Your pet peeve of the week

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

Right now mine is rec.

I absolutely hate it when Recreation takes residents away without telling anyone. I go to toilet them and they're gone. Then they bring them back later and make sure to inform you that the resident is wet or full of BM. Okay thanks for giving me the opportunity to toilet them now that it's too late. Or if someone who normally goes to rec wants to lay down in the afternoon the rec people always come to you with a pained/panicked expression. "Mrs. Smith is laying down?????ohnoesssss!!!" Hmm, well Mrs. Smith is 97 years old and every now and then she decides she wants a nap.

And the volunteers! I swear half our residents are more A&O than some of these people. How many times do you have to tell someone "DO NOT COME IN" before they get it? They'll be transporting someone back from an activity and keep trying to barge in while we've got the roommate up in a lift with her butt hanging out. Can you not wait 5 minutes so this person can poop without an audience? Or better yet, leave the other resident in the hallway and GO AWAY. No, instead they just ignore you and barge in anyway, hitting you with the door and running over your foot with the wheelchair and then they leave with the resident parked ass-backwards in the middle of the room.

What bugged the crap out of you today?

[KimberlyRN89, BSN, RN]

Ugh u nailed it! The activities dept. makes me soo mad! I remember one Sunday I worked day shift & the activities coordinator demanded that I get everyone out of their rooms b/c they "must attend church". Um seriously, they are grown adults, they can make their own choices. And the toileting thing makes me mad too!!!

[daimere]

When they ask someone to stay over, then the nurses forget to even put you on the duty charts. Then, when the nurses add you to more parts after you've walked away and are helping get residents because your normal shifts jobs aren't finished. Then, after working a whole shift on one hall, I'm moved to the other hall on day shift which I barely know. After an hour, I was switched to the other hall. I felt like I never got ANYTHING accomplished just because I was floating back and forth between the halls. As one woman put it, "she's doing third shift work on day shift [which never happens]"

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

I hate it when someone calls off and as someone who works all the halls, I KNOW I'm going to be moved, but the supervisor is nowhere to be found and doesn't switch me until 8 o'clock. Then I'm an hour behind on my new assignment.

[Restoration]

Im a new student in my first week. for me its that our teacher tests us on a skill she didnt teach and looks at us all weird because we didnt use 'common sense' and we cant do a darn thing about it.

[rosey2007cna]

I think that my pet peeve is when nobody tells me that someone has a doctors appointment or other appointment. Then the van pickup shows up and are like is so and so ready to go. I am like no I had no idea they were going out. Then you are trying to get these people ready in a mad dash and you know how that goes. Find the nurse who also has no idea that this person is going out to get there meds. I still have not figured out how to hurry an elderly person lol. They can only move so fast!!! I am so glad that this is my last week working at this most unorganized nursing home.

[PhoenixTech, LPN]

When you finished caring for a pt on an waffle bed, they're laying there all comfy and snug in clean linen and then........transport comes to take them for a test. Instead of using the pull sheet to transfer the pt onto the gurney, they take the whole **** waffle bed

They bring the pt back and put them back on the bed but don't bother to fix the waffle that they unhooked in the first place. I walk past the pt's room on my way to empty the linen cart and my pt is tangled in their bedsheets, halfway down the bed and with the waffle straps wrapped around their extremities! They look miserable and it looks like I didn't do their care......and it's always right before the pt. rep comes around checking the rooms:banghead:

[PhoenixTech, LPN]

When commode/bed pan pts are placed in the rooms where there's no attachment on the toilet to help clean them......and the poo is sticky

I had two in the same room this past week! It's especially bad for the commode because I have to return it to it's base, unlike the bed pan where I can just discard it and get another. :uhoh21:

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

Oh I know what you mean. Working in long term care I know who the residents are that have sticky poop and I line their commodes with a plastic bag.

[PhoenixTech, LPN]

:yelclap: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA! :tku:

[Miss_Piggy.RN]

ok... I am new to the hospital but there are few CNAs that work YEARS on unit. Most of them are great and I LOVE them! However, there is one that I can barely stand. She calls herself a nurse not a nursing aid and in the presence of the patients says that we have to hurry up because it's time to go home! :devil: Of course, there is more but I am sure you know already what kind of CNA she is.

Did I mentioned that she is my preceptor???

Lucky me, tomorrow is my last day of orientation. I am scared because there is still a lot to learn, but I am happy too! I won't have to deal with her anymore!

[KimberlyRN89, BSN, RN]

ok... I am new to the hospital but there are few CNAs that work YEARS on unit. Most of them are great and I LOVE them! However, there is one that I can barely stand. She calls herself a nurse not a nursing aid and in the presence of the patients says that we have to hurry up because it's time to go home! :devil: Of course, there is more but I am sure you know already what kind of CNA she is.

Did I mentioned that she is my preceptor???

Lucky me, tomorrow is my last day of orientation. I am scared because there is still a lot to learn, but I am happy too! I won't have to deal with her anymore!

Omg I've run into those at my new job:uhoh3: They've been CNA's longer than I've been alive & they've learned every corner cutting trick in the book lol.