Nurses and Computer: Venting

[CPCTColeman]

I just had to vent. I really do not like nurses that think they own the computers in the nursing station. The computers are for everyone not just the nurses and if you just sitting down not using the computer all just running your mouth about a man that do not want you before you have even laid eyes on your patient, then you need to not complain or catch an attitude. Some of the nurses I work with really think they can talk to you any kind of way and you have to put them in their place. Then have the nerve to want to call on the lords name in vein when you get smart back. I told that nurse the lord can't help and she wants to question my religion. I would never use the lords name in vein because Im fat, laze, and do not want to do my job. I know the lord and I am pretty sure he would not want to help you but I am sure he would do his best to keep me from doing something to lose my license. They really just disgust me and there are a few like that. I wish I worked with the good nurses all the time but unfortunately that is not always possible. However, this nurse gets no more chances I'm going at her hard next time.

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

One other thing....get used to having "your" computer "stolen." It happens all the time in the ED to RNs--a doctor comes down to admit their patient. They go up to computer where no one is seated, log off the person who was using the computer, and then proceed to sit there for a hour looking up everyone one of their patients in hospital. Putting them in their place each time just isn't going to cut it if your want to continue your employment there. Even more annoying is when a doc doesn't sign the nurse off first, and uses that nurse's account to look up patients throughout the hospital.

It is annoying and rude, but something you are going to have to learn to live with.

[CPCTColeman]

I did inform the nurse that I did need to use the computer I asked her nicely before she took it to the next level catching an attitude first. She was not using it just sitting by a blank screen. After she caught an attitude I caught one and then the rest I vented about happened. However Thanks everyone for there input I will put it into consideration. An about the superior thing you are right about that some nurses do feel that way and that is why where I work there is so much strife between nurses and Aids. It is sad but true. I wont remove my picture that is me that has to deal with it. I never told anyone they could not post just asked to be unbiased.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

The first thing out of your mouth should have been "Excuse me, may I use this computer to chart?" It really doesn't matter if she was sitting in front of it knitting, eating or dinner or "running her mouth about a man that do not want you". In fact, that last was nasty. No need to throw that in at all.

The idea that you "have to put them in their place" about coworkers in general, sucks. No interaction got better because someone got offended and decided to "put someone in their place." That's what a bully does, not a valued coworker.

Calling on the Lord's name in vain (not vein) isn't smart in the workplace, but neither was youor response that the lord can't help you. And when you give her such ammunition, why would she NOT want to question your religion? Especially when you claim to know what the Lord would and would not want, and that he would intervene to help you save your license. (Why would the Lord care about your license in particular, especially when you're being a bully?)

Threats to "go at her hard" will be taken poorly by any of your management team who sees your photo attached to these immature and inflammatory posts.

[systoly]

a few points

by far most of the time, it's in the approach

suppose your approach is textbook and you still get a 'tude

based on your statement, "I know the lord"

a) pray for that person

b) thank the lord that your not burdened with bad attitudes

c) thank the lord for giving you the strength to pass this test

d) continue to vent here and let Jesus take care of the rest (surrender)

[duskyjewel]

Thanks for your response. IF she is on this website so what? what can she do me? I did not put my job name or state her name. And if I was asked about it I would own up to it. Oh and my bad not my license but my CERTIFICATION. I am a certified patient care technician.

It's not actually possible that anyone is still this naive about the professional consequences of online activity, is it? I mean honestly, do you never watch, read, or listen to news? People lose their jobs every week over stuff like what you're doing here.

In addition to improving your maturity level and ability to get along with co-workers, if you really do want to be a nurse someday, you're going to need to brush up on grammar, especially homonyms (vain/vein) and sentence structure, if you want to pass the entrance exams to get into nursing school.

And finally, the religious angle..... I am about as serious a Catholic as there is, and yet GD and worse still pass my lips more regularly than they should. The thing about being religious is that it doesn't make you perfect, it just gives you avenues of forgiveness for your failings. We all have them, and should spend way more time on our own beams than on other people's specks.