Describe your ideal coworker

~Shrek~ · Feb 26, 2016

Crusty Old Bat

I didn't know that this was a mean term, I thought it was a term used in jest by older people joking about their age!

Farawyn · Feb 26, 2016

I didn't know that this was a mean term, I thought it was a term used in jest by older people joking about their age!

It's not a mean term.

Have you ever worked with a nurse over a certain age that knows everything and who can wither a doctor with just a look, while winning over her patients?

That's a COB.

CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN · Feb 26, 2016

This is a great question! I'd love to use this at our next nurses/ CNA meeting. Would be an interesting exercise. Maybe have everyone write a few key points and put in a box and pull them out. Moral is so low where I am.

I want to work with some one that really truly cares about the patients we take care of. You don't have to like them personally, but care enough to do you job and not treat them like a room number (I work SNF/ LTC)

I want to work with someone that is a team player and realizes that we are there 24/7 and each shift has a role.

I want to work with someone that isn't afraid to ask for help and give me help.

I want to work with someone that isn't afraid to laugh.

I want to work with someone that will tell me what the correct spelling is for diarrhea and will also tell me how to chart about this one weird wound (I'm thankful for my coworker that does this :))

I want to supervise staff that want to do their jobs. I was spoiled for years with an awesome staff. Before I could delegate things, they were done, they came to me and told me what I needed to know before I even knew I needed to know it

:yes:

BerryhappyRN, MSN, RN · Feb 27, 2016

Please let me vent about pts/families/mgmt/scheduling/protocol/P&P's/etc without sharing it with other staff members!

Thanks for letting me vent!