I am so aggrevated by one of the dayshift aids. I work nights and at our hospital the aids sit in on report when they come to work. The dayshift has an aid that has been there about 15 years. she is rude and obnoxious to staff and patients. She likes to treat new nurses like they are stupid. She comes to report, closes her eyes like she is sleeping, and makes weird sounds while you are giving report. Yesterday I was giving report and I had stopped one topic and gone to another and she flung her head down, opened her eyes and told me what I was talking about didn't applie to what this patient had and didn't have anything to do with it. If she was awake she would know I had gone to another dx on this patient.
The experienced nurses told me they had been trying to have something done about her for years, and when patients sent back surveys about her they were found in the don's garbage can!!! Don told them she had worked there too long to get rid of her and she had to help pay for her two sisters 6 illegit children.
I am so aggrevated by one of the dayshift aids. I work nights and at our hospital the aids sit in on report when they come to work. The dayshift has an aid that has been there about 15 years. she is rude and obnoxious to staff and patients. She likes to treat new nurses like they are stupid. She comes to report, closes her eyes like she is sleeping, and makes weird sounds while you are giving report. Yesterday I was giving report and I had stopped one topic and gone to another and she flung her head down, opened her eyes and told me what I was talking about didn't applie to what this patient had and didn't have anything to do with it. If she was awake she would know I had gone to another dx on this patient.
The experienced nurses told me they had been trying to have something done about her for years, and when patients sent back surveys about her they were found in the don's garbage can!!! Don told them she had worked there too long to get rid of her and she had to help pay for her two sisters 6 illegit children.
Bad, bad, bad. Can you go above this DON? I think I would change jobs. if this DON is going to treat this situation this way, I would get out and find a better job. When you do leave, tell them exactly why you have made the decision. NO one works anywhere for too long.................. I think inthis case, I wold go above the DON.
THe more likely scenario is that people may verbally complain about her but little gets put in writing. This is often the case with problems like this. We had some serious issues regarding a physician at a facility that I worked at a long time ago. Because he was a physician staff would complain to the head of his practice but nothing had EVER been written up. Finally the senior partner told us point blank, " I can do nothing because you guys don't like him and the incidents you tell me of are undocumented." From that point on I personally began a campaign to encourage people to document the frightening and dangerous occurences. It was just a few short months later that he "took a job in another state."
Might be because he was asked to leave his current position.
Nurses are often hesitant to write things up which is realaly too bad. Nothing can be done about something unless there is a paper trail. It really bugs e that some nuress are so scared to do this. Is it any wonder nursing doesn't go forward?
We had a CNA like that where I used to work. The nurses were aggravated beyond belief and kept writing her up constantly. The DON did nothing (which is surprising because everyday it seemed like they would fire a perfectly good aide or nurse for some obscure reason). One day she got a stroke patient up and left him sitting on the edge of the bed while she went to look for help. He took a dive and landed on his face. What happened? She got suspended for 3 days????!!!! She was so po'd that she quit. Thank goodness for small favors.
We had a CNA like that where I used to work. The nurses were aggravated beyond belief and kept writing her up constantly. The DON did nothing (which is surprising because everyday it seemed like they would fire a perfectly good aide or nurse for some obscure reason). One day she got a stroke patient up and left him sitting on the edge of the bed while she went to look for help. He took a dive and landed on his face. What happened? She got suspended for 3 days????!!!! She was so po'd that she quit. Thank goodness for small favors.
That is really awful. That poor man.
I would love to say I have had a chance to do something about this aid but she has been avoiding coming to report.
I did hear that she yelled, screamed, and cussed out one of the student nurses who was visiting our hospital for not charting the bedbath correctly. One of the nurses s/w her and she said "i don't care they are not going to do anything to me." :uhoh21:
I would love to say I have had a chance to do something about this aid but she has been avoiding coming to report.
I did hear that she yelled, screamed, and cussed out one of the student nurses who was visiting our hospital for not charting the bedbath correctly. One of the nurses s/w her and she said "i don't care they are not going to do anything to me." :uhoh21:
melissa
This aid really needs to be reported by as many as possible.
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