New Grad - Ain't he special!

[hppygr8ful]

Let me start out by saying I really do like working with new grads most of the time. I had great preceptors in my career and consider helping new grads a way of paying it forward. However I am most intrigued but a new grad we hired about two months ago. He is one of the I don't do poop variety. He treats the CNA's terribly. We have really good CNA's on our shift and I have told him he needs to appreciate their effort.

Anyway - Last night was a busy night - Shortly after receiving report he yelled at at CNA " Hey you! Get me a box of gloves!" I turned around and said "She has a name, and you can get your own gloves and anything else you need from the supply room." He just looked at me and shook his head.

I went to the bathroom and when I came back found my cart which I stocked prior to the start of my shift had been robbed of bleach wipes, alcohol swaps, insulin syringes, and several items of house stock medications. Also my personal BP cuff and pulse Ox were missing.

So I went over and found all these items on my cart. I left everything there eccept my equipment and restocked my cart. When he came out of a patient room he was livid that I had removed items from his cart. I told him " Everything you took from my cart is available in the stock room.

Later that evening I was in a patient room at the other end of the facility when I heard a CNA calling for help. As this was not my patient I waited a moment to see if he would respond. Then when she called again this time with near panic in her voice I stopped what I was doing and "Ran" to her location. He was trying to change a patient who was over 300 pounds. on isolation for C-diff and very combattive. When I got into the room not stopping to gown up. He was half-off the bed - poop everywhere yelling, screaming and striking out. I helped get him sorted out and then went looking for the his nurse. I asked if had heard the CNA calling for help to which he answered changing patients is not my job.

I explained to him that there is nothing a CNA does that is outside a nurses scope of practice and I better not have another situation like what happened or I would speak to the DON.

He just shrugged - I almost hope he's reading this as it would be nice if he sees himself and makes some attitude adjustments.

Anyway I just needed to vent.

Hppy

[MyPrnPleaseBSN]

I hope he humbles himself before life humbles him!

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Go back to square one. "At the start of your shift, you are to check your cart, you are to retrieve any items for said cart in the stock room. I will not bore your sensibilities with the 'treasure hunt game hand out' which is part of your orientation, however, will have to if you can not prove that you have a sense of where items are located, and not on other nurse's carts."

"Your success depends on your ability to function as a prudent nurse WITHIN YOUR ORIENTATION TIME, of which you have ________ shifts/weeks left of. A prudent nurse does NOT ignore a cry for help, regardless of who it is coming from. Remember, should the patient fall due to your inability to respond accordingly, this is on YOU as the licensed person."

"Should you not be able to get it together and prove yourself to be a successful new grad practicing nurse within the next _____shifts, I am sure I do not need to remind you that in your orientation period you can be terminated with or without cause."

Or my personal favorite "Your future CRNA/NP aspirations are not needed at this time. You do not "do" poop? Well I don't put up with "poop" from new nurses who believe themselves to not needing to get their hands dirty. Locate the hand sanitizer, sooner rather than later. Enough said, go take care of your patients!" (also known as I do not deal with d-bags, I deal with enema bags....actually in this case, the 2 are mutually exclusive).

[Alicia777, MSN, NP]

I have two words for him:

Bye Felicia!

Lol, I thought I was the only one who watched Party down south

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Not much you can do except let Mr. idontdopoop to keep his hands off your cart.

Hopefully, the CNA's will start handling him on their own.

As far as not responding to a call regarding patient safety.... THAT is a write-up. Perhaps several of these will change his attitude.

[Qteapi]

See this is a prime example why we new grads have a hard time these days....some new grads ruin it for those who come after them! Good grief charley brown!

[LittleCandles]

How dare anyone ask him to clean poop. He's princess nurse. Give him a break.

[OrganizedChaos, LVN]

I wouldn't wait for him to mess up again, clearly he will. After everything he just did it wouldn't take me 2 seconds to go to my nurse manager with a list of everything he did with at the exact times.

He's lucky to have a job since he's a new grad. He needs to get that stick out of his a-nus.

[macawake, MSN]

Later that evening I was in a patient room at the other end of the facility when I heard a CNA calling for help. As this was not my patient I waited a moment to see if he would respond. Then when she called again this time with near panic in her voice I stopped what I was doing and "Ran" to her location. He was trying to change a patient who was over 300 pounds. on isolation for C-diff and very combattive. When I got into the room not stopping to gown up. He was half-off the bed - poop everywhere yelling, screaming and striking out. I helped get him sorted out and then went looking for the his nurse. I asked if had heard the CNA calling for help to which he answered changing patients is not my job.

(my bold)

I don't understand this part. How could the new nurse be so certain that the CNA was only changing the patient and not being strangled, beaten or accosted in some way by the patient or someone else, without going and checking on what sounds like a rather loud altercation? Wasn't the nurse even curious about what caused the commotion?

It goes without saying that the behavior this new grad has is unacceptable. It's not okay to address your coworkers as "hey you", raid your coworker's cart and it's certainly not acceptable to ignore coworkers who are calling out for help. I'm surprised this person made it through school/clinicals with this attitude. He certainly needs a good talking-to.

[idialyze, BSN, RN]

Bye Baby Bye!

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

I hope he humbles himself before life humbles him!

Well Karma can be a vengeful lass. Last night he got stuck doing total care on a sun downer who wouldn't let anyone touch her but him. He was tired by the end of the night!

Hppy

[caliotter3]

Well Karma can be a vengeful lass. Last night he got stuck doing total care on a sun downer who wouldn't let anyone touch her but him. He was tired by the end of the night!

Hppy

Ha, ha, ha! Nothing like a tired prima donna! One day soon, if not last night, he will regret that he so vocally refused to help others.

[AlphaM]

Careful, he will cry bullying if you confront him LOL