Coworker rant!

[Sassy5d]

I honestly believe my coworkers make or break my shift.. And 99% of my dayshift crew are amazing..(I work mid morning to mid eve 12).

But something happens when those 7pm people come in.. And I can't exactly explain it. At first, I was taking it personal, but then I realized, that's just how they operate. It's a totally different world.

I'm really amazed that there are not more pt complaints. When my shift is over, I want to go. I have to hunt my replacement down.. I watch them sabotage each other and play games.. It seems like any pt that comes in or a squad coming in, is going to kill them to actually work..

How are the different shifts at your place? With my midshift, I work with both 7-7's..

[thelema13]

I have worked days, mids, nights. In my experience at the hospitals I have worked at, day shift seems a bit less team oriented, a bit more reliant on the techs, and have to watch their P's and Q's for the 'skirt nazis' as I call 'em = management, big wigs, whatever.

Mids are always chaotic.

Night shift seems more laid back, more team based, and less focused on delegating tasks because there is no one to delegate to. Night shift is a bit more self-reliant.

Days and nights are a different culture altogether. Make a Venn diagram and compare and contrast! I'm stuck on nights due to the camaraderie. Plus, I don't like the skirt nazis:)

[MassED, BSN, RN]

I didn't mean to 'pick' on 3rds. I was just venting.

I guess, at my place, I just notice the work avoiders seem to be bunched into 7pm'ers.

I walked out of work with my jaw on the floor.. I can't imagine what it's like to stomp around like an angry person all the time. And once again, snide comments 'cuz I didn't wrap my assignment up in a bow for my replacement

I work nights. I find that night shifters have to work together. Everyone has to pull their weight. We are cut by HALF in staffing from evenings to nights. No Phlebotomy, no EKG tech, of course no management, but also no CASE management, etc. It's definitely a sink or swim situation. If you can't hang, no one will want you around. We don't want to have to take on our neighbor's work load along with our own. There will always be the lazies, but I find there are more who gripe and have the time to whine on the day shift. Where, by the way, they often have morning breaks before their lunch breaks. Just sayin'.

[Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN]

We all know that work avoiders come on all shifts. I think the OP was just venting about her particular workplace.

In my last ED we had the Patient Hog. This is the nurse who takes more patients than they can keep up with, then relies on the other nurses in their zone to take up the slack, and yet when you offer to take a patient or two off their hands since you're doing the bulk of the care anyway, they refuse.

I also loved the Amazing Disappearing Nurse. This is the nurse who comes out and takes report, but then you find yourself managing the entire zone by yourself, because the Amazing Disappearing Nurse decided they just had to go with their bestie to "fill their water bottles", which takes a minimum of fifteen minutes, and of course they didn't tell you they were going anywhere because that would just spoil the mystery.

[Sassy5d]

We all know that work avoiders come on all shifts. I think the OP was just venting about her particular workplace.

In my last ED we had the Patient Hog. This is the nurse who takes more patients than they can keep up with, then relies on the other nurses in their zone to take up the slack, and yet when you offer to take a patient or two off their hands since you're doing the bulk of the care anyway, they refuse.

I also loved the Amazing Disappearing Nurse. This is the nurse who comes out and takes report, but then you find yourself managing the entire zone by yourself, because the Amazing Disappearing Nurse decided they just had to go with their bestie to "fill their water bottles", which takes a minimum of fifteen minutes, and of course they didn't tell you they were going anywhere because that would just spoil the mystery.

Lmbo!

Yes, the pt hog.. Although, there's also the pt hog sister, who fills up their assignment with all the minor walk in's, won't let you help them do anything, then they sit on the d/c's until the pt complains so they don't get another.

Or the the who is the exception to the rule.. Where everyone else is getting slammed and it's their turn for a new one and they yell and refuse so you have to give the pt to another nurse.

[Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN]

Patient Hog Lite and the Special Snowflake.

I'm really fortunate to be working with a great bunch where this type of stuff doesn't happen. Everybody pitches in, and if you're not busy at the moment, you enter orders, do interventions, discharge, etc other people's patients. The "That's Not My Patient" attitude does not fly. I had to shop around a bit to find this ED, and I interviewed at three different places, passing up the large Level 2 in the area and the smaller but busy ED that is only about a 20 minute commute, as opposed to the hour I drive to get to my job now. The long drive is totally worth the great work environment! Point being, not all EDs are like that!

[Sassy5d]

My crew is good. I don't have these peeps. I just noticed they seem to be 7p's. again, not knocking 3rd shifters. I worked it many years, I heard all the stories.

Last night, I watched a coworker running around, it wasn't her turn but the charge booked her a squad. The charge was reading a newspaper, the other extra staff was folding pt belonging bags couldn't be bothered. I went in to help.. I just shook my head..

[Sassy5d]

Ps- when a new grad tells you something, like they don't know how to give a soap suds enema... Don't tell them they do.