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Jun 08, 2009, 11:46 PM
 Re: Slack, Sloppy Nurses for coworkers! VENT101!
"she always gets other people to work for her"...Apparently, she got you to do many times. I hope you documented all of the above in your post.
"I like this nurse as a person but omg....i dont know how much more of her slack i can take....she always gets other people to work for her"...she's manipulating you to do her work and you like her? Have you had a one-to-one, heart-to-heart with her about her behavior? When you do, tell her the honeymoon is over...that you will assist when emergencies arise but you are no longer going to help her draw a paycheck when you're doing much of her work.
She sounds like a risk to safe patient care. I would document the expired meds and anything else that could be safety issues and let it fall to the DON. Do your assignments and turn a deaf ear to her...she is toxic and hurting you and others.
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Jun 09, 2009, 12:04 AM
Re: Slack, Sloppy Nurses for coworkers! VENT101!
The bottom line is that we train people on how to treat us.
If I'm aware that my coworker is the type of person who will jump in and do some of my work for me, I'll allow it (especially when I'm feeling lazy). However, I will automatically need to pick up the pace if I'm working with someone who only deals with their own patient load.
The easiest way to get people to pick up the slack is to stop doing all their work for them. People will use you up and spit you out if you permit it.
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Jun 09, 2009, 06:35 AM
Re: Slack, Sloppy Nurses for coworkers! VENT101!
People only treat you the way you allow yourself to be treated. Unfortunately, you may have to be a bit more firm with this nurse. Tell her, point blank, that you are busy with your own intakes and patients and that you simply cannot do this for her. Of course, if there is a patient who is in crisis mode and she isn't doing anything about it...yes, sadly you will have to make that your responsibility. I would call the doc, get orders and then plop them in front of her...telling her what doc wants. If she still isn't doing anything, I would end up taking care of that patient myself and have a VERY firm discussion with her. Even if it means she doesn't like me anymore for it. I am not there to make friends...especially with someone who is taking advantage of my good nature.
And boy, do I remember the "Pass it on..." managment style. I know. Useless.
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Jun 10, 2009, 04:12 PM
Re: Slack, Sloppy Nurses for coworkers! VENT101!
We're behind you!!! It may take awhile before the management realizes you mean business. Stick to your new self. God's best be yours.
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Jun 23, 2009, 12:49 PM
Re: Slack, Sloppy Nurses for coworkers! VENT101!
Wellllllllll......here is an update in the past week of putting my new do in action...it seems to be working some.....when ive been getting my daily stack of unfinished labs, orders etc...ive been separating them out and telling the nurse to whom the pt belongs that their pt has orders to be written from the md. and when I've called him .....i make sure that the others are right there and then I hand them the phone so they have to tell him about their own people..esp if its something acute that i dont really know about ...I did that to one other nurse and I told her that she knew more about what was going on w/ her pt than I did and that I'd call him and tell him about mine (who had a fever) and she could tell him about hers ..she'd never talked to the doc before and was nervous...I told her that she didnt have anything to worry about b/c he'd go with whatever she told him and would probably say to send the pt to the er.....and he did for which she was admitted. the family even went as far as to call us @ work and personally thank that nurse for sending the pt over to get looked at further. She is a new nurse and I was so proud of her. She needed the shove i think. and as for mgmt....the boss called me one night to tell me to go home early but we had 2 admissions and a new nurse.....i couldnt in good faith leave her with all that.....thats what made me wanna quit when i was a new nurse. thank god i had nurses then that would help me. i am gonna post another topic about psych.....any help would be nice w/ that..check it out.
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Jun 28, 2009, 03:05 PM
Re: Slack, Sloppy Nurses for coworkers! VENT101!
here's one, i work the nite shift, and a co-worker sleeps at the nurse's station, doesn't help out, does not answer call lights or bed alarms, had the nerve to tell me he's going for a break, disappears for an hour, can't find him nowhere's ,then returns to the nurses station to sleep some more..then had another nerve to be upset when i told him i'm going for my break, and told me me has not punch out yet, for his break? anyways i reported him to the DON, her response was..we'll i do not have all my ducks in a row yet.(meaning i can't do anything bec. i can't find a replacement, and none of the on-call really would like to work your shift) so i took a picture of him sleeping, and showed this to him, in the hopes that it will straighten him out, but no , his responce was..."i'm not sleeping, i'm resting with my eyes closed. on one occasion he treatened to sue me for taking his picture w/o his permission...grr..pease..so i'm hoping for him to report me..haha..for taking his picture while he is sleeping..hopefully...really can't wait..IDIOT...
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