Why yes, Nurse, yes I can go and swab out your patient's mouth, from whose room you just came and barged in on the bed bath I'm doing alone on an actively dying patient, now that you've walked the unit and taken as long to find me as it would have to just do it.
The majority of nurses I work with are awesome, but man, there are a few that do things like this. What's your co-worker pet peeve?
Interrupting me while I'm providing care to order me to go and do something for another patient is something I find so rude and disrespectful, to me sure, but more so to the patient. They have the right to my focus while I'm there, and they have the right to not be made to feel that they're less important than the guy down the hall.
You can help the nurse pass her meds and chart her assessments right??
Oh wait you can't. So why should she be forced to do the job that you are being paid to do?
She isn't being lazy and wasting her time to seek you out. She's delegating to you and guiding you to do your job---and this delegation and overseeing is also in her job description. So while you see laziness and are annoyed, she's doing exactly what she was paid to do.
there are numerous things CNAs can and have done to help me get my high speed nursing
stuff done
from answering phones, stocking the med cart to pouring water in cups
10 months experience as a CNA and you feel you can roll your eyes when a nurse makes a request.
Review your job description. "Under the supervision of a professional nurse...."
When you are directed to a task... it does not matter if you are in a room, the hall, or the bathroom.
Do you really expect the nurse you are there to ASSIST.. to wait until you are out of a patient's room to make a request? Cannot imagine why you would find any request "rude and disrespectful". Interruptions in care happen continuously... we must roll with the flow.
You cannot realize or judge the role of the professional nurse... YOUR job is to ASSIST.
Guess you missed this part of my post. I did not, in any way, demean the nursing profession. I criticized one nurse. If you've never met the nurse who will seek out an aide to do a task for three times longer than takes to just do the task, then lucky you. Unfortunately, I've met several. So have many of the aides on this board. We aren't making it up, these people exist. I'd think good nurses would dislike that as much as we do, because no one should be okay with a patient having an accident in their bed instead of being put on a commode.
As to your comment about PMs, you seem to have no trouble with stalking my posts and addressing plenty of comments to me publicly.
I'm done with this stupid feud. Whatever your problem is, it's solely yours henceforth.
systoly
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there are numerous things CNAs can and have done to help me get my high speed nursing
stuff done
from answering phones, stocking the med cart to pouring water in cups
just to mention a few