FED UP CNAS!!!!

NurseCubanitaRN2b, BSN, RN · Jul 22, 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???!!!

I hope you reported both the DON & CNA. If not, I strongly suggest that you do because that patient is still in danger because of these two.

Miwila · Jul 23, 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.

And you still work there?? You must have a stomach of steel.

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Jul 23, 2009

Yeah, I actually really enjoy my job.

Oh but one thing that really aggravates me is when they have the schedule out, someone always calls off, and what hall that I'm working on always ends up losing a person. So 5 minutes into the shift you find out your load just got heavier. It's usually because of this one hall... all the girls on it are horrible. Slow, disorganized, no time management. They can't manage without the maximum number of aides. It happened tonight. I was on the hardest, heaviest hall and they took one of ours away to help the bad aides on theirs.

sasha2lady · Jul 23, 2009

I work in LTC...Im the charge nurse on 2nd shift. I worked as a cna for over 5 yrs before being a nurse...prior to that i worked in housekeeping and laundry. Good aides are soooo hard to come by...and when you have slack ones ...seems like they come in 10's! The better cnas are usually the ones who get stuck doing the most work from my experience. Sometimes when a nurse or whoever asks a good cna to do things that others should be doing its b/c the others give lip or whatever when asked to do their job. I think of it this way. If you apply and take on a job as a cna or a nurse...or whatever...once you sign that dotted line you agree that you are competent enough to perform that particular job therefore its your responsibility to do it. for example....i have a cna on my shift who is in her50's....she always wants the 'easy" hall b/c she says "im too old"....after hearing this for a year and complaining to the don that age isnt a requirement for a job......i finally told her that if she felt that she was too old to do her job then she should seek employment at a place where she could perform the job in which she is able to do. I stopped assigning her the "easy" hall and I rotate all my cnas out now. This cna is a chronic complainer,slacker, and puts off as much on the others as she can get by with. Sometimes it helps if you go directly to the slacker and say ..."hey....ive already done 3 of your people ....you need to come help me with mine and get your call lights"....etc. when i was an aide i always got stuck doing other peoples work.....now as a nurse i still get stuck doing my 8 hrs worth of work plus 4 more of other nurses work where they dont do it. .....it happens on all ends of the spectrum. And unless your place has a good administration....usually it just keeps happening. This is how mine is....our administrator could care less about staffing or our patients. they think only about money. I know they are sick of me and my mouth b/c for years i have asked for incentives for my cnas....esp the ones who stay over if needed or come in early if needed and the ones who never call in or go an extra step for people.......some of my aides did get a 50 dollar bonus in their check one time...wow.....one time for the hundreds of things they did. Ive even tried to get them a raise ...even a 10 cent raise would be appreciated. that still hasnt happened.....Ive tried to get them recognized .....still a no go on that one.

NurseCubanitaRN2b, BSN, RN · Jul 23, 2009

The sad thing Sasha is that these LTC facilities make MILLIONS in profit, but yet they can't awared their staff for putting up with the crap that they have to endure.

I've even had one administrator who had the gall to say to me "Well our facility already lost a million from last year" and I told her "No, they didn't lose a million, some idiot up in corporate predicted that we'd make more than what we actually made. Therefore that's where the million is coming from." I did say it in those exact words, because the guy really was an idiot!

Miwila · Jul 23, 2009

Yeah, I actually really enjoy my job.
Oh but one thing that really aggravates me is when they have the schedule out, someone always calls off, and what hall that I'm working on always ends up losing a person. So 5 minutes into the shift you find out your load just got heavier. It's usually because of this one hall... all the girls on it are horrible. Slow, disorganized, no time management. They can't manage without the maximum number of aides. It happened tonight. I was on the hardest, heaviest hall and they took one of ours away to help the bad aides on theirs.

I'm sorry but I just don't get the thinking of these nurses who think its somehow professional or even productive to yell at and be abusive towards CNA's.

marineswife0809 · Jul 24, 2009

Thanks everyone for replying to my post! Good get it off your chest!!!. But someone did mention about lpns and rns acting real stuck up even though they were cnas before. That really bothers me and its shows how prideful people really are. This is a job not a place to show off how many nursing degrees you have just to seem superior. @ the end of the day we all have someones lives in our hands! People let education make them so arrogant .dont get me wrong alot of cnas know more about the patients than the damn nurse!!

tokidoki7, ASN, RN · Jul 25, 2009

Thanks everyone for replying to my post! Good get it off your chest!!!. But someone did mention about lpns and rns acting real stuck up even though they were cnas before. That really bothers me and its shows how prideful people really are. This is a job not a place to show off how many nursing degrees you have just to seem superior. @ the end of the day we all have someones lives in our hands! People let education make them so arrogant .dont get me wrong alot of cnas know more about the patients than the damn nurse!!

I'm glad you mentioned this because I've been having increasingly frequent contact with *some* nursing assistants who are nursing-student-know-it-alls. I find them to be very condescending, not helpful at all. We're all co-workers on the same playing field, but some of them think that they are superior- that they are nurses already- and like to dictate and tsk-tsk at the way things are done by other nursing assistants, especially over trivial matters. There is nothing humble about that at all. It seems like a self-esteem issue to me, like "I am a nursing assistant, but I am more educated and better than that other nursing assisant who does the same work that I do but I must show him/her my- I mean- the right way to do things to show how important I am!"

pca_85 · Jul 25, 2009

Ooooooo, I have some more! To the lovely young women eating the unresponsive patients candy:yes, its wrong, I hope it tastes funny, three of your lights are going off, a faller of yours is walking, hey-look at that expiration date! Were you even born by that date? Sorry to say, thats what you get. First place I worked we had a very sweet lady who was in the end stages of cancer and very sociable, for her last month she wasnt allowed in the dining room because the kitchen staff, who didn't smell like a rose garden themselves, were soooo offended by the smell :madface:Ive figured out that there are two kinds of aides, those who wear gloves and bag soiled items, and those who embrace the poop. My goal, being the first kind, is to survive my day without the second kind touching me, my patients, my car, or my food. Can it be done?

GCTMT · Jul 25, 2009

Ooooooo, I have some more! To the lovely young women eating the unresponsive patients candy.

That makes me so angry. I hate it when aides steal candy from the residents. Newsflash! IT'S NOT YOURS!!!

I won't even take candy when it is offered. We're not there to take from them, we're there to give.

qhjumper · Jul 25, 2009

I agree that the work is hard and LTC is understaffed! The nurses are lazy and complain about how hard charting is lol! I got my CNA so thatI could get exp in the medical field while going to nursing school. I will for sure treat my CNA's with respect when I'm done. What bothers me is that the patients are the ones who suffer because nurses have to chart...or really they need to talk and text! I think it's sad that LTC gets the short end of the stick.

qhjumper · Jul 25, 2009

However, I will say that there are the select few great nurses where I work and sometimes the CNA's are lazy as well. I just get frustrated altogether when patients suffer do to lazy staff!