Patronizing coworkers!

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How do you deal with patronizing coworkers?

Example: elderly client who hasn't been diagnosed yet, but is believed to have dementia and is possibly developing alzheimers. Client is 280+ lbs. Said client was sleeping and was urine-soiled. We were told not to roll this client, so I could not change the brief in bed. I had the client stand up (as the client did three hours early without any problems!). Client would NOT stand up. I tried my best to get the client standing up on my own with a gait belt, could not pull client up on my own. We had 3 attempts of client half standing up, not making it and sitting back down. Then client flat out refused to stand. I was able to sit the client on the edge of the bed, but that was it. So I page coworkers for help.

Coworker X enters room, sees client in position looks at me and says "You can't get Client X up? It's not that hard." And of course when Coworker tries, client stands right up no problem and makes me look incompetent. :( Said coworker then looks at me, smirks, and says 'good luck' rather condescendingly and leaves.

. I like my job, but sometimes it's just hard. It's hard to try your level best, and still be made to feel like a fool. It's really unfortunate. Earlier in that night, I paged for a coworker to help me and that coworker was helpful in a non-patronizing way. Both of us tried to get client up and couldn't, so we tried again after fifteen minutes and client was more cooperative.

The difference between helpful coworkers and patronizing ones is often the difference between a good and bad time at work.

Anyone relate?

Yup, yup. I went through this yesterday. I was sitting at the table feeding at breakfast, and another CNA tells me that when he has my side he is able to get up people quicker than me. And that I should take 30 minutes getting them all up. I just responded well some people are quicker than others! He then proceeded to go on and on I just zoned out and ignored him. He's lucky state was in our facility because that was all I could think about! Otherwise, I would have told him something!:mad:

Some young 'un (been about 3 months at our place!) tried that on me. I told her that I could be fast or I could do things right. She is always trying to "correct" me- I just tell her to MHOB and do her own stuff and let me do things my way.

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