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Thanks, for the replies! It makes me feel a little better to know I'm not the only one going through this. In a way though it is sad to know there are so many uncaring people working in a caring field. By, the way, we don't have a union.

We have this certain PCA on our floor that is driving everyone crazy!! First of all, don't get me wrong, I love my PCA's and a good one is worth gold. This one however is TROUBLE!...He doesn't care about his job or the patients. He is only working until he gets out of school in a non-health care related field. First he never does anything, he gets vitals (very slowly) and doesn't even get sats, even though he has been told many times that we need this. He starts late, so he is not finished in time to get 9pm blood sugars. So we have to get them, then after vitals, he sits on his a$% and does nothing. Someone needs to go to the bathroom, you tell him, 15min. later he is still sitting on his butt. You end up having to do it because the patient is about to pee on themselves. He gives you attitude whenever you ask him to do something. I had 2 patients with Q4hr. vitals and at 0015 he was walking by, I told him I needed midnight vitals on such and such and he said, "I have already done midnight vitals, too late." :argue: I almost blew a fuse!!! Later at 4am, I told him I needed vitals on someone and he said why? I just got them at midnight...??????...I just tried to remain calm and told him that first of all, 2 of them are to be taken q4 due to MD orders and the other may be going home this am and I am sure the DR would like to have more recent vitals. Then, he didn't chart my I&O's, had to tell him 4 times!!!. I would rather just not have him... We usually work primary care with no PCA, but sometimes we have them and the nurses take more patients, so when we have him, we are having more patients AND doing primary care anyway because he does nothing. Plus, we are working harder trying to track him down because he doesn't answer his phone and going behind him to make sure he has done his job. Management has been told many times, he has been written up many times, and NOTHING is being done...all I can say is he must have some good pictures on someone!!. Sorry so long, I am just so fed up.:angryfire

I had a patient once who was dying. When I had her the previous week, she was alert and oriented but in a lot of pain and kept telling us and the doctor that she wanted to die. So when I came in that night she had declined and been put on a morphine drip. She was pretty much only responsive to pain and her son was there for the night. She started having periods of apnea where she would stop breathing for like 30 seconds-1 min. and then all of a sudden she would take a huge breath and open her eyes and start saying very loudly "MOMMY!, MOMMY!, MOMMY!". I was in the room and her son and I just looked at each other at the same time. I was trying not to let it show that I was freaked out! He just said, well, we can't begin to know what all she is going through right now. She continued doing this off and on for a couple of hours and then she died. That remains to be the scariest death I have ever seen.

I hate when people say "alls (like halls)" as in alls I want to do is go to the store. HATE IT!

I will probably make someone mad but I just needed to vent about this issue. I work at a hospital in Oncology/Medical. The cna/tech responsibilities are to do vitals, blood sugars, bathroom duties, and turn pt. I constantly hear some of them say that the nurses treat them like slaves when all we did was ask them to do a blood sugar. In the mean time I have one pt. dying, hanging blood on another, one is complaining of chest pain, I am getting a new admit, and still haven't charted, and they can't do a freaking blood sugar because they are too busy sitting on their a@# talking on the phone. I will say that not all of them are like that. We have a few that are wonderful at what they do and I let them know that they are greatly appreciated. I don't mind wiping a butt or doing blood sugars when the cna is busy, but if they are sitting there while I am running around like a crazy person and then gripe when I ask them to do something, it really makes me mad:madface:. Does anyone else see this behavior?