Describe your ideal coworker

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Hi everyone!

My New Years resolution is to be the coworker that I'd want to work with. What are somethings you like about some of your coworkers? What do you find helpful that they do? Do you enjoy coworkers that ask about your personal life or are you all business?

Thanks for the help! :)

There for ya , FAR.

*exchanges a glance with ya*

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It does not matter if you are all business, or best buds personally.

I want somebody that has my back, and know that I have theirs.

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I am still a new nurse (since June) so I do ask a lot of questions. I try not to follow people around like a puppy though. The other night I was drowning and my coworkers were great about helping. I always try to help others. What gets on my nerves is when people waste their own time and then don't get stuff done and then ask me to do their crap (the CNA telling me she needs me to take someone to the bathroom bc she is busy. I am busy too, but she sat at her computer and did Facebook and homework for a few hours). We do potluck dinners at work sometimes and that is great too. I don't like when people play Pandora or watch YouTube videos at their computers with the sound on. We work in a small space and I can hear everything. If I am trying to chart assessments I find it really annoying! Wear headphones people.

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Specializes in med-surg, IMC, school nursing, NICU.

If my coworker is female, I like her to wear hard soled shoes, let her hair flow and wear a full face of make-up. Men should have expensive watches and well oiled hair and dress like the cast of Mad Men.

Honestly though, my ideal coworker is someone who is a real team player, someone who WANTS to do their job, someone who is dependable (shows up on time, doesn't call out excessively) and someone who doesn't talk too much. It's funny because in my personal life I am very talkative but when I am at work, I want to focus on my job. Like others have said, small talk is fine but I worked a VERY calm night shift on a 2 nurse unit once with a nurse who-- I am not joking-- did not let more than 3 minutes pass without talking about her kid, her boyfriend, her mother, how hard it is to be a single mom, what she was eating for dinner, how early she wanted to get out after report... It was maddening. I couldn't take it. This was years ago and I still get annoyed just typing about it.

I love being alone in my office sometimes...

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Whats a COB?

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Hey Srercg,

I totally get what you are saying. Im kinda new too and consider myself to be more like A nurse than B nurse. I seen many older nurses turn out that way and it also depends on personality too. I do not believe education has anything to do with it. I hope and pray no matter how old of a nurse I get I never turn out like B nurse.

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I got to experience both recently. One nurse was extremely helpful - always understanding if I (new nurse) was still trying to get the hang of things, and was not ready to take on more tasks yet. If I had a question, she had no problem answering them. If she noticed something I had done was not finished, or done quite right - she would come to me and say "hey - did you notice. .. " and she did it in such a way that she didn't make me feel like the stupid new nurse, brought it to my attention, and gave me a heads up to correct it or finish it. . she had my back while I was learning - (had very little training)

Then on the flip side -there was the OTHER nurse - the one who always seemed to take over after my shift - and would search through every detail of what I did that day looking for any thing that she could make look like an "error" . Being new, of course, she found a couple - not serious - but she would run to the ADON and tell her about it - call the DON or the ADON cell. Once I gave her report, and told her I was STILL entering the orders for a pt, if she needed me. All of a sudden about 1/2 way through, I hear her on the phone behind me at the nurses station calling the doctor to verify whether an order was sublingual or ophthalmic - I was sitting right there - it was an order I had just worked on that had auto populated with the wrong option, and I didn't know it - but I heard what she was asking, and said "I'm right here! - why didn't you ask me, I would have told you" - but if she had done that -it would have robbed her of the opportunity to make herself look good for supposedly "catching an error", and me look bad because I didn't notice it had populated wrong. She could have said "hey - did you notice this went in as >>>" or "I was looking at this order YOU JUST entered -and saw it says . . ..did you mean for that to say that" - but no.

I also noticed that the nice nurse who was more than willing to help - was an RN =BSN. The nasty nurse was an LPN. I am an ASN-RN working on my BSN.

Some of the finest nurses I know are LPN's. Please don't get caught up re: someone's status. Yes, this particular one sounds catty, but look beyond the title. We are all living the life God has prescribed for us, I think.

Good that you spoke up. What was her response?

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I'm the same way! I am so talkative at home. But at work I'm trying to focus and prepare. It's so distracting and exhausting to keep up small talk for hours. I feel so guilty sometimes that I'm not more interested. But at the end of the day I'm there to care for patients and be a team player, not someone's work wife.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

Farawyn.

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Farawyn.

*cries*

I love you!

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

I also noticed that the nice nurse who was more than willing to help - was an RN =BSN. The nasty nurse was an LPN. I am an ASN-RN working on my BSN.

Explain what this has to do with how you were treated. I'm dying to know.

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Crusty Old Bat

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