New aide on the floor... HELP!!

Let me preface this by saying... I adore and respect my aides. I know I could not do my job without them. I was an aide before becoming a nurse and it was HARD (and rewarding and I loved my patients/residents).

Okay. Now that we all understand that this is not a vent about aides getting in my way, here we go.

I am working with an aide who is on orientation, and she has never been an aide before. She is about to be put on the floor on her own and truthfully... I'm terrified.

She doesn't do anything dangerous. She simply just does not understand her role in the team. I appreciate her eagerness to learn, but she is not a nursing student and I do not have the time or bandwidth to educate her on why I am making the nursing judgments I am or to tell her not to interpret things concerning a patient for me. She also gives me insignificant updates (i.e. the amount of every single output) and acts confused when my pumps are going off as if she's trying to help me determine the issue.

I know this is all really small potatoes, but it points to a fundamental misunderstanding of her scope of practice. The biggest example of this is her wanting to speak with the doctor about a patient's nutritional needs. I had to stop her in her tracks on that one. (Another nurse had to pull her out of the report room because she was thought the provider was talking to her during his dictation!)

I am going to tactfully ask my leadership for some strategies to work with this person, and implore them to provider her some extra training. I thought I would mine this community for its wisdom first. I am not new to working with difficult people, but I'm a new nurse, and above all, want to stay professional and respectful.

Thanks in advance.