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.
I had a resident today that was on comfort care and my nurse made me get this poor person up. I do not think that this person even ate breakfast. I asked the resident after breakfast if they would like to lay down and she said no, but she was so drugged up I do not think that she knew what she wanted. This is the only facility that I have worked at were they force people on there death beds to go to a meal. I just do not get it
It's annoying that the residents aren't getting routine haircuts especially the ones that are bed bound. The other day one of the other NARS cut one gentleman's hair herself.
A coworker got someone in the chair still wearing their night shirt. When we tried to inform him of this, he said, "But it's clean!" It still is a NIGHT shirt.
My pet peeve of this week is FAMILY of the residents!!! Why is it when we all have families that patient families are the worst?
This lady was visiting her parents. She got annoyed with a mean alzheimer's patient being outside her door so she took her without anybody knowing to the gathering place (place for residents that has a t.v.). This patient is a SERIOUS fall risk and CANNOT be left alone. Well guess what, the patient fell and broke her hip. She was my patient for the night, but I was in the dining room. But we all (including the nurse) got chewed out for it.
When the family member was told that that patient she moved broke her hip all she said was "Oh, that mean lady?" I was so mad:mad:. We also had another fall that night which made it worse. But this time the patient was left on the floor because no nurses were able to come and assess them because we had a "code blue(unresponsive patient)" at the same time!!! Crazy night:uhoh3:
I'm not a can yet I'm just in training right now, but my pet peeve of the week is when we've taken a quiz or in this case we just took our midterm and had gotten back the grades. i got a 100 on it because i studied my by butt off and earned it and then the class know it all tells me that i didn't get that grade and that there must be a mistake and that mine needs to be regraded.
1. The Family members. As another person mentioned, they often tend to be worse than the actual patients. One of our family members was so distraught that her mom had just wet her breif that she paraded the wet the wet diaper up and down the hallway as she yelled and cursed out the staff. Then she proceeded to shove it into the faces of several staff members! WTH??
2. The patients (often new) who turn on the call light for any and everything possible. These call lights are on more than they are off. I especially hate it when you ask them to tell you everything at once but yet that call light keeps coming on every 5-10 minutes. As if you don't have other patients to contend with.
3. The "know it all" Nurse/CNA. Everyone has one. They want to change the world!!!! These types either last many years at one job or they don't stay more than a few months. They get on everyone's nerves.
I still love my job though! lol. Those are a few of my many pet peeves. :)
Oh you know what else I love about recreation? When they have an activity where food is served and they send the residents back with their fronts covered in food and drink. Not even a couple little dribbles- I'm talking big smears of sticky/dried hot chocolate with cookie crumbs mashed into it, blobs of ice cream, etc. Have they not heard of a damn towel?
If we sent anyone to rec with food on their face or clothes they'd be sent right back with a patronizing lecture. But it's okay when they do it- the CNAs will just have to change their clothes and laundry will get an extra outfit to wash but it won't affect rec.
My pet peeve is the type of CNA who treats the residents like they are deaf babies. You know, the kind that walks in to a resident's room and half-yells GOOD MORNING SUGAR PIE, WOULD YOU LIKE A WASHIE UPPIE? And then she comes out saying that so-and-so is very agitated today, she's not cooperative, etc. Of course I have absolutely no problem getting this resident washed up and ready for breakfast, because I treat them like the adult that they are. Good grief.
I also hate CNA's who mutter things like "disgusting" or "gross" when changing a soiled brief. You picked the wrong dang job, and yes, that resident can hear just fine.
The Family members. As another person mentioned, they often tend to be worse than the actual patients. One of our family members was so distraught that her mom had just wet her breif that she paraded the wet the wet diaper up and down the hallway as she yelled and cursed out the staff. Then she proceeded to shove it into the faces of several staff members! WTH??
Ugh I know what you mean ! I try & make friends with the resident's family as often as possible, but a lot of the time that just doesn't happen. One of our residents is really difficult to change-fighting, yelling, the whole 9 yards. Well the people on day shift didn't put a bra on her & her daughter came in that day screaming & yelling..she even went & told our RSD! Seriously? Making a big fuss over a bra??
Specializes in PACU, LTC, Med-Surg, Telemetry, Psych.
Nurses that sit drinking cokes and chit-chatting and playing with their iphones that are nearly as much as my weekly salary while 4 to 6 call lights are going off and half of the lights are for meds or IVs.
Fuzzy, I totally hear you on the recreation staff. I had the same problem when I worked in an LTC. I used to hate how they would take my patients away before I could toilet them. They would bring them back to me completely soiled.....to the point that they needed a whole new outfit. One of them had the nerve to complain that the CNA's where not changing the residents before they took them away!! They would just take them without warning! Urrrgh!:madface:
???ohnoesssss!!!" Hmm, well Mrs. Smith is 97 years old and every now and then she decides she wants a nap. 
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rosey2007cna
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I had a resident today that was on comfort care and my nurse made me get this poor person up. I do not think that this person even ate breakfast. I asked the resident after breakfast if they would like to lay down and she said no, but she was so drugged up I do not think that she knew what she wanted. This is the only facility that I have worked at were they force people on there death beds to go to a meal. I just do not get it