angry coworker

[moonshadeau]

I work with a traveling nurse. She is angry all the time. I don't know if it is a personal thing or a work thing. Not only that but some of her work habits are less than questionable. To say that she will walk in and out of an isolation room with the same pair of gloves on and wander the hospital floor looking for things and not think twice about the possibility of contamination. I try to be helpful and be nice to her but it is very hard when she is so snotty to you. I worry just for the sake of her patients and for the care that they are recieving. I have spent many hours doing service recovery so far, that I am not spending enough time with my patients. I don't want to rat her out so that I look like the bad guy, but... what else do I do? Any advice?

[ratchit]

No offense taken here!

When staff are overworked and underrespected, attitudes will stink. That goes for all kinds of nurses- staff, agency, and traveller alike.