Behaviors you've learned to lose when at work.

[nola1202]

I'm full of questions lately. What behaviors had you really had to work on stopping (before it gets you in trouble) at work. I still battle mine. Meetings just seem to bring out the adolescent in me. I want to roll my eyes when I hear some of the new rulings passed down from above. I especially have a hard time with the latest business expressions...as in "raising the bar" or "action plan" or "huddles" (like football) (I like the actual result, small quick group meet/plan and off we go" But still honestly!!! The other is wanting to crack jokes about those cheezy training video's and anything else that passes me by. Life can just be so funny, but now I try to keep my observations and comments to myself..that's why I smile so much!

[leslie :-D]

but I guess it's not all that appropriate to belt out a Merman tune in the middle of the hallway!

ha!

i like to sing sinatra's, my way...

including the instrumentation towards the end of the song.

also fiddler on the roof, mame...just broadway songs.

(and sometimes singing into my pen)

leslie

[33762FL]

sarcasm

naughty language

dark humor

political humor

World of Warcraft references

LOL'ing at religious proclamations/anything superstitious

[focusedvalpn]

Be overly honest! I feel like if it doesn't make sense then it doesn't make sense. Oh and if you ask me to do the impossible and you ask if I can do it ummm I'm gonna say no or not now or not today but I'll get it done but I get the face.

Working on controling my facial expressions even when I try if I'm pved it shows.... Oh I'm trying not tell people they are doing incredibly stupid things that they are are killing me or making my job hard I've offered to help but when my pt keeps getting skin tears I educate, say to come ask for help if they need it) or giving them that look .....

I promise my coworkers love me I'm not a pain but a work in progress they know me and laugh at me when the don looks at me like u really just said u can't stand on your head, put in a foley, and start 6 ivs, and start the feeding in the room I just left with the bottles there.... She just wanted to make sure I knew it was 30min before I ran out .. really is all I could say???

Oh and I'm tryin to tame my sarcasm

[wooh, BSN, RN]

Telling people exactly what I think of them

Telling people who aggravate me to buzz off

at ridiculous requests

Curbing my sarcasm

Curling up in a corner with my legs curled up beneath me...sucking my thumb and mumbling incoherently.

And no, I am not trying to win any gold stars or employee of the year award.

Do we share a brain?

[Cuddleswithpuddles]

I started out in nursing when I was 19. I didn't care too much about body mechanics or proper shoes. Ohhhh boy did that change quickly when I developed sciatica and plantar fasciitis at the tender age of 21.

I also learned that I need sleep. More than 5 hours. Revolutionary, huh?

[JeneraterRN]

ha!

i like to sing sinatra's, my way...

including the instrumentation towards the end of the song.

also fiddler on the roof, mame...just broadway songs.

(and sometimes singing into my pen)

leslie

Goodness, I'm glad I'm not the only one. In another life, I trained to be a musical performer, and chose stability instead (nursing). All that music is penned up inside, and occasionally slips out. When I'm irritated, it's "The Lord High Executioner," from the Mikado.

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

Talking politics.

Off-the-cuff jokes. My odd sense of humor has gotten me in trouble more than once. I still joke around, but I'm very careful about it.

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

My odd sense of humor has gotten me in trouble more than once. I still joke around, but I'm very careful about it.

Same here. I'm apt to laugh at some of the most absurd---and sometimes inappropriate---situations, and I have had to seriously curb that.

Calling things "hoojaflobbets" and "dooflotchie" instead of using the proper name for the object I'm referring to. This is most likely to occur when I've forgotten for a moment what it's called.

Forgetting things, period. I've become the Sticky Note Queen in later years because I just can't remember small details anymore. It's like the mesh of my brain has gotten wider over the years and lets the little things slip through; my computer desk, therefore, is literally a collage of multicolored Post-Its. They remind me to take out Mrs. A's catheter tomorrow.......update the care plan for Sallie who just got back from the hospital......recheck the diabetic records and fax the results to the residents' physicians......pick up the dog at the vet's on the way home. I don't know what I'd do if those little sticky notes had never been invented---write my reminders on TP?

[TriciaJ, RN]

Trying to get everyone else to be perfect or at least as much of a perfectionist that I am. Dressings look sloppy, IV tubing expired and hanging everywhere, things not done per P&P, orders not followed, information not passed on in report...it all makes me want to scream and pull my hair out.

That kind of thing makes me want to scream and pull other people's hair out.

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

I'm not one to hide my feelings very well...and I don't care. Co-workers who annoy me, I tell them how I feel. However, they get the watered down version. If only I could really express my exact thoughts to those people...but then, I'd get fired So I've learned to hold my tongue.

[Shazoom]

Swearing.......................... Like holy hell is it hard to keep my mouth shut in general conversation. Not like angry grrrrrr kinda swearing but like "hay man hows your ******* day going?" "awww kinda ******"

Working in a steel mill will do that to you lol.

[Shazoom]

sarcasm

naughty language

dark humor

political humor

World of Warcraft references

LOL'ing at religious proclamations/anything superstitious

This ones my hero.