Lazy nurses

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I'm tired of working with nurses that don't care about the patients. Very discouraging to see how nurses 20 plus years of experience end up. Please help!!!

I think all of us have worked with lazy nurses before. But by specifically focusing on nurses with "20 plus years experience" it seems like you're just trying to stir the pot.

Lazy nurses are in every age group!! I can't tell you how many "new" nurses I see on their IPhone, texting, while their patients are calling!

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Specializes in retired from healthcare.

Some of these lazy people are just not feeling well or they're doing a double shift or in some cases have been stuck at work for 24 hours or more (which needs another thread)

I do remember though that one day I blew up and screamed (which I hardly ever do at work) at a C.N.A I got stuck working with because she refused to help me with the transfers when she had all the easy patients and brought the garbage can in the hall into the room with her so it was gone when I desperately needed it and also left me holding onto a heavy patient who was not completely on the bed and when I was lucky I didn't drop her or put my back out.

She smarted back at me and said, "You don't give me the privilege of being here."

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Ack! Stay out of long term care which is filled with people who became CNA's because it pays better than McDonalds. There are exceptions exceptional CNAs and I'm thankful for every one of them. But for every dedicated, caring, awesome CNA there is one who is just punching a clock and doesn't give a %$#@ about the human beings they are charged to care for.[/quote']

I think the op is talking about nurses not nurses aids.

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27 years experience and gobsmacked by student nurses who have betting pools to get through their degree without doing a bed sponge, or giving an enema, and don't do resuc. equipment checks because "the trolley hasn't been used since yesterday"

I'm not perfect, but I take pride in doing my job PROPERLY.

I don't look forward to being old and infirm, only to be neglected by modern-day "nurses"

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27 years experience and gobsmacked by student nurses who have betting pools to get through their degree without doing a bed sponge, or giving an enema, and don't do resuc. equipment checks because "the trolley hasn't been used since yesterday" I'm not perfect, but I take pride in doing my job PROPERLY. I don't look forward to being old and infirm, only to be neglected by modern-day "nurses"
Yes. The lazy nurses are at all stages of a nursing career not just the experienced.
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Would you like some pizza? I am in a sharing and caring mood.

Any chance that pizza comes with a sharing and caring cranberry & vodka?

:laugh:

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Some of these lazy people are just not feeling well or they're doing a double shift or in some cases have been stuck at work for 24 hours or more (which needs another thread)

I do remember though that one day I blew up and screamed (which I hardly ever do at work) at a C.N.A I got stuck working with because she refused to help me with the transfers when she had all the easy patients and brought the garbage can in the hall into the room with her so it was gone when I desperately needed it and also left me holding onto a heavy patient who was not completely on the bed and when I was lucky I didn't drop her or put my back out.

She smarted back at me and said, "You don't give me the privilege of being here."

You are telling my story!! AND here's the really nifty part....when going to management, I was told I needed "re-education" on how to transfer a patient appropriately solo. Ya. Right.

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I'm just a new nurse, but I can definitely share in this frustration... when I was in the ED this summer (externship), my preceptor rolled her eyes at just about every single patient that came in - she interrupted them when they spoke, documented things she didn't even bother to do, took her breaks earlier and longer than she should have, etc. - REAL good mentor! :-/

There was an LPN I remember as well - she was put on 1 to 1 for an ETOH withdrawal patient, and because he had head lice, she wouldn't go anywhere near him and kept complaining that she just had her hair done and she refused to wear a cap. Sure enough, 10 minutes later, the patient had walked out of the isolation room, ripped out his IV, blood dripping all over the floor, he's stumbling out practically naked making a scene and she's still sitting in the room looking at her phone! I wasn't even a nurse yet, I didn't even work there yet, but I was furious! Why do 1 to 1 if you're not even going to look at the patient? Another nurse helped me get the patient back to the room, we put on caps and applied restraints, then put a cap on the patient and a face mask because at this point he was spitting. I actually got him to calm down and dropped two lines in him and the whole time this woman was just looking at her phone!

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Specializes in Gerontology RN-BC and FNP MSN student.

Reminds me of this thread.....

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Specializes in Gerontology RN-BC and FNP MSN student.

Yeah we've all worked with lazy people...unfortunately not everyone is on their game as should be.

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Specializes in retired from healthcare.

Part of the education about transfers is knowing which ones you can't and should not move by yourself and to identify the ones you're being bullied and pressured into moving by yourself just because one or two girls can move them alone.

I have made it a habit to help with re-positioning and transfers when asked even if I can move them by myself and even sometimes when i do not like the person asking me for help.

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Honey, I am a CNA. And I had a nurse a NEW nurse no less, LIE TO MY FACE and told me she changed a patient...many times...she clearly didn't. There was a lazy CNA that took over that hallway, and SHE didn't do it either. I was the one who came in there with a total new bed change, including TWO pads to put under the patient. Yet, if I complain about this RN, I am the one who gets blamed. I am a good CNA...theres no laziness there...but I have seen both young and old nurses who don't deserve to wear that distinction, let alone get the pay. It's absolutely horrific, what I saw when I went in to clean that patient. He was soaked THROUGH to the mattress. His diaper was completely soaked, yet I told her it looked like he wasn't changed at all!! She lied to me and told me she did many times. I say bull. She didn't. Us CNAs are NOT there to do our job and yourrs. We are there to ASSIST. Get it?? If we can't turn a patient, don't ask us to pull another aide in to do it...YOU come in and help us! I've just about had it seeing LAZY NURSES at ALL ages being absolutely LAZY!

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