i'll admit to being somewhat cranky today, and this is a vent. this is only a vent. please do not accuse me of being mean to or mistreating anyone i'm venting about! but i swear, people's parents neglected to teach them manners!
the hospital cafeteria has wifi, and i know that you're bored waiting for uncle zeke to get out of surgery. it's great that you can sit in the cafeteria with your laptop and surf the net. however when lunchtime comes and you're not eating, just surfing, please get up and go somewhere else so that all those people standing around with trays full of food and peering around for an empty table can sit down and eat!
didn't your mother teach you that it's rude to sit in front of grandma, who is npo for the or, and eat your tacos or fried chicken? grandma can't eat and she's very hungry. please go somewhere else to eat your bagful of fast food and come visit grandma when you're done.
poppop had surgery, he's getting diuresed, his mouth is dry and all he wants is a big glass of water which he cannot have. it's rude to sit there and slurp on your big gulp in front of him.
i know you're a brand new np and all, and very proud of your degree, your knowledge base and your new prescribing priveledges. you would look every so much more professional, though, if you weren't chewing a big ole wad of gum with your mouth open and snapping, cracking, popping and blowing bubbles!
yes, the intensivist is slow, he's boring and he's old fashioned. it's excrutiating to watch him tackle the keyboard on a cow. but that's no excuse to be on the other cow shopping for stilettos during rounds! nor is it cool to be texting your husband, your best friend, or your husband's best friend instead of paying attention to what the nurse has to say.
i know you graduated from man's best nursing school last month and that therefore you think you know everything. but please, i'd rather have you ask what you think is a really stupid question than try to give blood through a d5w carrier, use ffp as a carrier or push dilantin through tpn. and it's really not cool to give the 20 meq of kcl iv push, either!
i know that you think 15-b's 20 or so relatives who average two teeth and thirty-two tattoos each are immensely entertaining. i might think so, too, if i could get past them to take care of the patient. we have rules that state only two visitors at a time -- please enforce them. if you let all and sundry hang out in the patient room eating their kfc and drinking their big gulps (see above) and then i tell them they need to follow the rules about no food, no drinks and only two visitors at a time, i become the mean nurse. that's not fair!
i appreciate that you're 30 years younger than me and ever so much more good looking than i ever dreamed of being. that does not mean, however, that it's cool to roll your scrub pants down to your hips so that your thong pokes out the top even when you're not bending over. nor is the push-up bra that's spilling the girls out your v neck very professional, either!
please hang up the cell phone so i can assess you. please get off facebook -- you're sitting in my chair and using my computer and that's just not cool. and please, if you work here, come and help me clean up poop even if the packers are winning in the next room!
Oh and rolling the scrubs down? Honestly? Girls hanging out of the scrub top? Next thing you know there will be an IV pole dancing class for the nurses that actually think it's ok to dress like this! UGH!
I heard of this done at a place I once worked at......disgusting if true!
OMG!!!! I am so glad I am OUT of nursing. Things have only gotten worse than they were before I left. I was dealing with the Gen X new nurses that had no idea why they should show up for a scheduled shift when they didn't feel like working that day. Yes you are right to vent. I keeps you from screaming at the idiots you have to deal with every day visitors, patients and the worst your own fellow nurses! I went into nursing many years ago when nurses were proud of their "profession" (not job). As a new grad I was in awe. Scared also but I would have worked for free for the first month. Then I realized very quickly how much we gave and did not get back. I kept giving for the next 30 years to my patients my staff and my family. After awhile there wasn't anything left to give. Thankfully I was able to leave before I no longer cared. I see people in their first few years of nursing who don't care about the job, their profession, the safety of the patient and themselves.
Rant on! Maybe someone will recognize themself????
There are idiots in every generation. I wish this board had existed 100 years ago; we could all have some fun reading about what established nurses of the day though of those immoral young flapper nurses! I can just picture it now....
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I work in LTC and there are quite a few families who bring young children and let them run up and down the halls or do flips in the tv room. Why do I have to be the mean nurse and tell the children that the tv room is NOT a playground? Not only can the kids get hurt but they can hurt one of the residents.
And I agree with the colored undies and white scrubs. I should not be able to read your undies through your pants. I sometimes have to roll my pants down but that is because if I didn't the crotch would be down to my knees or the waist would be up to my armpits. I would never let my undies stick out the top though. That is just gross!
Good Point Alan. The problem as I see it is that the people reading Heloise, Miss Manners or the editorial section of any newspaper are usually not the ones showing their "girls" or their thong in public or worse their place of employment. People who care about manners usually have them and are seeking to know more. :igtsyt:
Specializes in psychiatric, UR analyst, fraud, DME,MedB.
i'll admit to being somewhat cranky today, and this is a vent. this is only a vent. please do not accuse me of being mean to or mistreating anyone i'm venting about! but i swear, people's parents neglected to teach them manners!
the hospital cafeteria has wifi, and i know that you're bored waiting for uncle zeke to get out of surgery. it's great that you can sit in the cafeteria with your laptop and surf the net. however when lunchtime comes and you're not eating, just surfing, please get up and go somewhere else so that all those people standing around with trays full of food and peering around for an empty table can sit down and eat!
didn't your mother teach you that it's rude to sit in front of grandma, who is npo for the or, and eat your tacos or fried chicken? grandma can't eat and she's very hungry. please go somewhere else to eat your bagful of fast food and come visit grandma when you're done.
poppop had surgery, he's getting diuresed, his mouth is dry and all he wants is a big glass of water which he cannot have. it's rude to sit there and slurp on your big gulp in front of him.
i know you're a brand new np and all, and very proud of your degree, your knowledge base and your new prescribing priveledges. you would look every so much more professional, though, if you weren't chewing a big ole wad of gum with your mouth open and snapping, cracking, popping and blowing bubbles!
yes, the intensivist is slow, he's boring and he's old fashioned. it's excrutiating to watch him tackle the keyboard on a cow. but that's no excuse to be on the other cow shopping for stilettos during rounds! nor is it cool to be texting your husband, your best friend, or your husband's best friend instead of paying attention to what the nurse has to say.
i know you graduated from man's best nursing school last month and that therefore you think you know everything. but please, i'd rather have you ask what you think is a really stupid question than try to give blood through a d5w carrier, use ffp as a carrier or push dilantin through tpn. and it's really not cool to give the 20 meq of kcl iv push, either!
i know that you think 15-b's 20 or so relatives who average two teeth and thirty-two tattoos each are immensely entertaining. i might think so, too, if i could get past them to take care of the patient. we have rules that state only two visitors at a time -- please enforce them. if you let all and sundry hang out in the patient room eating their kfc and drinking their big gulps (see above) and then i tell them they need to follow the rules about no food, no drinks and only two visitors at a time, i become the mean nurse. that's not fair!
i appreciate that you're 30 years younger than me and ever so much more good looking than i ever dreamed of being. that does not mean, however, that it's cool to roll your scrub pants down to your hips so that your thong pokes out the top even when you're not bending over. nor is the push-up bra that's spilling the girls out your v neck very professional, either!
please hang up the cell phone so i can assess you. please get off facebook -- you're sitting in my chair and using my computer and that's just not cool. and please, if you work here, come and help me clean up poop even if the packers are winning in the next room!
Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
this is a vent thread. it is a safe and appropriate place for nurses to vent about the infuriating people we encounter daily in our jobs. it is rude (and lacking in manners) to "step on a vent" to tell nurses that they need to be professional and patient, that they should be courteous, that families are anxious and that we should not be rude. we all get that. stop preaching to the choir.
may i just add to your vent about family members who sit by the patient and take notes on everything you do or say? "what was his bp?" (jot, jot) "what was that med you just gave him?" (jot, jot) "shouldn't that drug run for 45 minutes, not half an hour?" (jot, jot)
i mean, i don't mind informed family members, but i do mind being interrogated. we're nurses, not criminal suspects.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
may i just add to your vent about family members who sit by the patient and take notes on everything you do or say? "what was his bp?" (jot, jot) "what was that med you just gave him?" (jot, jot) "shouldn't that drug run for 45 minutes, not half an hour?" (jot, jot)
i mean, i don't mind informed family members, but i do mind being interrogated. we're nurses, not criminal suspects.
i had two patients today -- wife of one was a nicu nurse. she was very helpful, grateful and respectful. cousin of the spouse of the other patient is "a critical care nurse." he was a royal pain in the you-know-where. he kept asking things like "what was his sodium at 4am?" then, when i'd have to go to the computer to check, he'd position himself where he could try to read over my shoulder. the wife said it was ok for him to have the lab values, but dang, reading over my shoulder is just plain rude and if he really is a critical care nurse, he should know better!
May I just add to your vent about family members who sit by the patient and take notes on everything you do or say? "What was his BP?" (jot, jot) "What was that med you just gave him?" (jot, jot) "Shouldn't that drug run for 45 minutes, not half an hour?" (jot, jot)
I mean, I don't mind informed family members, but I do mind being interrogated. We're nurses, not criminal suspects.
Agreed! I don't care if you are a ICU/critical care etc. nurse.....you do your job while at your job and let me do mine! But at least the interrogating nurse family members [usually] know what they are talking about. Gotta love the WebMD experts that look up dear old dads condition and tell us how to treat it! If the internet can tell you how to treat dad, then why do you need us?
I know this is a vent thread, but I'm not venting (this time). It's more just the title and the general theme that made me want to ask:
Have any of you ever read "Talk to the Hand: the utter bloody rudeness of the world today, or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door" by Lynne Truss (she wrote Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, too)? It's basically just essays on our culture of rudeness (mainly US and European). While it doesn't help anyone else's behavior, it does *me* good to read it every once in a while, to remind myself to behave.
And when I read it the first time, I was nodding my head throughout the entire thing, envisioning a few fellow coworkers and many, many past pts and/or their family members. I think many of you would enjoy it.
Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
I know this is a vent thread, but I'm not venting (this time). It's more just the title and the general theme that made me want to ask:
Have any of you ever read "Talk to the Hand: the utter bloody rudeness of the world today, or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door" by Lynne Truss (she wrote Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, too)? It's basically just essays on our culture of rudeness (mainly US and European). While it doesn't help anyone else's behavior, it does *me* good to read it every once in a while, to remind myself to behave.
And when I read it the first time, I was nodding my head throughout the entire thing, envisioning a few fellow coworkers and many, many past pts and/or their family members. I think many of you would enjoy it.
I loved "Eats, Shoots and Leaves." I'll have to look for that book.
I do the same thing, sometimes, when people go on a tirade but I also cock my head to side, and ask, "Are you done yet?"
Heh.
They don't know what to do with it and their reaction is funny to me.
I work in LTC and there are quite a few families who bring young children and let them run up and down the halls or do flips in the tv room. Why do I have to be the mean nurse and tell the children that the tv room is NOT a playground? Not only can the kids get hurt but they can hurt one of the residents.
I've also done the "Are you done yet?" thing lol. It just makes them shut up.
I also work in LTC and I've had to stop a number of w/c races that kids have that their parents think is funny. I've also been asked to baby sit. Uh no.
And not all the Gen X'er's are lazy and incompetent. Please don't lump us all into one group unless you want it done to you. Drives me crazy.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i know this is a vent thread, but i'm not venting (this time). it's more just the title and the general theme that made me want to ask:
have any of you ever read "talk to the hand: the utter bloody rudeness of the world today, or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door" by lynne truss (she wrote eats, shoots, and leaves, too)? it's basically just essays on our culture of rudeness (mainly us and european). while it doesn't help anyone else's behavior, it does *me* good to read it every once in a while, to remind myself to behave.
and when i read it the first time, i was nodding my head throughout the entire thing, envisioning a few fellow coworkers and many, many past pts and/or their family members. i think many of you would enjoy it.
i haven't read it, but i'll definitely look it up. it sounds great!
:lol2:
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Oh and rolling the scrubs down? Honestly? Girls hanging out of the scrub top? Next thing you know there will be an IV pole dancing class for the nurses that actually think it's ok to dress like this! UGH!
I heard of this done at a place I once worked at......disgusting if true!