Ok, so I know I can't be the only one who dreams about just for ONCE saying what's really going through her mind! I love my job, and I do it for the love of my residents, and I always give 100% to make sure they are safe, happy, and cared for. However, I am also extremely sarcastic by nature - and sometimes, well lots of times, I think one thing - but of course say and act completely polite and professional!
Let's see what we all are really thinking in those times of complete stress and chaos we all know too well! I'll start....
To the A&Ax3 perfectly coherent pt who is mean and obnoxious and thinks that he is at the Ritz not a nursing home, and thinks every CNA is his personal assistant / slave::angryfire
DO NOT under any circumstances hit your call light for me to come and pick up your breakfast/lunch/dinner tray - the NANOsecond you finish eating!!!! REALLY! You KNOW that at some point during the 20 other times you call me in there, that I will pick it up on my way out!!!! This drives me absolutely up the wall. Same goes for your urinal (with all 5 cc's of output)!
Stop calling the poor confused residents filthy names. Just because you choose to sit in the hallway all day long doesn't make you the hall monitor! Just because they aimlessly walk or wheel around doesn't mean they are stupid. They are confused. Telling them to get the hell away from you and go back to where "they belong" is nasty and uncalled for. I sometimes secretly hope you will become exactly like them. Soon.
When you ask for an appointment at the barbershop at 8:50 am and they don't open until 9 am, don't hit your call button at 8:55 and ask if I got you a 9 am appointment! I know this may come as a shock to you - but you are not the center of the universe!! You will probably get scheduled sometime later that day, or - GASP - maybe even the next day!
To those wonderful family members we all love so much:
Just because you have an internet connection and access to WebMD, doesn't make you a medical professional. Why the Docs and DON's entertain your completely idiotic and unfounded requests - I will never know. Do you know how hard it is to keep residents properly hydrated? Yet you insist your loved one is over hydrated, and insist he only have one glass of water at every meal. AND you come in during meals and pull a bottle of sea salt out of your purse and dump handfuls onto his food. Hmmmm. OK!
You haven't been to visit grandma in over a year. Grandma is completely contracted, hoyer lift, check and change, with aphasia. When you come and tell me that she told you she has to go to the bathroom and you want me to "take her to the restroom", I am not sure whether I want to giggle or slap you.
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Keep em coming! Just some healthy venting! Thanks a ton!
to those demanding residents: f u!!! u being this way makes people want to run away from u not stick around and have a conversation! and dont try to play games with me either. damn i am not your slave :angryfire.
stop yelling for me to put you to bed. i cant right now. i have other people who have to go to bed first. yelling at me everytime i walk by wont make me go faster. i have like 8 or 10 sometimes more people to take care of besides you :angryfire.
and if i do put you to bed early for once dont you dare be on that d**m call bell all night for dumb stuff. i have other people besides you.
when they do ring the call bell every five seconds i wanna see: see this is why i dont put you to bed until 9!
:redbeathe i love my job but this **** plucks at my ever-lasting nerve sometimes. i love my residents (even the annoying ones) but on bad days this stuff will make you nuts :angryfire.
You have a nurse come to you after they change the bandage on the pts hinny and say they need changed.
What you want to is:You did not just lay them back onto crap after you just changed the bandage HOW FREAKIN LAZY changing butt is in your job description toooooo!!!!
Geriatric resident weighing around 300 pounds completely dead weight. Family refuses to let us use a hoyer to transfer her to and from wheelchair because it's inhuman.
Family complains about a resident's blood sugar level but won't stop bringing in sugary treats.
You have a nurse come to you after they change the bandage on the pts hinny and say they need changed.
What you want to is:You did not just lay them back onto crap after you just changed the bandage HOW FREAKIN LAZY changing butt is in your job description toooooo!!!!
Oh no, you cheerfuly go change the patient and then march right back to that nurse and say, "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that dressing needs to be changed again."
You're honestly calling me back into the room to set up this new admit's meal tray because according to you, you "don't know how?????" You mean to tell me that you never learned how to do that in nursing school? Here's a tip: take the covers off everything and throw them in the trash.... now you're done. Easy!
I also had to adjust the overbed table and pull the siderails up because again, this nurse supposedly "didn't know how" to do those things. I was like whaaaaaaat?
I'm rolling on the floor. Some folks missed common sense 101, or actually pre common sense. I would love to take of one cover and say,"Now you practice on the rest of them"
You're honestly calling me back into the room to set up this new admit's meal tray because according to you, you "don't know how?????" You mean to tell me that you never learned how to do that in nursing school? Here's a tip: take the covers off everything and throw them in the trash.... now you're done. Easy!
I also had to adjust the overbed table and pull the siderails up because again, this nurse supposedly "didn't know how" to do those things. I was like whaaaaaaat?
It's not so much them not knowing how. They just don't want to. The very first nursing course in a nursing program trains you to be an NA I
Yeah I know, but it was just completely ridiculous. The reason I didn't set up the tray when I brought it in was because she was starting her assessment (or I thought she was), and if you interrupt her she gives you the stink eye and makes comments.
One thing I really wanted to say tonight was, "What's wrong with you? I'm TRYING to HELP YOU. Why are you mumbling and evading my questions? If you haven't charted anything yet, and you won't tell me what you have left to do (probably because you're embarrassed about not being finished yet), then how am I supposed to know what you need me to do?"
As it was, I ended up figuring out for myself that she hadn't done a darn thing, and then I went and did it all for her! If you're struggling and someone offers you all kinds of help then don't confuse the hell out of them by saying lots of vague things.
we have a pt. that is the same way. the techs. no longer bathe her as she is capable of doing it herself anyway. they just flat out refused. don't blame them. this is a psych ward by the way, not ltc. but the reaction was the same!
When a family member(s) want me to feed their loved one even though they're all sitting there on their asses doing absolutely nothing- "Feed them your f#($*ing self".
Oh and from an experience today. "I heard you the first time you called for pain meds, THe second and third times I wanted to slap you upside the head. Then you decided to start calling right after I left the room. Now I'm just going to shove that ******* button up your ass. The nurse in report right now she will be in a ******* minute!"
I'm sorry that you find the facility's food not suitable to your palate. But. . . You have only been here for 2 days. How could you POSSIBLY know that everything dietary serves is bad? And I understand someone ordering in food from an outside restaurant on occasion. However, when you have a large Meat Lover's pizza from Pizza Hut delivered to your room 3 meals a day for two weeks (and consume the ENTIRE thing BY YOURSELF), I not only think it is horrendously disgusting and tremendously unhealthy, I also think that you are rich and spoiled. It is terrible that the delivery people know exactly who you are, your room number, and your order that is the same, day after day. I now know EXACTLY why your physician diagnosed you with hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. It also comes as no surprise to me that you have gained 7 lb. since you were admitted. I do not feel as sorry for you when complain of nausea and vomiting every hour and beg for Compazine. I WILL be reporting to your nurse EXACTLY what you are eating and she WILL be charting that you have not been compliant with your diet.
I'm rolling on the floor. Some folks missed common sense 101, or actually pre common sense. I would love to take of one cover and say,"Now you practice on the rest of them"
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to those demanding residents: f u!!! u being this way makes people want to run away from u not stick around and have a conversation! and dont try to play games with me either. damn i am not your slave :angryfire.
stop yelling for me to put you to bed. i cant right now. i have other people who have to go to bed first. yelling at me everytime i walk by wont make me go faster. i have like 8 or 10 sometimes more people to take care of besides you :angryfire.
and if i do put you to bed early for once dont you dare be on that d**m call bell all night for dumb stuff. i have other people besides you.
when they do ring the call bell every five seconds i wanna see: see this is why i dont put you to bed until 9!
:redbeathe i love my job but this **** plucks at my ever-lasting nerve sometimes. i love my residents (even the annoying ones) but on bad days this stuff will make you nuts :angryfire.