I'm a nursing assistant at a local hospital in STL, while going to school to become a Nurse.
I have but one question? Who is responsible for the Patient Care?
I ask the question b/c it seens that at time the nurses are to busy or so they say to do small things to help the patients. Don't get me wrong there are RNs who really help the aides out but then there are the RNs who won't clean a patien up b/c they don't like to do that anymore. :angryfire
I hate it when a male patient has a full urinal on the bedside table and the the nurse says that the aide will be in to empty it. Why cant they take 2 minutes to empty and chart it.
I had a new RN,BSN come to find me a couple of days ago to tell me that a patient needed to be cleand up and that she would help me, but she need to go and call the doctor. I didn't have a problem cleaning up the patient but he was mine-I did it anyway b/c it was the right thing to do. The thing that burns me up is that this RN,BSN was at the nurses station talking with the other nurses and playing games on the computer.
I thought we all were in this profession to help the the paitent who couldn't help themselves. I know that the RN have more educatuion but does there compassion go out of the window when they become RN.
The question I pose to all of you is how would you like for your family members to be treated? Are we giving our patients the same kind of treatment if it were our family members?
I ask all of the nursing staff to take 2 min to make the patient feel special and to clean their areas up. Lets clean the bedside table-get towels off the floors-empty urinals and hats in the bathroom--not to mention flush the toilets- :)
Let all remember that we could be a patient at anytime. Would we like to be treated the same way that we treat some of these patients. Let's give more thought to the people that we are caring for and go that extra mile to make them feel welcome.
These are just my thought and I felt I could share --
I think the old saying that marriage is not 50/50, it is 70/70 applies to nursing as well. If we all do more than what we are required to do then it will eventually come out evenly. I try to keep that in mind on the crappy shifts because I think everyone feels they are doing 70% of the work- so I may as well just accept that 70 % is my share and do it without hard feelings.
People do take advantage, of course, but if you do that much as your choice, not theirs, you'll go home feeling better about your job. Another old saying- "twice as much would get done if no one ever worried about who got the credit for it." Be the person who aims for getting the stuff done, not the one who gets the credit. Everyone knows who is who anyway.
Why cant they take 2 minutes to empty and chart it.
canoehead, BSN, RN
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I think the old saying that marriage is not 50/50, it is 70/70 applies to nursing as well. If we all do more than what we are required to do then it will eventually come out evenly. I try to keep that in mind on the crappy shifts because I think everyone feels they are doing 70% of the work- so I may as well just accept that 70 % is my share and do it without hard feelings.
People do take advantage, of course, but if you do that much as your choice, not theirs, you'll go home feeling better about your job. Another old saying- "twice as much would get done if no one ever worried about who got the credit for it." Be the person who aims for getting the stuff done, not the one who gets the credit. Everyone knows who is who anyway.