Daily Rant Thread

Supervisor: "Let me know if there is anything you need."

Nurse: "I need a Dinamap in the building for orthostatic vitals and medical emergencies"

Supervisor: "Wrongway Medical Clinic (thanks Davey!) prefers manual blood pressures".

Nurse realizes Wrongway just doesn't want to spend the money.

10 minutes ago, 2BS Nurse said:

Supervisor: "Let me know if there is anything you need."

Nurse: "I need a Dinamap in the building for orthostatic vitals and medical emergencies"

Supervisor: "Wrongway Medical Clinic (thanks Davey!) prefers manual blood pressures".

Nurse realizes Wrongway just doesn't want to spend the money.

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On 3/31/2022 at 4:46 AM, Raven Sierra said:

My contribution: Few phrases will elicit a string of muttered profanity and an eye roll from me like "This patient is a VIP." 

I'm offended by very little in life, but that phrase absolutely offends me on multiple levels.

I treat VIPs the same way I treat everyone else, with kindness and respect. If someone else wants to bend over backwards, have at it. I just roll my eyes whenever we have a “VIP.” 

I work outpatient, so we don't have assigned patients.  There are about six nurses and we all just do tasks as needed.  One of the nurses does not do anything.  And I mean, I am not exaggerating or speaking in hyperbole.  I mean, she does not do any work.  When providers ask/tell her to do things, she says no.  If she receives an electronic message, she forwards it to me or another nurse.

The clinic I work at is a zoo, and in three years, we have had seven nurse managers.  Each one takes a few months to realize that Nurse isn't doing anything. Then they leave.  Then a new manager comes in and it starts over.  (Yes, it's hard to believe, because disciplinary actions should obviously carry over from one manager to the next.  I have no explanation for any of this.)

On 4/2/2022 at 1:11 PM, amoLucia said:

Toilet paper was a priority locked-up item and we didn't have a key for hskpg supplies. And same went for lightbulbs.

Also, any housekeeping supplies, including rags, were kept under lock and key. If a bodily fluid needed to be cleaned up, the nursing staff was required to clean up any solid matter, and then housekeeping would mop the floor. And it was absolutely forbidden to use any towel or facecloth to clean. I once had a brown river of liquid feces that extended from the side of the bed, around past the foot of same bed and  into the bathroom. The CNA was fearful that we were going to clean it up with paper towels. Oh no, my friend. You see all this bath blankets stacked in that chair? They mysteriously are going open themselves up, fall , cover and soak up that mess. 

j22 - my approach also!

But I got'cha all beat. One place had its emergency eye wash stations located in the hskpg closets. Which of course were locked for the off-shifts.

I got them to see the folly of their ways!  (PUN intended)

"You are a......

"hero"

"angel"

"the best nurse"

whatever else falsely superlative.

It's patronizing and insulting. And it means absolutely nothing.

2 hours ago, SmilingBluEyes said:

"You are a......

"hero"

"angel"

"the best nurse"

whatever else falsely superlative.

It's patronizing and insulting. And it means absolutely nothing.

Absolutely Nothing!   But I wish this were wrong .

TBF, it means more coming from my patients.

Text from Unit Scheduler reads: "Can you work 4/5 instead of 4/7, just a swap?"

Me: "Sure." 

facebook post to unit page approximately 30 minutes later from said Unit Scheduler: "Bonus pay approved for any RN willing to work 4/5 after you've put in your FT hours."

?W.T.F. ?

You've got to be kidding me, how rude!? Of course, I'm not eligible because I just allowed myself to be moved for absolutely NO incentive to said shift where I could have otherwise made the rarely offered RN bonus pay for picking up ?

1 hour ago, K. Everly said:

Text from Unit Scheduler reads: "Can you work 4/5 instead of 4/7, just a swap?"

Me: "Sure." 

facebook post to unit page approximately 30 minutes later from said Unit Scheduler: "Bonus pay approved for any RN willing to work 4/5 after you've put in your FT hours."

?W.T.F. ?

You've got to be kidding me, how rude!? Of course, I'm not eligible because I just allowed myself to be moved for absolutely NO incentive to said shift where I could have otherwise made the rarely offered RN bonus pay for picking up ?

OMG

56 minutes ago, CommunityRNBSN said:

OMG

I'm a brand new RN & this really upsets me! I was like "am I right to find this frustrating or is this just another thing that is 'normal' for his profession?" 

How can I ensure this doesn't happen again - any advice? 

I posted the question here more specifically if you wouldn't mind responding: