Cute things manager's say

[Tweety]

Woke up this afternoon to a call from my manager....."can you attend a new computer class from 1-5 today before your 7pm to 7am shift? Or how about 8AM to 12noon inbetween 12 hour shifts tomorrow?"

:roll

My response...."umm....NO. Your poor planning is not my problem."

Children say the cutest things.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Originally posted by LarryG

Tweety -- You exaggerating here?

If not, when did your sup get the lobotomy?

I honestly wished I was. She must be on crack cocaine or something. :)

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

Here's a few more

I just need an RN in the building...you can sleep if you want

You can bring your kids in....(they are 4 and 2.5) I almost said yes and asked about my dog and sick grandma I was taking care of at the time:rolleyes:

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

As we say where I work..

BOHICA (Bow-hee-cah)

Bend over here it comes again

:roll :roll

[plumrn, BSN, RN]

If we ever say we're willing to come in occasionally when needed on our day off, that quickly means you will be getting a phone call @ 5 am every single day of your life. After being awakened at 5am every day of my life, I got very sleep deprived. (I find it difficult to go back to sleep after being awakened- I guess it's the guilt over not going in, and I'm working on that). So after awhile I asked them not to call me on my days off. I work a full time schedule, so don't feel guilty about telling them that. Somehow, laying there in the dark at 5 am after they call, and I turn them down, does a number on me though. Once, I called in because of nausea/vomiting with some kind of virus, and the supervisor told me they would get me some Phenergan suppositories if I would just come in!! I told them, no thanks.

[barefootlady, ADN, RN]

I can't count the times my ex-HN would rant in a staff meeting about "unacceptable overtime " for the staff only to come up to me (or one of the others) the next day and ask me to work an extra 4 or more hours. Sometimes I would and sometimes I would not.

Once I was counselled for being "tardy" when we had the blizzard a few years ago. I drove 45 miles one way, was an hour late, but made it to work, people who lived 5 or 10 blocks away and could have called the police for a ride DID NOT SHOW UP at all. After that incident I never put myself in harms way . If the weather was ice/snow and the emergency service of the state was telling people to stay off the roads, I stayed home.

I once had a patient who escaped and ran 3 blocks down the street with only the gown on and blood dripping from the IV site. I called security, and took off with the CNA after him. The charge nurse wrote me up for leaving the floor and the HN agreed with her. When I asked 'How were we supposed to get the patient back?" I was told we did not want him back. No forms to fill out. No police report, no family to call. Just let him go.

This HN also let a patient go into diabetic shock , she did not give the regular dose of insulin or the SS coverage. When the husband called for help, she was on the phone with hubby. After I got the patient straightened out, I spoke to her, and she told me she was just a fill in and did not know SHE was going to have to give the meds . She was waiting for the agency nurse to get there and take over. It was 09:30am and she had just made the call at 0900am.

I could tell a million of these stories about her. I guess the one that means the most is that I no longer have to work for her or see her in any way. Too bad other hard working staff can't say that.

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

I think my all time favourite was "I am sorry that your social life is so poor that you feel you have to stay back to get the work done. By the way could you go to (rural hospital) and give an inservice???"

At the time this was said to me my workload included co-ordinating and running, lecturing in writing exams for and doing clinical assessments and placements for a re-entry program, lectures for grad nurse programs, inservice in my own hospital, running mandatory cpr lectures for all staff and running a goverment funded ED skills aquisition program!!! Yeah I was just there because I had nowhere else to go.

[Totone656]

::::::::::::::::doing the happy dance:::::::::::::::::::

Bless each and everyone of you!!!!! I do not miss a Nurse Manager!!!!!!!!!! I do have a PCC, but her thing is, "Are ya done? Go on home. Be with your family."

In fact, today, we had an inservice (yes it was required) and did she get POd about our time?? Nope, not one little bit and we are now the "Icon" for other branches of the company I work for! She is a wonderful manager!

Sorry to tell ya'll we do not plan on sharing her with ANY other facility or company!

[CseMgr1, ASN, RN]

Originally posted by barefootlady

I once had a patient who escaped and ran 3 blocks down the street with only the gown on and blood dripping from the IV site. I called security, and took off with the CNA after him. The charge nurse wrote me up for leaving the floor and the HN agreed with her. When I asked 'How were we supposed to get the patient back?" I was told we did not want him back. No forms to fill out. No police report, no family to call. Just let him go.

The mentally of Management these days is so radiantly indifferent that I could puke. If you and your CNA hadn't gone after that man and something had happened to him, everyone would have been sued...including your sorry Charge and Head Nurse! What is wrong with people, these days??

[Town & Country]

Once, I called in because of nausea/vomiting with some kind of virus, and the supervisor told me they would get me some Phenergan suppositories if I would just come in!! I told them, no thanks.

Another RN I used to work with on a Med-Surg floor told me this: (and I know it's true) they wanted her to work one day she was off ~ she had no babysitter.

They said come on in and let your kids stay in the conference room while you work. Her kids were about ten and twelve.

Can you imagine?

[barefootlady, ADN, RN]

Thank you for realizing that I thought I was doing my job and doing it correctly. Rule #1. Do no harm to patient or allow patient to do harm to self or others if possible.

I spoke with one nurse I still keep in contact with on that unit and she told me some things that made me sick about what has happened since I left that place. I do thank God each and every day that he allowed me to get out of there "almost sane" and with my license intact.

[1 Leg Lance]

I absolutely compend each and everyone of you who refused such inane request.

I think it needs to go a step futher and explain (I do) to the person making the request WHY it is against your personal standards and hurts the industry.

Granted I am a CNA now (in a RN program) but I have already started "training" my AD's :)

The latest move was a "thought" to go to 1 CNA at night for 2 9 bed Med/Surg ICU's that were "connected by a short hall"....

Well I never refuse anything I just ask the AD that "felt me out about" to sit for a second....then I went into how I wasn't refusing as long as I was:

1) paid 2x as much for 2x as much work...

2) allowed to have input into a memo that would go out to the units explaining why I might not be as visible, on another pod after all...

3) was shown the cost savings to the unit or the redistribution of money to other needs in our units...

By this point she was glassy eyed and after making sure I had this same conversation with anyone else that would listen the idea had since been dropped :)

I really think we need to make a point as frontline healthcare workers to not only refuse silly ideas but clearly and strongly state why such things hurt our industry.

Enjoy,

1 leg lance

[CseMgr1, ASN, RN]

Originally posted by barefootlady

Thank you for realizing that I thought I was doing my job and doing it correctly. Rule #1. Do no harm to patient or allow patient to do harm to self or others if possible.

I spoke with one nurse I still keep in contact with on that unit and she told me some things that made me sick about what has happened since I left that place. I do thank God each and every day that he allowed me to get out of there "almost sane" and with my license intact.

Exactly. As a Certified Case Manager and Medical Management Nurse, I still work under those guidelines, too, and there was NO excuse for those two BOZOS you worked under for writing you up for following Standards and Practices of the Nurse Practice Act!