I am so sick of hearing attitudes from aides. I'm sick of it up to my chin. I can't hear it anymore. I think if an aide gives me attitude tomorrow I am going to flip out. I don't know what to do. They don't want to clean patients, turn patients, take vitals, get water, do a blood sugar, do I/Os, help patients to the bathroom, answer call lights, or anything! I shouldn't have to remind them to do their job... Oh but when I do because it isn't done all I get is attitude. All day with my 6 patients I did my job and I did their job. When I page them over head they don't answer. So i have to stop what I'm doing to put the pt on the bedpan, take them off, get water, ect ect.. I don't mind helping out.. I help out more than most nurses!!! But yet they still give me crap. Most of these aides have been working here for years.. Instead of setting a good example for the younger aides they are teaching them how to have an attitude..
I'm going to my director tomorrow. I can't put up with it anymore.. Either something has to change or I'm leaving. I love my job.. But I hate dealing with this everyday... Every nurse is sick of it.
They aren't even giving baths!! It is absolutely absurd. We've had this problem for a while.. The DON will talk to them and they'll act better for maybe 2 weeks, then it is back to the same ol' attitude.
Are there not any good CNAs anymore? Where are they?
I'm just going to write everything up from now on... EVERYTHING. I've already spoken to them about it numerous times... Either I'm going to write it up.. Or I'm going to say.. Okay well let's walk to the DON's office and take it up with her....
Tiger
I'm glad you're taking a stand and writing them up. They have been allowed to get away with this too long. You'll need to document everything. Also go up the chain of command if the DON doesn't back you up. What they are doing is neglect and can be reported to the agency that licensed them. Please let us know what happens.
Have you ever worked as a CNA? Perhaps they have too much to do. They aren't superhuman. I work my tail off, and it is never enough.
There are a lot of hardworking CNAs out there who have too much to do and not enough time due to the short staffing. That's why nurses and CNAs have issues with the one's who don't do their job out of laziness, and neglect pts. Those are the ones who cause their co-workers to have too much to do.
There are a lot of hardworking CNAs out there who have too much to do and not enough time due to the short staffing. That's why nurses and CNAs have issues with the one's who don't do their job out of laziness, and neglect pts. Those are the ones who cause their co-workers to have too much to do.
I work in a nursing home at times, and I do page the CNAs to answer call lights. While I do not feel that I am above the task, you must bear in mind that LPNs in nursing home have 30 to 40 residents that they have to pass medications to, do g-tube feeding, wound care and chart on; not to mention any acute happenings. I never even get to each lunch when I work. So, sorry if CNAs are insulted, but that is why you are there, TO WORK.
That is not teamwork IMO. It doesn't take much to answer a call light while a CNA is busy with another resident. While you are paging them the resident could be suffering from a stroke. This has happened before, a patient was having chest pains and she pulled her call light and none of the RN/LPNs around answered it, they just presumed that a CNA would get it, and she ended up falling to the floor and dying.
Is passed by midnight and yup I am really sad reading what you say.
You know what are the real problems: COMMUNICATION and MONEY!
And belive me is not as much about the money how much is about communication.
So your CNAs are lazy, yuh????? Did you ask one moment why? Did you stayed one second in their shoes? Why they are lazy, because they have 2-3-4 childrean and they are the only one who work in family, or because last night her husband abused her, or because is depressed because her husband was died and her only child for who sacrifice her own life is on drugs now and she is old and tired enough to fight with life... and others 100000 life scenaries?????
And yes.... without good feelings and logical thinking you will never ever be able to build a strong team.
Why they let you to do everything.... is easy because are TIRED or over loaded or don't like you how you behave with them, is human!
I am tired also to talk again and again about so easy thinks...just BE A TEAM, is not so hard to undersand IF you have and mind and soul.
Hope that you will understand somenthing from my "foreign" english and could help you ! Just be good!
Sorry - gotta disagree. EVERYONE has problems - maybe the nurse also has 2-3-4 children or is the only one working in her family and is tired etc. etc. That doesn't mean that you don't do the job YOU ARE PAID TO DO!!!!
I have worked with some good aides and some lazy ones. Unfortunately at my workplace the lazy aides have influenced the good ones. I work on a medsurg unit with 35 patients.. with 3 aides to cover the floor 6-7 patients per nurse. Now I realize those are not ideal ratios, so I really try to help out the aides as much as I can.
However, what I cant stand anymore is to get an attitude when I ask for help, and the aides are sitting down surfing the web! I'm running my butt off, I barely get to look at the computer at my patients labs, and they will actually say things like "you cant do that yourself" or huff and puff about how the nurses run them ragged. The aides do not take any responsibility towards turning patients or checking the total care patients to see if they need to be changed. I need to call them for EVERTHING. They take vitals, chemsticks, answer occasional call lights, and then sit at the desk until a nurse asks them for help. One actually tells me I make more money so that makes up for me never taking a lunch break and being so busy, she says she makes less money so she shouldnt have to do as much with the patients!
My nurse manager has gotten lots of complaints about this issue from nurses and families, but nothing happens. I want to find a new job just because its too stressfull trying to do everything and then get an attitude if I need help. I have worked with some really really good aides though that have floated to my floor. I was shocked when they actually refilled my pts water pitchers for me! I was so grateful just for that. I know aides cant do everything and they have multiple nurses asking for a whole bunch of things at once, I get it, but I just dont think there should be alot of time for surfing the internet and talking on the phone to your boyfriend for half the shift!
.i know nurses do a lot more than what most cnas see
first congrats on your future graduation.
what you stated is so true. we have an aide that comes in @ 11pm. she sees some of us working on the computer, charting or checking medication requisitons. what she does not see is the first four hours where we have run around with our heads cut off. during that time one patient is in a-fib and needs a stat ekg, another needs blood hung, another needs blankets and is in pain, etc etc.
night shift has its peaks and lulls. lights go off all night. we all help when we can. the aide has told me she is so tired of running her a$$ off while we (the nurses) sit on ours. when she sees us on the computer or charting she does not equate that with "doing something".
being a nurses aide is hard. i have done it for years in the past. i had such respect for the nurses i worked with and i still do. i too am tired of the poor attitudes we are given by aides that don't want to do what is clearly in their job description. the backbone of the problem is management needs to fill the position so they pick a warm body that shows up for the interview.
yes, it is "their job" but anything that is in the cna's scope of practice is also part of the rn/lpn's scope of practice. i worked as a pct for almost two years (both adult med-surg and peds), and i can tell you that the majority of the nurses appreciated me and considered me a good worker (something i pride myself on). however, i was burnt out in med-surg from having 20-37 pts a shift, being expected to do all the pt care while the nurses had seven pts. i know, they have alot of charting, assessing, meds, etc to do, but it's not safe care nor practical to have one person responable for 20-37 pt's physical needs. i am not wonder woman, i simply can't do it all. now, on the other hand, if nurses would realize this and take on more responsibility for their pt's when they are short staffed pct's, we would all be happier. rn's wouldn't be chasing down the one pct to try to get something done (meanwhile that pct has a list the size of my arm of stuff that "needs done"), and the pct wouldn't be getting burnt out. if rn's and pcts had more teamwork i truly believe you would see less pct turnover.
when my units had "one" cna/pct we only asked them to do v/s and accuchecks and assist the nurse with repositioning. if your hospital had you working with 20-37 patients as a tech then that is something you
needed to have taken up with them.
i don't know if you have a poor view of cna's or work with a lot of lazy ones, but my experience has been that they are not in general (ie. as a profession) any lazier than the nurses they surve. they are lazy nurses, but we don't use them to call all nurses lazy, so why would we call all cna's lazy because of a few bad apples?
as for "poor view" of cnas, i was a cna for 3 years and i know the ends and outs of their job: even when i was a cna i was a good one. i don't have a "poor view" of cnas in general, just the lazy ones. and in case you haven't noticed in the last couple of days this post is about lazy cnas.
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i think one would have to be in complete denial to argue that they don't exists. :innerconf
Sorry - gotta disagree. EVERYONE has problems - maybe the nurse also has 2-3-4 children or is the only one working in her family and is tired etc. etc. That doesn't mean that you don't do the job YOU ARE PAID TO DO!!!!
DITO.......I am so sick of excuses: Do the job or stay home!!:yeahthat:
as for "poor view" of cnas, i was a cna for 3 years and i know the ends and outs of their job: even when i was a cna i was a good one. i don't have a "poor view" of cnas in general, just the lazy ones. and in case you haven't noticed in the last couple of days this post is about lazy cnas.
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i think one would have to be in complete denial to argue that they don't exists. :innerconf
i completely understand it is about lazy ones, but you stated there are more lazy cna's than there are rn's and i do not think that is a fair assumption to make at all.
squeakykitty
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I'm glad you're taking a stand and writing them up. They have been allowed to get away with this too long. You'll need to document everything. Also go up the chain of command if the DON doesn't back you up. What they are doing is neglect and can be reported to the agency that licensed them. Please let us know what happens.