After yesterdays extra month of suspension for some silly hair debackle I thought I was making my trail by fire and all.
Today i worked 10 hours and my "home" big unit with the same manager and listen to this. I was schedualed for 12 hours, so after working an 8, then covering for someone who was gonna be late, I thought I was gone. Then the friendly and cool charge nurse says goodby and I comment about being able to do another 2 hours. So she calls (to help me) staffing and finds out there is a sitter position at my normal assigned unit. So cool, I thought that would be a ttl of 13 that day and i can use the money.
When I arrived, the charge nurse there was very dissappointed with me arriving because it meant the agency nurse she is obviously tight with had to leave. She actually didn't believe me, and had to call herself and didn't believe me that I was going to sit there for 3 hours. I just walked away and ate a sandwich and then come back and the charge nurse said "oh"
The PT's are in a double room. Now I have been in precarious situations, but this one guy took both the nurse and her friend agency CNA both to keep down. the guy was 94 and had a line coming out of his neck. He was calming down when I took over, and the other PT (91) who I sat with weeks ago was quiet, and his family was there.
All of a sudden, the quiet guy starts jumping that he has to go to the bathroom (by this time his family has long gone). Calling and shouting out, so I rushed to him to help him. He was in a terrible position to do anything, but I adjusted him and he voided okay. Meanwhile, the other PT, the really hard one, has successfully pult out the IV from his neck. The solution is dripping out, and this was my first time someone pult and IV out on me.
I told the charge nurse, who moaned about her friend being in there all day and nothing happening. She came in the room and made another deragatory comment about me not watching him. I explained the other guy needed help, and he pult it out quickly, but she mentioned again the other CNA had no trouble.. Now I am getting nervous because of this additude, and rightfully so.
Long story shorter, my relieving CNA, who had 12 years health care experience she said, got right on the phone and called staffing and reported the situation and said she wasn't going to be held responsible for the situation. She didn't think of talking to the charge-nurse? It's like , she called staffing and made a disclaimer with authority.
I have to be at work tomorrow at 6am, and i got off at 8pm and now it's 10p.
I shoulda just left when I had the chance, and a nice nurse tried to help me and directed me into hell. To top it off, this charge nurse says she all ready called our manager and reported that i was inapproprately conversing with the PT when I said to him that he was getting me in trouble for pulling the IV out. At that point, if he would have felt guilty and relaxed, it would be a good thing. I said it once or twice, to get him to calm down, and because I was really feeling like s%ht after the charge nurse wouldn't help me. I am once again consumed with grief and anger and education, because now I lernt from the other CNA what to do. You can't get help if you are a CNA from and RN. This CNA didn't consider the RN in the loop at all. The CNA called staffing and just told the truth about the situation as she saw it. Every room has a phone. That makes so much sense, and now i feel like and idiot savant for not calling staffing as soon as I know something is wrong, or situations turn against a CNA.
