Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

[General E. Speaking, RN]

Please don't label this thread "negative". It is meant to be fun.

Your scrubs are ugly.

I don't think you are "cute" when you get all googley-eyed and giggly around the young docs. I think it makes nurses look bad.

I cannot BELIEVE you were nominated for A Daisy Award! Did you nominate yourself?

It's called deodorant, use it.

Do your own assessment and stop badgering me for every single detail during report.

I swear I am going to put Ex Lax all over my lunch so the next time someone calls out for the runs, I will know it is you who keeps stealing my food!

Yes, my stethoscope is nice and it was expensive. Buy your own.

No time to help me turn my patient, huh? Yet, every time you need help, I have been there for you.

Your situational awareness sucks. While you are browsing the latest deals on the internet, I am drowning. Look around and help out your coworkers.

I'm happy you look rested and ready for your shift. Next time get here 15 minutes earlier so I can leave on time and be rested and ready for you.

No, you don't ALWAYS get the crappy assignment. I don't think you'd be happy with ANY assignment.

If you're sooooo sick of this place- leave.

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

You may be a hotshot facility NP, but there's a reason the Hospice evals are entrusted to the lowly Hospice RN and not you.

It's because you don't know diddly-squat about LCDs, what a terminal diagnosis actually is, and who makes the final determination regarding appropriateness for Hospice.

In the span of 10 minutes, you told me:

- "They don't use that 6 month thing for eligibility anymore." Really. The legal definition of Hospice, per Medicare, is still "Hospice care is for people with a life expectancy of 6 months or less if the disease runs its normal course."

- "The family has approved Hospice." No, the family has come to accept the concept of Hospice. The Hospice team decides if Hospice admission will be approved.

- "I see PAD as the terminal diagnosis." Good thing you aren't the one deciding eligibility then, because while it can be very painful, it's actually a co-morbid condition. Meaning it ain't gonna kill ya.

This conversation today has just put you on my "pay no never-mind to" when it comes to gathering information about patient decline.

[Sue Damonas, BSN]

You may be a hotshot facility NP, but there's a reason the Hospice evals are entrusted to the lowly Hospice RN and not you.

It's because you don't know diddly-squat about LCDs, what a terminal diagnosis actually is, and who makes the final determination regarding appropriateness for Hospice.

In the span of 10 minutes, you told me:

- "They don't use that 6 month thing for eligibility anymore." Really. The legal definition of Hospice, per Medicare, is still "Hospice care is for people with a life expectancy of 6 months or less if the disease runs its normal course."

- "The family has approved Hospice." No, the family has come to accept the concept of Hospice. The Hospice team decides if Hospice admission will be approved.

- "I see PAD as the terminal diagnosis." Good thing you aren't the one deciding eligibility then, because while it can be very painful, it's actually a co-morbid condition. Meaning it ain't gonna kill ya.

This conversation today has just put you on my "pay no never-mind to" when it comes to gathering information about patient decline.

I agree with you on this! I have thought that to myself so many times. I could not have said it any better!!

[T-Bird78]

Get off your lazy @$$ and DO SOMETHING! There is no reason you need to sit on your butt and order supplies while dirty rooms need cleaning and two charts are ready and pts need to be brought back. You can order supplies at the end of the day, not in the middle of the pt rush. And why are you coming in late every day, while I'm here on time, and you leave before I do? No, if you insist on coming in late you should be the one to stay late. (Too bad this offender is my supervisor and I can't say anything to them or to management.)

[vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN]

Why do you sit back on your behind when you can clearly hear/see a pt is escalating?

And why didn't any of you respond to my calls for help?

And why are all of the pts call lights placed out of reach by being placed under the mattress?

Oh, and I wish I would have said, "I know you heard me call for help. You were in the room next door."

I'm a traveler. Your own staff was assaulted and you did nothing. Why?!??!

[Mikey31079]

And from last night's LOVELY pick-up shift:

Look, honey, I know you're upset because you had more patients than the other tech. I know you're frustrated, and trust me, I get why. I was a tech for 15 years before I took this job, so I understand. However, when you brought this up to me at the beginning of the shift, I advised you to either work it out with your shift partner or go to the charge nurse if that didn't work (which she did not do). The time to complain would have been at START of shift, not by proceeding to have a full on meltdown 30 minutes before shift change. Or, if you must, do not then try to drag the unit clerk (me) in the middle by going "well, Mikey knew!" at which point I repeated what I said earlier, which is WORK IT OUT AMONG YOURSELVES or GO TO CHARGE! **smh**

This one I wasn't there for, but I'm still shaking my head over it...In what universe is it even remotely okay to sit in the tele room, turn the lights off, pull out an Ipad, and proceed to get so engrossed in the movie that you lose all track of the monitor? It sucks that you two were caught by house sup and immediately suspended, but you brought it on yourselves. And you guys were cool too.

[Pat_Pat RN]

"You should really come to work clean-shaven." -To FEMALE nurse...

[sideshowstarlet, BSN, RN]

I'm so glad I worked the 2pm-10 pm shift with you, the last 4 and a half hours of it, anyway. I'm so glad I came in to drop something off at the facility at the time and stopped to talk to your crazy self. I can't believe they had you working as the only nurse in the building. They really don't appreciate you enough. You are a gift to your residents, their family members, and your CNAs. I loved how we were able to handle that surprise admission together. Yesterday was the first time in a long time I enjoyed working second shift. Come work graveyards with me when the other night nurse goes on maternity leave!!!