Nurses aid**advice!

[Jstna96]

Hi I’m a nurses aid, I’ve been an aid for almost 5 years now.( I’m PRN )

well today at work ( I worked 2pm-6pm at nursing home) it hit 6pm and I was still feeding the residents and even though my replacements came in they didn’t relieve me from my shift, so I get done feeding my residents, I get up and my nurse stops me and says I have to go pick up all the trays even though it’s way past my time and my replacements are here.. I told her no that it was my time to go and the other shift was here they could pick up the trays. She told me that it wasn’t their job to pick up trays and I will stay till my job is done. Well I went and put one resident back because he asked me to and I wasn’t gonna tell him no. So she continued to argue with me. I got mad ( this part is kinda unprofessional on my part) I said *** this I’m leaving and went to call my supervisor ( I texted her before hand saying I didn’t want to work with this nurse anymore) so I call she doesn’t answer.. ( I was always told to call that supervisor when I had an issue) she called me back and at this point I was crying.. I told her what was going on and she said that she already talked to the nurse ( which doesn’t make sense because it literally just happened 5 seconds ago) she told me that I’m always calling her complaining about my shift and it’s getting ridiculous.. I asked her when have I called you to complain. She said “ oh well maybe you didn’t but you aren’t going to tell me what I’m going todo”talking about when I texted her telling her I didn’t want to work with that nurse. She than said to me well if you want to quit you can. I told her that I didn’t want to quit but I didn’t understand why nobody was relieving me and I deserve to leave when I’m supposed to if my replacements are here. She than told me not to come in on Saturday and that the Don will be giving me a call Monday( I cried the whole way home) didn’t leave that nursing home till 6:30pm

[FolksBtrippin, BSN, RN]

When you become the aide that won't work with this nurse or that nurse, you've just made it difficult to schedule you. It might even be easier to just take you off the schedule. Your first solution can't be to refuse work.

If you like your job and just had a bad day, be prepared to apologize when you have your talk with the DON. "I'm really sorry about the way I acted. I was having a bad day. I will do better next time." Listen. They should clarify whether or not you need to pick up trays before you leave and also what you should do if you have a problem with your nurse. You can't just refuse to work with the nurses. They are much harder to replace than you are. 

If you don't like your job, and this problem is just one of a long list of problems,  then write a resignation letter now so that you can quit before they fire you. 

Good luck! I have been driven to tears at work too. It's horrible. I'm sorry it went down like that for you, but if you let it be a lesson then things will get easier.