Mskate1

Wash the patient's face first. NO SOAP!! Clean Around eye area first going from corner to outside and don't forget to turn the washcloth with each stroke. Then clean the rest of the face. The you move onto the arm etc.

This must be a common problem with the Lazy CNA's out there...I'm a new CNA at a hospital (this is my first week on my own) and I've noticed (even during my Orientation no less!) that some of the LAZY CNAs will do try to get you to do "their" job....but they will also do anything not to help you do yours....They expect a team player when it comes to them or one of their "gang"'s patients but when you ask for help then there is a "I" in that so-called "Team" After not even one month (3 weeks orientating and 3 days by myself) I'm noticing when I ask for help lifting/transferring a patient I get the "glossed over deer in the headlight" look, followed with comments such as "your have to learn how to do it by yourself" or the classic "I have my own patients". Best yet was yesterday when a floater CNAs came to find me while I was in the middle of my break eating to tell you that my patient needs to be changed and put in bed. And here I thought that your so-called "team mates" were supposed to take care of your patient's needs while you were away off the floor on break? Not come and tell you in the middle of your break that the patient needs to have his poopy behind cleaned when you get back and that she has her "own patients to take care of" So I guess her philosophy is to let the man sit in his own poop for another 0 - 15 minutes. How disgusting! I certainly hope some CNA doesn't make her sit in her poop for 10 -15 minutes when she gets older! LAZY, LAZY, LAZY

Lazy CNAs? You betcha! I just started working at a major hospital and have been on orientation (this is my first week by myself) and to some of these lazy Ass CNAs there is an "I" in TEAM, except of course when it comes to their patients but then there is an "I" in that TEAM too as I seem to be the one taking care of their patients . I have answered call lights that belonged to another CNA. lets call her CNA "A" who actually turned her head and when she saw her patient calling for her turned back around and started chatting to her friend who was preceptor to me even though the Director said that she shouldn't have been We'll call her CNA B. These two are a tight "clique" Well, the call bell kept going and my preceptor and her kept on chatting, finally after a minute or so I got up and started down the hall saying "I guess I'll answer your call bell" When I got in the room I found that the patient was a C-Diff patient who needed to be changed. Guess that's why neither of these CNAs "A" or "B" were in a rush to answer that particular call bell. Then they snookered me into "Helping" give a sponge bath...next thing I knew they literally shoved me in the Bathroom with the Patient and buggered off somewhere leaving me with CNA "A's" patient...then another day I'm busting my ass getting vitals and trying to get the vitals charted when CNA "A" comes up to me with a glass of water telling me "Your patient asked for this" I looked at her and said "Can't you give it to him as I'm a little busy here right now"? Oh there are a number of little dirty tricks that these ones have pulled to get me to do their work, but when I ask them to help me lift or transfer a patient I can't transer/lift myself I get the "deer in the headlight look followed by the loud sigh. Best one yet was last night...I had 2 admissions, one being who is on a wanderguard and is setting off her bed/chair check literally every 5 minutes. I also had another patient who is laying on her call button screaming for her morphine/methadone and other pain pills every 5 minutes...another patient who is AX2 who is severely incontinent and needs to go on the commode every 20 minutes only to pee on herself and the floor as soon as her brief is losened and another patient who is also AX2 and constantly pooping black + for ecoli and a hematestX2. Anyway I'm taking care of my + ecoli patient getting him out of the wheelchair that PT left him in, washing him up, changing him applying cream to his stage 2 on his butt, trying to obtain the hematest, getting him in bed and CNA "A" comes into the room pulls the curtain and announces that my severely incontinent lady needs to come off the commode and that she had a BM. I told her I was in the middle of something (OBVIOUSLY) and couldn't she take care of her since SHE answered the call bell her response? "I have my own patients to take care of!". It was a good 10 minutes till I was able to leave the patient I had been working on to get to the other patient who was STILL sitting on the commode! The patient next to her and their family member who is an RN at another hopsital were ****** that CNA "A" left that woman there on the commode and forced not only them but the patient on the commode to smell that till I was able to get there. This CNA "A" was reported on the week before for forcing another patient to get out of bed herself and onto a commode and I've heard that she's been written up a number of times already. I reported what she did to the charge nurse who told me that SHE (CNA A) was wrong to do what she did. I said between her and CNA "B" I've been getting no help whatsoever, but when it comes to their patients I'm expected to be a "team player". Charge Nurse told me "just don't answer their call bells" My response to her was I can't consciously do something like that when I have the time to help out another patient not in my set. Oh yeah, LAZY isn't even the word for these two and I do realize that they are taking severe advantage of the new kid (me) on the block....