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!

[diva rn, BSN, RN]

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?

Oh my gosh, I actually use that word...if that's a word...dooflotchie...I have used it since I was a little girl...my mother always used it and still does...how funny, I thought it was something she made up:)

And I also have an extensive Broadway show tune repertoire...I am considering "taking it on the road"...and I am sure everyone else wants me to keep it on the road:D

[AusRN]

Calling everything a "thingy".

Swearing when hurting myself.

Being too loud.

[TonyaM73, ASN, RN]

Being too talkative and sometimes (expecially when stressed or upset about something) letting everything that comes into my head escape out of my mouth. I keep trying to remind myself that everything in the noggin does not have to land on my teeth, but it is a hard habbit to break!

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Sleeping at night.

[ChristineN, BSN, RN]

Swearing constantly

Being soft-spoken and more passive. While I am not assertive outside of work, nurses who are not assertive about their pt's needs annoy me I hate coming on and seeing a vital sign or lab value that obviously needs attention from hours before and asking the nurse why she didn't address it with the dr only to hear "well I figured he'd see it himself, what was I going to do, etc" Nursing has totally made me way more assertive

I've gotten rid of a weak stomach too. You only gag once from c-diff before you learn how to deal with it.

[Cat_RN, ASN, BSN, 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.

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I really need some coping skills for dealing with these types of things as it drives me crazy. I don't know why it bothers me so what other people do..

[LouisVRN, RN]

THIS ^THIS ^THIS!

I really need some coping skills for dealing with these types of things as it drives me crazy. I don't know why it bothers me so what other people do..

Yeah, it should be that as long as the job is done with the minimal standards necessary to make it safe to the patient it should be okay. But like for a sterile dressing change, if I come in and its all funky looking and wadded up with an entire roll of tape on it, I immediately start questioning the entire technique. To me things like that should show how much pride you take in your job. Not following policy and procedure for relative minor things (for example, our policy dictates electrolyte infusions need to be infused as a guardrail medication NOT as a secondary ) if I come in and see a Magnesium Sulfate bag hung as a secondary I immediately start questioning your knowledge on everything else and start wondering what else could have happened that I don't know about that could effect my patient. I know I should have more confidence in my co-workers, but sadly with some of the things I've seen I just don't.

[leslie :-D]

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.

ha!

one time i sang (as a hospice nurse), queen's 'another one bites the dust.

i was stressed and that was how i coped.

my boss heard me sing it and her stare told me to never, ever, ever do that again.

leslie

[Cat_RN, ASN, BSN, RN]

Yeah, it should be that as long as the job is done with the minimal standards necessary to make it safe to the patient it should be okay. But like for a sterile dressing change, if I come in and its all funky looking and wadded up with an entire roll of tape on it, I immediately start questioning the entire technique. To me things like that should show how much pride you take in your job. Not following policy and procedure for relative minor things (for example, our policy dictates electrolyte infusions need to be infused as a guardrail medication NOT as a secondary ) if I come in and see a Magnesium Sulfate bag hung as a secondary I immediately start questioning your knowledge on everything else and start wondering what else could have happened that I don't know about that could effect my patient. I know I should have more confidence in my co-workers, but sadly with some of the things I've seen I just don't.

Yes it's this kind of sloppiness/carelessness that makes the conscientious nurses' jobs harder. We have to constantly fix messes. I think that is where the resentment comes from.

[N.U.R.S.E.]

Learning good time management skills talking too much way too opinionated disorganization drives me crazy

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

I have major resting b****face. I don't even know I'm making it but I've had coworkers ask what's wrong or confess that when they first met me they thought I was always about to yell at them. But it's just my thinking expression. I try to keep a more Muldoon expression but I usually don't even know I'm making the face.

[JeneraterRN]

ha!

one time i sang (as a hospice nurse), queen's 'another one bites the dust.

i was stressed and that was how i coped.

my boss heard me sing it and her stare told me to never, ever, ever do that again.

leslie

Ha ha! Talk about timing! The one time I was caught singing about the lord high executioner and all of those who surely wont be missed was by the one person in the hospital who was familiar with Gilbert and Sullivan. He was glad he wasn't on the list.