Dodo Birds We all Know and Work With

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What do you do with a security guard who's too gung ho for the job? He's total stickler for parking permits, parking within the lines, and the like. He lets some hings go but not much. He really needs to chill out. :saint:

What do you do with Maintenance when they won't fix stuff after repeated requests?:devil:

How about with Upper Managers who won't back you up when you need stuff fixed for safety reasons?:devil::devil:

What about nurses who follow you but won't call the doctor when it gets to be a human hour to call and take care of routine matters that you don't want to wake them for at 0400? :argue:

To err is human but if these same dodo birds do it again, I"m going to sic Maxine on them. She'll give 'em what for, huh?:chuckle:clown::jester:

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Specializes in ER; HBOT- lots others.

how about pharmacy when you reprint for a med you needed 2 hours ago and even called about??? then they "LOST" the order???

-H-RN

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Specializes in Acute Care.
how about pharmacy when you reprint for a med you needed 2 hours ago and even called about??? then they "LOST" the order???

-H-RN

Most of the time, we have problems with routine meds, such as Protonix or Multivitamins , never available on the unit... We send text messages (we used a computer-based med administration system) over and over, call and call, send more text messages and THEN get the med. I know another nurse had a Protonix due at 9am one day and still hadnt recieved it by 2pm. :banghead:

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

How about the idiots who think that all admissions assessments and paperwork needs to be done on night shift? Or the morons that think its actually a good idea for thr cnas to not be cpr certified.

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Or the DON who tells CNAs they can sleep on night shift, then writes up and eventually fires, nurses who can't get patient care done on night shift.

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Specializes in LTC, case mgmt, agency.
How about the idiots who think that all admissions assessments and paperwork needs to be done on night shift? Or the morons that think its actually a good idea for thr cnas to not be cpr certified.

OMG! We must work together. I can't believe how many admit assessments keep getting left for me to do.

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.

how about the dodo RN i work with who refuses to wear gloves while assisting during endoscopic procedures and has done so for 25 years... and the dodo doctors and dodo nurse manager who don't say anything to her!

her reasoning... "i haven't gotten anything bad yet". i gave her a whole bunch of literature on MRSA, VRE, the hepatitis family, HIV/AIDS, C-diff and STD's. she laughed at me and said gloves are impersonal.

sorry but i think anyone who graduated with a bachelor's in science from the university of north carolina should have the sense to wear gloves while handling specimens that came out of the human digestive tract.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.

What kinds of STDs can you get from the human digestive tract?

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Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.

How about the dodo manager who will not get the front door fixed so that it locks every night? How scarey is it to be charting and out of nowhere a stranger comes down the steps at 1 am?

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.
What kinds of STDs can you get from the human digestive tract?

herpes, for one. the mouth and the orifice are full of fun stuff.

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Specializes in Corrections, neurology, dialysis.
her reasoning... "i haven't gotten anything bad yet". i gave her a whole bunch of literature on MRSA, VRE, the hepatitis family, HIV/AIDS, C-diff and STD's. she laughed at me and said gloves are impersonal.

Back in the day nurses were told not to wear gloves while doing patient care because it was considered too impersonal and might offend patients. So yeah, it's gross, but try and understand that she comes from a different era.

Believe me, 25 years ago when something you were taught in nursing school gets stood on its head by research, you will have a hard time making the adjustment after doing something one way for many years.

She's wrong for doing it, but not because she's stupid. :wink2:

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Specializes in RN CRRN.

but what about what she could transfer from herself to equiptment or Dr(then pt) or directly to pt via her bare hands?....

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