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Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with or confront rude and disgruntled CNAs? There's one CNA who works with me on my hall who is always rude and complains about just about everything that has to do with her job (i.e. refuses to answer lights that have gone off multiple times or for "problem patients", complains about bed alarms sounding, continuously talks about how much she hates the job and the residents). Patients as well as other nurses and CNAs have complained about her as well but no one has mentioned anything to the Unit Manager or ADON or DON. I don't mind confronting her about the situation but I know she will try to fight me on it and storm off while huffing and puffing about it.

I've been an LPN in Florida since June of 2015. I worked in a corrections facility for a year and then left for personal reasons regarding the corrections staff. Luckily I was able to find a job quickly in a physical rehabilitation center in less than a month. I was very eager to start my new job, mainly because I wanted to get over my dislike of working with older and elderly adults. While I accomplished this, I now face dealing with horrible supervisors and their lack of professionalism and dealing with legitimate issues. For the last six months, I've really been struggling, continuously asking myself if I still want to be a nurse. I love being a nurse and I'm currently in the BSN program and my end goal is to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I just don't know how much more of this I can take. I don't want to leave this job and run the risk of not having one and going in debt while I'm in school but I don't want to burn myself out or, God forbid, quit nursing all together. Has anyone been in this situation before? Thanks in advance.