This is definitely more geared toward those of us in a hospital/med-surg setting. I’ve been at my current job for about 5 months now and just for background it is also my first hospital job (5 years in LTC before that though.) As a float pool CNA I am often the first to be sent into a 1:1 who is having the usual HI/SI/AMS symptoms.
Why is it that the minute a patient becomes invisible to the rest of the staff? Often times we will see a nurse once for morning vitals and meds and then not see a the nurse for the next 12 hours. I get that the nurses do things we as aides can’t even comprehend but you only have four or five patients and you can’t be bothered to check in on one of them more then once in a twelve hour shift?
I feel like the aides are the same thing. I know med-surg is crazy, trust me I work it too, and I don’t mind doing the work for my 1:1; but you still need to bring in water and update the board, bring me the stuff to wash them up and change them periodically, and you know, just make sure we are both ok.
Even ES don’t clean the rooms with 1:1s more then. Half the time! If they’re there for more then two days trash and linen starts piling up and with the hospitals no shower without drs approval policy the rooms get foul FAST.
It’s frustrating and it’s not fair for the patients. Idk, thank you for letting me vent!