Rant: I will SHOW you where it is

Nurses General Nursing

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There's this nurse I work with who is probably about a slice of an apple short of a fruit salad. Multiple times she's used the last of a product (such as the glucose strips) when I'm doing q 15 accuchecks on a hypoglycemic patient. I mention this to her if she can bring me more strips since she took the last of mine from my room. She forgets and I got hunting asking her about it. She hands me the ones from the other accucheck machine and I asked her if she knew where to get them. I always refill when we're running low and 2 strips left between two machines really it's time. She had NO clue.... she's been here as long as I have.

There's been other supplies she's done this with. I walked her to where we get them and showed her. But c'mon now..it's everyone's job to load up when supplies are low. The magical fairy doesn't come and sprinkle supplies along the unit.

Vent over...

Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.

I hate to be the one to say this, but if you constantly pick up after this person, you are only encouraging her, and she will keep repeating her bad behaviour.

Just re-stock ur own things and leave the rest for her.

And yes it just drives me nuts when others are slack. Can't believe she has worked there for 15 years. Makes you wonder.

I would complain about her myself.

It's called Learned Helplessness and it's a very useful technique for getting out of dirty work or anything you can't be bothered with. You can just swan through life on this technique if you perfect the "oh really, I didn't know" whine alone with the eyelash fluttering - really, very effective.

I call it lazy bxxxh.

Ugh I work with one of these. I stock every morning when I get in and again before I leave at night, and never fails I come back to everything empty. I keep saying one of these days I am going to UN stock the entire cart and put everything away just to see if she knows how to find the stock room. So irritating, a little common courtesy please. I have left polite notes "please stock the cart" and still nothing. Lazy s%4t!

Specializes in ER/Trauma.

Plug/Put. ****. Back. In. After. You. Are. Done. Using. It!!

Can't do that STAT EKG now because the battery is dead. Can't take a rectal temp. because none of the thermometers are anywhere to be found. etc.

GAH!

cheers,

What is ALMOST as annoying, if not more so, is the person who uses the last available copy of a form and doesn't photocopy first. ARRRGGGGHHHH

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