Late for report

DADENTY · Mar 25, 2006

This is also my personal pet peeve. I come to work on time (actually 15 to 30 min before, you know to socialize) and yet there are others who walk in at 7:05 or later. This is not a one time deal some are always late. People listen the tape starts at 7:00! When we have to wait for you to get there, take off your coat, get your coffee and your pens, put your lunch away..... well its anoying! I made off hand comments to some of the chronically late people and it has helped. Its a respect issue, if you are 5 - 10 min late everyday, then maybe you need to get up a few minutes earlier. That being said I know some people (my mother is one of them) who will be late for their own funeral, and thats just life, I am not going to work myself up over it. I will just talk the extra minutes to socialize with the off going shift.

TazziRN, RN · Mar 25, 2006

Before you say anything, i:30s the day shift ever late like that? Not you personally, but the shift in general? If yes, you don't really have a leg to stand on. If no, then come 11:30 I would tell the nurse relieving you, "Let me give you report, let's sit over here." I'd wait until you're off preceptorship, though. What does your preceptor think about this? If she's easy to talk to, try asking her about it.

Hoozdo, ADN · Mar 25, 2006

Before you say anything, i:30s the day shift ever late like that? Not you personally, but the shift in general? If yes, you don't really have a leg to stand on. If no, then come 11:30 I would tell the nurse relieving you, "Let me give you report, let's sit over here." I'd wait until you're off preceptorship, though. What does your preceptor think about this? If she's easy to talk to, try asking her about it.

The shift that starts at 11:30 AM is not late, with one exception - and it is my preceptor :madface: She is consistently 15 or 20 minutes late. Starting on my next shift I am just going to take report on "our" two patients at the proper time and she will just have to miss report I guess. Maybe that is overstepping my boundaries at this time, I don't know. But I don't like to wait 15 or 20 minutes after my shift starts to wait for her and get report.

She is the type of person who won't say a bad word about anyone and I can't ask her why the oncoming shift is always late because she is late herself! I did comment the other night at 11:50 PM - "where is our relief" and she did not say one word.

This chronic lateness is for the birds..... Do you all think I have blown this out of proportion? I am not going to make a big deal out of till I am off of orientations - that's for sure.

meownsmile, BSN, RN · Mar 25, 2006

Exactly why we do taped reports. You can tape an hour before the end of your shift, let the oncoming go listen to report and you can move on as soon as they get there. If they choose to be 20 min late, then it just puts them behind because I can leave, 20 min overtime, if they come to me about it i guess i can redirect their questions to whoever is 20 min late.

If anything comes up after weve taped report we give a quick verbal update before we leave and thats it.

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Mar 25, 2006

The morning shift is always late on duty and one RN comes in at 7.15 consistantly, it really makes me cross-no apologies nothing.

fergus51 · Mar 26, 2006

Day shift was notorious for this at my old place. I will say something. I show up on time or early, I expect them to as well. You are paid to be there at 700 getting report, not 715, not 720, not 705, not even 702. I've often just gone up to interupt the socializing to get my relief. I just say "Do you mind if I just give you report before you guys get into the chatting, I'm really eager to go to sleep?".

I wouldn't say anything if I was you though (if you were keeping them late in the morning because of your preceptor being late).

sharann, BSN, RN · Mar 26, 2006

I would find the shift Charge RN and tell them you need to give them report now since the incoming nurse isn't available. I bet it stops.

mariedoreen · Mar 26, 2006

I would wait patiently until they were good and ready to receive report from me. I would give it and whenever I ran past my scheduled shift I would claim overtime. When someone came to ask me about my overtime I would explain why I was being forced to work late.

hrtprncss · Mar 26, 2006

The shift that starts at 11:30 AM is not late, with one exception - and it is my preceptor She is consistently 15 or 20 minutes late. Starting on my next shift I am just going to take report on "our" two patients at the proper time and she will just have to miss report I guess. Maybe that is overstepping my boundaries at this time, I don't know. But I don't like to wait 15 or 20 minutes after my shift starts to wait for her and get report.
She is the type of person who won't say a bad word about anyone and I can't ask her why the oncoming shift is always late because she is late herself! I did comment the other night at 11:50 PM - "where is our relief" and she did not say one word.
This chronic lateness is for the birds..... Do you all think I have blown this out of proportion? I am not going to make a big deal out of till I am off of orientations - that's for sure.

I think the other poster is right, just stay till you're done and your boss will notice the overtime, AND since orientees are NEVER allowed overtime then she'd have to intervene without you having to do anything. IMHO you shouldn't take report without your preceptor, unless you've discussed this with her before hand, it might cause some problems between you and her, since this would be only your second week with her like u said. good luck

MrsWampthang, BSN, RN · Mar 26, 2006

That's one of my pet peeves too. There is one nurse where I work who always stops to chat before showing up in our area to get report. Since it is a special care unit, we can't tape report. One day she wondered in about 10 minutes late and kept saying "well, I know you want to get home." I was ready to scream because she kept trying to talk to me about her personal life instead of taking report and doing drug count. Then one day, she came in the unit, put her stuff down, disappeared, came back, got a report from the nurse she was relieving then asked her if she minded sticking around so she could go get report on the two patients she also had on the floor! The off going nurse and I ( I was taking over two of the three patients in the unit and the other nurse was taking one and two on the floor), thought she had already got report because she was gone so long after she put her stuff down in the unit and disappeared. SHEESH!:angryfire Oh well, I guess there are always going to be those that don't clue in to the fact that they irritate people by being chronically late. Course, if their time card is pulled, they're not late, they clock in on time but don't get to their area on time, and that's what really burns me:angryfire . I don't think our hospital really enforces our tardy policy anyway though so it makes it that much worse.

Pam

SmilingBluEyes · Mar 26, 2006

There were a couple day shift nurses pulling this stuff on me some time back. It got so I would be sitting there, at 7:20 watching them get their coffee, water whatever, after they had just shown up, leaving me waiting to give report, and fuming.

It got so I just wrote out report on their report sheets for their individual patient assignments, and when they would breeze in at 7:15 or 7:20 or whenever---- I would shove that sheet at them and give them a quick blurb on each one and at 7:30, say "I am out of here, you are on my time now", with a smile and a wave. I strongly dislike it when people always show up late. It's rude; it's a passive-aggressive thing to do, frankly.

No lectures from our manager did the trick, but my move did. They know when they follow me, show up on time or get a very short, terse report from me. I have the right to leave on time when I am prepared to---if they cannot show up on time, that is their problem.