The Nerve!!!

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This weekend was my first weekend at work. We didn't have much going on Sat, but had 3 hips Sun. The cases lasted from 0800-1500 with no breaks in between. On the weekends, the staff just consists of one crew...that's me, my scrub tech, a CRNA, and a recovery nurse. So, when there are cases...it's just the doc and us.

The night RN came in last night for his shift and questioned me about why a linen cart was still in the front hallway. A LINEN CART! He went on to say that this was his "trap for day people" to see if they did anything. I told him we had 3 hips. He then asked "so what did you do after three thirty then?" I couldn't believe he even asked me that....of all the nerve! I know he doesn't have that kind of schedule overnight...they're lucky to get even one case.

So, now I have vowed to NEVER touch that d@$# linen cart. If he wants to lay a trap for me, he can just stick it where the sun doesn't shine. That linen cart will be out in that front hallway every weekend I work....it will not move an inch.

I've even toyed with the idea of putting a sign on it for him saying "GOOD EVENING...WELCOME TO WORK.".

My venting now over, I thank you for listening.

Anne.:(

I know. It's my privilage to read responses, and sometimes interject.

Just factor this person. Factor him lil he's a single digit.

I know it's hard because we all have different feelings. When i get rubbed the wrong way, my world can go vertical too, despite my own logic. Sometimes people come on with their own negativity and try to transfer it to you. They relieve their own problems by giving you one. Try to recognise that.

I don't like reading about this stuff, because I will be in it. I'm expecting my fellow nurses to all be supportive of one another, and certainly not try to bite my back. I understand shifts are tough enough, without some sucker trying to make it worse by barking exponentially at members of the same team. Factor'em down. I'm just trying to help. I'll step back into the stands now

:-)

Maybe I'm not understanding something here, but I would think that, if the cart has been out in the front hall since his shift, it would have been that shift's responsibility to remove the cart and not leave it for the next shift.

I don't think you need to provide justification as to why your shift did not move the cart. I would have simply told him that I would appreciate it if, in the future, that his shift could clean up after themselves. Put the responsibility back on to him. If he continues to leave the cart there and brings this issue up in the future, I'd tell him that I'm sorry my shift did not get a chance to finish up his shift's work, but due to the influx of patients, it was all we could do to keep up with our own shift's work.

Mario

You have to experience it to BELIEVE it. When you see it, experience it, you too will be a believer. When you have gone the "mile" you will know what we are talking about. In the meantime- try NOT giving advice to someone when you don't know what you are talking about- I know that sounds harsh......BUT it is reality.

The guy with the sign....well, someone like that is always around nursing, trying to show up the next shift.....we have a person like that too. Nursing is really like no other world. Some people go on trips..........to bad they ever find there way back.

JMP - do me a personal favor and stop shadowing me at every post I make. Huh? Take your "anti-Mario" self and stay hidden behind your 3 little letters. It's obvious you hate me, though I have done nothing to you. I bet your like one of these bullies I read about, except you try to run your game here on an electronic board. Everytime you post you have to mock me with this rhetoric that I don't understand anything. phooie on you JMP - and unless you have something constructive to say, keep your personal dislikes of me to yourself. Huh - Mr. JMP. The board has a moderator, and I don't recall asking you to critique every post I make. Say something nice, or don't say it at all. I'm sick of you shadowing me and trying to slander me. Stop it now.

Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

May an old lady speak up. My gut reaction would be to break out in an old fashioned ROFLMAO!

Just laugh him off. Let him stand there at the trap and wonder what the "joke" is.

And you have my permission to ROFLMAO every single time you see him. Personally I'd refuse to get into a pi$$in' contest.

I am really surprised at all my associates here for not suggesting the obvious:eek: Why doesn't this OR nurse just move the stupid linen cart to the other end of the hallway:devil: he he I know this is a little camoflage but hey if the tiger is roaring why not???;)

Specializes in ER, NICU, NSY and some other stuff.

Poor KC,

People like this seem to be one of the sad realities of nursing.

Where I am currnetly working we have one, I call her "the little troll." I will never forget the big hurrah one morining about all of the blanks I left on an adnit sheet in fromt of both shifts at shift change. I stood there for a moment thinking to myself. I decidied that since I knew I would be back that evening and I knew that the patieint would still be there I would find and fix anything upon my return that pm. So I left. There she stood with the chart in her hands watching my happy little butt as it exited.

when I returned that night I discovered the only blank I had left was not drawing a line through a box that contained no information, nor did it require any. Was I ever glad that that am I had not given her the satisfaction of going over there that morning as she put on her big production that day because I am sure that whereever that chart would have becomce lodged i would have gotten into trouble.

Mario

When you decide to post your comments on things you clearly know nothing about, situations you have NO experience in, and most of the time your posts are, well, somehow intentionally naive.......I feel I have to speak up. If you don't like it, well, too bad.

As far as "hate" goes....... hum, I don't even know you, how could I hate you. That comment suggests to me a level of immaturity that I hae suspected and now have confirmed.

I don't comment on every post you make- I don't have that kind of time- I work full time and I am in school part time- take a look at when I joined this board and how many posts I have made. Don't be so egocentric.

If you make a post and you are talking about something YOU clearly don't know anything about- like this one, or the "squeaking heart" thing- which, by the way........your latest post makes absoutely NO SENSE.....you should seek medical attention........ you put yourself on the board.......... be prepared for correction and or my opinion. That is what it is all about.

I have a question, "How did this discussion deteriorate into a conversation about egos?????" Just wondering, but it seems to me that Mario, attempted at first to lighten things up a bit, then he started, a different direction(This picture of me,vs. that picture of me) and finally began "ragging" on someone he doesn't know, and hasn't heard that nurses side of the controversy. Please inform me if I am wrong. As for JMP, boy do you have a load of anger, or what? I still think that the controversy could be solved with a little bit of improvisation(example- Move the cotton-pickin cart and take a few things off to allow that she tried to do the stocking but with three surgeries, eight hours without a break, she couldn't do more than she did.) :-) Jay

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

Howdy Yall

From deep in the heart of Texas

If people would ony do what they are supposed to do, and work together, get along with each other. Then nursing would be so much easier and happier and more pleasant. Life can be better.

keep it in the short grass yall

teeituptom

I know what you mean...I had a situation like that at work last week. I busted my @^$ all night in the shock rooms, finally got all my pts upstairs about 0600, and stocked my 6 rooms as well as I could before 07. Nasty Nurse took over for me and laid into me that things were out of place on the counters, not two IV poles in every room...just general nitpicking, and said that "if people can't do it right, they shouldn't even bother." I was ready to stroke when I heard that, after the night I had...12 hours, no break etc. Told her the kind of night I had and that my pts were my first priority, and thanks to me I left her with no pts to start out with.

Next time, I probably won't be so polite...

Mean people suck! ;)

Jay, dear....it's not the cart that is the issue for me. The issue is the disrespect that I heard when this other nurse stated "THIS IS MY TRAP FOR DAY PEOPLE....TO SEE IF THEY DID ANYTHING.".

I am sticking with my original decision.....THE CART ISN'T MOVING AN INCH......PERIOD. If this guy has a problem with it, he can simply schedule a meeting with our dept. manager. I am ready and willing to have a conversation with both of them....she might want to know how a new nurse is "welcomed" on his shift.

As for the sign idea, I have rethought that....wouldn't make me look very good if I did it.

Mario....you REALLY need to develop a thicker hide if you're planning on becoming a nurse. If JMP is setting you off this much on the boards, how much is that doc gonna get you upset when he's in your face YELLING? I guess the hide will develop in time.

Thanks for the support everyone....keep your thoughts coming.

Anne:roll

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