Giving report-rude nurse

[Blackcat99]

I have just started a new job as an LPN at an assisted living facility. I try to give report to the eve shift which consists of the LPN and the caregivers. Whenever I give report the eve shift nurse is rude and makes remarks like "Oh I wouldn't have done that. You should have done this or that instead. etc. etc. etc." I am worried that all the caregivers are going to think I am totally incompetent and I'm not. I am an experienced LPN. If you were in my situation what would you tell this rude nurse during report? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[Blackcat99]

Thanks all. I lucked out yesterday when I gave report. She seemed to be preoccupied and didn't bug me for a change. I really appreciate all of these great suggestions. I'm not sure which ones I'm going to try yet but you all sure came up with some great ideas!!!!:monkeydance:

[clee1]

I HAVE said (on a few occasions) to day shift: "Well, that's great and all... but the situation is different at night - and if you want to make all the nursing judgments, you should work 24/7. It's MY shift and MY license; I'll do it MY way as long as it doesn't violate P&P and safe pt care."

That generally shuts them right up.

[flashpoint]

I work with a nurse who is rude, but more than that, she is just downright mean! Before I can give her report, she insists on getting things like assignment sheets for the next day, consult sheets for the next day's appointments, and chart review forms out of the file cabinet...this is all stuff that she doesn't take care of until after 2200, but she will not take report until she has the forms in front of her. I started getting them out for her before she arrives, so that is taken care of. Besides that, she interrupts report with questions like, "Where does her daughter work?" and "Isn't she the one who sued the hospital last year?" I don't know...I don't live there...I don't know anyone except the people at the facility and the people at the gas station. She also gets upset if she doesn't have enough "detail." One of our residents went to the eye doctor and was asked to bring a pillow for his back to his follow up appointment. She was upset becasue we didn't know what kind of pillow and what part of his back and why the doctor's office didn't have their own pillow. She also gets angry if she has to give 1 unit of insulin per sliding scale or if she has to give too many suppositories in the morning or if someone gets more pain meds than she thinks they need. And...since we have to check our MARs for missed signatures at the end of the shift, she signs everything for her shift while we check for mine...it takes twice as long and we all know you aren't supposed to pre-chart.

There is really no point to my rant here, is there?

Thanks for letting me vent!

:)

[Laughs-a-lot, RN]

With people like this....I keep keep talking, and talking and talking. I go into very lengthy detailed explanations about why I did what I did the way I did....

Very soon they are eager to get away from me .....[/

Very true, we have one of those that floats to our floor every so often and everybody thinks that she is the most annoying person, and the one nurse that I work with every so often will totally keep giving report as if she didn't even ask a question. Chances are the other staff see this and talks about how annoying she is also. They have to work with her.:banghead:

[Laughs-a-lot, RN]

Tell her that you actually do have a life after you give her report and that she can get her forms ready after you leave. Of course I being shy and non-confrontational would just come here and talk about it or discuss with co-worker on the way through the parking lot.

[so339]

I'd tell her to go *&^% herself and find abother job, but that is a male nurse talking. SNF's or extended care facilities are where LPN's make their money and are needed most, hence that is why you work in them. Your only other alternative would be Dr.'s offices, but you know that already. I can tell you that the further you get away from the acute care setting, the less it is about nursing and the more it is babysitting and you lose your skills to boot. I will also tell you that SNF's and ALF's end up being where all the nasty, lazy, incompetent nurses end up. They get in there like headless nails who cannot be fired, and your job security ends up being not how good of a nurse you are, but how much they like or don't like you. Transition to RN, get into acute care somewhere, or go work for a nice physician's office with your LPN, ,but get out of the SNF scene if you want to get away from this bad behavior that goes unchecked by management.