What would you think if a professional RN with a bachelor's degree in nursing who is in an upper level position in the workplace and who is even going to graduate school would eat her lunch with her hands, claiming metal utensils made her cringe and plastic is not always available? I'm talking about eating lasagna, mashed potatos, salad, dessert, etc. with her fingers, taking fingerfuls or using her fingers/hands to take the food and cram in her mouth, and it doesn't matter who is around, patients, family and visitors, the administrator...she acts oblivious to it all. Would you find this disturbing?
and on a serious note.. why are some of you so gosh damn quick to attack someone? calling them trolls and what not? it's time to wake up and realize that your crap really does stink and GROW UP
In one of her other threads about this coworker, she said she believed she had histrionic personality disorder because that's what she gossiped about with her other coworkers. I suggested something else more mundane, but that was just not an option to consider. It was a witch hunt against this nurse because she was different than the OP but admittedly still a really good nurse.
So, Idontknowbetter, you really don't know better.
OP has a pattern of informing us of her dislike of one or more of her coworkers, which is of course her perogative. However, the tone and language of these threads repeatedly indicates either serious dissatisfaction with her job and/or career ... or a troll-like, unprofessional, juvenille, mean-spirited need to dissect the personal qualities of others.
After reading through some of that, this has to be a troll.
There's no way those instances would take place with the same nurse and not get them fired.
1. If the post is indeed a real reflection of this person's behavior, I have to agree that it is not appropriate social behavior. 2. That said, I am wondering about the background of this individual. Certain behaviors such as food hording, shoving food in mouth with fingers, gagging and choking due to amount of food shoved in, and other oral behaviors or fixations can develop when someone has been abused and/or severely neglected. This can take many forms. P.S. I did not read the OP's previous posts, or have forgotten them if i did, just wanted to weigh in from a different angle.
Um, It is one thing to eat like that when you have NO other options (camping, lost in the woods as examples) but if you have access to some kind of utensil..... Eww!
Baloney Amputation, BSN, LPN, RN
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In one of her other threads about this coworker, she said she believed she had histrionic personality disorder because that's what she gossiped about with her other coworkers. I suggested something else more mundane, but that was just not an option to consider. It was a witch hunt against this nurse because she was different than the OP but admittedly still a really good nurse.
So, Idontknowbetter, you really don't know better.