Dealing the 'that' nurse

Just smile and nod and go about my business.

Oh you said it...we have unit assistant on one of the floors i float to who likes to give suggestions to the patients. generally they're stupid things like "you need to get out of bed and walk around the unit," which would be great but the patient is on strict bedrest. which BTW she's of the same breed who will come up and say your patients bp is such and such and when you ask "did you take that twice" she'll say "I don't have time for that!"

I'm not really sure what the UAs do in our hospital. nurses do all the turns, feeds, bathe, change soiled diaper (adult as well as baby), empty foley's, bedpans, put patients on the commodes...you name it we do it...not the UA. VERY FEW of our assistants are worth their wage.

I have dealt with that nurse, EMT, MD, CNA, patient, family member, if there is a know it all is in the building they feel they must tell me how to do my job. Most of the time in long and detailed instructions which prevents me from doing my job. If I can get away with it I just walk away or I say something "Oh, I have got to go I hear a bed alarm" and I move very quickly away.

What are they going to do to me? Tell me or my boss that I do not know how to do my job. Well they already do that.

ooohhhh if I had a nickel for all the know-it-alls in the ER, I'd be RICH RICH RICH!!!! Just ignore them. It'll only irritate you to no end and we have higher priorities than those coworkers with their insecurities. Walk away.

I let them have their way. You think you can take better care of this patient? You think you're the best nurse in the whole ER? OK, take care of all of'em. I'm gonna sit over there and read a magazine, OK?