SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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Well I broke a personal rule in work and today and may now have to pay for it.
My rule? Because I know that I'm not going to get any backing from my boss, I keep my mouth shut.
I was running my tail off with a total of 11 patients. (This after working this weekend with 14 and 15 patients.) I was handed the new schedule and saw the R.N. making the schedule had assigned me an extra shift in the middle of a week next month. It wouldn't have been so bad except she had forgotten to either ask me about it, or even mention it to me.
I'm assigned to rooms 88-99. On three seperate occasions I get called to other assignments to do lifting. (The first was to transfer a patient from a bed to a stretcher. The second was to move a fridge from one room to another and the third was to pull a bed out of the room.) On all three occasions the Aide for that assignment was sitting at the Nurses Station playing on the Internet.
My co-workers both came into work ten and fifteen minutes late, and nothing was said.
Then the Unit Clerk, who used to work the floor as an Aide, started spouting off her mouth about the scheduling of the Aides. She was telling anyone who would listen that there should be no set schedules for the Aides, they should work the hours and days they are needed regardless of what they may need or want for time off. (She works Monday through Friday 1500 to 2300.) She also went on to state that we should go back to the old 8 hour shifts.
I kind of lost it then. I asked her why it mattered to her. She didn't work the floor and therefore should have no say in the matter of the Aides Scheduling.
She replied that I shouldn't expect to only work my three 12 hour shifts each week. She told me that I should be willing to work four and five 12 hour shifts a week, both days and nights. I informed her tat she might be willing to do so but I had a life outside of work.
She then commented on my grumbling a bit about being pulled from my assignment to do the lifting for the other Aides as they played on the computer, so I told her that maybe she should risk blowing out her back, or otherwise injuring herself so others can sit and goof off. I turned and walked away.
I found out later that she had written a note for my boss and slid it under her door while she complained to the Charge Nurse about my insolent manner and my not being a team player. I'm sure that I will hear about this soon enough. Who knows, I may even get fired.
Maybe it's time for me to look for another facility to work for. Maybe the Non-profit Hospital just a bit to the north of me.
Cat
My rule? Because I know that I'm not going to get any backing from my boss, I keep my mouth shut.
I was running my tail off with a total of 11 patients. (This after working this weekend with 14 and 15 patients.) I was handed the new schedule and saw the R.N. making the schedule had assigned me an extra shift in the middle of a week next month. It wouldn't have been so bad except she had forgotten to either ask me about it, or even mention it to me.
I'm assigned to rooms 88-99. On three seperate occasions I get called to other assignments to do lifting. (The first was to transfer a patient from a bed to a stretcher. The second was to move a fridge from one room to another and the third was to pull a bed out of the room.) On all three occasions the Aide for that assignment was sitting at the Nurses Station playing on the Internet.
My co-workers both came into work ten and fifteen minutes late, and nothing was said.
Then the Unit Clerk, who used to work the floor as an Aide, started spouting off her mouth about the scheduling of the Aides. She was telling anyone who would listen that there should be no set schedules for the Aides, they should work the hours and days they are needed regardless of what they may need or want for time off. (She works Monday through Friday 1500 to 2300.) She also went on to state that we should go back to the old 8 hour shifts.
I kind of lost it then. I asked her why it mattered to her. She didn't work the floor and therefore should have no say in the matter of the Aides Scheduling.
She replied that I shouldn't expect to only work my three 12 hour shifts each week. She told me that I should be willing to work four and five 12 hour shifts a week, both days and nights. I informed her tat she might be willing to do so but I had a life outside of work.
She then commented on my grumbling a bit about being pulled from my assignment to do the lifting for the other Aides as they played on the computer, so I told her that maybe she should risk blowing out her back, or otherwise injuring herself so others can sit and goof off. I turned and walked away.
I found out later that she had written a note for my boss and slid it under her door while she complained to the Charge Nurse about my insolent manner and my not being a team player. I'm sure that I will hear about this soon enough. Who knows, I may even get fired.
Maybe it's time for me to look for another facility to work for. Maybe the Non-profit Hospital just a bit to the north of me.
Cat
