Venting about weekend nurses!

I feel so sorry for you, and I hope you feel abit better for talking about it here, but more importantly, I hope those lazy nurses read it!!!! Perhaps you can get some of the weekly nurses to say something to the lazy nurses. The more I read about the way nursing is in the U.S. the more 'gobsmacked' I become. All the best to you.

Having only 1 tech for 30 pts is unacceptable. Perhaps you could talk to your manager about your concern for the care of the patients? We try to have a max of 6 patients, but sometimes end up with 9 and that is that max. When we have 9 (which rarely happens on day shift) the nurses all pitch in and help with giving bed baths and linen changes and things like that but still expect us to keep up with vitals/glucs/I&O/etc which is very doable. I can't imagine having 30!!!!

Hi, I'm a BSN student but I'm also a CNA/MA vet, and have lots of experience in Ward/Clinical settings. Reading your post troubled me, specially since you cant really expect to take good care of pts if you are doing more than 10 pts her shift. 30 pts is unthinkable to me, and is a major blemish on the professional nurses who supervise you, since they really should know better. I would assess what they do in their free time, because if in fact you are ALL running amock, then I'd get on the supervising official, maybe even go beyond him/her. Remember, CNAs have a voice, you have rights just like the nurses do, you're not going to make a friend, but you should seek to nip this kind of an issue in the behind quickly, like you said, pts are at stake. On the further note, it is a job of a nurse as well as a CNA to do ALL those things you do as well, I/O,VS,BS,Bedpans, bedbaths, etc, Or perhaps some of them need to be sent back to school.

I'm not trying to rouse a passion for rebellion, but I am saying be smart, I think every system has leniency towards those who "just do that right thing" once in a while!