Help with brand new CNA

[LPN9200]

I'm new to a facility and a new ISH nurse. Recently our facility graduated some new CNAs and one has come to work full time on my hallway. She'a a great girl who is excellent with the residents. The only problem is that she is exceptionally slow. She has been on the floor for a month now and every single night I work with her, the slower she seems to get. Tonight was particularly rough, at end of shift she still had 4 residents who needed washed up/dressed for bed/put into bed, ect. Her rooms were a mess, linens not cleaned up, briefs left in rooms and this was after I alone had taken care of 3 of her other residents including a shower. I'm highly involved with actual care. I toilet, I shower if possible, and I have no problem helping with night care, but it's becoming a problem when I have to struggle to complete MY work on time in order to help her complete hers. My question is how can I approach this with her and help her out? I truly believe that she has the potential to be a wonderful CNA if we can just get to the bottom of her issues. Any time I try to approach her she just tells me "I know my job, I'm just slow." Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should handle this? A self identified weakness of my definitely falls into the supervisor roll I've taken on so I'm somewhat at a loss and still learning on how best to handle situations like this.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Just because you have observed this, it does not mean you have to manage it. Report your observations to management . She needs more experience , in order to get up to speed. She may need additional orientation.

You could have her team up with a more experienced assistant to show her what it takes to get up to speed.

YOUR patient care comes first. You are new yourself, and should not take on CNA duties, because the CNA is struggling.

[LPN9200]

I have approached management after a meeting we had where she asked input on the new CNAs working my hall. At that point I had mentioned possibly placing her back on orientation or scheduling her with one of my strongest CNAs to learn from but my DON just kind of brushed it off and said she was new and that she would learn as she goes. I can agree to a point. But I feel like she should be at least a LITTLE more advanced than she is at this point. Maybe I'm expecting too much but working with her is truly exhausting and I would hate to see someone as outstanding at actual care go because of her inability to adapt and progress. The other CNAs don't seem to care too much about helping her either which is frustrating.