Lazy Coworkers

[*4!#6]

Last night I was running around after supper trying to get a combative resident to her bath, when one of my residents told me she had to go to the bathroom. I asked my coworker to assist this resident while I bathed the other one. From the time I did a quick bath at least three people went into the room, yet when I got there later she STILL hadn't been toileted. One of her visitors was an LPN. I was assigned my coworker's baths because they are busy, but yet they can't toilet one of my residents for 5 minutes?

Also, while I am putting a resident on the toilet people will bust into the room to tell me one of the motion alarms is going off on "my" resident. The last time someone did this too me I was so frustated I looked my coworker point blank in the face and said, "I'm busy, go answer it." and then shut the door on her.

Not to mention people leave call lights blinking forever yet stand around in the hallways.

Also they will "magically" disappear when work presents itself, or simply state "that's not my job." And leave you hanging in a tough situation. When I haven't gotten my break yet my coworkers have, then one of my patient's motion alarms goes off and they ignore it.

It's just frustrating.

[caliotter3]

This is what you have to put up with when you work as a CNA. The only recourse is to be blunt with your coworkers and consistently bring your concerns to the supervising nurse.

[CoffeemateCNA]

Welcome to my world.

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

Most people I work with are not like that, but when someone who is tries to pull that on me I just give them the "go F yourself" look and say, "have fun" or "knock yourself out."