FED UP CNAS!!!!

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

I know what you mean about people getting pulled from your hall. There's one hall where I work that's full of incompetent dumbass aides who only work that hall. Then when someone calls out a CNA gets pulled from another hall, because they can't get their work done otherwise. Yet somehow these CNAs always seem to have something to say about the other halls, which they have never worked! It's like please shut up until you know what you're talking about... which is never going to happen because they don't rotate slow, stupid CNAs.

I have a couple aides that are exactly like this. There's about 2 or 3 of them that have been there for so many years that think it's their god given right to just work one hall. If there is even mention of working another hall, they have a fit. They are also, ironically, the main ones that complain if they have to work short, which they never do, because they are such babies about it.

Any time I needed help, the other CNA was always outside on a smoke break.

This REALLY gets on my nerves. I swear, it seems like I am the only person at my work that does not smoke. But for some reason, the 2 aides that I usually work with on my hall think that it's a good idea to go down and smoke at the same time leaving me with both their residents plus mine. On top of that, they never even tell me that they are going on break in the first place so I even know to watch their lights! No matter how many times I tell them that they need to tell me when they go out or I would like one of them to stay on the floor with me.. they just do what they want. I'm just too nice of a person to keep dealing with it I guess.

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Specializes in LTC.

Oh yeah, the girls I was talking about are the newest aides. They work on the same hall every day because they can barely handle their work on that one. Then they make their cocky little comments about other halls- newsflash- the reason a lot of us work multiple halls and you don't is because we can handle our jobs and YOU can't!

But we do have our fair share of aides who have been there a long time who have a fit if they don't get to work on "their" hall every day. I don't even understand that- I prefer to move around and have some variety.

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).
Oh yeah, the girls I was talking about are the newest aides. They work on the same hall every day because they can barely handle their work on that one. Then they make their cocky little comments about other halls- newsflash- the reason a lot of us work multiple halls and you don't is because we can handle our jobs and YOU can't!

But we do have our fair share of aides who have been there a long time who have a fit if they don't get to work on "their" hall every day. I don't even understand that- I prefer to move around and have some variety.

I second that! I worked at a horrible facility that had permanant assignments. The girl on the hall closest to me had people who didn't want her(race issue) and I had a guy that didn't want me(I looked young, he felt bad,etc.) We basically had to trade every dy because they wouldn't switch out the halls or move people around. Variety is nice. Next place i worked I was floated between four units and loved it. I guess all places are different.

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Fuzzy are those halls that you have in your facility catered specifically to certain types of patients? I ask because when I worked LTC, we had the Rehab Hallway that was the East Wing, Long Term was West Wing & Central, North Wing was Independent residents, and South Wing Alzheimers. Of course most wanted to work the North Wing, but I personally loved the East Wing because that was very much close to the hospital setting. The CNAs that were there for over 15-20 years would rotate into the North Wing because they didn't really need that many aides because they were pretty independent.

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I like working on the same hall/unit everyday simply because I know all of my residents needs, what they like/dont like, what time they go to bed, ETC..

On my section of my unit, I have 9 Residents and I could tell you everything about them. I like that I'm able to do this, it makes my job easier. Plus, they all know me by name and always tell me they miss me when I'm off... it really shows me how much they appreciate me. I occassionally work different sections on my unit just to get a break every now and then, but the aides I normally work with know that I will normally always take the middle section which works out because they don't like it much anyways.

If I'm asked to work on a totally different unit (not just section) I gladly do it. I like getting to change it up once in awhile, though it makes it harder since I'm not used to those residents/their needs. But I'm not going to complain about it or refuse to work, thats just childish.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
II'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!
You're absolutely correct. It doesn't take an hour to do the paperwork.

IT TAKES A LOT LONGER!

I work 16-hour weekend doubles as an LVN charge nurse and, although my shift ends at 10pm, I am often there until midnight completing paperwork. Sorry, but the companies that sign my (and your) paycheck mandate that I must complete their mountain of paperwork because it is how the facility gets reimbursed.

It is in my scope of practice to complete every single task you can complete, but there are many things you cannot help me with. I'll help you pass trays, but you cannot help me pass medications. I'll help you change the resident's brief, but you cannot help me with any of my paperwork.

Since I'm the type of person who helps pass trays, change diapers, dress and feed people, I end up having to stay several hours beyond the end of my shift to complete the mountains of paperwork. Sorry, but don't judge until you've walked a mile in my shoes.

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Specializes in Mostly geri :).
You're absolutely correct. It doesn't take an hour to do the paperwork.

IT TAKES A LOT LONGER!

I work 16-hour weekend doubles as an LVN charge nurse and, although my shift ends at 10pm, I am often there until midnight completing paperwork. Sorry, but the companies that sign my (and your) paycheck mandate that I must complete their mountain of paperwork because it is how the facility gets reimbursed.

It is in my scope of practice to complete every single task you can complete, but there are many things you cannot help me with. I'll help you pass trays, but you cannot help me pass medications. I'll help you change the resident's brief, but you cannot help me with any of my paperwork.

Since I'm the type of person who helps pass trays, change diapers, dress and feed people, I end up having to stay several hours beyond the end of my shift to complete the mountains of paperwork. Sorry, but don't judge until you've walked a mile in my shoes.

Aw, youre the kind of nurse I like. I will absolutely help aides when I get my license, but I do have to do my work to, I'll be the one with a license on the line.

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Specializes in LTC.
You're absolutely correct. It doesn't take an hour to do the paperwork.

IT TAKES A LOT LONGER!

I work 16-hour weekend doubles as an LVN charge nurse and, although my shift ends at 10pm, I am often there until midnight completing paperwork. Sorry, but the companies that sign my (and your) paycheck mandate that I must complete their mountain of paperwork because it is how the facility gets reimbursed.

It is in my scope of practice to complete every single task you can complete, but there are many things you cannot help me with. I'll help you pass trays, but you cannot help me pass medications. I'll help you change the resident's brief, but you cannot help me with any of my paperwork.

Since I'm the type of person who helps pass trays, change diapers, dress and feed people, I end up having to stay several hours beyond the end of my shift to complete the mountains of paperwork. Sorry, but don't judge until you've walked a mile in my shoes.

I was talking about other CNAs, not nurses. Where did I say I was talking about nurses? OUR paperwork does not take an hour, which is why I was complaining about people using it as an excuse to sit down doing nothing for that amount of time.

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I am fed up with my home health agency sending me on a 45 min. drive with no mileage reimbursement for hr. long cases!! I'm tired of telling them I want Mon-Fri cases, no evenings, no weekends, and them offering me cases that are the COMPLETE opposite of that! I'm sick of when they DO call me for cases, it's when I'm scheduled with a patient so I can't answer my cell phone, and then when I call them back after my shift, they say "oh nevermind we've already filled it!" and I'm fed up of only getting 15 hrs. per week for the last 6 MONTHS after having 1 of my permanent patients pass away and one of them being tranferred to a nursing home!!:down::banghead:

I've never done home health before, but don't they also work evening shifts and weekends too? From what your profile states, it doesn't seem that you have a lot of years experience working for home health, so isn't it a given that you would work weekends, and evenings? Is there senority in home health? Maybe that's why you're getting the crap shifts.

Regarding milage, write it down because it is a tax deduction. I was a consultant for a corporation before where I had to go to different places out of town within driving distance. I would write it off the milage on my taxes, it's work related.

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Specializes in LTC.
Fuzzy are those halls that you have in your facility catered specifically to certain types of patients? I ask because when I worked LTC, we had the Rehab Hallway that was the East Wing, Long Term was West Wing & Central, North Wing was Independent residents, and South Wing Alzheimers. Of course most wanted to work the North Wing, but I personally loved the East Wing because that was very much close to the hospital setting. The CNAs that were there for over 15-20 years would rotate into the North Wing because they didn't really need that many aides because they were pretty independent.

We have one rehab hall, one hall with all long-term total care residents with combative or disruptive behaviors, and 2 halls that have a mix of everything. We have a couple old CNAs that only work the rehab unit and I can totally understand that- I can't even picture them hauling ass up and down the hallway and getting beat up by residents! But then we have some people who are totally capable of working the other sections but they refuse to. I work rehab sometimes and it CAN get crazy busy over there, but you don't do any heavy lifting, people are not incontinent, and they wipe their own butts and feed themselves. I usually feel more like a waitress when I work over there.

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I have to agree, why does the CNA have TO DO EVERYTHING FOR EVERYBODY. What is housekeeping for? All they would do was go in there and mop up the floor half @$$3d in the patient room. They barely clean the toilets for them. Housekeeping SHOULD make the bed after they disinfect the room after a patient discharges. Housekeeping expects the CNAs to clean up poop from the floor before they will go in mop. They want the CNAs to move everything around for them before they clean. CNA's are Nurses Assistants, they assist the nurse not the housekeeper!

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Specializes in LTC.

I don't know about other places but at my facility the CNAs, laundry, and housekeeping all get the same crappy pay. We have no housekeeping on 3-11, so not only do we work with less staff, but we have to do our own cleaning.

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