cali_nurse

Thanks Suzanne. I work morning shift 3 times a week now as a trainee. The nurse is responsible for changing linens, most of the baths(its better to do yourself than waiting for CNA), accuchecks, note the I and o, chart in the computer, and also all other nursing duties. The hospital I worked before had CNA do all the above except charting. Here the CNA does only vitlas which makes no sense to me coz I often repeat the vitals if the patient is on antihypertensives before giving meds. Becoz of these reasons me and my preceptor is running around all the time and I see most of the nurses too, very stressed. Feels like I am helping my preceptor to get her things done on time by helping her to do whatever needs to be done. Its a community hospital and we get 5 patients most of the time. The patients are assigned according to the acuity level. I feel If the CNA in this hospital could help doing more stuffs, we as nurses have more time focussing on treatments. The hospital needs to hire more CNAs I guess. And a new grad like me would have more time focussing on patient's problems and treatments with my preceptor. I am just writing my story coz as a new grad I was pretty overwhelmed for couple of days. I am there to learn as an RN, learn to think critically and take actions, call the doc but there I was, changing linens and doing other stuffs that CNA could have done easily in that hospital. Hope things will get better............... Thanks once again Suzanne

Hi Suzanne, First of all let me thank you for the wonderful job you are doing. The information and advice are priceless. Keep up the good work........ I am in a new grad program. The preceptor has the same number of patients as the other nurses. Its hard for the preceptor to finish her job on time and also teach, explain and answer my questions as well. Does this happen in all hospitals? Just curious....