We are losing great teamwork oriented nurses because of lazy nurses who don't want to get off their exercise deprived butts. I saw a nurse burst into tears because she was cleaning patients when the lazy nurses ignore call lights. I'm the only CNA on the unit, and she was going to the extra mile to help me. If she leaves, I'm leaving with her. When I get my RN I'll never forget where I came from.
I was a CNA for two years, and I've had my fair share of seeing cliques sit by the nurses station gossiping and texting while the call lights were going off. I couldn't handle that shit anymore. I'm still in the medical field, but now I'm aiming for surgical nurse 👍🏼
I'm so glad she kept saying "if you are not busy" I'm an RN and I have much respect for CNA'S they do the dirty dirty of Nursing..and I help them all the time if I'm not busy. GOD BLESS ALL CNA'S
Yes. I have a photo of the nurses sleeping on the unit at Penn hospital. I'm a CNA. I was struggling with the patient load, and they are shopping and sleeping.
Funny story, I work at an assisted living facility as a CNA and we have one lazy nurse. One night we were short of staff and my shift was ending when she came on. She wasn't going to have a CNA in the building with her for 6 hrs. She was PISSED and told me I couldn't go home until another CNA relieved me. Lol That's not how it works at my facility. I gave her my report and walked out. She said she would report me to the Wellness Director. I smiled and said okay. The Director had to explain to this lazy ass that nurses sometimes have to preform the same duties as the aids.😋
@@ms.mtruth6169 To be clear, this video wasn’t about nurses “bossing” cna’s around. The point of both videos is to help both nurses and CNAs understand each other’s perspective as a person who has been in both positions. Here is the other video : ruclips.net/video/8Kc0R1X4Rec/видео.htmlsi=_Ic7AVqdNcLThnNJ
Its goes both ways. When I was a cna I did my job very well. I had good and bad nurses. In my experience as a registered nurses I've worked with some very bitter and jealous cnas. Especially the older ones who always wanted to be a nurse and never made it for whatever reason. I've seen how nurses treat cnas bogus too. Teamwork make the dream work. I couldn't do my job without my cnas. They are the most valuable member on the team. I believe the bigger problem is most establishments under pay and under staff because poor nursing retention. Cnas are the assistance to the nurse. If facilities staffed and paid better it will be better. Much love to all the good cnas and nurses. We got to do better and come together.
The problem is so many nurses have a “that is not my job” mindset. Also, funny when they tell you what to do, as if you don’t have your routine down pat and know these patients inside and out. Usually better than they do. I can heavily relate to the feeling of being unappreciated. They just watch you going crazy while they chit chat (not report) at shift change and don’t care if you struggle. It’s discouraging. And being talked to like I’m dumb just because I don’t have their degree lol
I work 6 days in a row with the same patients. A nurse who has been off for 4 days comes on shift and EXPLAINS about the patient who they've never met.
The worst experience I had was short staffing on night shift, and I was assigned over 40 patients. The LPN went to the day room and slept. No offering help. That piece of paper doesn't mean shit if it goes to your head.
Woooow 🤦🏽♀️ I’m sorry you had to experience that and yea, it really doesn’t mean anything if you let it get to your head. I hope you find a place with better nurses and staff over all 🙏🏽
Ooh yes as a CNA I’ve worked with some lazy ass nurses.. I made a promise to myself to not be like that! I know some CNAs will make the job hell for nurses like that
The hell will be you being terminated for insubordination with poor references & going somewhere else where you're expected to do the same work. If you hate your job go to college & learn something else and find something else to do in the meantime,
Yes! All of this. I have been cna and lpn. As a nurse though I had a unit of lazy cnas once. I bent over backwards for them. Taking out their linens and trash at end of shift, among many other tasks. Before I knew it they were expecting more and more from me. Complaining to the unit manager that I wasn't helping them. 🙄 guess who stopped helping. ✋️
Shit rolls downhill. Doctors dump so much on us, then we depend on the CNA'S to help us. Of all our CNA's, only 2 work and help us. The rest is then sick at the desk and text and till their eyes when I ask them to get something for me for a pt. And, I don't know where you work where nurses shop online and eat donuts. GEEZ!!! We are slammed all the time!
Right, since I became a nurse I think it’s the other way around. Granted, I wasn’t a cna before I became a nurse but the aids I work with are rude and disrespectful.
I agree that a CNAs job is more physical but a nurses job is a lot more mental and includes a lot more critical thinking and decisions that can seriously affect the patients. A nurses job goes case by case depending on the patients and their reason for admission a CNAs job is the same everyday no matter where they work.. either way, both are underpaid
When your CNA is sitting down at the nurses station on their phone half the shift and doesn't do their vital signs, then gets mad when you delegate/remind them. It goes both ways. As a nurse I have hours of charting, don't always get out on time, especially with falls, and incidents. My CNAs always get out on time. If I stop to get someone ready for bed because my CNA is out on their second 20 min smoke break, on top of a 30 that's really 45, then I'm getting out late. I have to keep it moving as a nurse, I never have down time, and lots of double charting with our old system. I will help if needed, but first you need to do your job. You can't play on your phone and smoke all shift and get mad when someone has to remind you of your job description. Love my CNAs that know their job and show genuine effort. I thank them for it too.
Yes hunny! One time a nurse made it seem like I was doing improper transfers on a patient in front of the patient's family. The family wanted to report me but didn't because I had to get physical therapy to back me up on the situation. Can't stand when nurses bashed CNAs.
The delusion that the nurse isn’t supposed to clean patients, assist with ADLs etc is asinine to me. That is part of fundamentals, the bare minimum! If you as the nurse are too busy, that’s one thing but to hunt a CNA down to bring a PT water when you gotta pass the water to find them is out of pocket. I don’t work as a CNA and I’m preparing to take my LPN exit and refuse to be a lazy nurse
Did you get your LPN or other from the hospital? That"s the work of Nurses 43 years ago; what CNAs do today often. That's probably why you feel this way. That's like a Doctor from 43 years ago agreeing with RNs or LPNs complain about why MDs or Resident MDs not helping them & doing their assigned jobs too because its technically within your scope of practice. Please take retirement,😁
Also the mindset of "my cna" they're not the servant of the nurse they're an asset and part of the healthcare team like a nurse, RT or doctor. Unless your paying that CNA out of your pocket they're not your CNA
Back in nineties, I used to work the night shift and some of the nurses were extremely Lazy! The only time they worked was when the doctors came. The patients thought we as cna were the nurses. Being a cna is not my cup of tea.
I understand as I am a CNA myself. Try to work on an exit plan. For me that’s RN school. You can try that or something else you enjoy. Stay strong love.
Most nurses in our facility ignore call lights even though the rooms are right infront of them. But they got tons of demands from CNA’s, literally following us from room to room to ask to do something for the patient.. like if you have time to look for me in a patient’s room, maybe you have a time to help the patient with whatever they need. Like literally there was a nurse who searched for me and told me “ patient so and so has dirty clothes on the floor, I need you to go to her room to pick them up” ..like are u effin kiddin me 🙄 meanwhile I have 3 patients to shower
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU I'm a cna and I swear everything you said on here is so true I'm starting school right now to get in the ADN Nursing program so please just pray for me but i love your channel 👍🏿👍🏿💯💯
I've worked with good nurses bad nurses good cnas and bad cnas its too many ppl who are getting in the field that dont have a heart I've switched my major the money is good my mental peace is everything
I been a CNA for 3 years, and now I am a Medication Tech, and there are a lot of issues within these facilities… Lazy nurses who don’t want to do a thing but get paid for showing up to work…. The RN in charge is the nurse who Delegates to the CNA, but when you go to a facility to work , because there short staff ( For a reason) It’s every nurse in the building who acts like there in charge of the Nurse Aides…. Nurses sit and talk and eat at the nurses station , and see the call bells being rung and would not even get up to answer not one…. There are many bad Nurses in the healthcare community…. And there are also bad CNA”s, who don’t do there jobs, there busy hiding in rooms, eating residents food, talking on the phones, some are just as bad as the bad nurses…. It won’t change, people are not accustomed to change and the healthcare community will go down hill…
I've been a CNA 8 years. I start nursing school soon. It is great to be a CNA first, this should be a mandatory thing for all nurses. I know I'm definitely going to advocate for my CNAs big time because I know how it is.
Congratulations!! I can definitely attest to this, now that I’m a nurse I can honestly say that being a CNA first has made me a better nurse. Most of the CNAs I work with love working with me because I know exactly what it’s like to be one. I don’t mind helping and I always offer a helping hand even when I’m not asked. I’m sure you’ll be a great nurse !
Help them do their jobs & yours? Respect yes both of your jobs. The issue is staffing & you will understand if you become a RN or whatever youre studying that staffing is the issue.
Another thing nurses might find very beneficial is thanking the CNA at the end of a shift. In hospitals all the nurses do this (at least in my state). In long term care/assisted living nursing homes etc…. they NEVER do this. A little goes a log way. I heard one nurse do this outside a hospital/ltac setting and I was shocked and told her how uncommon it was
Just thank you. Im still a cna for 3 months...have been for 11 years now...i found that the longer a nurse has been a cna prior to becoming a nurse the better of a nurse they are. Im at the point where I can tell if a nurse has been a CNA for atleast a year. What I hate is when an incident happens nurse managers take the nurses word over the cnas...and you know its because its harder to replace a nurse. Then they get all the credit for being there when they were dying...when sometimes most times in my experience they spend just enough to change meds or give them.
I’m working with a lazy nurse right now. I was swimming in work and the RN just kept telling me who needed ice, who needed the commode, who needed a new gown. I finally told her they have to wait. Had a fall risk patient trying to get out of bed and her roommate kept screaming
Oh yes you are so on point. I have even experienced other CNAS treating other CNAS bad and it was like the nurses encouraged their behavior. When everyone can't work together the residents are the once to really suffer.
I’m a nurse and I understand you! I love my CNA’s if the need help I jump in! I dearly love them I praise them and back them up! The are the best! I feed them, recognize holidays and take great care of them! They make me look good! I try to make them feel important as the job the do is so valuable! Thanks for making this video! My CNA’s take the same days off as I do! They don’t want to work lazy bossy nurses! My CNA’s know their job and do it well they don’t need to be told how to do their job! Nurses need to get off of their high horses! Love this video!
I had a nurse just ride my back all the time had about 8 lights going off and she just watches me with her arms folded and thin at the end of it yells at me saying I’m to slow and I can’t do my job thin she tells me go home while I was in the middle of changing a brief and follows me to my car this nurse only gets on to me and no other CNA
Not to be mean but why are you accepting this? She is not your mother and has no right to speak to you that way. I don’t care who is working and what their title is, whether it’s the janitor or the head surgeon. Everybody gets the same amount of respect because at the end of the day, we may have our titles, but we’re all still adults. Nobody has the right to be speaking to you like a child because of their position. You should most definitely report that and if nothing is done, find another job!
This was a really good video. I'm taking a CNA course at the moment.. I can't relate yet but I have heard stories. My previous CNA teacher was an RN, very rude & disrespectful & I felt heavily targeted so I dropped the class & transferred to another (probably shouldn't have but I felt like she would have failed me anyway) I have seen nurses treat CNAs like dirt & act like they are so above them & its not right.. But like you said it probably does go both ways. This was a great video. Thank you
I have the opposite problem. How do you deal with a CNA who rolls their eyes whenever you ask for help and they are just watching movies on their phone and not even on an official break. They and are best buddies with your supervisor and she is aware that she is watching movies on her phone, but doesn’t say do anything about it? Clearly I wouldn’t be asking for help if I didn’t need it, so why do the resentful eye roll when she has to pause her movie to do her job of assisting in pt. care. I know other nurses who let call lights go when they are too busy to answer them, because they don’t want to piss the CNA off by “asking for too much help”.
hello my friend! great great great video! can you please show this to the nurses? I am about to start cna class and i do not want to be one of those cna's that get walked all over.
I posted it on my page for everyone to see, I can’t really control who sees it but rest assured that many nurses have seen it. Some agree and other don’t 🤷🏽♀️
Ok so I’m a new nurse and to be honest there are a lot of CNAs out here who are very lazy and jaded. I have been a caregiver, CNA, and a phlebotomist so it’s really nothing they can tell me about how their job is so hard. Lately us nurses have been on an 8-1 ratio. We have been changing our own patients, getting them refreshments and giving meds around the clock and they barely want to do their own vitals like come on now. And I’m not one of the lazy ones I actually help so for you to not even be able to get vitals done is ridiculous. I would rather they just quit if I have to do their job and mine
I am a nurse and I have hours of chartting before my shift is over. Sitting on the computer doesn't mean I am not doing anything. I sometimes hear CNA's saying oh the nurses are just sitting there. No, we don't just sit, we have a lots to click. I love my hard working CNA's, I always have their back but there are some who needs you on the floor with them all the time.
I’m a nurse as well and i totally understand that which is why I made another video sharing the other side of things but as someone who has been a Cna before, I totally get where some of the Cna’s are coming from because I have experienced it first hand .
Everyone says when you're a CNA before and RN you understand and respect their role. I'm honestly going to say that maybe 1/3 or 1/4 of CNAs actually do their job and I used to be in their shoes. I was exceptionally good at my job as a CNA and now that I'm learning this new role, I look around and pretty much don't have them doing teamwork with me like I used to do with my nurses most of the time. They are absent, get vitals and MAYBE change a patient. Usually chart that the patients refuse baths and they don't tell me. When I was a CNA hardly anyone didn't get a bath due to refusal and that's because of the way I approached the situation. Standby / 1 assist gets washed up when I take them to the bathroom. Independent is a set up. Completes can't refuse because they are incontinent and very sick so they need baths. Ax2 definitely need a bath because just cuz. When you're sick you don't like having to do anything extra so of course if you ask straight up in an unappealing way they will say no. The laziness I see is some bullshit.
I definitely hear you on that 100%. I noticed some of that when I became a nurse as well. I have a video for CNAs talking about the things they can do better as well. This wasn’t to bash nurses, it was simply to show one perspective .
@@kiearacelina I agree. Lazy is lazy. There are lazy waitresses. lazy cashiers. Lazy housekeepers. The list goes on. The key is being professional and respectful no matter what position you hold.
So glad I don't have to deal with lazy CNAs! I work acute inpatient dialysis and it's just me and the patient! When I was working in a nursing home a CNA told another nurse that she wasn't going to help her because it was not her resident so as charge nurse (I had my own 25 residents) I asked the CNA to help the nurse and she refused so I told her to punch out and go home! She was fired on Monday 😂
Yikes! I totally feel you on that. People are lazy on both ends and I do have a video dedicated to cna’s as well. Must have been annoying dealing with that.
Funny think at my hospital. When were short. The are doing both. Nursing and PCT. They literally ran away all the help. The biggest hospital in and have less than 20 PCT for the whole medical PCU tele unit. I literally saved move than you’ll ever know RN licenses from neglecting pt. How are you doing assessments if your not touching the patients
The hospitals really need to hire more CNAs and rethink nurses as hospital employees. Nurses could and should be contract employees through a temp provider. The hospital could save lots of money and patients would get much better care and treatment.
Can you explain how they would save money by hiring nurses through temp providers ? I’ve been working through a temp provider for 3 years now as a nurse and not only do I make significantly more than staff nurses but the provider/agency also has to make their cut which is added on top of the base rate the nurse needs to get paid. It’s way more expensive for employers which is why the don’t want to hire temp nurses and want staff. Also, I have heard people say that temp nurses don’t take the job as seriously because they know it’s temporary. Of course not all but a lot and I don’t think that is beneficial to patients either ..
I am a CNA AND an LPN. I work both roles still. I have always respected my nurses. Each nurse manages their CNA's differently. It's about respect. A lot of people do not understand the basic idea behind respecting people. And that is what it comes down to is Cna's and Nurses need to understand that all people have good and bad days. All people have pros and cons. A title should NOT make a space for people to be one way or the other. And this video, I can promise you, if you have a shit nurse..... this video will NOT change that nurse. I have been a nurse since Oct. of this year and a CNA since March of 2016. I have caught horrendous slack from CNA's as a nurse! I have been told No many many times by CNA's as a nurse.
i didnt just see the cliques i saw too much...i could tell the time someone would pass away or code a whole 3 days before. i recognized patients husbands or wives in the parking lots before i even ever met them or talked to them. I lost count of how many patients that most staff didnt like thanked me just before they died. I lost count of how many times I saw patients die because the nurse didnt want to deal with it so close to the end of thier shifts. I saw abuse like real bad abuse ....like cpr on a dnr just to "practice" and if it worked a quick removal of life support to let the person die "because they wouldnt have made it long anyway". Ive also seen miracles. Beautiful miracles. But for damn sure I was never recognized for 90% of my work.
If you work on a heavy unit the nurse can not answer call bell lights as they should. You have some patients asking nurses for blankets, to take a shower, to turn the tv down etc.. Some states have a 30 to 1 patient ratio in nursing homes. We often work with one nurse on the floor. While the nurse is out doing something like getting ice, searching for a pillow, and taking the meal tray a patient could be having a medical emergency. I will help if I have a patient that is a fall risk and I know the patient will likely fall trying to get something. Otherwise responding to all the call bells will only result in you having to find the cna to do the task. Then that is another job that is wasting time.
This does not apply to every nurse. It applies to the kind of nurses I was referring to in the video. As I mentioned in the video, nurses are busy a lot of the times and do not have the times to do care as much as we would like to however, I specifically mention the nurses who sit down at the nursing station pretty much all day giving orders to the CNA‘s who are already overworked without lending them a helping hand. I have been a CNA and I am a nurse so I have experienced both sides And I have made videos expressing my experience working as both. This has been my experience as a CNA and experience of many other CNA’s and as a nurse, I know how busy it gets but I also to this day as a nurse still see other nurses pressuring CNA‘s who are already overworked to do work that they have the time to help them with and those are the people I’m speaking about.
The CNAs at my LTACH are great EXCEPT ONE. She does absolutely nothing because the nurses does the lion share of the work where i am. The other cnas are super grateful but this one cna takes advantage of that. When she is on my patient schedule with me, i know that i am going to have a rough night. So its not always the nurses hun. Some cnas are trash too
It’s annoying when a family member acts like they can’t get their damn family members cleaned and dressed. You want a damn stranger to do it instead of just helping. Tf 8:34
We need to hurry up and realize that these corporations can do a better job of staffing. I know there is a shortage but I believe the greed of big business is playing into many of these situations, unnecessarily. No one should be drowning in their work. Also, there is much to be said for aides helping each other. I've seen in so many cases where the aide has been afraid to ask other aides for help. As a former aide, this is so heartbreaking because if you can't count on your peers, that's a huge problem.
It all comes down to management and directors! It all starts with them and to make change! But usually higher ups don’t care! Corporations etc! At the end of the day it’s a business sadly!
Yes, some nurses are slack. The delegating nurse who spends every spare moment chatting to other nurses. Nurses think this is fine Uncaring nurses with poor work ethic take advantage of assistants who actually care about the patient. I don't need a hello or a conversation with the nurse. Just not being taken for granted would be nice. Also, nurses who are on their best behavior when the higher ups are around but, are condescending and disrespectful as soon as they are not around. I'm taking a sick day tomorrow because a rotten nurse treated me like garbage in front of a patient today and also left me alone on the unit for an hour and tried to deny it. Maybe she'll have a better day tomorrow with another CNA who replaces me. She makes me sick. Mostly for saying something very unprofessional in front of a patient. I confronted the nurse but, I haven't taken sick time in months. I was saving it for a rainy day. It's pouring. I hope she has a great day without my help. maybe she'll get stuck with one of those who hides in the washroom and takes an hour and a half for lunch. But, those ones don't usually pitch in much when they are on the unit, do they. LOL.
i get a little more respect working in a hospital than i do a nursing home, it seemed to be so much worse, ecspecially being the only cna for 54 residents
Nursing With Key I’m currently a CNA. I have worked in both a hospital and a Nursing home and I have a lot to say lmfao. I was just accepted in nursing school. I start LPN school next month. I’m still getting the hang of this whole RUclips thing but I did just post my first video today. I will be in touch because we definitely should do a collaboration. I’ve been watching you for a long time now 😂
I don't play with the nurses at all. They gone help me if they're not busy or I'm going over their head especially if I'm bussing my azz, and they're always on the phone. They get away with this in LTC, but not too much in the hospital. Their azz would be fired quick as they should.
I'm a nurse and I do whatever I can to help my patients. I think it's ridiculous when a nurse thinks they're above taking someone to the bathroom, do changes, or even get them more water. When I'm able to, I help patients get ready for bed or have given showers, etc. Everyone should work as a team and I'm thankful for those who do ♥️
If the RN is running to you about a pt's skin, output, if they can walk, whatever, out of fear that a doctor is going to rip them a new one. Remind them that if they were around to help they would know. It is charted by you, go find it in the chart. If you told them and they blew you off. Chart what you told them and then it is on them.
I’m a nurse, you don’t have to explain this to me. I never said that all nurses do this, I simply stated that this has been the experience of many Cna’s including myself when I was working as one and this was strictly directed to the nurses that have free time and choose not to lend a helping hand. If that’s not you, don’t sweat it lol you don’t have to force your foot into a shoe that doesn’t fit 🤦🏽♀️
@@kiearacelina Oops. My bad. I was giving ways for CNAs to stand up for themselves. I perhaps should have mentioned that. I've seen all the things you mentioned. Disappointing that it is national.
No offense...but she obviously isn't a REGISTERED NURSE because if she was she'd understand that she is speaking like a LPN complaining about why a MD (doctor) doesn't hang out with me during lunch. It's like a Dental Hygienist asking why the Dentist isn't helping you do your job alongside their own. No one is fixing not having job duties that are not theirs to do.. No one cares about the enerygy, air, etc team work is the CNA doing their job they are hired to do...and RNs doing the job they are licensed and hired to do...and MDs doing the job they are licensed to do, etc, What the issue is is not expecting a RN to help do what a CNA is hired for but staffing meaning the need for more CNAs & less patients per CNA. Same issue RNs have. Thats the problem: STAFFING. So stop being ridiculous & make a video about staffing shortagages,😁
What if I told you I am an RN, what would your response then be ? What if I told you that I qualified to write my nclex RN in the USA without going to RN school or bridging because LPNs in Canada can qualify for that due to the fact that we go to school for just as long as US ADN nurses? Would you humble yourself then? Ok, so start the humbling lol.. This video is 4 years old so don’t think you know anything about me, I just haven’t moved to the US yet which is why I haven’t spoken about it but don’t worry, I’ll make a video just for you ❤️ regardless though, even as an LPN, I have worked with RNs who were more than willing to help IF they had the time. Not once did I say that a nurse should drop his or her responsibilities to do the CNAs job so your examples/made up scenarios don’t even make sense. I was referring to nurses who have free time (because yes that does happen) who choose to sit down watching Netflix while their CNAs who are short staffed struggle. Regardless to whether or not basic care is your main duty or not, there is a reason why it is the first thing covered in nursing school and that’s both for RN or LPN. The reason for that is because Basic care is also part of our job. I don’t know where awful nurses like you (that’s if you even are a nurse) get the impression that basic care isn’t part of our job.. I’ve worked in hospitals where we had no care aides and all nurses had to do meds, treatments AND basic care.. CNAs can’t help us with our job because they are licensed to do our job but we are qualified AND TRAINED to do theirs.. see the difference? I hope that clarifies everything for you. Stay blessed ✨
@kiearacelina thank you. I had a very stressful weekend. The CNA I was working with had a no so pleasant actitud, and every time I asked her to do something, she would reply to me with an actitud soo stressful when nurses have to jugle with a million things at the same time.
Of course ! I made a video about that. This one was was specifically about nurses because it is an issue that needed to be addressed. I’ve been on both sides of the fence so I understand both nurses and CNAs
There are a huge amount of nurses who only want to document and boss you around and were afraid to actually go into a COVID positive patient's room. They feel actual bedside patient care is beneath them. LPN's and LVN's same thing. Most nurses are only in it for the money and prestige when the essence of being a nurse is to provide "nursing/clinical care" it is your job description and scope of practice but some nurses take advantage because of the hospital politics. The CNAs, Nurse techs, PCTs, PCAs are the ones who do the majority of the back-breaking tasks and bedside care. What "REAL" nurses DID back in the day. Plus us techs also do Phlebotomy, EKGs, ADLs, Vital signs, fingersticks, feeding, bathing, Post mortem care wound care EMR documentation as well, transport and observation of one to one patients who are suicidal, violent DTs. A big difference also is that a Tech will have 10+ patients and a "RN" will have at most 5-6 big difference in a shift. Hell I have even applied burn dressings, property assessment and orientation to the unit, administered IV's/removed IV's, patient education and obtain histories!!! At least in New York Hospitals that's how its is. The truth for whatever strange reason is being hidden. The RN's who comment negatively about this video are the guilty ones. I actually have a two year degree. I get paid 25.00 an hour I wouldn't do all that for any less!!! Also we are entitled to our breaks by LAW! We do not get paid for that hour break. Oh I forgot about double or triple shifts I've done. Reminder the tech to patient ratio is 10+:1, and RNs patient ratio is 5-6: 1
Currently a cna and in school to be a nurse. I see nurses is complaining about water and all that,but guess what if all cna’s leave guess what you you gone be doing our job. Get off your high horse and do your job. Most of a lot of nurses don’t have passion for the job and just in it for the money if the shoe fit wear it. I been a cna for 8 years and been getting push to become a nurse by my real nurses but some of them is pathetic and I do say this in a nice nasty way😘😘😘
I need the link to the nurses that are complaining about their workload and how the CNAs aren’t helping them as soon as they’re done with their own work. How dare they finish their work and not help nurses with their work also. They got the nerve to wrap up their work a lil early and not do the CNA work too. If you don’t do your job and then do my job then you’re lazy….. 🤣🤷🏽♀️
Sometimes I feel like I want to say something to nurse but why bother. That nurse is a pain in the ass. But I want to say something but I don’t cause I realize I can be a better person if I don’t say something. But helping that nurse I’m not going to do anymore. Saying hi becomes a problem. I ask one nurse who meet my mom one night that I asked the next day what they thought of my mom and was giving cold shoulder like they were on their period or something. It hurts.
Hell yea sis. As a CNA, I help the maintenance people. And I know that as a nurse I will help the CNAs AND the maintenance or anyone that needs help. There’s nothing that they do that I can’t. If I have time I will do it.
Its funny when rns whine about how much they are on their feet. Some oh yea they are there with me. But alot of them dont get close to the steps in i do. Plus im in the gym and out and to school. Plus full time hospital cna. They forget sometimes we are experts elsewhere. Were all peeps and should give vase respect.
OK and I was a CNA and I’m a nurse as well. This is based on my experience and what I’ve heard hundreds of CNAs say.I have seen nurses disrespect CNA‘s and I have seen CNA‘s disrespect nurses. I already have a video about CNA‘s and how they could be a better team member as well. This is just a video sharing one aspect but I never said the CNA‘s can’t be disrespectful too. I have a whole separate video for them as well.
Lol well both sides can say wtv they want. This was me sharing my experience as a cna and it still stands now that I’m a nurse. I have a video for CNAs about how they can be better team mates as well .
I feel Ike quitting. Some nurses are unapproachable. If that’s what it takes I shouldn’t help that nurse anymore. Their attitude sucks. Maybe not helping that nurse is the right thing. They say what they want and take it out on me. Fuck that and fuck nurse. Is this the right attitude. Because of that I feel like quitting. Sometimes I don’t get any gratitude. It sucks. I don’t care. If they have an attitude then I’ll treat them like shit not wanted to help that nurse.
I’m in the process of becoming an RN and this video was so helpful! I feel nurse directors and managers are far better when they’ve either been in the lowest position or at least have the heart and mind to listen and act to make sure their team all works together, from the janitor to the administrator. I feel nurses should be taught how to work together and the importance of teamwork and hard work in school so that it could be so much better for them all in the workplace
So is this video so you’re late..check the release date 🤦🏾♀️ also there’s nothing dramatic about talking about a problem that has been reoccurring in the health system. You may be old and think that this topic is old but it’s a problem that CNA‘s are still facing up to this day. I’ve experienced it as a CNA which is why I made this video and continue to see it happen as a nurse. So for you to say that an educational topic is dramatic means that you’re really the dramatic one.
Now here’s the rough truth, nurses sacrifice a few years of their social and family life to earn a degree which makes them superior to those who don’t. I know the truth hurts, so go ahead and act up now. 😁 Clean up your own back yard before you go digging in other’s. CNA is temporary position, you either evolve or stay stagnant. If you stay stagnant that’s on you and you made that choice stop crying week one!
Um, I’m a nurse 😂😂😂 going back to school for my bsn in January as well 🤦🏾♀️ and with all that shit youre talking, I really would think that you’re smart enough to listen to the video (which you clearly didn’t do because if you did you would know I’m a nurse and not even write this dumb ass comment) before commenting. Also, yes I went to school longer than CNAs have but that doesn’t give me a reason to disrespect them and watch them suffer. I’m also military so team work is extremely important to me and I personally feel like having a solid team and being a solid player on that team because not only does it improve the work environment for everyone but I’m makes the days flow smoother. Lastly, everyone’s circumstances are different and not everyone is in the position to make the time sacrifice for school and it’s really not on you to judge them.
We are losing great teamwork oriented nurses because of lazy nurses who don't want to get off their exercise deprived butts. I saw a nurse burst into tears because she was cleaning patients when the lazy nurses ignore call lights. I'm the only CNA on the unit, and she was going to the extra mile to help me. If she leaves, I'm leaving with her. When I get my RN I'll never forget where I came from.
I was a CNA for two years, and I've had my fair share of seeing cliques sit by the nurses station gossiping and texting while the call lights were going off. I couldn't handle that shit anymore. I'm still in the medical field, but now I'm aiming for surgical nurse 👍🏼
I'm so glad she kept saying "if you are not busy" I'm an RN and I have much respect for CNA'S they do the dirty dirty of Nursing..and I help them all the time if I'm not busy. GOD BLESS ALL CNA'S
Yes. I have a photo of the nurses sleeping on the unit at Penn hospital. I'm a CNA. I was struggling with the patient load, and they are shopping and sleeping.
Another thing I noticed is some nurses will only help CNAs they are friends with which isn’t right
I was a CNA for more than 10 years and everything you've said is 100% truth! Thank you for saying it!
Funny story, I work at an assisted living facility as a CNA and we have one lazy nurse. One night we were short of staff and my shift was ending when she came on. She wasn't going to have a CNA in the building with her for 6 hrs. She was PISSED and told me I couldn't go home until another CNA relieved me. Lol That's not how it works at my facility. I gave her my report and walked out. She said she would report me to the Wellness Director. I smiled and said okay. The Director had to explain to this lazy ass that nurses sometimes have to preform the same duties as the aids.😋
YOU GO GIRL!!
This video is so on point and what I’ve been dealing with as a CNA and in nursing school. Thank you for spreading awareness about how we get treated.
Nice….Can you do a video about the opposite? Meaning CNAs who try to boss nurses around
Already did 😉
@@kiearacelinawhat’s the title of video I can not find it
@@ms.mtruth6169 To be clear, this video wasn’t about nurses “bossing” cna’s around. The point of both videos is to help both nurses and CNAs understand each other’s perspective as a person who has been in both positions. Here is the other video : ruclips.net/video/8Kc0R1X4Rec/видео.htmlsi=_Ic7AVqdNcLThnNJ
I will NEVER work day shift as a CNA. You got the right one. Too much going on & very little help from ANYBODY I’m good.
Its goes both ways. When I was a cna I did my job very well. I had good and bad nurses. In my experience as a registered nurses I've worked with some very bitter and jealous cnas. Especially the older ones who always wanted to be a nurse and never made it for whatever reason. I've seen how nurses treat cnas bogus too. Teamwork make the dream work. I couldn't do my job without my cnas. They are the most valuable member on the team. I believe the bigger problem is most establishments under pay and under staff because poor nursing retention. Cnas are the assistance to the nurse. If facilities staffed and paid better it will be better. Much love to all the good cnas and nurses. We got to do better and come together.
Love D, BSN, RN Totally agree with you,thank you for your comment you made some very good points.
Thank you for saying this, I’m dealing with this right now.
A CNA if want to become a nurse. It’s only 1 step up 😅 time and dedication. Only
The problem is so many nurses have a “that is not my job” mindset. Also, funny when they tell you what to do, as if you don’t have your routine down pat and know these patients inside and out. Usually better than they do.
I can heavily relate to the feeling of being unappreciated. They just watch you going crazy while they chit chat (not report) at shift change and don’t care if you struggle. It’s discouraging. And being talked to like I’m dumb just because I don’t have their degree lol
People like that never felt self worth. So they hold on to titles
I work 6 days in a row with the same patients. A nurse who has been off for 4 days comes on shift and EXPLAINS about the patient who they've never met.
The worst experience I had was short staffing on night shift, and I was assigned over 40 patients. The LPN went to the day room and slept. No offering help. That piece of paper doesn't mean shit if it goes to your head.
Woooow 🤦🏽♀️ I’m sorry you had to experience that and yea, it really doesn’t mean anything if you let it get to your head. I hope you find a place with better nurses and staff over all 🙏🏽
Ooh yes as a CNA I’ve worked with some lazy ass nurses.. I made a promise to myself to not be like that! I know some CNAs will make the job hell for nurses like that
The hell will be you being terminated for insubordination with poor references & going somewhere else where you're expected to do the same work. If you hate your job go to college & learn something else and find something else to do in the meantime,
Yes! All of this. I have been cna and lpn. As a nurse though I had a unit of lazy cnas once. I bent over backwards for them. Taking out their linens and trash at end of shift, among many other tasks. Before I knew it they were expecting more and more from me. Complaining to the unit manager that I wasn't helping them. 🙄 guess who stopped helping. ✋️
Yes, I have mart a lot of lazy ones as well and I made a video about them too. I would stop helping them as well if I were you 🤦🏽♀️
Yessss 🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾. I start lpn school in January and i promise i won't be a bad nurse. I will help my cna's because I'm a cna and it's hard.
That’s awesome! Congrats on getting accepted and best of luck on your nursing journey,I’m sure you’ll be a great nurse one day 💕
Shit rolls downhill. Doctors dump so much on us, then we depend on the CNA'S to help us. Of all our CNA's, only 2 work and help us. The rest is then sick at the desk and text and till their eyes when I ask them to get something for me for a pt. And, I don't know where you work where nurses shop online and eat donuts. GEEZ!!! We are slammed all the time!
Right, since I became a nurse I think it’s the other way around. Granted, I wasn’t a cna before I became a nurse but the aids I work with are rude and disrespectful.
I’ve been a CNA for a year. I’m doing my finishing my prerequisites right now to apply for the nursing program next semester!
CNA gets less pay than a Nurse and CNA does more job. Unbelievable.
I agree that a CNAs job is more physical but a nurses job is a lot more mental and includes a lot more critical thinking and decisions that can seriously affect the patients. A nurses job goes case by case depending on the patients and their reason for admission a CNAs job is the same everyday no matter where they work.. either way, both are underpaid
@@kiearacelina ok. Good point. Thanks!!
When your CNA is sitting down at the nurses station on their phone half the shift and doesn't do their vital signs, then gets mad when you delegate/remind them. It goes both ways. As a nurse I have hours of charting, don't always get out on time, especially with falls, and incidents. My CNAs always get out on time. If I stop to get someone ready for bed because my CNA is out on their second 20 min smoke break, on top of a 30 that's really 45, then I'm getting out late. I have to keep it moving as a nurse, I never have down time, and lots of double charting with our old system. I will help if needed, but first you need to do your job. You can't play on your phone and smoke all shift and get mad when someone has to remind you of your job description. Love my CNAs that know their job and show genuine effort. I thank them for it too.
Girl bye
I agree I’m an lvn and my cnas are just plain horrible with their attitude. Always defensive and sitting in residents room. How awful
Fr😂@@ChinaDoll220
Yes hunny! One time a nurse made it seem like I was doing improper transfers on a patient in front of the patient's family. The family wanted to report me but didn't because I had to get physical therapy to back me up on the situation. Can't stand when nurses bashed CNAs.
Jennifer Scott Thats so messed up! Glad you didn’t get in trouble though
The delusion that the nurse isn’t supposed to clean patients, assist with ADLs etc is asinine to me. That is part of fundamentals, the bare minimum! If you as the nurse are too busy, that’s one thing but to hunt a CNA down to bring a PT water when you gotta pass the water to find them is out of pocket. I don’t work as a CNA and I’m preparing to take my LPN exit and refuse to be a lazy nurse
I've been a nurse for 43 years you are so telling the truth. Nurses who behave like this lack character.
Did you get your LPN or other from the hospital? That"s the work of Nurses 43 years ago; what CNAs do today often. That's probably why you feel this way. That's like a Doctor from 43 years ago agreeing with RNs or LPNs complain about why MDs or Resident MDs not helping them & doing their assigned jobs too because its technically within your scope of practice. Please take retirement,😁
Also the mindset of "my cna" they're not the servant of the nurse they're an asset and part of the healthcare team like a nurse, RT or doctor. Unless your paying that CNA out of your pocket they're not your CNA
Sounds like avera in sioux falls,sd. I love the comment cards around the hospital and writing down badge names for mr boss man
You are amazing. You seriously would make an awesome boss. Team work respect 👍
Back in nineties, I used to work the night shift and some of the nurses were extremely Lazy! The only time they worked was when the doctors came. The patients thought we as cna were the nurses. Being a cna is not my cup of tea.
This video just refreshes me on why I hate my job and am depressed.
I understand as I am a CNA myself. Try to work on an exit plan. For me that’s RN school. You can try that or something else you enjoy. Stay strong love.
I hate being a CNA looking for a new profession now,I have yet to meet a good great nurse that cares or helps it's pretty sad
Most nurses in our facility ignore call lights even though the rooms are right infront of them. But they got tons of demands from CNA’s, literally following us from room to room to ask to do something for the patient.. like if you have time to look for me in a patient’s room, maybe you have a time to help the patient with whatever they need. Like literally there was a nurse who searched for me and told me “ patient so and so has dirty clothes on the floor, I need you to go to her room to pick them up” ..like are u effin kiddin me 🙄 meanwhile I have 3 patients to shower
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU I'm a cna and I swear everything you said on here is so true I'm starting school right now to get in the ADN Nursing program so please just pray for me but i love your channel 👍🏿👍🏿💯💯
takeshia smith Best of luck on your journey,remember why you started,push through, stay focused and you will make it through 💕
Aww thank you so much nurse with key I'm excited I'm just going to try very hard to fight for what I really want
I've worked with good nurses bad nurses good cnas and bad cnas its too many ppl who are getting in the field that dont have a heart
I've switched my major the money is good my mental peace is everything
Soo true. Soon to be LPN and going to really look out for CNAs that are on my unit!
I been a CNA for 3 years, and now I am a Medication Tech, and there are a lot of issues within these facilities… Lazy nurses who don’t want to do a thing but get paid for showing up to work…. The RN in charge is the nurse who Delegates to the CNA, but when you go to a facility to work , because there short staff ( For a reason) It’s every nurse in the building who acts like there in charge of the Nurse Aides…. Nurses sit and talk and eat at the nurses station , and see the call bells being rung and would not even get up to answer not one…. There are many bad Nurses in the healthcare community…. And there are also bad CNA”s, who don’t do there jobs, there busy hiding in rooms, eating residents food, talking on the phones, some are just as bad as the bad nurses…. It won’t change, people are not accustomed to change and the healthcare community will go down hill…
I've been a CNA 8 years. I start nursing school soon. It is great to be a CNA first, this should be a mandatory thing for all nurses. I know I'm definitely going to advocate for my CNAs big time because I know how it is.
Congratulations!! I can definitely attest to this, now that I’m a nurse I can honestly say that being a CNA first has made me a better nurse. Most of the CNAs I work with love working with me because I know exactly what it’s like to be one. I don’t mind helping and I always offer a helping hand even when I’m not asked. I’m sure you’ll be a great nurse !
Im a nursing student who was a patient care tech and a nursing assistant and when i become a nurse i definitely will help them and respect them
Help them do their jobs & yours? Respect yes both of your jobs. The issue is staffing & you will understand if you become a RN or whatever youre studying that staffing is the issue.
Another thing nurses might find very beneficial is thanking the CNA at the end of a shift. In hospitals all the nurses do this (at least in my state). In long term care/assisted living nursing homes etc…. they NEVER do this. A little goes a log way. I heard one nurse do this outside a hospital/ltac setting and I was shocked and told her how uncommon it was
That's a great idea. I agree.
Thank you! So soooo much . This is real info
Just thank you. Im still a cna for 3 months...have been for 11 years now...i found that the longer a nurse has been a cna prior to becoming a nurse the better of a nurse they are. Im at the point where I can tell if a nurse has been a CNA for atleast a year. What I hate is when an incident happens nurse managers take the nurses word over the cnas...and you know its because its harder to replace a nurse. Then they get all the credit for being there when they were dying...when sometimes most times in my experience they spend just enough to change meds or give them.
I’m working with a lazy nurse right now. I was swimming in work and the RN just kept telling me who needed ice, who needed the commode, who needed a new gown. I finally told her they have to wait. Had a fall risk patient trying to get out of bed and her roommate kept screaming
SMH 🤦🏽♀️
Oh yes you are so on point. I have even experienced other CNAS treating other CNAS bad and it was like the nurses encouraged their behavior. When everyone can't work together the residents are the once to really suffer.
I’m a nurse and I understand you! I love my CNA’s if the need help I jump in! I dearly love them I praise them and back them up! The are the best! I feed them, recognize holidays and take great care of them! They make me look good! I try to make them feel important as the job the do is so valuable! Thanks for making this video! My CNA’s take the same days off as I do! They don’t want to work lazy bossy nurses! My CNA’s know their job and do it well they don’t need to be told how to do their job! Nurses need to get off of their high horses! Love this video!
I had a nurse just ride my back all the time had about 8 lights going off and she just watches me with her arms folded and thin at the end of it yells at me saying I’m to slow and I can’t do my job thin she tells me go home while I was in the middle of changing a brief and follows me to my car this nurse only gets on to me and no other CNA
Not to be mean but why are you accepting this? She is not your mother and has no right to speak to you that way. I don’t care who is working and what their title is, whether it’s the janitor or the head surgeon. Everybody gets the same amount of respect because at the end of the day, we may have our titles, but we’re all still adults. Nobody has the right to be speaking to you like a child because of their position. You should most definitely report that and if nothing is done, find another job!
I would've cussed ha azz out. Tf she yelling at??
This was a really good video. I'm taking a CNA course at the moment.. I can't relate yet but I have heard stories. My previous CNA teacher was an RN, very rude & disrespectful & I felt heavily targeted so I dropped the class & transferred to another (probably shouldn't have but I felt like she would have failed me anyway) I have seen nurses treat CNAs like dirt & act like they are so above them & its not right.. But like you said it probably does go both ways. This was a great video. Thank you
Lazy nurses are the worst! Teamwork is so important❤️
I have the opposite problem. How do you deal with a CNA who rolls their eyes whenever you ask for help and they are just watching movies on their phone and not even on an official break. They and are best buddies with your supervisor and she is aware that she is watching movies on her phone, but doesn’t say do anything about it? Clearly I wouldn’t be asking for help if I didn’t need it, so why do the resentful eye roll when she has to pause her movie to do her job of assisting in pt. care. I know other nurses who let call lights go when they are too busy to answer them, because they don’t want to piss the CNA off by “asking for too much help”.
When you have nurses who go into the profession to not do the basics but just collect a check that's a problem.
hello my friend! great great great video! can you please show this to the nurses? I am about to start cna class and i do not want to be one of those cna's that get walked all over.
I posted it on my page for everyone to see, I can’t really control who sees it but rest assured that many nurses have seen it. Some agree and other don’t 🤷🏽♀️
Ok so I’m a new nurse and to be honest there are a lot of CNAs out here who are very lazy and jaded. I have been a caregiver, CNA, and a phlebotomist so it’s really nothing they can tell me about how their job is so hard. Lately us nurses have been on an 8-1 ratio. We have been changing our own patients, getting them refreshments and giving meds around the clock and they barely want to do their own vitals like come on now. And I’m not one of the lazy ones I actually help so for you to not even be able to get vitals done is ridiculous. I would rather they just quit if I have to do their job and mine
Some terrible workers.
I am a nurse and I have hours of chartting before my shift is over. Sitting on the computer doesn't mean I am not doing anything. I sometimes hear CNA's saying oh the nurses are just sitting there. No, we don't just sit, we have a lots to click. I love my hard working CNA's, I always have their back but there are some who needs you on the floor with them all the time.
I’m a nurse as well and i totally understand that which is why I made another video sharing the other side of things but as someone who has been a Cna before, I totally get where some of the Cna’s are coming from because I have experienced it first hand .
which video did you make showing the other side of things? I can't find it.
👩⚕️👨⚕️Nurses'
LAZY AF.
Everyone says when you're a CNA before and RN you understand and respect their role. I'm honestly going to say that maybe 1/3 or 1/4 of CNAs actually do their job and I used to be in their shoes. I was exceptionally good at my job as a CNA and now that I'm learning this new role, I look around and pretty much don't have them doing teamwork with me like I used to do with my nurses most of the time. They are absent, get vitals and MAYBE change a patient. Usually chart that the patients refuse baths and they don't tell me. When I was a CNA hardly anyone didn't get a bath due to refusal and that's because of the way I approached the situation. Standby / 1 assist gets washed up when I take them to the bathroom. Independent is a set up. Completes can't refuse because they are incontinent and very sick so they need baths. Ax2 definitely need a bath because just cuz. When you're sick you don't like having to do anything extra so of course if you ask straight up in an unappealing way they will say no. The laziness I see is some bullshit.
I definitely hear you on that 100%. I noticed some of that when I became a nurse as well. I have a video for CNAs talking about the things they can do better as well. This wasn’t to bash nurses, it was simply to show one perspective .
@@kiearacelina I agree. Lazy is lazy. There are lazy waitresses. lazy cashiers. Lazy housekeepers.
The list goes on. The key is being professional and respectful no matter what position you hold.
@@carmenbrown3437 amen!
And I do move slow. I will not be rushed. You're working with a damn HUMAN BEING TF.
I’m currently a cna in nursing school now, I can relate to the cna
Same here 27 years old cna doing online classes for my lpn license. IAM so tired of being underappreciated and I work my ass off tho.
Yeah wait until you become a nurse. There are some lazy ass CNAs out there good luck to you. You’ll be doing everything by yourself
I just feel Ike quitting because of that. Is that the right thing to do.
So glad I don't have to deal with lazy CNAs! I work acute inpatient dialysis and it's just me and the patient! When I was working in a nursing home a CNA told another nurse that she wasn't going to help her because it was not her resident so as charge nurse (I had my own 25 residents) I asked the CNA to help the nurse and she refused so I told her to punch out and go home! She was fired on Monday 😂
Yikes! I totally feel you on that. People are lazy on both ends and I do have a video dedicated to cna’s as well. Must have been annoying dealing with that.
Well said👍👍
Funny think at my hospital. When were short. The are doing both. Nursing and PCT. They literally ran away all the help. The biggest hospital in and have less than 20 PCT for the whole medical PCU tele unit. I literally saved move than you’ll ever know RN licenses from neglecting pt. How are you doing assessments if your not touching the patients
The hospitals really need to hire more CNAs and rethink nurses as hospital employees. Nurses could and should be contract employees through a temp provider. The hospital could save lots of money and patients would get much better care and treatment.
Can you explain how they would save money by hiring nurses through temp providers ? I’ve been working through a temp provider for 3 years now as a nurse and not only do I make significantly more than staff nurses but the provider/agency also has to make their cut which is added on top of the base rate the nurse needs to get paid. It’s way more expensive for employers which is why the don’t want to hire temp nurses and want staff. Also, I have heard people say that temp nurses don’t take the job as seriously because they know it’s temporary. Of course not all but a lot and I don’t think that is beneficial to patients either ..
I think it can be managed. A lot of time staff are related, and some nurses getaway a lot. It happens in the Outpatient doctor's office..
Some nurses and a few DON will not answer call lights!! Please answer call lights!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!!!!
I am a CNA AND an LPN. I work both roles still. I have always respected my nurses. Each nurse manages their CNA's differently. It's about respect. A lot of people do not understand the basic idea behind respecting people. And that is what it comes down to is Cna's and Nurses need to understand that all people have good and bad days. All people have pros and cons. A title should NOT make a space for people to be one way or the other. And this video, I can promise you, if you have a shit nurse..... this video will NOT change that nurse. I have been a nurse since Oct. of this year and a CNA since March of 2016. I have caught horrendous slack from CNA's as a nurse! I have been told No many many times by CNA's as a nurse.
"It's about respect. A title should not make space for people to be one way or the other." 100%. That goes in life outside of work too.
I'm a PCA at a hospital. Thats how the nurses are here
I literally hate nurses and I’m not even a CNA
@@heydiva6792 that’s too bad… I wonder why that is.. 🤔
@@kiearacelinamost of them have trash attitudes and think they are better than other people and most of them are lazy and stuck up
@@kiearacelinadisclaimer not all nurses but MOST. I respect the few good ones out there
@@kiearacelina the trash attitudes most of them carry is enough to absolutely have zero respect for those stuck up want to be “bullies”
@@heydiva6792 Okk just needed to clarify that because it sounded like you just didn’t like nurses as a whole. But I totally get it.
i didnt just see the cliques i saw too much...i could tell the time someone would pass away or code a whole 3 days before. i recognized patients husbands or wives in the parking lots before i even ever met them or talked to them. I lost count of how many patients that most staff didnt like thanked me just before they died. I lost count of how many times I saw patients die because the nurse didnt want to deal with it so close to the end of thier shifts. I saw abuse like real bad abuse ....like cpr on a dnr just to "practice" and if it worked a quick removal of life support to let the person die "because they wouldnt have made it long anyway". Ive also seen miracles. Beautiful miracles. But for damn sure I was never recognized for 90% of my work.
My best friend is a RN she's tired of it
If you work on a heavy unit the nurse can not answer call bell lights as they should. You have some patients asking nurses for blankets, to take a shower, to turn the tv down etc.. Some states have a 30 to 1 patient ratio in nursing homes. We often work with one nurse on the floor. While the nurse is out doing something like getting ice, searching for a pillow, and taking the meal tray a patient could be having a medical emergency. I will help if I have a patient that is a fall risk and I know the patient will likely fall trying to get something.
Otherwise responding to all the call bells will only result in you having to find the cna to do the task. Then that is another job that is wasting time.
This does not apply to every nurse. It applies to the kind of nurses I was referring to in the video. As I mentioned in the video, nurses are busy a lot of the times and do not have the times to do care as much as we would like to however, I specifically mention the nurses who sit down at the nursing station pretty much all day giving orders to the CNA‘s who are already overworked without lending them a helping hand. I have been a CNA and I am a nurse so I have experienced both sides And I have made videos expressing my experience working as both. This has been my experience as a CNA and experience of many other CNA’s and as a nurse, I know how busy it gets but I also to this day as a nurse still see other nurses pressuring CNA‘s who are already overworked to do work that they have the time to help them with and those are the people I’m speaking about.
your so right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The CNAs at my LTACH are great EXCEPT ONE. She does absolutely nothing because the nurses does the lion share of the work where i am. The other cnas are super grateful but this one cna takes advantage of that. When she is on my patient schedule with me, i know that i am going to have a rough night.
So its not always the nurses hun. Some cnas are trash too
It’s annoying when a family member acts like they can’t get their damn family members cleaned and dressed. You want a damn stranger to do it instead of just helping. Tf 8:34
A good nurse will encourage teamwork, easing workload.
We need to hurry up and realize that these corporations can do a better job of staffing. I know there is a shortage but I believe the greed of big business is playing into many of these situations, unnecessarily. No one should be drowning in their work. Also, there is much to be said for aides helping each other. I've seen in so many cases where the aide has been afraid to ask other aides for help. As a former aide, this is so heartbreaking because if you can't count on your peers, that's a huge problem.
Preach Girl! Preach!🙌🏽
THANK YOU
It all comes down to management and directors! It all starts with them and to make change! But usually higher ups don’t care! Corporations etc! At the end of the day it’s a business sadly!
Yes, some nurses are slack.
The delegating nurse who spends every spare moment chatting to other nurses. Nurses think this is fine
Uncaring nurses with poor work ethic take advantage of assistants who actually care about the patient.
I don't need a hello or a conversation with the nurse. Just not being taken for granted would be nice.
Also, nurses who are on their best behavior when the higher ups are around but, are condescending and disrespectful as soon as they are not around.
I'm taking a sick day tomorrow because a rotten nurse treated me like garbage in front of a patient today and also left me alone on the unit for an hour and tried to deny it. Maybe she'll have a better day tomorrow with another CNA who replaces me. She makes me sick. Mostly for saying something very unprofessional in front of a patient. I confronted the nurse but, I haven't taken sick time in months. I was saving it for a rainy day. It's pouring. I hope she has a great day without my help. maybe she'll get stuck with one of those who hides in the washroom and takes an hour and a half for lunch. But, those ones don't usually pitch in much when they are on the unit, do they. LOL.
LPNs look down on CNAs, ADNs look down on LPNs, BSNs look down on ADNs
You think so, I never experienced that as a Rn, it’s the aids that comes off super rude just because a nurse is present
i get a little more respect working in a hospital than i do a nursing home, it seemed to be so much worse, ecspecially being the only cna for 54 residents
I want to do a collab with you 😂 because your videos are the exact same kind I’m about to be putting out.
Shaliyah Montego lets do it sis !
Nursing With Key I’m currently a CNA. I have worked in both a hospital and a Nursing home and I have a lot to say lmfao. I was just accepted in nursing school. I start LPN school next month. I’m still getting the hang of this whole RUclips thing but I did just post my first video today. I will be in touch because we definitely should do a collaboration. I’ve been watching you for a long time now 😂
I don't play with the nurses at all. They gone help me if they're not busy or I'm going over their head especially if I'm bussing my azz, and they're always on the phone. They get away with this in LTC, but not too much in the hospital. Their azz would be fired quick as they should.
I'm a nurse and I do whatever I can to help my patients. I think it's ridiculous when a nurse thinks they're above taking someone to the bathroom, do changes, or even get them more water. When I'm able to, I help patients get ready for bed or have given showers, etc. Everyone should work as a team and I'm thankful for those who do ♥️
Did you get yourr LPN from the hospital 43 years ago too? Never mind, you're not really a Nurse 😆
@@Alice-Not-In-Chains I got my RN, BSN almost 10 years ago. I just do what I can to help my patients, especially if I have the time.
If the RN is running to you about a pt's skin, output, if they can walk, whatever, out of fear that a doctor is going to rip them a new one. Remind them that if they were around to help they would know. It is charted by you, go find it in the chart. If you told them and they blew you off. Chart what you told them and then it is on them.
I’m a nurse, you don’t have to explain this to me. I never said that all nurses do this, I simply stated that this has been the experience of many Cna’s including myself when I was working as one and this was strictly directed to the nurses that have free time and choose not to lend a helping hand. If that’s not you, don’t sweat it lol you don’t have to force your foot into a shoe that doesn’t fit 🤦🏽♀️
@@kiearacelina
Oops. My bad. I was giving ways for CNAs to stand up for themselves. I perhaps should have mentioned that.
I've seen all the things you mentioned. Disappointing that it is national.
No offense...but she obviously isn't a REGISTERED NURSE because if she was she'd understand that she is speaking like a LPN complaining about why a MD (doctor) doesn't hang out with me during lunch. It's like a Dental Hygienist asking why the Dentist isn't helping you do your job alongside their own. No one is fixing not having job duties that are not theirs to do.. No one cares about the enerygy, air, etc team work is the CNA doing their job they are hired to do...and RNs doing the job they are licensed and hired to do...and MDs doing the job they are licensed to do, etc, What the issue is is not expecting a RN to help do what a CNA is hired for but staffing meaning the need for more CNAs & less patients per CNA. Same issue RNs have. Thats the problem: STAFFING. So stop being ridiculous & make a video about staffing shortagages,😁
What if I told you I am an RN, what would your response then be ? What if I told you that I qualified to write my nclex RN in the USA without going to RN school or bridging because LPNs in Canada can qualify for that due to the fact that we go to school for just as long as US ADN nurses? Would you humble yourself then? Ok, so start the humbling lol.. This video is 4 years old so don’t think you know anything about me, I just haven’t moved to the US yet which is why I haven’t spoken about it but don’t worry, I’ll make a video just for you ❤️ regardless though, even as an LPN, I have worked with RNs who were more than willing to help IF they had the time. Not once did I say that a nurse should drop his or her responsibilities to do the CNAs job so your examples/made up scenarios don’t even make sense. I was referring to nurses who have free time (because yes that does happen) who choose to sit down watching Netflix while their CNAs who are short staffed struggle. Regardless to whether or not basic care is your main duty or not, there is a reason why it is the first thing covered in nursing school and that’s both for RN or LPN. The reason for that is because Basic care is also part of our job. I don’t know where awful nurses like you (that’s if you even are a nurse) get the impression that basic care isn’t part of our job.. I’ve worked in hospitals where we had no care aides and all nurses had to do meds, treatments AND basic care.. CNAs can’t help us with our job because they are licensed to do our job but we are qualified AND TRAINED to do theirs.. see the difference? I hope that clarifies everything for you. Stay blessed ✨
What about CNAs giving you as a nurse actitud because you are asking them to do their job ?? Sooo stressful
I have a video on that too.
@kiearacelina thank you. I had a very stressful weekend. The CNA I was working with had a no so pleasant actitud, and every time I asked her to do something, she would reply to me with an actitud soo stressful when nurses have to jugle with a million things at the same time.
Not all nurse just lazy ones but there are lazy cna personnel too. It's a person issue
Of course ! I made a video about that. This one was was specifically about nurses because it is an issue that needed to be addressed. I’ve been on both sides of the fence so I understand both nurses and CNAs
It's a person issue. All forms of occupations have them.
There are a huge amount of nurses who only want to document and boss you around and were afraid to actually go into a COVID positive patient's room. They feel actual bedside patient care is beneath them. LPN's and LVN's same thing. Most nurses are only in it for the money and prestige when the essence of being a nurse is to provide "nursing/clinical care" it is your job description and scope of practice but some nurses take advantage because of the hospital politics. The CNAs, Nurse techs, PCTs, PCAs are the ones who do the majority of the back-breaking tasks and bedside care. What "REAL" nurses DID back in the day. Plus us techs also do Phlebotomy, EKGs, ADLs, Vital signs, fingersticks, feeding, bathing, Post mortem care wound care EMR documentation as well, transport and observation of one to one patients who are suicidal, violent DTs. A big difference also is that a Tech will have 10+ patients and a "RN" will have at most 5-6 big difference in a shift. Hell I have even applied burn dressings, property assessment and orientation to the unit, administered IV's/removed IV's, patient education and obtain histories!!! At least in New York Hospitals that's how its is. The truth for whatever strange reason is being hidden. The RN's who comment negatively about this video are the guilty ones. I actually have a two year degree. I get paid 25.00 an hour I wouldn't do all that for any less!!! Also we are entitled to our breaks by LAW! We do not get paid for that hour break. Oh I forgot about double or triple shifts I've done. Reminder the tech to patient ratio is 10+:1, and RNs patient ratio is 5-6: 1
Currently a cna and in school to be a nurse. I see nurses is complaining about water and all that,but guess what if all cna’s leave guess what you you gone be doing our job. Get off your high horse and do your job. Most of a lot of nurses don’t have passion for the job and just in it for the money if the shoe fit wear it. I been a cna for 8 years and been getting push to become a nurse by my real nurses but some of them is pathetic and I do say this in a nice nasty way😘😘😘
Speaking FACTSSSSSSSS!
I need the link to the nurses that are complaining about their workload and how the CNAs aren’t helping them as soon as they’re done with their own work. How dare they finish their work and not help nurses with their work also. They got the nerve to wrap up their work a lil early and not do the CNA work too. If you don’t do your job and then do my job then you’re lazy…..
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Sometimes I feel like I want to say something to nurse but why bother. That nurse is a pain in the ass. But I want to say something but I don’t cause I realize I can be a better person if I don’t say something. But helping that nurse I’m not going to do anymore. Saying hi becomes a problem. I ask one nurse who meet my mom one night that I asked the next day what they thought of my mom and was giving cold shoulder like they were on their period or something. It hurts.
Hell yea sis. As a CNA, I help the maintenance people. And I know that as a nurse I will help the CNAs AND the maintenance or anyone that needs help. There’s nothing that they do that I can’t. If I have time I will do it.
Its funny when rns whine about how much they are on their feet. Some oh yea they are there with me. But alot of them dont get close to the steps in i do. Plus im in the gym and out and to school. Plus full time hospital cna. They forget sometimes we are experts elsewhere. Were all peeps and should give vase respect.
I’m nurse. I never disrespect CNA or anyone but you’re forgetting to mention that some cna are disrespectful to their nurses and lazy
OK and I was a CNA and I’m a nurse as well. This is based on my experience and what I’ve heard hundreds of CNAs say.I have seen nurses disrespect CNA‘s and I have seen CNA‘s disrespect nurses. I already have a video about CNA‘s and how they could be a better team member as well. This is just a video sharing one aspect but I never said the CNA‘s can’t be disrespectful too. I have a whole separate video for them as well.
Nah nah. A lot of CNAS sit on their phones and are lazy af. Such b.s. this video is. I don't care if it this video is "x" many years old.
Lol well both sides can say wtv they want. This was me sharing my experience as a cna and it still stands now that I’m a nurse. I have a video for CNAs about how they can be better team mates as well .
I feel Ike quitting. Some nurses are unapproachable. If that’s what it takes I shouldn’t help that nurse anymore. Their attitude sucks. Maybe not helping that nurse is the right thing. They say what they want and take it out on me. Fuck that and fuck nurse. Is this the right attitude. Because of that I feel like quitting. Sometimes I don’t get any gratitude. It sucks. I don’t care. If they have an attitude then I’ll treat them like shit not wanted to help that nurse.
I’m in the process of becoming an RN and this video was so helpful! I feel nurse directors and managers are far better when they’ve either been in the lowest position or at least have the heart and mind to listen and act to make sure their team all works together, from the janitor to the administrator. I feel nurses should be taught how to work together and the importance of teamwork and hard work in school so that it could be so much better for them all in the workplace
Girl you drama 🤣 this topic is so old…
So is this video so you’re late..check the release date 🤦🏾♀️ also there’s nothing dramatic about talking about a problem that has been reoccurring in the health system. You may be old and think that this topic is old but it’s a problem that CNA‘s are still facing up to this day. I’ve experienced it as a CNA which is why I made this video and continue to see it happen as a nurse. So for you to say that an educational topic is dramatic means that you’re really the dramatic one.
Now here’s the rough truth, nurses sacrifice a few years of their social and family life to earn a degree which makes them superior to those who don’t. I know the truth hurts, so go ahead and act up now. 😁 Clean up your own back yard before you go digging in other’s. CNA is temporary position, you either evolve or stay stagnant. If you stay stagnant that’s on you and you made that choice stop crying week one!
Um, I’m a nurse 😂😂😂 going back to school for my bsn in January as well 🤦🏾♀️ and with all that shit youre talking, I really would think that you’re smart enough to listen to the video (which you clearly didn’t do because if you did you would know I’m a nurse and not even write this dumb ass comment) before commenting. Also, yes I went to school longer than CNAs have but that doesn’t give me a reason to disrespect them and watch them suffer. I’m also military so team work is extremely important to me and I personally feel like having a solid team and being a solid player on that team because not only does it improve the work environment for everyone but I’m makes the days flow smoother. Lastly, everyone’s circumstances are different and not everyone is in the position to make the time sacrifice for school and it’s really not on you to judge them.
The arrogance and stubborn ignorance.
I can tell what kind of nurse you are
You seem like a horrible nurse by this comment