lose the attitude

I don't have a problem with people as long as they do their job. I don't mind having to take care of things that are left for me. Hey, this is a 24 hour a day job, I don't expect anyone to do everything in their 12 hour shift. It irritates me that there are people who choose to work in ICU so that they will have to do the bare minimum. And I have seen this, taking only single patients so that newbies can't get a new learning experience, calling on the phone from the patient's room to the phone at the desk so that I have to step away from my patient to answer the call to discover that it's my co-worker who needs a gown for the patient and is too lazy to take her isolation gown off, wash her hands and get it herself, mind you this is her only patient who is quite stable. It's things like this that create negativity and they need to be resolved right away by saying "hey that's not appropriate". There's nothing wrong with pointing out to a co-worker that they made a mistake, its the "OMG, do you know how made a mistake?" crap...Then if all else fails involve management.

I don't want to be nitpicked at after working 12 hours and neither do my co-workers. A bath is not important especially if the patient is unstable as it's the least of all concerns. And I don't want to be nitpicked at over a stupid suction canister that has 100cc of sputum on it after my patient just got intubated. I don't need to go home with "did I do all of my job" weighing on my mind because of some negative self-absorbed co-workers. Sorry, I needed to let this out. It's been bothering me for a while.