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?
woooooo.......the title of this thread just made me get strangled on my coffee........fits it well lol...however, Id just pick a different spot to eat at if its that bad. we have an aide who actually SLURPS on her drinks and smacks her lips when she eats...it irritates me.....and this will sound so gross or whatever...but every single time I hear her do that at work...it sounds like a Mediao movie....a really bad one at that. cant stand it but to each his own.
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
=AR2010;4134823]. . . To make matters worse, she has complained about other co workers eating habits. She has no idea how she looks when she is eating, food particles flying, she's talking as if its nothing. Its a shame because our breakroom is small, and there is literally nowhere to go to enjoy your food. When I see her coming, Im like $%^t!!!! Guess I wont be able to enjoy my lunch.
Sounds like the Gallagher Sledge-O-Matic! (a comedian who did a very juvenile yet completely hilarious comedy bit where he would lay various food items on a butcher block and pulverize them with a sledge hammer). The first few rows of the audience brought clear plastic drop cloths they would hold up when the food came a-flyin'. Perhaps you should consider the same.
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.
The OP just might be a troll, but I have seen things in the LTC environment that are just truly beyond belief. People getting away with stuff that is unreal. If I posted half of what I've seen I'm sure I would get labeled a troll too.
The OP just might be a troll, but I have seen things in the LTC environment that are just truly beyond belief. People getting away with stuff that is unreal. If I posted half of what I've seen I'm sure I would get labeled a troll too.
You wouldn't be called a troll if you posted the stuff you've seen, unless you post a nonsense post about a coworker every week or so.
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
Yeah, so far she causes scenes in the hallway, did some sort of inappropriate dance in a patient's room, has histrionic personality disorder, confronted an enraged abusive man in the parking lot (OP worried enraged man might call the facility to complain), draws elves and fairies on her papers, wears Doc Marten shoes with long flowing skirts, hugged a co-worker, and swears alot. Now, apparently she also eats like a cave-woman.
However, supposedly she is very nice, the patients love her, she's doing well in an NP program, she helps the staff nurses when they need it and management always sticks up for her.
I gave up trying to figure this out somewhere around the 1st of February.
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?
I'd think she has a sensory issue with metal utensils. I don't know that I'd find it disturbing, more likely I'd feel embarrassed and sorry for her and would keep a stash of plastic to give her.
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woooooo.......the title of this thread just made me get strangled on my coffee........fits it well lol...however, Id just pick a different spot to eat at if its that bad. we have an aide who actually SLURPS on her drinks and smacks her lips when she eats...it irritates me.....and this will sound so gross or whatever...but every single time I hear her do that at work...it sounds like a Mediao movie....a really bad one at that. cant stand it but to each his own.