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Am I the only one who noticed that she said "popping pills"??? I hope you meant to say PASSING pills!

You need to tell your nurse manager about this, because her expectation of you were way past unreasonable. And if you pulled the drug, you need to follow up with your manager as soon as possible. Send her/him an email while it is all fresh in your mind. By the eay, great job, you absolutely did the right thing. Nurses are NOT allowed to take an order from another nurse. The nurse who took the order had the responsibility of entering the order.

I am the med/surg director for a small rural hospital. I have only been in this position for a few months. I have had my long-standing nurses on one shift complain to me about how the CNA's just do the bare minimum. The CNA's never have more than 10 patients, so it's not that they have too many patients. When I was director of another unit, I still knew that these CNA's were doing everything they could to avoid their job. They take vital signs and fingersticks, but that's about it. The 2 worst offenders are both CNA 1's, which we don't even hire anymore, but they're grandfathered in. Again, that also means if they lose their job, they will not be eligible to ever come back. I have witnessed my nurses sweet-talking then CNA's in order to ask them to please, please, please do (insert job duty), and it shouldn't be that way. The nurses should be delegating tasks, but every time they try, they get major attitude in return. I would love to know what some of the more experienced nurse managers and directors have done to help with this kind of issue. I do have a meeting scheduled with the CNA's next week....