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It seems that for now things might be getting better, but I don't want to really open my big ol'mouth just yet.
I did have to take Anthony to the ER last week. The poor baby woke up and was having a real hard time breathing. It turns out that he had pneumonia. He is on meds now so he is feeling better. He starting to take steps. Today he took 3. He gets so excited about it and just looks SO proud of himself. Babies are so much fun. I would have more if being pregnant didn't suck so bad.
So for anyone that might read this maybe you have some advice for me. I am a nurses assistant at a hospital here and I feel that I am getting picked on by one of the nurses. This RN, David, is pretty much a jerk to everyone; however, I feel that he steps it up a notch or two around me. I will be a patients room helping them with whatever they need help with and this guy will come find me or call me on our little cordless phones that they make us carry just to tell me that so-and-so's call light is on. He acts like I am just simply ignoring a patient when I am actually already in the middle of helping someone else, when he could go and find out what the other patient wants. He once left me in room holding this big man up by myself and said he would be right back and never came back. I damn near dropped this guy on the floor after about 20 minutes because he refused to sit down. I mean I was seriously having muscle fatigue, ya know shakes and pain and all that fun stuff that happens when you over use your muscles. There was one night when David had asked if I had a certain a patients vital signs done yet and I tried to explain to him that I hadn't got there yet due to the fact that the previous shift had left without answering their call-lights first and I had been busy pretty much helping everyone to the bathroom. David's reply was " When are you going to have them done, midnight tomorrow?" I still had 1/2 hour before they were "late" and only had like 3 or 4 sets left. Then later in the same evening, I heard him mumble jerk and told him that maybe he was the one being the jerk. He told me that if he was my boss he would have me fired on the spot and that I was the worst CNA on the floor. He told me that back in his day CNA's would never talk back to RN's, they shut up and did what they were told and that I should do the same and have no right talking back to him ever no matter the situation. I told him that he was rude and out of line and didn't talk to him the rest of the evening. Once, he told a patient that I was just a CNA and that she shouldn't listen to a thing that I said because since I was JUST a CNA that I haven't had enough school to think on my own and that I didn't know anything in the first place. That really hurt when he had said that because I had just talked the patient into doing all these things that no one in the previous shifts had been able to get her to do that the doctor had wanted her to do. He walked in there almost undone all the good things that I had done for the lady. It was all because someone had told her that a certain nursing home was a terrible place and he automatically assumed it was me. I would never tell a patient that the place that the doctors were sending them was a bad place, even if I know for a fact that the place sucked. Sick people already have enough stress going on, they don't need their medical care team telling them that when they get transferred to another facility that they will no longer be cared for. David will not answer any lights for any reason. I could be in doing CPR on a person, saving their life, and he wouldn't help me nor answer a call light. He will not help me move patients, expects me to move 200 pound people up in bed by myself. If another aide needs help and I help them, he basically tells me how shitty I am for not being there listening and waiting for one of my lights to go off. He tries to make me feel like crap whenever I want a break. I only take like three 5 minute smoke breaks and no lunch break when I am with him because if I take more then that he really makes my night a living hell and I work 12 hour shifts. When I get done working a shift with this man, I feel drained both physically and mentally. Most of the time I end up crying at some point whether it is when I am still there or when I go home. I really feel abused by this man. I have talked to one of the supervisors about some of things that he has done to me and her reply was simply, "What I am supposed to about it, I can't change the way people are?" Even everyone else I work with has noticed that he does this to me. Everyone says that I just have to stick up for myself and I do it all the time and it seems that it makes things even worse. My abusive ex-husband didn't even make me feel as bad about myself as David does. I have been a CNA for 9 years now and I do know a few things. I did go to college and was going to be in a nursing program but one of life's little emergencies came up and I had to drop out of college. If I would have stayed in school I would have been an RN for a year longer then this man, so it's not like I am a complete idiot and I don't think that I should be treated as such. The very worst part of it is he almost always the charge nurse when I work so he is the one that makes the assignment up and it never fails, I am almost always with him. Besides quitting, I don't know what to do. I have worked here for over 4 years and I don't want to change jobs. Besides him, I really enjoy where I work but he is making it almost unbearable for me to be there. If anyone reads this, please give me some feedback, I could really use it.
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Posted by cholwuttle on 2008-01-22 03:28:34 | Rating: | Views: 68
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consider getting a new job, you spend too much time at work to be miserable. you have irreconciable differences with this guy. he does not respect anyone - go to a supervisor and ask not to be put with him. if they don't accomodate your request, find another job where you will be appreciated for the hard work that you do. look for a job before complaining or threatening to move. it is a shame that you are spending so much time and anxiety over this situation. life is too short. cut your losses and go to the next facility. 12 hours of this guy is too much.
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Posted by Barbie731
on 2008-01-22 03:53:36
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