How do I deal with a co-worker who saves work for me when she should do it herself?

nene: How do I deal with a co-worker who saves work for me when she should do it herself?
I work in healthcare and I have a co-worker who is a RN who has failed her boards twice & now has to work as a tech (CNA). My co-workers shift is 11am to 1130pm and mine is 7pm-730am so we overlap for a couple of hours. I have found that my co-worker waits on me to walk through the door and then confronts me with some nasty task she claims is such a big job she needs help (ie, cleaning poop off a patient, dirty commodes, or nasty cleaning task, claims she will help, then conviently disappers leaving the work on me . I have found myself sneaking into the side door at work only to have her page me overhead b/c she knows I will be there, most times she is beginnning to wait at the time clock for me. We have a new manger who she has sucked up to and that I have never met (I work nights) but have complained to her numerous times regarding this co-workers other behaviors.I am tired of tattling, and if I don’t do the work, the pt suffers, or a RN will delgate me to do it anyway. What to do ?

Answers and Views:

Answer by don corleone
kick her ass

Answer by Nicky
She should be counselled by your superior.

Answer by Linda S
You are clearly the better of the 2 employees. I’d just put my
complaint in writing and make sure that it gets to the proper
channel. If the other person doesn’t wise up. Looks like you
may get yourself another employee. Don’t allow her/him to
bully you.

Good luck and stay strong.

Answer by Edhie R
Check first whether those given tasks are within your task list. If yes, you can’t avoid it. If not, come and discuss it with your supervisor to get her/his opinion. You have the right to say know for something not to within your terms of reference

Answer by benz300coupe
Confront her and tell her you will no longer be a doormat. Tell her it is unreasonable for her not to pull her weight and that it is disrespectful to you to assume you don’t have tasks of your own to perform.

Answer by bobsmiththebuilder
Sounds like you do a good job and the patients will appreciate you for it, and hey that’s what really matters right? people like you usually outlast people like your colleague…that or they become your boss LOL. Are you in the position to move wards? Change your shifts? Suggest to RN you will just get a job somewhere else if its not sorted? Or a more cunning thing to do would empower your patients to complain about your colleague for leaving them in undignified states. Keep up the good job, the industry needs people like you.

Answer by Barbra
She’s not an RN if she failed her boards twice.
She is not the kind of nurse that I would want taking care of me. She definitely needs to be dealt with. It would be neat if you had somebody witness one of her stunts. Or, if you had a way to tape it.
Is that the only assignment that you can get? I’d do anything to get away from her.
I’m an LPN. I have done that type of work too.