FED UP CNAS!!!!

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

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.

Being mandated blows and makes it tough to stick to plans or have a life. My issue is that I dislike being forced to do anything :smokin:

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

I'm tired of hearing "that's not my patient"

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Specializes in Psych, LTC/SNF, Rehab, Corrections.

Well - I've gone to homehealth. A/O last week.

The final straw --> 91 residents for 3 CNAs...on DAYshift.

I was trying to stock the linen closet when I was told, "I don't think 'so and so' came to work...so, I'm working room 17-32 and you're working -- "

If I hadn't cared about leaving my coworkers high and dry or the residents who will suffer the most in situations like this, I would've walked out right then.

*sigh*

So, to ******** Care and Rehab? Thanks for the nice referral. This one's for you:

1. DEAR James, the ASDON...if you knew how to hire employees, we wouldn't have so many call-offs. Hell's wrong with your selection criteria? QUALITY over QUANTITY. Get some employees with some integrity and character and stop hiring these ghetto banshees.

2. "Chuck'... Remember when you saw me, told me to check a call-light and I looked at you crazy? I meant that. You apologized...but, I still meant it.

In fact, I will continue to give you 'crazy' looks everytime you see me pouring down sweat, hauling booty with arms filled striding from room to room and volunteer me to do more work.

You see us busting butt out here. Why the hell can't YOU just get the d*mned call-light? It's not like you're actually doing anything.

Heck, you can 'do nothing' in your office...and I wish that you'd take your micromanaging a..s back over there.

3. 'Adrianna'...I like you but I don't like tag-teaming with you. You do everything last minute, then you're always begging for help. You create more work for everyone and that's why the halls are scarce when you're on the floor. I keep telling myself that I'm going to leave you to do your own work in your own time, but...*sigh*

4. 'Chuck'...get the hell outta here! If Mr R -- wants some water...why can't you simply go get it? Besides antagonizing the aides, why the hell else are you walking the halls...if not to see about the residents?

5. My fellow coworkers. I swear to God...if I come on shift to another set of brown rings on these pads, I will scream. You knew that the pad was wet!

6. My fellow coworkers...what the hell, man? If I freakin' ask you to help me move MR D --...just freakin' do it! I'm not asking 'just because'. The dude's heavy, a 'wetter' and, yes - he needs to be changed. I give it about 30 minutes before the d*mned diaper is soaked!

7. I'm the last to know everything in my dept and I like it that way. You broads spend entirely too much time in everyone's business. No wonder that you can't get things done.

8. If this is what's going to pass for quality elder care...that's a shame. If my children put me in a home, I will disown them.

9. Thanks to the good aides and nurses. Will miss the laughs. You outnumber the bad.

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Well - I've gone to homehealth. A/O last week.

The final straw --> 91 residents for 3 CNAs...on DAYshift.

Cool. I bugged out to do Home Health, too, for pretty much the same reasons. If there was staffing enough to cover call-offs, there would be a lower attrition rate of CNA's in long-term care. Yep.

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Specializes in CNA.
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.

Why isn't there some kind of State/Federal law stating a fair Resident to CNA ratio?

This is a life threating disaster waiting to happen. NOT directed to "yousoldtheworld", but that is just plain unsafe.

Cripes, they have laws mandating how many Caretakers a Day Care Center must have. Laws regarding how many people can occupy a restaurant, movie theater and buses. Yet, something as serious as health care and nada...Not right at all.:down:

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I always thought there was, but I don't know. Someone told me that the law only pertains to geriatric facilities, and that those laws don't pertain to a pediatric facility? I have no idea if that's true or not.

At any rate, It IS a disaster, and luckily most of the time we can get a couple of the aides from the previous shift to stay over and help...but there has been once or twice where we have had approximately 30 apiece. The other weekend is staffed, it's just the weekend I work that is like that. Then management wants to complain if not everyone gets their showers, or rooms aren't properly straightened. Apparently we're supposed to be superwomen.

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Specializes in Orthopaedic Nursing; Geriatrics.
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.

I am embarassed at how many of my fellow nurses - both RN and LPN - treat the CNA's. It's uncalled for, rude, and mean. We DO know how to answer call lights, change beds and depends, feed, ambulate, pass water - heck, we know how to do everything you do! So there is no excuse for them not to assist if they are not in the middle of a med pass or something very time sensitive. I've seen it too and it pis**s me off big time. But please know that these same horses behinds usually treat the other nurses like that too. No help. Belittle. I'm an RN with a BSN and have been treated that way by both RN's and LPN's. I honestly think it is because I WILL work alongside the aides - as it should be.

All I can say is stay strong- your residents and patients need you, and so do the good nurses. I know I appreciate the CNA's I work with. And they know it. :yeah::redbeathe

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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!! I couldnt have said it better myself. This is the same way I feel. We have "fine dining" at our facility, and if something happens when you're working in the dining room, its still your fault and it was your assignment. Smh, well don't pick me to work in dining then. One girl got caught faking vitals. She was out the door quicker than a prostitute on the street, but a Physical Therapy assistant can be ambulating a pt with a gait belt and they drop her and she's rushed to The hosp with a broken leg, and its ok. He still has a job. This healthcare field needs some real help.

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This is the major one:

Other things that have me fed up are:

LVNs that act like they can't touch a resident and are too high above the aids to do anything the aides have to do; vitals, give a resident a sip of water when they ask for it, help aides pull up a resident, etc. You know what I mean I'm sure all of you aides have dealt with this! Grrr....

Some times nurses act like their **** don't stink. When all the other cnas are busy and you're standing right outside a room I'm in and you're looking at papers on your cart, I ask you to help me with a boost, but you tell me you're waaaayy too busy to step inside this room for 2 seconds. It really ticks me off. But you can stand in The hall and you're phone is going off and you're texting and talking on it like nobody's business, that's all gravy. But when I take out my phone to look at the time, you're ready to run to the unit manager.

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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!

Now that facility should be shut down or reprimanded.

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Oh, and I forgot to mention, we used to have fruit punch and sugar free punch, now our patients have water, watered down unsweet tea, milk and Cranberry juice. Wow, right??

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I am sick of coworkers who become deaf whenever a call light goes off.

I am sick of coworkers. Period!!!!

I am sick of being sleep derpived.

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