"You can't get someone in more trouble than they can gt themselves into."- Edgar Cayce
I try to follow that line of reasoning, and in most cases, found it to be true. Like the case of Mickey Weird.
Mickey Weird has worked at Wrongway for a couple of years now, first as a nurse extern, then when she flunked out of nursing school, as a tech. Mickey was personable enough in the beginning, but soon showed her lack of mettle. She was usually a half an hour late to her assigned unit. Then, she'd stand around and talk about personal matters for about 15 minutes.
Mickey challenged her assignment. She would escalate patient behaviors, intervening needlessly, or not assist at all when needed. I was leaving the hospital to go on break once, saw Mickey clock in late and, while on her cell, go back out to her car. Mickey was the last one on the unit but the first out the door. One time she left the unit and I found her down by the time clock, waiting down that last minute.
After Mickey failed to provide hygienic measures to a patient and escalated another patient's behavior, I refused to work with her, except on one occasion when it was either Mickey Weird or nobody.
There's a thread called "Profanity and Disrespect" that is telling the tale of my dealings with another rogue coworker. As Abraham Lincoln said during the 1861 Trent Affair: "One war at a time", so I was not proactive in bringing a lot of attention to Mickey's incompetence and misdoings at this time.
But I do make cartoons of situations, primarily in order to deal with the stress. This is an episode I submitted to the comic website of a situation which occurred in December 2018:
I was informed last weekend that "Mickey Weird is no longer employed by Wrongway".
Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
10 hours ago, GrumpyRN said:
I was complaining about all the idiots I kept meeting at work and my son pointed out that I was the common denominator and perhaps it was me that was the problem. I immediately cut him out of my will. ???
If he was lucky enough to be in your will and blew it, then he was another idiot. You are surrounded.
If he was lucky enough to be in your will and blew it, then he was another idiot. You are surrounded.
Sadly, apart from being ginger, he looks like me and has a very similar sense of humour that he learned from me so I should have known better. See my comment to Davey.??????
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
The geriatric psych unit has heavy, hard plastic box-shaped bedside tables in the patient rooms. Mickey Weird was sitting on a 1:1 with a psychotic patient when I gave the patient, who was sitting on her bedside table, some meds with at least one of them being an antipsychotic.
I keep the lights low in the rooms because I think the bright overhead fluorescent lights tend to add to the patients' agitation. The patient took the meds and then urinated where she sat, and Mickey Weird asked, "Is she peeing?!" I said "Yes, she is" and was then immediately called away to deal with a psychotic acting out male patient on the other end of the hall.
Sometime later in the shift, I needed to talk with the female 1:1 patient, who at this time, was lying in her bed. With the lights low...
The geriatric psych unit has heavy, hard plastic box-shaped bedside tables in the patient rooms. Mickey Weird was sitting on a 1:1 with a psychotic patient when I gave the patient, who was sitting on her bedside table, some meds with at least one of them being an antipsychotic.
I keep the lights low in the rooms because I think the bright overhead fluorescent lights tend to add to the patients' agitation. The patient took the meds and then urinated where she sat, and Mickey Weird asked, "Is she peeing?!" I said "Yes, she is" and was then immediately called away to deal with a psychotic acting out male patient on the other end of the hall.
Sometime later in the shift, I needed to talk with the female 1:1 patient, who at this time, was lying in her bed. With the lights low...
WOW!????
That's basic stuff.
Hmmmm, AN's algorithm is censoring me. I did not write WOW! but I will leave it to the readers imagination to decide what I did write.?
Might be seeing an example of why said Mickey flunked out of nursing school, and apparently out of her tech job too. Wonder where she is delighting others at present?
She's probably blown through all the lids on jars jobs already. I vote for Beanie Baby factory inspector (our Mickey had a serious BB and Sixlets habit which accounted for her frequent gift shop breaks. She's on our permanent "Oh no, don't talk her up!" list.
Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
2 hours ago, caliotter3 said:
Might be seeing an example of why said Mickey flunked out of nursing school, and apparently out of her tech job too. Wonder where she is delighting others at present?
"You can't get someone in more trouble than they can gt themselves into."- Edgar Cayce
I try to follow that line of reasoning, and in most cases, found it to be true. Like the case of Mickey Weird.
Mickey Weird has worked at Wrongway for a couple of years now, first as a nurse extern, then when she flunked out of nursing school, as a tech. Mickey was personable enough in the beginning, but soon showed her lack of mettle. She was usually a half an hour late to her assigned unit. Then, she'd stand around and talk about personal matters for about 15 minutes.
Mickey challenged her assignment. She would escalate patient behaviors, intervening needlessly, or not assist at all when needed. I was leaving the hospital to go on break once, saw Mickey clock in late and, while on her cell, go back out to her car. Mickey was the last one on the unit but the first out the door. One time she left the unit and I found her down by the time clock, waiting down that last minute.
After Mickey failed to provide hygienic measures to a patient and escalated another patient's behavior, I refused to work with her, except on one occasion when it was either Mickey Weird or nobody.
There's a thread called "Profanity and Disrespect" that is telling the tale of my dealings with another rogue coworker. As Abraham Lincoln said during the 1861 Trent Affair: "One war at a time", so I was not proactive in bringing a lot of attention to Mickey's incompetence and misdoings at this time.
But I do make cartoons of situations, primarily in order to deal with the stress. This is an episode I submitted to the comic website of a situation which occurred in December 2018:
I was informed last weekend that "Mickey Weird is no longer employed by Wrongway".
Hmmph. Usually this kind gets promoted.
Good that she's gone, hope you have better help now and I hope Mickey gets her life together.
TriciaJ, RN
4,328 Posts
If he was lucky enough to be in your will and blew it, then he was another idiot. You are surrounded.