To those of you who consider yourselves quick on the uptake, the downside is that you make snap judgments.
Some of those are right on, some are completely baseless.
Happened to me the other night. I was waiting for Respiratory on a patient.
While I waited, I pulled up a couple of labs and tried to print them for the doc coming to see said patient.
I later overheard "I can't believe she was playing with the computer while her patient needed a respiratory treatment."
Uhhhh...no, that is not what was going on.
Someone made a comment without having the facts and obviously didn't have the guts to approach me about it, just started gossiping about me.:angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire
Yes, I'm still hot.
I'm still not sure if I'm madder because the person totally misinterpreted what was going on and then spread the false report when I was supposedly out of earshot, or whether I'm madder at myself for not jumping up from my spot and confronting her head-on at the moment it happened.
Can't stand the gossipers and the drama queens, I really can't. :trout:
Thanks for listening.
I'm sure there's a lesson in this for all of us. To the people who would say such things, :trout:
To those of us who hear and repeat such things, :trout::trout:
And to those of us who leave units that are rife with that kind of abuse, I'm happy to join you.:cheers: