Oh no she didn't!! :-o

[shix]

So the ADON calls for a brief meeting today at 10:30am. We show up at the nursing station...CNA's, the Unit Manager, the unit nurses..and two other people I didn't quite know who they were lol. So anyway, she starts reading each CNA's assignment and asked which residents had been toileted, which one's had not and why. Remember earlier on I'd mentioned that we can only get one person fully dressed for breakfast and the rest we have from 9am to 10:45, minus the 15 min activity room check and 30 mins unpaid lunch break which pretty much leaves an hour. So the ADON says we have reached a record high of skin breakdown issues and she's really dissapointed. All this time she's using the same tone you would use on a 5y/o with her voice raised she said 'I don't really care if you don't take your break or if you don't eat. If my mother/father were here we would be having a totally different conversation. I want care done by 10:45 and I want everyone checked/toileted/changed every two hours.' FYI, my unit has 14 hoyer residents. Then she caps it all by saying 'if you don't like it you can as well find another job'. Everyone was so offended all the CNA's gathered and wanted to storm out into the CEO's/DON's office. Well, being the 'neutral' one :) which am not so sure is a good thing or a bad one, I was sent as the CNA's spokesperson...so I passed on the message to the appropriate people..ie the DON and CEO. However, the DON and ADON are like two peas in a pod, so I don't know if that will help this case. I just told the DON tho that there was a HUGE communication barrier maybe if she took time to talk with her employers they would figure out what was going wrong where. Sigh. It is so sad when CNA's are made to feel like the worst lowest pieces of scum. We work very hard. I think CNA's work the hardest - physically and mentally.

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

Uggh. I feel like we get the same BS where I work. Getting treated like we have the intelligence of 5 year olds and expected to take everything they dish out without question. They DO think that we're scum. If they respected us even a little bit, they would ask US, the people who DO this job, what works and what doesn't.

[Poi Dog]

Fuzzywuzzy: you said it best when you posted that it seems like a facility isn't happy unless the CNAs are miserable.