"Thats not my patient"

Disablednurse · May 8, 2003

I never minded doing anything for the patients, but when I was on med pass and not used to working the floor, if a patient asked for anything like help to BR or something, I did call for the CNA. Our med pass time frame is two hours and anything longer is considered a med error. I had many CNAs get mad at me for not helping or doing what the patient wanted but there was no one to help me pass the meds. Unless it was an emergency, I would always call their CNA to come and let them help. What made me mad was when I was trying to pass meds and look for a CNA and could find none on the hall. That would really cause me to blow a fuse.

Token Male · May 12, 2003

We may do things different here but we have things called "Nursing Care Plans" that hang on the end of each bed. You do not have to know every patients needs or restrictions because it is written down for you. This should remove the excuse of not knowing and maybe going wrong; of course you have to get people to read them.

Nurses who routinely use the expression should change it to a more honest one, Eg. "I'm too lazy to assist my fellow workers."

udontwannabme · May 16, 2003

I really hate to hear "That's not my pt". The other thing I don't like is at shift change, some of our CNA's split with lights going off everywere. I always try to get everything in order before I leave. I had a nurse get mad at me, I had a pt for a whole shift, never got her up. Third shift came on, I was still working in another rm. The new aide asked me if the pt could get up to a bedside comode. I told her I didn't know because I never recieved report on her and she had not wanted up the whole time I took care of her. After I finished with what I was doing, I went in and helped the aide get the pt up, but the nurse was very mad at me for not getting report. The pt was on her team, so why didn't she know if she could get up or not? Before you say you should always get report, sometimes it is almost next to impossible to catch a nurse to even get a little info about pts. One of the good things about working in a small town hospital is that you have a lot of frequent flyers.