[Treat et Street]

Originally Posted by rgroyer1RNBSN

Hey blueridge that isnt nice Im a Sup. and Im not spineless or mean, I take up for my nurses and I usually end up the one on the chopping block. I usually try to resolve my staffs issues without going to the manager.

rgroyer:

1) You do not exhibit the steriotypical behaviours of a supervisor. THANK YOU!
2) With your positive attitude towards your staff, you will most likely be promoted from the chopping block to the wood chipper by upper management. (Been there, done and seen that.)

I wish you well. Be careful my friend.

[elizabells]

I didn't so much get yelled at, but I came in on my day off because my primary patient was dying. His other five primaries also came in. When the morgue tech came to get him, we BEGGED him to let us come downstairs with him and the baby. Nope, no dice, against policy. So I'm working the next night and the funeral director shows up to pick up the body. Which they can't find. Seriously. So the morgue tech told the FD that the NURSES brought him down and must have put him in the wrong place. So the other ex-primary and I are both working, both kind of traumatized to begin with, because we loved that baby like he was our own, and they're accusing us of LOSING HIM.

Is it any wonder I ended up sticking myself with a dirty needle later that night? Jesus.

[I love my cat!]

Cared for pt. in Pre-Op.
She gave me her glasses and told me to keep them safe (and admitted that they were dime-store cheap-os).
Cared for patient in PACU.
Transfered pt. from PACU to CICU.
Placed pt's glasses in plastic baggie, with a HUGE note GLASSES in red marker on it.
Gave report to CICU Nurse-pointed out the glasses, made note of it in paper work.
Next day WWIII in PACU. Called to office. Unit manager, Floor manager, CICU Nurse, letter from patient's family and on and on about lost glasses and how I was the last person to have them.
Got written up.
Next day, Unit manager comes to me and tells me the glasses were found...in the CICU...in the baggie...with the note on it.
Not one apology.

The way they acted, you would have thought that the glasses had platinum frames with diamonds on it.

[BlueRidgeHomeRN]

Originally Posted by rgroyer1RNBSN

Hey blueridge that isnt nice Im a Sup. and Im not spineless or mean, I take up for my nurses and I usually end up the one on the chopping block. I usually try to resolve my staffs issues without going to the manager.

Since I'm the Director of Clincal Services, I, too, am a supervisor, and have been for most of my nursing career. Doesn't mean that MOST nursing administrators have no (metaphorical) cajones, and lack any understanding of management or leadership. At least as an Army Officer with a business degree, I learned the basics of manangment early on. Most nursing supervisors don't have this background, and it shows. Learned a long time ago, as you apparently have as well:

"You watch out for your people, and they'll watch out for you"!

[rgroyer1RNBSN]

Yes they will and thank you, actually the nurse manager job for SICU is open as she recentley quit and then they also have an assistant nurse manager job opening for er Im thinking about applying for one or the other.

[UtErRnEmt]

i had a manipulative pt come with a c/o vomiting blood so of course the er doc ordered an ng tube. i lubed the tube with lido jelly. well the pt refused to cooperate and wouldnt swallow and started swinging at me. so i pulled the tube and asked another nurse to come in and help me. the pt flat out refused to allow us to try again. i charted everything that had happened and told the er doc. pt ended up being admitted.

a few days later i had to respond to a complaint lodged by the pt to the pt advocate because i "used some sort of jelly on the tube". the kicker is the pt advocate is a NURSE . guess next time he comes in he gets a dry tube...jk

[rgroyer1RNBSN]

Yeah Id give him a dry tube, put a foley in without any K-Y. He'll learn!!!!!!

[dltrahan26]

I got called in for not adapting to my co-workers. I was a the in a busy county ER and did not adapt well to co-workers (techs) who would tell me things like quit helping the nurses so much or they won't want to do anything for themselves. I didn't adapt to their lazy and petty attitudes and am starting a new the job this coming friday at a bigger hospital with more money. Guess I won in the end. I still feel bad for my nurses at the old place though, even worse for the patients.

[dltrahan26]

I got called in for not adapting to my co-workers. I was a tech in a busy county ER and did not adapt well to co-workers (techs) who would tell me things like quit helping the nurses so much or they won't want to do anything for themselves. I didn't adapt to their lazy and petty attitudes and am starting a new tech job this coming friday at a bigger hospital with more money. Guess I won in the end. I still feel bad for my nurses at the old place though, even worse for the patients.

[grace90]

Originally Posted by sjt9721

D2B of 37 minutes...awesome!

Manager's half of story: "I've been told that you're visiting several of the firehouses, eating meals with them, and being inappropriate with the firemen while they're on duty."

The truth: I was overheard talking about my recent vacation back home, during which I ate lunch at a fire station with old school friends. (Oh, and did I mention that my dad was the chief?)

Someone overheard part of a story, injected their own ideas, and suddenly I was a wh()re!

and being that this was on your own 'off' time away from work, not on the clock, she still decided it was her business?? Geeesh!!!