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There is a CNA on the floor where I have clinic that just frustrates the hell out of me.
She is a lazy sack of shit. We've gotten into arguments before because she doesn't think I have any authority over her because I'm not a hospital employee. She keeps forgetting that it is hospital POLICY for the CNAs to direction from the students.
So today we gave a patient Lasix, a diuretic. It makes you pee like no tomorrow. The patient is normally continent but she can't walk right now (it's why she's in the hospital) so she couldn't call for a bedpan fast enough. She peed the bed, and peed it again while three of my students were changing the bed. She was very embarassed, though we told her not to be.
Later one of the students complained that when this CNA was asked who had this patient, the CNA responded "I don't know, I'll have to check." The CNA knew damn well this patient was on her assignment; but she didn't know the student's name and she assumes if the patient has a student then she doesn't have to do anything for that patient.
That is flatly not true. She's still responsible for all the patients on her load. The students have 3 patients and have to do ALL nursing tasks: meds, dressings, whatever. They have to delegate to the CNAs. This CNA decided she didn't need to do her hourly rounding on this patient and let her lie in her own piss, and didn't offer to help the student change her when the student discovered it. So the student had to ask for help from her classmates, who had their own patient care issues to take care of.
Bitch. I'm going to email the manager about this tomorrow. This is unacceptable. 
She is a lazy sack of shit. We've gotten into arguments before because she doesn't think I have any authority over her because I'm not a hospital employee. She keeps forgetting that it is hospital POLICY for the CNAs to direction from the students.
So today we gave a patient Lasix, a diuretic. It makes you pee like no tomorrow. The patient is normally continent but she can't walk right now (it's why she's in the hospital) so she couldn't call for a bedpan fast enough. She peed the bed, and peed it again while three of my students were changing the bed. She was very embarassed, though we told her not to be.
Later one of the students complained that when this CNA was asked who had this patient, the CNA responded "I don't know, I'll have to check." The CNA knew damn well this patient was on her assignment; but she didn't know the student's name and she assumes if the patient has a student then she doesn't have to do anything for that patient.
That is flatly not true. She's still responsible for all the patients on her load. The students have 3 patients and have to do ALL nursing tasks: meds, dressings, whatever. They have to delegate to the CNAs. This CNA decided she didn't need to do her hourly rounding on this patient and let her lie in her own piss, and didn't offer to help the student change her when the student discovered it. So the student had to ask for help from her classmates, who had their own patient care issues to take care of.
Bitch. I'm going to email the manager about this tomorrow. This is unacceptable.
and I said to her, "You've just contaminated my kit. Now I have to get a new one."
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