Or "patient care associates" or nurses' aides or whatever your union insists you be called!
Listen up: you are working on my license, taking care of my patients, that I am responsible for! You're called "ancillary staff" for a reason--and that reason is to buck the fuck up and do what I say to do. It's in your job description. You take direction from nurses. Your job exists to help me. So please note that it doesn't help me when:
1) You fake vital signs. Seriously, it's just gonna piss me off that I have to check them again. I know for a fact that that pale, diaphoretic guy does not have a BP of 150/80 and a pulse of 87. Just do the damn vitals.
2) You disappear. I know your union gets you a million breaks. Your 15-minute break. Your hour break. Your other 15-minute break. Whatever. When you're not on break, I need to see you. Checking in with me every hour or so to suck up and then disappearing to go text and smoke and chat with your buddies on the back steps does not count as work.
3) You give me lip. When I tell you I need an EKG, the correct answer is, "I'll get right on it." Not "I'm on my break," not "can't you find someone else," not "In a minute."
4) You make up your own work hours. You leave your job at 12 am, same as me. If I ask you to transport a patient to sonogram at 11:30 pm, the correct answer is, "sure!" Not "I'm not going if she needs a chaperone because I finish at 12 and even if you send my replacement when she gets here right at 12, I'll end up getting out late." Listen, lazy. You don't work in a bank, where you get to stop working and close the doors at three pm. I don't get to leave if my relief doesn't show up. Suck it up and transport the patient. And don't bitch at me because I asked you to go to sono in front of the nurse manager, and she heard your little tirade and now you look like the lazy asshole you are. You should have shut your trap and done the transport.
5) You complain about scrubbing ass. It's your job. Sometimes I can help you. Sometimes I can't, and you'll have to ask one of your colleagues to help you. Yes, I can scrub ass. But I also can start IVs and assess patients and administer medications and insert Foleys and monitor patients and write notes and talk to the doctor about the patient's care, and you can't, because it isn't in your scope of practice. Your scope of practice is to do what I ask you to do, and I'm asking you to scrub some shit off the ass of this patient because I'm fucking swamped taking care of all these other patients. So scrub it, and don't give me attitude about it. If you didn't want to scrub butts, you're in the wrong business.
6) you can't do your job anymore. I know you're super old. So retire already. If I need help moving a patient, you're not really useful.
Yea, there are some wonderful techs out there-- the kind that you don't have to ask anything of, who love their jobs and also manage to anticipate every need you might have. But they get used up and burned out because of the assholes they're outnumbered by.
Ugh.
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Good to see you again!
"Yea, there are some wonderful techs out there-- the kind that you don't have to ask anything of...". Hey, I met her once! I think she became a pet groomer.
Welcome back!
Wonderful!
Welcome back! ;D
There are some good nurses out there too, who do there jobs and are not assholes. BUT you are not one of them.
CNA's are not your slaves, it is your license so get off your fat ass and do your job.
Are you like a fucking nazi or something?!?! An RN license does not give you the right to be a fucking slave driver!!! Have some respect for your coworkers and get off that damned pedestal or endure the karma of lying all alone sitting in shit in a nursing home for hours on end!!!
@Anonymous: Perhaps I come from a different culture, but what part of the original post sounded ruthless, uncaring, or unreasonable (the qualities I assume you were grasping for when you referenced "slave drivers" and "Nazis")?
I'm a CNA myself and I've had some bad coworkers in regards to other aides. Some are really just flat out lazy and would rather go smoke.
You're not a "slave driver" or whatever else you've been called in the above comments, you're requesting your aide to AID you! Because they're off on their smoke break it means that those of us who actually care about our job pick up the slack -- which at some hospitals is more than just 6 patients and we have multiple RN's and DN's to report to.
Go buy a nicotine patch and a new attitude (or better, job) so we can do ours.
Boy, you had a couple of chickenshit shunted show up didn't you? If you're a CNA and don't like taking orders from RNs, well then get your lazy ass in gear and get your nursing degree, then you won't have to take orders from anyone but doctors - who are MUCH less likely to help you with a patient than the RNs you're complaining about are!
"Whiners", not "shunted". Damn spell correct.
I recognize that this is your spot to vent. As an RN who has worked as a CNA, I understand many of your sentiments. On that same note, I will say that my job as a CNA was the most difficult job (yes, even compared to being a busy ICU RN) I have ever done. Please attempt to have some compassion for those who assist you with the dirty-work of nursing while making 1/3 of the money.
I'm sorry, but I have to agree with one of those Anonymous responders about getting off your lazy behind and going back to nursing school. CNA work is super hard. I know. I was a CNA at one point. And all I could see at that point was the lazy nurses who didn't help, so I went and got my RN. Now I look back and think, "Those nurses weren't lazy, they were actually smart for making me do my job so they could do theirs." I have yet to see one of the CNAs I work with stay an extra 4 hour shift on top of the last 12 and a half hours they already worked with no lunch break, let alone an extra 15 minutes, to help the other CNAs. Oh, and back to nursing school. That ain't no walk in the park either- it will scar you for life. So, in conclusion, next time you feel like whining because you're a CNA and you work with a bunch lazy nurses who don't answer call lights for you and give baths, take your cigarette break and contemplate changing jobs. I think McDonald's is always hiring, and they probably have better benefits anyway.
I was a PCA for a few years while going to nursing school. I worked my butt off! I used to seriously tick me off when I would see a nurse walk out of a patient's room and they immediately would ask me to go in and get an EKG. I couldn't understand how they could be in the room assessing and not get the EKG at the same time. I always did what I was asked when I was asked to do it. I have been a nurse now for a few years and I completely understand where you are coming from. I thought I was busy as a tech! So seeing both sides of the puzzle I have no sympathy for the tech that complains.
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Without techs in my ED the nurses would all be up shit creek without a paddle. I work hard and am damn good at doing my job, but I can't stand the nurses that would try to ask you to take a piss for them if they could. I respect the nurses who I have to compete with to get vitals/complete orders before they do it themselves because they are independent and driven. Not lazy bitches like you who try to pawn off every fucking task possible to a tech so they can sit at a computer
Wow, looks like this totally awesome and spot-on rant got a bunch of lazy techs all butt-hurt.
Reality slapping you in the back of the head does that.
I've had some absolutely worth-their-weight-in-gold techs. I've had a lot more average ones.
And way too damn many who thought after 3 whole months semi-doing their job they were suddenly qualified to tell me how to do mine while avoiding theirs.
That usually results in my standard review of the available opportunities that await those short on work ethics and long on attitude, particularly in the fast food franchise and after hours custodial fields, complete with a fresh application for the local Mickie Ds.
If someone doesn't like the view as the rear sled dog, they need to go back to school. But in the meantime, they better pull their share of the sled.
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