-Very click-ey environment. Staff treats newcomers or float staff unfairly. Often taking advantage giving them harder assignments while giving permanent staff easier ones. Will only enforce break policy to CNA's and sitters, but will not enforce the same accountability to nurses especially if they are "friends". I've witnessed many times permanent cnas discussing switching a difficult patient they don't want without the knowledge of the person they are switching with. or before they can find out their assignment was changed. & The charge nurse will appease them since they are permanent employees on that unit instead of enforcing the assignment. -Unreasonable break policy. Some staff will literally time you as they are asking you if you'd like to take your break instead of allowing you a minute to get up and leave. Ps: it takes 4 minutes to walk to the cafeteria from the fourth floor and back leaving you 2 minutes to get in line, order, pay for your food and eat. What if there's a long line? Guess you're not eating. Does that sound reasonable? What if you wanted to use the restroom and eat your breakfast on your break? You can't, you will barely have time to eat after preparing and reheating your food. Nurses have the liberty to use the restroom, drink water, when they'd like unlike CNA's who are taken advantage of do 95% of patient care, or sitters who are with their patient 11 hours of the day. It's nearly impossible to get all of your breaks because theres never enough staff. Most units will only have 2 cnas on the floor, and nurses will rarely cover the sitters breaks. -Nurses are lazy and will pass meds only to walk out the patients room and call the CNA to bring the patient water and clean them, or anything else they apparently are too busy to do. CNA's have at times 10-15 patients, you're telling me you cant take 1 minute to grab YOUR patient water, or help lighten the load and take the initiative to make sure they are clean and dry? Nurses will literally wait for the CNA outside the patients room to tell them to do something as simple as emptying a urinal.
