etc. no, i will not come in at 7 pm when you have asked me only an hour before and i'm already working an overnight shift. i will not come in and cover the shift when you can't even staff our shift. no, i don't care that you're desperate. here's an idea: why don't you come in on your precious time off and work a weekend shift for once? you're on call once a month, you don't even know half of the residents names, so hey- here's your chance to learn!

i agree. i am expected to do my job and do my job well. who ever it is that is responsible for staffing, should do their job and do their job well. i have found it is often the scheduler's own fault for inadequate staffing (at least where i work). not my problem.

-not enough supplies yet the administrator has conveniently bought new curtains for the sitting room.

you can point that out to the administrator... but these items always seem to be purchased from "another budget". i'm sure.

-call outs, call outs, call outs! i highly doubt youre actually sick 10 times a month, and if you are, maybe its time.for a physical at the doctors.

and so those who do not call in will be made to feel guilty, for sure, when they finally do.

what these people call in fail to realize is that it is a good day to work when you are well-staffed... why not come in?

if everyone would just come in, work wouldn't be something to avoid, now would it??

-nurses who don't help. we actually have a nurse who literally sits on their butt and watches us run around with sweat dripping off our foreheads... then has the nerve to ask us to get a blood pressure for a antihypertensive medication. no one wants to work with this.particular nurse, but according to management they have rainbows shooting out of their butt, and everyone should be more like this nurse. then the nurses who go above and beyond get treated like crap by a the bigwigs.

that nurse sounds lazy. she would be smarter to get her own vitals when she gives her meds.

also, love the "rainbows shooting out the butt" comment. i never heard that before and now i've read it twice here on an. still cracks me up!

.....ok, i feel a little better now =)

i always thought the worst part of being a cna was being viewed as a stupid dog's body. very demoralizing.

give me all the heavy work, run my legs down to stumps, send me here there and everywhere, i'll juggle 10 things at once... all with done by me whilst i enjoy the thrill of adrenalin...

but don't treat me like i'm stupid.

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OK I can't stand it anymore. I need to post something, so *ahem* here it is: I was fed up when I worked in LTC by the way poor communication between departments made us CNA's feel like the trouble we'd go through to get needed specimens was all for nothing. Case in point: A lady in the Special Care Unit who has 4 different alarm systems on her bed (bed sensor, tabs, floor sensor and motion detector!) and 2 on her wheelchair (she was a notorious fall risk)......we began to suspect that she had a UTI because of her foul-smelling urine and the fact that every 20 minutes she demanded to be toileted. It took 3 specimen collections and more than a week before she got any treatment for this bad infection. Remember this lady is a fall risk who frequently tries to toilet herself, she did fall once during this time period because she couldn't wait for us to help her. The 'hat' used to collect the specimen is tricky to use because it's a cheap disposable one that we have to wash and reuse....so it took several attempts before a specimen was collected. I took the bottled specimen to the nurse's station, only to have the nurse fail to give it to the courier who takes it to the hospital lab. A couple of days later we got another specimen and asked the nurse -- PLEEEEEASE get this to the hospital......this time the courier was the one who forgot to take it. Holy hell !!!! Third time's a charm, we got the sample to the nurse who actually didn't forget to give it to the courier who managed to stumble her way to the hospital and voila!!! Yes!!!! The resident in question actually had a UTI for which she was finally prescribed anti-biotics!!! Woo-hoo!! Let's all congratulate ourselves !!!! She had to wait a whole week with a very painful difficult problem for us to get around to treating it!!! Let's hear it for long-term care..............****raspberry*******

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Five days in a new position at a hospital where I work a different unit every day and I can already tell you that I'm sick of the nurses who treat others with ZERO respect. I am new, but I am NOT dumb. I went to school for 3 months, and did 6 weeks of clinicals but that does NOT mean that I was taught or experienced how to do EVERYTHING on each unit of the hospital. No I don't know what the beeping on the IV pumps means (your the nurse, isn't that your job?), no I have never had to unhook a patient from a gastric suction machine (but I'd be more than happy to have you show me so that NEXT time I'll know what to do), yes it would be nice if a patient is npo post op if you'd actually put the damn NPO sign on the front of the chart (It would save me time from having to flip through every single chart before handing out trays/waters). And for Petes sake.....if you have asked me to do something and I haven't had a chance yet that is because I'm already busy doing something else. You are not the only person who needs something. Don't feel like your above everyone else from answering a call light....rather than standing there looking at the light and waiting for me to come out from another room that I'm busy in..how about you go and see if there is anything you can do!!!!

Seriously...I know there are good nurses because I've worked with them. I don't know what the H e double hockey sticks is wrong with some of these nurses that they feel it's acceptable to behave this way. I guess they find it acceptable when the dr.'s talk down on them or treat them like they have nothing to do????? hmmmmm???? I don't think so.

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What I'm fed up with right now? ON my weekend to work, lately they schedule only 3 aides. We have 8 aides when we are fully staffed. That means, 3 aides scheduled to care for 88 total care residents. That's almost 30 apiece. I could just cry.

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sick of being mandated for another full shift, getting off, and going back in 6 freaking hours later to do a full shift. it is complete bs, if you ask me.

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I thought my work was the only place that mandated people. I thought almost all other facilities just work short staffed. For people who are complaining about working short, it could be worse, you could be forced to work 16 hours straight on a regular basis, then have to be back at work 8 hours later. Short staffing certainly isnt good for the residents though, so I can understand why were mandated, but still sucks, and makes going to school almost impossible.

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