Lendytaylor10

I had a nursing instructor during CNA clinicals (she was a registered nurse who also taught the RN program) and she wanted to evaluate students based on, get this: "how she FELT about them". Rather than giving us concrete information about what we did wrong, she would just keep saying "but you SEEM this way", or "I get this VIBE from you". I do not want to be evaluated this way. I don't care what the instructor's personal opinion of me is, whether she likes me as a person, or what. I want her to evaluate based on what how correctly I perform my duties and how I care for the patient. Instead of using immature, touchy feely comments like "you SEEM (fill in the blank)". She also cut down students, made sarcastic comments and did "eyeball rolls" at certain people. I won't say what school this is, but I will say its in Texas. She also acted disgusted that the state examiner passed me on all my skills. So yes, I could really see legal disputes involving clinical evaluations, unless they are totally objective and there are witnesses present (more than one person, that is). A nursing instructor whining about how she doesn't like a student just comes across as an immature juvenile.

Nurses (and other medical personnel), please quit expecting a CNA, all by herself, to lift/transfer a 250-300 pound person. If a person is that freaking huge and is designated as a two-person transfer, get a clue by four - I am NOT going to transfer that patient by myself. So please quit expecting me to do it. You will have to WAIT until I can find another person to help. Please grow a brain if you don't understand this.

It is not the secretary's job at all to answer call lights !!!

Once again, a secretary is being blamed because someone can't do their job. Nurses and CNAs - call lights are YOUR responsibility. Not the secretary's. Do your job instead of looking for someone else to blame it on.