A good team player

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  1. What are the individual characteristics of a “good team player”? multiple choice

    • 8
      Going along with the crowd without objection
    • 25
      Sacrificing personal beliefs and values to see your team succeed
    • 32
      Follow the directions of management
    • 24
      Acceptance of the same conditions as the other members of the team without objection
    • 53
      Accept the same patient load as other members of the team
    • 53
      Perform the same duties as other members of the team
    • 12
      Not to object to or disagree about the direction in which the team is heading
    • 12
      Not to point out weaknesses or lack of logic within the team
    • 43
      Sacrifice and or suffer as much as the other members to reach a goal
    • 14
      Other, please list

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I have heard this used here recently. I have also heard it used at staff meetings.

Exactly what does being a good team player/member mean when it comes to nursing?

you don't happen to work on a tele floor do you thisnurse? i can honestly say the only time i was allowed to twist in the wind like that was on a tele floor.

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med/surg phantom.

our unit morale is getting worse. nobody wants to help anyone anymore. asking for help these days is

really putting everyone out...just the question itself provokes nasty responses from nurses and assistants alike...just little things like..can you give me a boost?

when i offer to help my coworkers when im not busy they look at me like i have three heads.

Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

Kaycee,

I had to laugh when I read your comment "Sorry, that's not my patient." Some years ago when I was working on a med/surg unit, a family member approached me to ask me to help her mother up to the bathroom. I said, "Sure, what room is your mother in?" She told me, and I remembered how heavy a patient that was so I turned to another nurse beside me and said, "(Nurse so and so), do you mind helping me with this lady's mother?" Right in front of the family member, that nurse's response to me was "Sorry, I just washed my hands." The family member became irate at this nurse, and I asked the family member to accompany me to the patient's room, which she did. She kept asking me why that nurse refused to help me since I was not her mother's nurse either. I said, "That's okay. We will get your mother up to the bathroom. Just give me a minute to find an assistant." I paged for an assistant, the assistant came in no time at all, and we helped the patient up to the bathroom and back to bed. The family member was ever so grateful to us for helping her mother, but stated she intended to report the other nurse for not being so helpful.

Unfortunately, there are nurses who have moments like that, but what I found to be inappropriate was for that nurse to say what she said directly in front of the family member. :confused:

"It is better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not." (quote by Andre Gide)

the only time i say....im not your nurse....is when pts ask me for pain meds or other things i cant do...but then i go get their nurse.

thats the kind of mentality that reigns on my "team"

its not my job

im not your nurse

Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

Hello thisnurse,

Your response is so appropriate, especially if the patient wants medication or something only his/her nurse would be aware of or has scheduled already to give to them.

I hardly ever sat down to chart because I charted on the go, whipping in and out of patients rooms to care for them in as timely a fashion as I could. Even when I was "caught up" (Ha!), I would help out the other nurses with their patient load so we could all get finished on time and go home. Supporting one another is where it's at. When we stop caring about one another, nursing will truly be in BIG trouble. :eek:

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."--George Bernard Shaw

I agree with both of Night owl's posts ! and the others are good too !:eek: :eek:

originally posted by night owl

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yes, you can pick apart a poll, but the ???? and the thought it brings out..........

no i wouldn't blindly follow management, but if thisa isa wherea i worka, thena ia gonna followa mosta of directiona's.......

should i be different from other team members, or above anybody.....no, and shouldn't be less than anybody........

except for duh!!!!! what different job duties call for.......

should i publicly point out weaknesses and ?????judgement.........

:confused: lets talk about being unprofessional and just downright mean.........:(

being part of a team, means being part of a team.......

working together for common goal.....like getting through an uneventful shift while giving your patients equal, skilled and compassionate care.............

just micro thoughts....

thx for poll

:p :p :p

Originally posted by thisnurse

med/surg phantom.

our unit morale is getting worse. nobody wants to help anyone anymore. asking for help these days is

really putting everyone out...just the question itself provokes nasty responses from nurses and assistants alike...just little things like..can you give me a boost?

when i offer to help my coworkers when im not busy they look at me like i have three heads.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: unfortunately sounds familiar!!!!!

:p :p micro:p

night owl, I love that Slogan TEAM, I saw it a while back and copied, pasted it, put it on my frig, so my kids see it every day.

it's a great word for Nursing !

mkue

Originally posted by VAC

I don't like any of the choices offered. Teamwork is pitching in to help each other, and keeping in mind the priorities of the whole unit, not just your assignment. You can't be 'too busy' to run to a code. Of course it's much easier to be a team player when your unit is decently staffed.

gotta agree with that one......

pitching in and helping each other without holding it over anyone's head...............

hey VAC, great cat!!!!!!!!!

:kiss :chuckle ;)

I really like RNKitty's reply. It hits the nail on the head.

To Momontoy, take care of your license yes, but also share your pearls of wisdom...teach the new and less experienced nurses. Some really do appreciate it and not all of "them" are in nursing for the wrong reasons.

Specializes in ER, Hospice, CCU, PCU.

I couldn't answer any better than RNKitty

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