How to spot a bad nurse

[Emergent, RN]

How to spot a bad nurse before it's too late

Thoughts?

 

[Jedrnurse, BSN, RN]

Here's one thing-

They manage to (always) have a leisurely breakfast in the breakroom after report instead of hitting the ground running...

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

1 hour ago, Emergent said:

How to spot a bad nurse before it's too late

Thoughts?

 

I take an article written by a doctor about nurses with a grain of salt. I don't know of very many health care environments where a doctor is directly interviewing or hiring nurses. 

I think many of Dr. Gray's observations could be said about just about anyone, including doctors. 

[JBMmom, MSN, NP]

The ability to spot a bad nurse is something that all doctors (or human resource staff members) should learn to do. By paying close attention to the warning signs and taking quick, appropriate action, you can keep your patients safe and save yourself and your co-workers a whole lot of aggravation. (Quoted from the article)

 

The thing that makes me laugh about this article is that OTHER NURSES are usually the most able to spot one of these bad nurses. In fact, we're on boards like this one regularly, talking about how we're stuck with these nurses as awful coworkers because no one will do anything about them. This doctor makes it sound like doctors and HR personnel are actually involved with the staffing of nursing environments. I'm not sure where this doctor works, I went back through a couple articles he wrote and it didn't specify his position. In my hospital, the doctors have zero involvement in the hiring of nurses or staffing the unit. We've had a couple nurses that doctors have gone to my manager with complaints, but they're still there. 

And the article itself is so generic it could be written about people in almost any field. Job hopping, bad attitude, shirking responsibilities, overwhelmed, who wants that person as coworker anywhere? Not sure why that article was even worth writing. 

[Davey Do]

I liked and agree with your entire post, nursej, but this stood out to me:

32 minutes ago, nursej22 said:

I don't know of very many health care environments where a doctor is directly interviewing or hiring nurses. 

In one NS position I was interviewed and hired on the spot by a physician, the medical director, was for naught. The HR director informed me that the doctor did not have the final say, the final say belonged to she and the administrator. 

Bogie!

[ThePrincessBride, MSN, RN, NP]

Job hopping nowadays is an absolute necessity to keep your raises above inflation. 

My man was at a job for a little over a year and got another job that instantly increased his pay by about 25 percent. His previous job prior to that was about 2.5 to 3 years (not sure of the raise, but got a decent bump). 

Stayed at that job for not quite five years and hopped again recently (and once you get to a certain level, 5 years or less is more or less job hopping) and got a 40k year raise with 20 percent bonus potential (so all and all, 80k/year raise).

Me? I have been in my field for seven years and my pay barely kept up with inflation and I only make $9 and some change more than I did seven years ago. I should have job hopped MORE.

I work for the government and salaries are posted...it is amazing how screwed over some people are, they don't even realize it. 

[HiddenAngels]

I agree. This could be said about any position. We need nurse specific Dr gray

-How about they try to hurry and give you report knowing their patient is in distress.

-Orders from hours ago have been acknowledged but not done.

Im not talking about occasional misses I’m talking about the repeat offenders you NEVER want to get report from.

[Googlenurse, ASN, BSN, RN]

In his article on what makes a nurse good,he said nurses must have an extroverted nature. I disagree with that one.

[Davey Do]

When debating or arguing, to merely disagree with a premise without supporting facts is merely an opinion. Opinions are often based on emotions which are arguably illogical

And, as they say, opinions are like orificees.

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

If they say they cant drink cold coffee, they're new or a bad nurse.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Is Dr Grey a 'good' doctor or a 'bad' doctor?

[CommunityRNBSN, BSN, RN]

I'm a little testy because I had a situation at work today.  And that's why #4, "ignoring protocols," annoyed me.  Who was it telling me to ignore protocols today?  Hint: it wasn't a nurse...