u/Guydelot

We have one resident at our facility who, on his good days, is extremely polite, very amenable and all-around pleasant. On his bad days he throws things, is generous with his profanity, and will respond to a brief check with "no, go away". He does have dementia, but is aware enough to know why we're there and what the brief is for.

I do not bulldoze through his refusal. I re-approach and try to push him towards consenting, but that's as far as I go. The nurse who tends to have his hall has it in her head that I am incompetent because I won't just do it anyway. (This view of me extends to other areas as well, such as when I report an abnormal BP she will loudly say "YOU HAVE TO DO IT MANUAL" literally talking over me as I am specifying that the BP was taken manually).

When this resident refuses a check and change, she will call over a specific other CNA who will essentially change him while he is yelling "I said no goddamn it, go the fuck away!" I certainly don't want to get this other CNA in trouble as the resident isn't being harmed at all and is much better off for being changed (and is often happier afterward), but I'm a little fed up with being looked down on for respecting the resident's rights that they drilled into us in training.

Really just need to get this off my chest since I'm still fuming about it on my day off and I need it out of my head.

The other day I had what I would consider the most difficult set in the building. That includes two residents I cannot have because they're female care only. Which they've been giving me for nearly a full week now for some ungodly stupid reason. So I do not have a choice, I HAVE to trade those residents.

One of them I traded with my hall partner no problem because she was within a reasonable distance. The other was in another hall altogether (which is part of why this assignment is so fucked). The CNA there would not trade me at all at first, leaving me no choice but to ask my hall partner to also have to cover two halls.

Then nearly an hour later she offered to trade me one of the heaviest wetters in the building that is almost always a 2-assist change... for a FC-only resident that wears pull-ups and walks to the toilet. For the sake of my hall partner I accepted and that was easily the worst day I have ever had at my facility.

My only solace is that this asshole almost never works the same shift as me, so it's unlikely to happen again.

I hope whoever decided to make jumping attacks an inconsistent combination input goes hollow.

The amount of times I've seen a parry coming a mile away and heavy attacked right into it because the jumping attack input didn't read properly is actually mildly infuriating.

That's all, just had to vent that.