i hate to say anything bad about a fellow nurse, but i work with an incompetent nurse. i watch her and listen to her "stories" about why she is doing something and i just cannot believe she was passed through nursing school. to make it even worse she has the personality that does not know how to say "i don't know" so she makes up crazy stories. i thought maybe i was exaggerating her story telling but one day i made up a disease process and she actually started talking about it as if she sees it all the time. aaaahhh! i really do not know how to handle this. i watch her access ports without any caution to sterile technique, give wrong patient education and lie to the don about medication she had given during the day. i reported what i have been seeing to the don, but i felt like a total a**! there was no way i am going to let her harm patients. when i am with her i feel like i have to watch her every second in case she does something stupid and then tries to hide it.
has anyone else had to deal with something like this?
No, I don't believe the OP is "acting out" I think that she is just frustrated and scared (like I would be) to be working with someone like this. I think, it must feel like working with someone who is waving around a loaded gun like it's a toy. Once you gauge someone has some "issues" you become fearful to have them around dangerous things... meds, sharps, patients! You feel that somehow you will end up in the crossfire.
Of course OP, you have good assessment skills, but sometimes don't ya find that whenever you do a little "mental status" test on others and come up with "positive for wacko" results, all it serves is to make you feel like you need xanax?
netglow, ASN, RN
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No, I don't believe the OP is "acting out" I think that she is just frustrated and scared (like I would be) to be working with someone like this. I think, it must feel like working with someone who is waving around a loaded gun like it's a toy. Once you gauge someone has some "issues" you become fearful to have them around dangerous things... meds, sharps, patients! You feel that somehow you will end up in the crossfire.
Of course OP, you have good assessment skills, but sometimes don't ya find that whenever you do a little "mental status" test on others and come up with "positive for wacko" results, all it serves is to make you feel like you need xanax?