I recently left my job at a very cushy well known research hospital to work at a federal hospital, taking care of a certain population. I love what I do, and who I do it for, but on this new floor there is NO teamwork.
There is one particular CNA (we only have 3 day shift CNAs) who just will not do her job, and will attack the nurses who ask her to do her job. I watched one day as a nurse had two cath lab patients arrive at the same time. THe charge nurse asked a CNA, in front of the other bad CNA to take vitals on one of them. The bad CNA then waited for the assigned nurse to come around to scold her for asking for help. The assigned nurse told her that she never asked for help, and didn't ask the charge nurse to seek it out either.
Last week, I had 3 discharges all scheduled for 1530. At 1400, I looked at the assignment sheet to make sure one particular one was hers before I asked her to dress him (a 95 year old man) in preparation to leave. I had to find her in the break room, talking to someone from another ward, on her cell phone texting, and eating fruit. I waited for there to be a pause in her conversation before I asked her to help me. She told me she did not have that room (she did, that's why I got my ducks in a row before I asked) and that was that.
How do I handle it without having a verbal altercation with her? I would go to my manager, but I honestly don't think that will help. I used to be a PCT, and a secretary, so I know where everyone is coming from, and I never would have dreamed of acting like that. Its to the point now, where I want to be passive aggressive and not help any of the nurses who have her assigned to their patients, because I don't want to pick up her slack.
I am tempted to start keeping a written record of all of the things that are done or not done, so that when I do ask to transfer to another position, its all in black in white. It also makes me glad that I chose not to receive the sign on bonus, and I am not stuck on this unit for 2 years.
1st there will always be an ASS---- @work so make sure your not dealing with it, cause its not worth it .On what I see an Employee Insuburdination happens always and has a deeperreason (i.e supervisor is bossy or employee is lazy) sometimes this two reason were not realize that this is the situation causing the problem between the employees If we only dig deeper the Why is my CNA is not obeying me as a charge you would'nt asking these type o f question And as for the CNA's samething why does my Charge Nurse wont stop asking me doing this things ,then If youfigured out the answer to this question im sure there will be no problem to both of you like they always say Team Work ,well on a very stressing job dont expect everyone will cooperate thats why you and your supervisor atleast must work together put aside that ooooooooooh there are more nursing homes
Yeesh.....I would love to know where I could get paid to sit around texting and eating and refusing to do my actual job.
With the number of unemployed people struggling to find work right now, this kind of thing really makes me angry. Why should SHE have that job when someone willing to work can't find one? And talk about poor management. It fries me that my tax dollars are paying people like that.
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1st there will always be an ASS---- @work so make sure your not dealing with it, cause its not worth it .On what I see an Employee Insuburdination happens always and has a deeperreason (i.e supervisor is bossy or employee is lazy) sometimes this two reason were not realize that this is the situation causing the problem between the employees If we only dig deeper the Why is my CNA is not obeying me as a charge you would'nt asking these type o f question And as for the CNA's samething why does my Charge Nurse wont stop asking me doing this things ,then If youfigured out the answer to this question im sure there will be no problem to both of you like they always say Team Work ,well on a very stressing job dont expect everyone will cooperate thats why you and your supervisor atleast must work together put aside that ooooooooooh there are more nursing homes