LAZY NURSES

[ohioguy]

I would like to share to the students here and anyone else walking by that I have spent a day sitting in a patients room for a 1 to 1 precaution (reason not important) and have noticed one big thing; Nurses here (undisclosed facility) are SO lazy, and dumb...... Sorry for the unprofessional language but this is very frustrating. I have watched this nurse waddle in this room three times all day. In the morning at the start of her shift it took her 2 hours to even come in to assess her patient. This is unacceptable! Everything about the nurses on this floor kill me. (usually a tech in ICU) I am on a general medicine floor and would be very upset if i knew a loved one on this floor. This motivates me even more to become a better and smarter nurse than ever before. (graduate may 2011 nclex in June:yeah:) One example the nurse came in and gave the patient heparin. I asked if it was a low molecular weight heparin and she responded saying "yea, sure I think something like that" her lack of intelligence goes to show that no student on this forum should worry about passing the nclex, if she can do it you sure can! ugh, I hope no students on this forum will end up as she, please continue to study and become great nurses who genuinely care and know what they are doing.

[morningland]

I see your point but the OP didn't just state an opinion but insulted a nurse that he only saw for a day. He called her for her weight and made called her stupid for a very unfair reason. I personally take great personal offence to this as it promotes the toxic notion that nurses eat their young and I myself feel stupid at work and hate people make me feed that fire. I personally don't like an attitude that thinks others are stupid just because they are not on their own knowledge level. Furthermore, I feel that knowledge is a very small part of nursing and isn't a good judge on how one stands as a nurse.

I can acknowledge my own fault for my reaction but I guess I am just as passionate about my response as the OP is about his. I guess it comes down to the fact that I just don't like people who come off as know it alls... but that is just me. It's not that I am right and he is wrong... I just don't like his attitude and would hate to work around someone like that in the field.

Sorry this is riddled with grammatical errors. I think I was having some problems with my computer

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

the policy for med-surg floors where i work is that an assessment must be done once in your twelve-hour shift. it doesn't specify what time it needs to be done. if the nurse had eight patients and knew that there was a sitter with one of them, that's probably not the one to prioritize as first. two hours is not an unreasonable amount of time to go by before assessing a patient on a med-surg floor.

as far as the op's negative characterization of the nurse's weight and iq, all i can say is i hope i'm not his preceptor when he becomes a nurse. it's very hard to teach anything to someone who already thinks they know everything.

[tokyoROSE, BSN, RN]

When I was doing my L&D clinical, all the nurses in that hospital sat there and ate ALL DAY. Literally, they had food around the nurse's station (a wide, open area) and would eat while they charted, gathered supplies, etc. It was so unprofessional. The nurse I was following took two hours eating her breakfast and talking before we got to patient #1's room. I didn't learn anything in that rotation.

[kids]

One example the nurse came in and gave the patient heparin. I asked if it was a low molecular weight heparin and she responded saying "yea, sure I think something like that" her lack of intelligence goes to show that no student on this forum should worry about passing the nclex, if she can do it you sure can! ugh, I hope no students on this forum will end up as she, please continue to study and become great nurses who genuinely care and know what they are doing.

Why is any of your business as the sitter to know whether it's lmw heparin or regular old heparin?

[That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

Why is any of your business as the sitter to know whether it's lmw heparin or regular old heparin?

Its a new diagnosis. Its called KnowItAllism

[dogsrulehg]

I work all the floors of a local hospital and 99 percent of the floor nurses and aides are absolutely shiftless and that's a fact.

[ThePrincessBride, MSN, RN, NP]

I am a sitter as well op but I have to say, you are a piece of work. I have nothing but respect for the nurses and I do as much as I can to learn from them. Also, if you were REALLY a sitter, you would know that:

1. Hospital environments are typically super busy and that the nurse has a heavy load and..

2. As a non-licensed worker, you are in no position to tell a nurse how to do her/his job.

3. Assessments do not need to made every hour if the patient is stable.

You remind of a few nursing students who I feel need to get their head out of their orifice. Those with that shot nosed, know it all attitude do not get very far in life because they think they have all th answers to everything ...think about it.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I work all the floors of a local hospital and 99 percent of the floor nurses and aides are absolutely shiftless and that's a fact.

I assume that you are not a nurse or an aide? Please correct me if I am wrong.

Lots of people in society have 'factory-worker' mentalities, where the employees who appear physically busy while busting their butts are the ones unofficially given the greatest value. The 'factory-worker' mentality accounts for highly visible physical labor, but does not incorporate intellectual work.

Therefore, someone with this mentality would view the RN as lazy, shiftless, and lacking value if (s)he is seated, charting, looking up a policy or procedure, on the telephone with a doctor, reviewing a H&P, typing on the computer, assessing bowel sounds, or performing any number of tasks that are not physically laborious.

Nurses are not paid for what we do. Rather, we are paid for what we know. Plenty of thought goes into every intervention that we carry out. Hence, we are knowledge workers, but someone with a 'factory-worker' mentality would never fully be able to grasp the difference between knowledge work (invisible) and factory work (highly visible rote tasks).

[Al.ginger]

Do you have any real-life experience working in a health care???

If not - I can see where your post comes from.

Take it easy!

[jesskidding, LPN]

Rude awaking coming for OP one day.

100% AGREE!

[kesmarn]

Well, now it's 2012 and you've either passed your boards or you haven't. Either way, you're in the real world now. If you're in nursing, I suspect you've developed a method for researching the chemical structure, along with every possible side effect of every med you'll be administering for the day ,all done before your shift begins, so that you won't be taking 2 hours before seeing any one of your patients. (One of whom has a nursing student at the bedside 1:1, who presumably has the wits -- or not -- to notify you if something major is going wrong.) Oh, and btw, after a few years of doing this, you may notice that you too -- unlikely as it may seem now -- will start to waddle on your destroyed knees.Unless you have landed a desk job by then. Which wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

lazy? or tired?

I see both