younger generation of nurses and blackberries?

[stephva1008]

Is it me or are the latest crop of nurses addicted to their blackberries? Our hospital policy is no cell phones, blackberries on the unit but i see nurses everywhere texting on the job. I've heard of nurses texting in a patients room, I've seen nurses on facebook in the ED and texting down the hall.

What is it with the lack of professionalism? If I was in a doctor's office and he texting in the middle of an exam, I'd have a coronary. So why do nurses feel that they need to be accessible 24/7?

It's really a huge pet peeve of mine. I wish more managers would report these employees and start a paper trail.

Anyone else notice this?

[Katie5]

I bet it is not just the younger generations but older ones too that love their blackberries.

Being younger, means you get attributed more offenses!LOL

[LesMonsterRN, ADN, RN]

My last clinical instructor is a self-proclaimed crackberry junkie and prefers that we contact her by text if we need something and can't find her immediately. I think it's okay to do that but it feels weird to me to do it out in the open, so if I need to contact her, I'll quickly step into an area where I'm not very visible to people on the unit.

[ozoneranger]

ya know -even though i suppose i'm at the tail end of the blackberry thing agewise(i don't own one) my first thought when reading that post was not about the device, but the fruit. And i do love fresh blackberries!

Thank God I'm not the only one.

I'm married to a computer NERD, so long before Blackberries came on the scene, I had a Palm, with epocrates loaded for work. In those days doctors would grab it from me & ask 'how...where....will you show me...ect....