Are You Popular At Work?

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Do your coworkers like you and like working with you?

Why? Why not?

Do you care one way or the other?

Specializes in M/S, MICU, CVICU, SICU, ER, Trauma, NICU.

I make people laugh the whole time they work with me =) Life is too short, ya know?

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Seriously chaps work on being inscrutable.

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Specializes in Family Practice, Mental Health.

.....................................................? Don't know. I don't know if anyone is popular where I work, I really don't pay attention to the social affluence of my co workers.

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Specializes in LTC, Med-SURG,STICU.

I work with nurses that are very nice to your face, but what they say behind your back is a totally different thing. To my face I am the best thing since sliced bread, so I am assuming that means I am a dog turd as far as they are concerned. Personally, I do not care. I have made my feelings perfectly clear about their catty ways many times (to their face I might add) and I refuse to join in on the bash your co-worker fest. Can the little witches hurt my feelings? Every once in a while they hit a sore spot with their passive agressive nastiness, but I will never let them know.

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Specializes in Peds Hem, Onc, Med/Surg.

I think I might be popular just because I am always joking around with everyone. Even the hucs that don't like anyone seem to like me. Of course one time two RNs fought over being my preceptor. They both wanted to do it. So I suppose either I am liked or they didn't want to work. LOL (jk they both are very hard working nurses that I love)

My mom says I have a very magnetic personality. I think I have an antisocial personality but it seems the more I push away the harder it is to get rid of people. I just tell it as it is to peoples faces. Then I joke about it and say its cause I am spanish. :D

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.
I just tell it as it is to peoples faces. Then I joke about it and say its cause I am spanish. :D

Down here, we can say just about anything to anybody or about anybody, as long as we end it with "bless her heart..." Like:

"If it took her any longer to bathe a patient, she'd have to get a license for water therapy, bless her heart..."

"She's the worst nurse on the floor, and I wouldn't let her look after a dying cat, but she tries, bless her heart..."

"Dr. X thinks he's all that, but he couldn't diagnose a severed arm, he'd call it 'minor tissue damage', bless his heart."

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Specializes in Rehab, Infection, LTC.
Down here, we can say just about anything to anybody or about anybody, as long as we end it with "bless her heart..." Like:

"If it took her any longer to bathe a patient, she'd have to get a license for water therapy, bless her heart..."

"She's the worst nurse on the floor, and I wouldn't let her look after a dying cat, but she tries, bless her heart..."

"Dr. X thinks he's all that, but he couldn't diagnose a severed arm, he'd call it 'minor tissue damage', bless his heart."

haha! i'm in the south and this is sooooooo true!!

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Down here, we can say just about anything to anybody or about anybody, as long as we end it with "bless her heart..." Like:

"If it took her any longer to bathe a patient, she'd have to get a license for water therapy, bless her heart..."

"She's the worst nurse on the floor, and I wouldn't let her look after a dying cat, but she tries, bless her heart..."

"Dr. X thinks he's all that, but he couldn't diagnose a severed arm, he'd call it 'minor tissue damage', bless his heart."

How cute! How clever. Love this.

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Specializes in LTC/Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.
Do your coworkers like you and like working with you?

Why? Why not?

Do you care one way or the other?

My patients are happy with the care I give, it's their opinion that matters to me. My managers are happy with my performance, and I think I get along well with my co-workers. I don't go out with work friends outside of work, and we're not set up to take our breaks together.

Of course, I work with all women and sometimes there is gossip--I do my best to try and stop gossip in it's tracks and not carry it on to anyone else. I sometimes fail because, well, I'm human. Sometimes I have a bad day, and the CNAs have called me the B word behind my back. In the end, the resident who was dying helped me to recognize what was important "I'm so glad you're my nurse today, I know I can count on you, now I can relax and get some rest."

So no...I don't care one way or another. I can't specifically give a reason as to why I think my co-workers like me, I'm too prejudiced to my good points :-) and probably a bit blinded to my bad points :-)

Again, I'm more concerned about keeping my residents happy and giving them high quality care.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

I don't know about "popular." I mean, my coworkers like me in general and seem to enjoy working with me (because I *work* and I don't ride a chair at the nurses station all day), but I'm also a bit of a loner. I've never been one to have a huge circle of friends, and I often prefer just my own company, or the company of a very select few. Just the way I've always rolled! And yes, I've found that people confide in me, too. Probably because I know how to keep my mouth shut. But I don't hang out with my coworkers in my off-time ... the only time I have is when we all got together to help a coworker get her house/yard squared away so she could sell it.

And that "bless his/her heart" thing is so true, LOL! One of my coworkers does that all the time. She put a very tall, not-so-bright patient in one of my rooms yesterday, and came to tell me about him: "His height is way up here [stretches up arm], but his IQ is waaay down here [hand about waist-high], bless his heart ..."

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Specializes in Peds Hem, Onc, Med/Surg.
Down here, we can say just about anything to anybody or about anybody, as long as we end it with "bless her heart..." Like:

"If it took her any longer to bathe a patient, she'd have to get a license for water therapy, bless her heart..."

"She's the worst nurse on the floor, and I wouldn't let her look after a dying cat, but she tries, bless her heart..."

"Dr. X thinks he's all that, but he couldn't diagnose a severed arm, he'd call it 'minor tissue damage', bless his heart."

Hey I am down here too. (Well not really, Florida. :D) I do hear it all the time. I tried to once it just sounded strange coming from me. :D

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Down here, we can say just about anything to anybody or about anybody, as long as we end it with "bless her heart..." Like:

"If it took her any longer to bathe a patient, she'd have to get a license for water therapy, bless her heart..."

"She's the worst nurse on the floor, and I wouldn't let her look after a dying cat, but she tries, bless her heart..."

"Dr. X thinks he's all that, but he couldn't diagnose a severed arm, he'd call it 'minor tissue damage', bless his heart."

OMG that is funny.

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