LAZY CNA's!!

tothepointeLVN, LVN · May 8, 2012

Agreed. If the Nurse can do A + B + C task and the CNA can do A tasks only does it make any sense for the nurse to do an A level task when many B+C level tasks needed to be done.

I hate when CNA's think it is their place to criticize us for not doing things their way.

Seas · May 8, 2012

I can't believe some of the posts I read here. CNA's yelling nurses? Refusing to do things? I want to send hugs to all the CNA's on my floor for being respectful to the nurses. If a CNA was to do all those to us on my floor, surely their head would be cut off by the nurses. No way can anybody yell at another person or be plain disrespectful on my floor. Nurse to CNA or CNA to nurse, or nurse to nurse.

If these things are going on in you all's workplace, that shows the poor management. A good manager would not tolerate the attitude.

CrazyGoonRN · May 8, 2012

I understand completly how you feel and your post was easy to read. I have had CNT's sitting reading a magazine while I am sitting at the nurses station charting. A call light goes off and I keep working but am well aware of what the CNT is doing. After about 10 seconds or so if the CNT is still sitting there I will polietly ask them to get the light. I had one CNT the other night who gave me an awful look and got up and got the light. I said thank you and she didn't even have the decency to say anything back to me. I wanted to say, "I am clearly working and you are clearly not so get up and do your work!!" I stay polite but I don't let those few CNT's who are lazy and have an attitude to walk all over me and neglect the patients. On the other hand some of the CNT's I work with are awsome. I can tell that they are committed to doing their job right and taking care of the patients. Things go much smoother when everyone works together and does their work.

pockunit, ADN, RN · May 8, 2012

You're so awesome.

SoldierNurse22, BSN, RN · May 8, 2012

I've had issues, like most people, with our equivalent of CNAs (medics and corpsmen). I've had awesome corpsmen/medics who do their jobs without being told and are intelligent, compassionate and in it for the patient's well-being. They make the shift so simple. I smile when I see they're working.

Of course, there are also medics/corpsmen who will do the 0800 vitals and disappear. They won't answer call bells, they don't like helping patients move or clean up, and they have to be told to do all vitals/fingersticks/etc after 0900 rolls around. I am fortunate enough to have a rank system in addition to the RN/CNA structure on my side. Nothing like a direct order to get them off their butts!

enchantmentdis, BSN, RN · May 8, 2012

Nothing a bunch of us nurses ever said or did changed the CNAs on a floor that i worked on for 8 years---management turned a deaf ear and said, "but you guys make so much more money than they do". Finally i left med-surg and no longer work in hospitals; and no longer have to put up with nursing assistants not doing their jobs. Thank Heaven. And hope i never have to go back to acute care.

cna.jlu · May 8, 2012

I'm a CNA, I have worked at the same facility for 13 years. I can't believe how disrespectful aides have become! When I first became a nurses aide, the nurses had the upper hand. You did what you were told to do or you were written up and sent to the supervisors office. There was no talking back or refusing to do your job. I don't know what happened over the years but it isn't like that now. The Nurses and MGT don't pay attention to what is going on around them. I know they are very busy with charting, taking off orders, passing medication....ect. But part of their job is supervising the aides and making sure the residents get proper care. The Nurses and MGT want to be all buddy buddy with the aides which is fine. But then,they don't want to reprimand the aides because they are "friends"? And when one aide gets away without doing their job it kind of has a snow ball effect. This is the famous phrase I hear all the time..."Well that aide isn't doing their job so why should I bust my butt." The aides that work their butt off to cover for those aides that slack off... get tired of having to pick up their slack!!!! It is MGT fault that they let this behavior continue!!!

anotherone, BSN, RN · May 8, 2012

Hi everyone! I come here to vent! I'm so sick and tired of lazy cna's that have an attitude anytime u ask them to do something. I work nights on a med surg floor. Generally throughout the night we can get pretty busy. But there's one cna that feels once she has taken vitals her job is done!! God forbid you have a patient that has on diapers and uses the bathroom in it cause if you ask her to change him here comes ms. Attitude. At first I ignored but now it's really starting to **** me off! Like if you don't like your job quit! Go back to school!! Do whatever you have to to find joy in Wat you do! I know some people are just miserable people to begin with but most CNA's I've worked with are the worst. I worked as a nurse tech and I basically did everything a cna does except without the attitude! I don't mind cleaning a patients butt because that's not out of my scope of practice but is it wrong of me to expect the cna to do it if asked if all she's doing is sitting on her butt?! O well comes with the job I guess!
Fed Up Nurse!

Yes, I compeltely understand. We had sooooo many LAZY/ WORTHLESS aides. with big time attitudes, they were sometimes friends with some of the lazy nurses who all stuck up for each other, you know the type who does not care if pts are changed or not, vitals not done, i/os made up probably , who knows. . well eventually some people kept complaining and complaining to the manger and a lot of the rude/lazy ones are gone. good ridance. some are great, some are not. I would keep expressing concerns to your manager. I understood your post completely . in some places it really is THAT BAD esp if it has gone on and is expected for years. I do not care if they like me or not, the job has to get done, I am not going to be written up or fired because of them. I had aides who refused to help when asked politely, to get vitals on another pt getting blood, because "I was sitting at the desk", ( YES PAGING A DR/ FOR A SEPTIC patient). I am not a lazy nurse and frankly, do not owe them an explanation on what I am doing or why. I can't stand the lazy/insubordinate ones because I never sit there texting, surfing the internet while bells go off, whether it is my pt or not, so the times I ask them to do something, and he/she is just sitting there texting, they better get up and do it. The aides are hired to assist the nursing staff, if he/she doesn't like it than too bad .

anotherone, BSN, RN · May 8, 2012

Anytime an aide is really not doing anything, and I know when he/she is or not, and complains in a hostile manner about me asking for help or asking them to do something I will remind them, I will do the task and they can do mine( the ones only a rn/lpn/pa/md can do. that usually gets them going.

anotherone, BSN, RN · May 8, 2012

I understand completly how you feel and your post was easy to read. I have had CNT's sitting reading a magazine while I am sitting at the nurses station charting. A call light goes off and I keep working but am well aware of what the CNT is doing. After about 10 seconds or so if the CNT is still sitting there I will polietly ask them to get the light. I had one CNT the other night who gave me an awful look and got up and got the light. I said thank you and she didn't even have the decency to say anything back to me. I wanted to say, "I am clearly working and you are clearly not so get up and do your work!!" I stay polite but I don't let those few CNT's who are lazy and have an attitude to walk all over me and neglect the patients. On the other hand some of the CNT's I work with are awsome. I can tell that they are committed to doing their job right and taking care of the patients. Things go much smoother when everyone works together and does their work.

Exactly , not your fault they do not understand that charting is EXTREMILY important. i have been in this scenario many times( with the same few people) and when he/she gives a snarky reply/comment on me charting/typing a text page, I reply "ok, you can chart/page the dr while I get the bell, thanks!"

anotherone, BSN, RN · May 8, 2012

I've had issues, like most people, with our equivalent of CNAs (medics and corpsmen). I've had awesome corpsmen/medics who do their jobs without being told and are intelligent, compassionate and in it for the patient's well-being. They make the shift so simple. I smile when I see they're working.
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Exactly, some shifts I look to see who is working and think," no matter what it won't be too bad because we will all help each other" other times I know, unless I get an easy-mod assignment it will be a complete nightmare because I can count on vitals,baths, feeds, not getting done , bells not answered unless I do them all.

TheMediaLies · May 8, 2012

LOL. Lazy people are everywhere @ the workplace. From the HBS all the way down through the nurses aides. ROFLMAO. Lazy people, greed, office politics, and so on. LOL.