I just started a PRN position at a LTC facility, and my 2nd night on the job, I had an STNA who really started off on the wrong foot with me. First she left for her dinner break at 6:45pm and did not return until 7:50, with the exscuse that she went to McDonald's and it was raining so she stayed in her car a little longer so she wouldn't get wet! Giving me this smirky face as she is talking too me. The policy for lunch is 30min, and if you leave you have to clock out and back in upon return which she didn't do according to payroll. The next thing she did was sometime after my 9pm med pass she cleaned two patients that happened to be tube feeders, and instead of asking me to hold the tube feed so she could reposition them, she took it upon herself TO TURN THE PUMPS OFF!:angryfire Both patients were lying flat!!!! When I asked her about this, with the same stupid smirk, she says yeah I turned them off so I could clean Mrs. So-n-so. I forgot to turn them back on. I told her you are not to touch the pumps you need to tell me when you need the pumps on hold not turned off. I will do this, not you. I don't know how long they were like this but she then says to me we do that all the time, you don't need to come do that for me, I know how to do it. ***!! Call me the bad guy, but I wrote her up. I get the impression from her that since she is older than me (15 years or so), and because she's been an STNA for 13 years she feels that she doesn't need to do the things I request. Is this a common?? I also work at a major hospital here in Cleveland,OH and the CTA/PCA as we call them I have no prob with regardless of age,race,gender. But other friends of mine that are nurses in LTC facilities have tons of problems. Sorry so long..