I work nights and we usually help each other out a lot. But there is one nurse who is constantly asking for help with everything you can imagine...to the point it gets others behind in their own work. She's always whining & complaining about her assignments even though we've told her we've had the same patients or have a similar assignment ourselves and we just have to accept it and do the best we can. It's to the point that another nurse & I have realized that on the nights we work with her, those are the nights that seem the most stressful.
She can be a very sweet person and fun to be around sometimes, but most of the time, she is a big annoyance and brings everyone down. Her excessive neediness and negative attitude about almost everything is wearing us down. She has been a nurse there longer than most of us and you would think by now, she would have gotten better about it.
Do you ever work with someone like this? If so, how do you handle it?
