Favoritism- And Why It's Always Not A Good Thing

[NTechTruth]

For the past three weeks, I've been getting the same nurse at work. You see, this nurse always wants me every time we work on the same shift. I feel she always makes sure that she has me with her assignment by telling the charge nurse. She even told me this on the last shift we worked on together.

It's getting old to me now.

Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate the kind words she says, and her always wanting to work with me, but working with the same person over and over again is starting to bug me. What's worse is that when I'm with this nurse, I do most of the work because this nurse rarely helps. And when she does help, it's always complaint after complaint after complaint. And most of the time she does complain.

Not that I have a problem with doing most of the work, it's just that I need a refresh once in a while. We all do.

And when Favoritism comes in, sometimes it' not always good. It feels like I'm trapped with the same person. Honestly, I'm just tired of not just her, but other nurses doing the same thing. They always want that certain person.

Believe me, I'm guilty of this as well, and I used to act like this in the past, and sometimes I cringe when I get a certain nurse I don't want to work with, but now I learned that you always can't work with the people you want to work with. There's people I'll admit I don't want to work with, but I deal with it. Why, because I have a job to do, and I don't have time being best friends with my co-workers at work. I do get along with people, but at the end of the day, I clock out, get paid, and go home.

And when that favoritism happens, certain people get upset because they feel they aren't worth anything to them, no matter how hard they try. They feel that drift of space, like someone is targeting them for some unknown reason. It's wrong, and it should not be in the workplace. Especially in nursing.

Just recently, a CNA I know well was at my work place for a few months. And you know what happened? She felt like no one at work was giving respect to her. She felt like they were targeting her, while everyone else protected each other. At first, she didn't care, but then it got to a point when she just had enough, and told the manager. Now, the manager is investigating it, because she told me that it's been going on a lot on my floor! Not just her, but other people as well. Now she is going to have a talk with the nurses and the CNAs to see what can be done about it.

I understand that there's only a few people that work harder than others. I can vouch for myself, because mostly everyone tells me how hard of a worker I am. And that's why that nurse wants me badly every time we work together. But she needs to understand that I always can't work with her.

Get over it people. We have a job to do. No matter how good or bad a CNA, or a Nurse is, we have to take care of the patients. That's what we need to do when we are at work. Be a team, put all the favoritism aside, and make sure the patients are taken care of. Would it be nice if everyone was a hard worker, YES. But that's not always the case. There will always be that one person or persons who ruin it and thus there is much division involved.

[Q631]

I know exactly what you mean. For me, I'm the favorite floater to a certain unit, so much so that I'm basically a permanent aid on that unit even though part-time employees are supposed to be floaters, not regulars. When I am not assigned to that unit it's unusual, and 9/10 times they'll call me back up to the unit within the first two hours and float someone else to replace me.

It's because i'm the only one that answer the bells, doesn't hide, doesn't give nurses an attitude, doesn't complain, etc. Sucks to be the only one that isn't lazy? Idk, I refuse to stoop to the work ethic of some of my coworkers....