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.
This week it's the freaking call lights! The hall lights up like a Christmas tree at every shift change! It's like they all sit there watching the clock and as soon as it's time they press the button, as if to say, "Hey people, I'm here today, just like I was yesterday and the day before that and the day before that..." Guess what? We KNOW! We cannot forget, as much as we'd like to.
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!!!
Oh gosh, same thing happened at work today. Except it was the administrator that went around telling us to "make them get up and go to church". 1. There's a stomach virus going around, so most of them were in bed with vomiting and diarrhea. 2. Most of them don't want to go to church. Since when did old become synonymous with religious? 3. If the administrator wants us to make them go against their will, then HE should be the one making them. Why do the CNAs always have to play the bad guy? It sickens me.
The PT person "runs" the facility like a boot camp by barking orders and yelling at the CNAs to walk so and so or ELSE! I want to tell her to get over herself.
The PT person "runs" the facility like a boot camp by barking orders and yelling at the CNAs to walk so and so or ELSE! I want to tell her to get over herself.
I know one that does that. She's just an RA. Every time she gets it into her head that she is God, I want to remind her than she only went to school for a month and a half longer than I did. Big whoop.
I also hate when RA's stop in the middle of therapy and put on a resident's call light because "so-and-so" needs to use the bathroom. Uh, I'm pretty sure you're a CNA too!
We have some PTAs that think they're god's gift to the facility too.
That freaking rec aide really got me mad again today. I think someone complained about them sneaking residents away because today she actually asked us if they were ready. A volunteer was obliviously wheeling someone from the other end down and the rec aide started huffing and puffing to one of the volunteers that "the CNAs will spazz out" if you take someone away that hasn't been toileted. Rolling her eyes and everything. While we were standing 2" inches away from her the whole time, walking a resident. We told her we weren't on that end so we didn't know if that person was ready or not but all of ours were. Well that brought in another round of huffing and puffing. Then she's getting in our faces about how if we're not going to toilet them right away then we're just going to have to bring them to activities ourselves. Then she ran off in a huff.
I hope she ends up in a nursing home someday sitting in wet pants all the time with skin breakdown and UTIs because no one ever toilets her. Nasty old witch.
I hope she ends up in a nursing home someday sitting in wet pants all the time with skin breakdown and UTIs because no one ever toilets her. Nasty old witch.
And maybe then she will figure out how "fun" that stupid worthless dang Bingo game is when she is forced to play it every day for 15 years!! I hope she never gets 5 in a row.
And maybe then she will figure out how "fun" that stupid worthless dang Bingo game is when she is forced to play it every day for 15 years!! I hope she never gets 5 in a row.
Specializes in 6 yrs LTC, 1 yr MedSurg, Wound Care.
I hope she never gets 5 in a row.
That's hilarious!
Here I was thinking that it was just our activites director that drove us crazy!
She planned a scavenger hunt a week or so ago and all of the CNAs were to help them find the things on the list and sign off on their little paper. The director actually told me that she set it up for us to help them so she could catch up on her paperwork!
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?
These are also the CNAs that seem so dumbfounded that anyone would EVER try to smack them or cuss them out. Of course, you KNOW they treat everyone SO well!! *rolling my eyes*
For real. If I was 80 years old and some crazy fool came up to me and started talking to me like that, I would be like "Yo kid, I'm gonna smack you around like the kooky turkey you look like." I would then probably punch them in the face, spit in their eye, go find the CMT/nurse that ALWAYS leaves the keys sitting on top of the med cart, pocket such keys, then stealthily sneak out of the facility in my light-up wheelchair and use them to key the HECK out of that CNA's car while they are doing their rounds.
:) OK, well maybe I wouldn't really do that. But it's obvious I've put some thought into this.
I always wonder where these people were the day that their parents taught them about respecting their elders.
The way the facility where I work pretties itself up because of an upcoming state visit.
It's always nice of management to hire somebody to scrub those poop smears off of the walls... ...just 27 weeks after they got there in the first place.
???ohnoesssss!!!" Hmm, well Mrs. Smith is 97 years old and every now and then she decides she wants a nap. 
I hope she never gets 5 in a row.
fuzzywuzzy, CNA
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This week it's the freaking call lights! The hall lights up like a Christmas tree at every shift change! It's like they all sit there watching the clock and as soon as it's time they press the button, as if to say, "Hey people, I'm here today, just like I was yesterday and the day before that and the day before that..." Guess what? We KNOW! We cannot forget, as much as we'd like to.