Is there always that one nurse.....?

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    Specializes in Postpartum, L&D, Mother-Baby.

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Queen2u

242 Posts

Specializes in Postpartum, L&D, Mother-Baby.

The latter example made me laugh...I gave report the other day on a rather unstable patient and the oncoming nurse acted like I was boring her with report...I almost asked if she just wanted to read the chart, and I could just go home...:uhoh3:

LOL!!!! Good one!

Specializes in Medical Oncology, Alzheimer/dementia.

I had some real pieces of work give me report and to report off to. My favorite one was when I gave report to the 3rd shift nurse coming on after she'd been on vacation for a week. We had a resident who died during the time she was off. The room already had a new occupant, and since she had worked there for so many years I decided to give a brief story of how the resident had taken a turn and died so quickly. She looked at me over the top of her glasses and said, "I don't need report on dead people."

Didn't make me laugh then, but it kinda does now...

There is surely more than one of those coming on shift, at any given time.

I also REALLY cringed at the night shift nurse coming on duty after my 4 hour ...3-7 block that

LOVED to grill me on patient's history.. last BM, etc. after I turned over my entire assignment and was gasping for air!

The big question is why do we put up with this bs?

CrissiQ

54 Posts

Specializes in geri,acute,subacute,correctional,pysch,.

I can remember one evening having to give report again to (that) one in a long term care facility. I got so annoyed from her constant interruptions and little remarks about every patient. How disappointed she was because ABC nurse forgot something and why did I not know about Mr. XYZ patients last eye exam (on a stable patient without major eye issues). I just couldn't take it anymore and asked her straight out :argue: "You wanna fight about it, or take report?" She was shocked, shut up, took report and never gave me an issue again. Still was a pain to everyone else but not to me :yelclap:

Specializes in Med/surg, Quality & Risk.

Love the ones that nitpick every single detail and ask irrelevant questions about medical history (i.e. has he ever had a colonoscopy before? Who cares??) Then you come back for your next shift and it's like the patient had a babysitter for the day and not a nurse...basically she gave pills and answered call lights (maybe) and screw everything else she should have done.

allnurses Guide

Hygiene Queen

2,232 Posts

We have taped report, which eliminates that problem.

However, our problem is that one nurse drones on and on forever!

I swear, it's like:

"...and the pt woke up, ate eggs but refused bacon and so I got her something else, then the pt belched and wanted orange juice, so I got her that... so then she had a large BM and wiped three times... So going back in her medical history to 1972..."

Ugh!!

palmbeachRN

43 Posts

Absolutely... everyone avoids having to give patients to this one nurse I work with. The thing is, she's really nice and pleasant otherwise! Then she will go to the supervisor and complain about the dumbest things. Oh well, I guess every profession/workplace has them!

Art_Vandelay

351 Posts

I had some real pieces of work give me report and to report off to. My favorite one was when I gave report to the 3rd shift nurse coming on after she'd been on vacation for a week. We had a resident who died during the time she was off. The room already had a new occupant, and since she had worked there for so many years I decided to give a brief story of how the resident had taken a turn and died so quickly. She looked at me over the top of her glasses and said, "I don't need report on dead people." Didn't make me laugh then, but it kinda does now...
I would've given the same report...most nurses like to know when a patient they have cared for died. But yes, her remark did make me laugh; thanks for sharing.

Art_Vandelay

351 Posts

We have taped report, which eliminates that problem.However, our problem is that one nurse drones on and on forever!I swear, it's like:"...and the pt woke up, ate eggs but refused bacon and so I got her something else, then the pt belched and wanted orange juice, so I got her that... so then she had a large BM and wiped three times... So going back in her medical history to 1972..."Ugh!!
Hahaha!!

Brannray

79 Posts

I can remember one evening having to give report again to (that) one in a long term care facility. I got so annoyed from her constant interruptions and little remarks about every patient. How disappointed she was because ABC nurse forgot something and why did I not know about Mr. XYZ patients last eye exam (on a stable patient without major eye issues). I just couldn't take it anymore and asked her straight out :argue: "You wanna fight about it, or take report?" She was shocked, shut up, took report and never gave me an issue again. Still was a pain to everyone else but not to me :yelclap:

Maybe that will help very one else here to be able to say the same to that "one *or 2, or more* they have to deal with! You finally just get to where enough is ENOUGH! You can only take people's **** for so long before something is going to explode!!!

jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B

9 Articles; 4,800 Posts

You could always say "I am always trying to improve. My gooodnessssss how do you manage your time? Got any pointers for me to do bettterrrrr?" (

Ya, these type of personalities have no filter. I would think it a suc*y way to start a shift, but to each their own.....

elizadream

54 Posts

Nurses, I want to know if it's just me? Am I going crazy or does anyone else notice this: Do you notice that there is ALWAYS that ONE NURSE that you can't give a good enough report to during change of ****? ALWAYS that one nurse who nit picks and the things you weren't able to compete during your shift, even though you KNOW you had a crazy shift and must have burned a thousand calories ripping and running like crazy to do all that you could for your patients? ALWAYS that one nurse who does not care about all the things you DID do, but if you didn't do something so minute as to turn off the light in the patient's bathroom before you left or didn't change the date on the dry erase board, they talk to you about it like you killed their puppy?! Am I the only one experiencing this??!!!

Ah, yes, those little nurses that shroud their hostile, suckfull comments during report! I caught one in the act of throwing my coworker under the bus one morning. As she was giving report to me she immediately started telling how the previous nurse "never even bothered to bring up a DNR " and SHE had to be the one to initiate it. In the report she was insinuating the previous nurse was being lazy and not addressing the real issue! I know my coworker was busting her a$$ all day to stabilize the patient yet it seems the night shift nurse still wanted to find fault. She and the other night shift nurse made a big stink about it and reported this nurse to the supervisor. I called this nurse out right then and there, defended my coworker. She then tried to backpedal saying the FAMILY had been the one to wonder why the nurse hadn't approached them about DNR. I felt good about calling her out and told my boss it was sheer professional jealousy. Those 2 night shift nurses knew I had caught them being unprofessional and I wasn't backing' down!

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