Slight co-worker issue..

[dedream]

Ok so I'm a float; so any given floor any given day is the norm. Lately Ive been floated to a dementia floor with one other float and 3 regulars. The problem seems to be the regular staff, who seem to dissappear when call lights come on and when they see you go into a room of a resident who is an assist x2 or you come rolling down the hallway with a hoyer lift. During breakfast and lunch they dissappear, so myself and the other float are busting it out consistently. It wouldnt be so bad if these staff members at least did their assignments but they dont and most of their residents get passed onto myself or the other float. This issue was brought to the attention of the nurse who just basically shrugged and said, "I'll talk to them". If she does, it doesn't seem to help because the situation stays the same. So my question is how do you work effectively when you are surrounded by laziness and lack of leadership? Does anyone have any experience with this and how do you deal with it?

[lunden]

go above "the nurse". because whats going on there is just plain silly.

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

I hate that! We have one CNA who takes advantage of floats all the time, probably because she's only ever worked on one floor and is never a float herself. She seems to think it's okay to dump everything she doesn't want to do on the extra person. The other night we had a girl who works on our wing maybe twice a year come over as a float. This CNA immediately started telling her what to do. She made her give one guy a shower and then she had this other woman who should have been washed up and in bed, but she totally ignored her and found a ton of stupid stuff to fiddle around with because she was expecting the floater to do that too. Finally another coworker ended up doing it.

Whenever I float I get really irritated with her, and I KNOW the wing. The second I come over she makes a beeline for me and starts asking if I'm going to do this and that for her. Or if I'm working with her and we're supposed to get a float later she makes comments about how the float can do everything we don't want.

[dedream]

This situation is just so wrong and I feel like at some point "management " has to know this goes on or maybe I'm just that naive. Ive heard the comments from the "regulars" like "oh all these floats always have an attitude". I mean if we are treated like crap then we are supposed to roll over and smile???...sheesh. Im trying to get a handle on how to deal with this diplomatically and outside of going over the nurses head (keep in mind I'm a float) I'm coming up empty.......