Published Nov 3, 2011
ronss
2 Posts
i work at a nursing home, 60 yr male, certified nursing assisstant...been taking care of this resisdent for months, she gets a new room mate, and the first day i am working with the old resident, the new resident turns me into the nurse...she said i did not treat the older resident right, and did not like the way i talked to her.....i was changing brief on older lady, she has colon problem and severe diareah.....i told her i could not continue changing her with a new briefs, since she is non-stop sometimes with the diareah, but i do the best i can with her, and i allways leave with a new brief.**************For some reason, the new resident did not like to hear this, and turned me in.....when i started to work with the older resisdent, the new resident had a friend there, and i asked him to leave ...i could tell they did not like this...the new resisdent might had a motivation to lie about me since i asked her friend to leave the room while changing the older resident*****
the older resisdent expects me to leave with a new brief on , i leave the room with a clean one on, and answer her lights properly...
i sometimes make the remark that i could not change briefs continiouisly , but i really did not mean it, and did allways change her with with a new one...the older resident did realize that she had a problem...and did not take this litteally, but the new resisdent did..
i realized the day before i got sent home , that my choice of words where not appropiate with the new resident, though the older resident , it was not a problem... but still , i should not be saying that...i an aware of my mistake now ...
i am not under investigation, got sent home today,,,,,i told the unit manager that i did say that i could not change briefs continiously, i stated because of her condtion.....that was wrong...
is there anyway i can resolve this correctly, i did not know i would get in so much trouble from a new resident,,,,,,the older resident did not complain......but again, i admit that i have been saying the wrong thing
CNA2day
197 Posts
you should not say to a resident that you can not change their brief constantly... how would you feel if you had stool on you because you had an issue. I doubt it was something that they wanted to have happen many times a day.
your post is confusing. are you saying you did not always give her a clean brief to wear when you cleaned her up?