I’m an RN and I work on a Med-Surg floor. For the last year our hospital has, per management, been having a hard time hiring CNAs. I work night shift and we have had only 1 full time CNA, but a few weeks ago management decided to let our only CNA go, leaving us with 0 support on the night shift. Our ratios are 1:6, and prior to loosing our only CNA we were having to take 6 patients most nights with no support staff, now we are having to take 6 patients EVERY night with no support staff. Day shift isn’t much better as they are also often left to take 6 patients of their own with no support, and often our charge nurses will take 6 patients. The few of us staff nurses who are left have voiced our concerns to management multiple times, but we are told that what’s happening “isn’t necessarily unsafe, but rather, is just not ideal.” Management also tell us that this is the case at most hospitals. When we ask the travel nurses they’ll tell us they’ve never worked at another hospital that doesn’t offer their nurses support staff. I guess I’m wondering… has anyone else heard of this situation at their hospitals? Also just wondering if anyone has any advice on how to get management to listen. I’m getting to the point where I may just leave…
wait, wait...you get jackets? I think that's kind of cool.
I don't, at least not from CBG or HH. My dialysis company has given me 4 in the 5 years I've been there. Hubby stole 2 of them ? my next door neighbor works at CBG, she also got a nifty little Heroes Live Here yard sign that has the CBG logo. I'm so jealous ?
Specializes in CNA telemetry progressive care ICU.
As a CNA this not only saddens me to hear but makes me see why I’m on break myself. The industry is changing there is old school versus new school and many veteran CNA like myself see the deaths and burnout not to mention vaccine mandates that overall make the job undesirable. I cannot speak for the entire CNA community but many like myself did this because we have a genuine desire to care for people. To keep them clean, sterile, and do our best to keep them going. Now the culture has shifted since Covid the desire is about whose paying the most and devistating as it seems the facilities are now sponsoring to train CNA for free for employment. This has created a hysteria that where inexperienced people untrained or not that well trained are now leaders in an industry where we are experienced so the conflicts are that we cannot fight these new graduates that feel so superior. Can you imagine me in my late 40s walking in work with a couple 19 year olds I already know how my nights gonna go! So again it’s due to the shift and the existence of communicable disease we saw so many of our peers die that myself I am saddened but need that mental break and time off hoping that it goes back to normal life again
Hoosier_RN, MSN
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Oh yes, along with the hospital logo blankets, pens and jackets!