So fast forward from LVN graduation, NCLEX testing, passing, and getting my first job. I've been at my current employer for over half a year. Like most new grads I was tossed to the sharks. (Don't get me wrong I'm thankful I have a job) I used to dread going in the first two months because I felt like I was expected to perform superiorly things I was not trained to do. I progressed greatly because I discovered quick yet efficient ways to do things. The whole time I didn't doubt my love for nursing, this is what I want to do.
Here is my problem.
I work predominantly with females and a few MDs.
They are very cliquey (talk about each other's lives in front of patients, discuss gossip etc)
Have noticed I am a hard worker so they get lazy.
Ostracize you because you don't love to get drunk or have promiscuous sex or pretend that you do and kiss their ass.
I don't go to work to make friends, but it frustrating because I feel alone.
It ****** me off. I've already told the supervisor and she doesn't really do anything about it. I feel like the harder I work the more lazy the people I work with will be. I'm not lazy because I know if I don't do tasks we'll be staying overtime. I've even told them to pick it up. I'm out of ideas. I know I can probably get a new job in a few months, but what if I go to another one and everyone is the same? Sigh.
I feel the pain you fellow nurses have. I work with a CNA that everytime I turn around she is a sleep. I have said something to her many times and it just isn't getting in her head that I mean business. She falls asleep standing up talking to residents. OMG. I do her job plus mine and still get more done then she does. I dread the nights I work with her b/c I know that by 0100 I am going to be rethinking how much caffine I need and the APAP.
The other night we were in a resident's room doing final bed checks and I was getting BS and doing my 0600 med pass. While I am doing the BS she feel asleep emptying the foley bag with her head leaning on the bed. I tapped her HARD to wake her up. First words out of her mouth was " I wasn't asleep!" WHATEVER!!! To her one call light I do four, and I am in the room with these people while they are on the toliet. The room she is in the bathroom call lights goes off, where is she when 4 other lights have gone off in this time. Asleep in a chair. Gone to DON have said something many times she still has a job.
Are you sure she doesn't have narcolepsy?!! I can't imagine falling asleep standing up, or while emptying a cath bag! Wow! I have an aide (who, thankfully, I only get assigned to every once in awhile) who used to be a housekeeper in the facility where we work. Evidently, she hasn't gotten over being a housekeeper because she is always and forever "deep cleaning" empty rooms at night "to help out the girls" while I'm stuck catching lights all night. Now, mind you, I have no problem whatsoever of catching the lights, but she fails to realize that I have a job to do as well. Since sitting there behind the desk with a gazillion charts, piles of papers, and totes full of dc'd meds to return wasn't clue enough, I had to explain what my duties were so that she would realize that I wasn't there as a decoration. I was also informed that she was told (by other aides) NOT to answer lights during the last bedcheck, that's what the nurses were for. ?!! Soooo, these meds are going to pass themselves? Wouldn't that be handy?
Bluegeegoo2 she states she does but @ the same time she has been pregnant with twin, miscarried the next day. Heart conditions, whines about kid problems when they have 3 kids of their own and lives @ home and state takes the kids. The list goes on about her problems daily. It is always something new.
This one gets me, I come back from break to a call light going off. Looked around for her, can't find her. So I gather some things I know I need to get this lady to bed b/c that is what she wants. 5 minutes later stuff in hand, I look up and she is getting a mug of coffee, with the call light still going off. I go in thinking okay she will follow. 30 minutes later I walk out to get some supplies that were gone in the room she is on the couch with shoes off with clippers in hand. I state "What are doing?" She states calmly "Playing with my feet." "You are playing with your feet while I put ------ down for bed." About 20 minutes later, yeah it takes awhile to put this women down, I am tossing the trash that I have gathered in her room, and the dirty towels in a bag out the door. She walks in takes a look around and smooth walks out without picking up the bags of trash and laundry. Mean to say I got done about 10 minutes later. Threw the bags where they go and smooth walked right by her and went to another area to cool down b/c it would of been :argue: God help me, I am here to help people but am I suppose to do it all.
Later, that night I am chatting with a nurse discussing how to help with another issue, and she is @ the computer satting in a chair. I happened to look over and she is a sleep again. I stated very clear, get out of the chair stand up and do your charting.
I don't answer the call lights when the CNA's are purposely hiding in the break room, or a resident's room. We have a pager system, where the CNA's get the call lights buzzed to their pagers 1st, then after 10 minutes it comes to us, and we are supposed to attend to it. I will check and make sure the resident is ok, but then i ignore it. I let the aides get in trouble. I am sick of putting up with their crap. After 13 & 1/2 years, and a managerial staff that doesn't support me, they can forget about it. I know what battles to pick.
"Bluegeegoo2 she states she does but @ the same time she has been pregnant with twin, miscarried the next day. Heart conditions, whines about kid problems when they have 3 kids of their own and lives @ home and state takes the kids. The list goes on about her problems daily. It is always something new. :banghead:"
Ohhhhh! One of "them"! There is always one, isn't there? :smackingf
Sounds like that CNA may have other issues. She is downright dangerous.
Does your facility allow for random drugs screens? Something to think about.
Have made the suggestion, but who am I but a nurse that works with on a regular basis.
After getting on to her for months for sleeping she had the balls today while I am giving report to the oncoming nurse falls asleep @ the computer doing her charting.
Wouldn't that be handy?
"You are playing with your feet while I put ------ down for bed." About 20 minutes later, yeah it takes awhile to put this women down, I am tossing the trash that I have gathered in her room, and the dirty towels in a bag out the door. She walks in takes a look around and smooth walks out without picking up the bags of trash and laundry. 
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I feel the pain you fellow nurses have. I work with a CNA that everytime I turn around she is a sleep. I have said something to her many times and it just isn't getting in her head that I mean business. She falls asleep standing up talking to residents. OMG. I do her job plus mine and still get more done then she does. I dread the nights I work with her b/c I know that by 0100 I am going to be rethinking how much caffine I need and the APAP.
The other night we were in a resident's room doing final bed checks and I was getting BS and doing my 0600 med pass. While I am doing the BS she feel asleep emptying the foley bag with her head leaning on the bed. I tapped her HARD to wake her up. First words out of her mouth was " I wasn't asleep!" WHATEVER!!! To her one call light I do four, and I am in the room with these people while they are on the toliet. The room she is in the bathroom call lights goes off, where is she when 4 other lights have gone off in this time. Asleep in a chair. Gone to DON have said something many times she still has a job.