I am a new LPN. I have had my license for 8 months now. I have worked at my current facility (LTC) for 7 months. But I recently changed shifts. I now work weekend opt. I love the hours and being able to be at home all week with my kids, but the CNA's that work my unit, well, basically are horrible. They have worked this shift for (most of them, there are 4) at least 2 years. They are good aids for the most part. They only work 16 hour shifts Sat. and Sun., which in my opinion is too many hours for any CNA to work. Being a CNA is hard work, I know, I was one before I became a nurse. I have a lot of respect for CNA's, but only for those who have respect for their charge nurses, which they do not. They truly feel they run that unit and anything the charge nurses ask them to do, they take great offense too. Unfortunately about 2 weeks ago, I had a horrible experience with a patient who climbed out of bed and fell face first and hit the floor. This patient suffered some pretty serious injuries. I felt horrible, had to endure a lot of paperwork and sit in on many meetings with my supervisors, luckily the patient is fine, and is back with us. But now I am even more cautious and aware of what is going on on my unit. And the past few weekends I have noticed that some patients were not put into pajamas for bed, personal alarms not on, mats not down for those in low beds, and this is the kicker, a certain resident, 2 weekends in a row I found had no O2 on, which is to be on at all times. When I approached the CNA's about this, they became very defensive. Although, we talked, I thought it went well, and that was that. I came in that night, (I work 12 hour shifts) and they weren't speaking to me or the other nurse, they behind our backs, called the ADON in for a meeting at 10pm, I had no idea that they did this. So, during our "meeting" these 4 CNA's were yelling at the top of their lungs at the two nurses and the ADON. A truly pathetic display of immaturity and disrespect. These are the things that you are not taught in nursing school. The DON has now called a meeting with the two nurses involved, the 4 CNA's and the ADON. They say it's the nurses chance, and theirs, to let these CNA's know who is in charge. I'm not sure that this meeting is going to go well. I have a truly bad feeling about it. I have never had any trouble like this before with CNA's. I normally have no problem with them. I'm told it's just a "power struggle", but there should be NO power struggle, I'm the charge nurse.....period. Any suggestions on this problem would be greatly appreciated.