Most silly reason for being called in the office?

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okay...this morning i got called into 'the office' aka "nurse manager's office" for the most stupid complaint:

forgot to label iv tubing on a patient we sent to the cath lab!! i was so furious that after a busy 16 hour shift, she had the nerve to call me in the office and 'counsil' me on this.

other half of the story: my patient had a door-to-balloon time of 37 minutes....a hospital record!!! but i recieved no recognition because my iv tubing not labeled!!! the cath lab was so impressed!!! however, my nurse manager was not:yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::bugeyes::bugeyes::bugeyes::bugeyes::bugeyes::bugeyes::bugeyes::bugeyes::bugeyes::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

any good ones?

Specializes in Home Care, Hospice, OB.
the next day i'm called in and handed my butt for making the new girl go home. i was like ?????????? not only did nobody make her go home, i had no part in it and didn't tell her to go anywhere!!!

yup, you don't even need to involved to be wrong!!:clown:

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Education.
...I'm backed up by my manager, but I'm really peeved at the house sups who threw it all back on me.

Sounds like you have a couple of house supvs that don't understand the definition of "triage"...

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I was working dayshift, walked out of my pts room and saw our manager walking down the hall with a bunch of suits. Well in the hall I see a dirty bedside comode outside the other nurses pt room, so I pick it up to take to soiled utility and away from view of the suits. Hour later I get reemed out by manager for the comode even being there and it wasn't even my pt or room!!! So much for being a team player. Needless to say, I gave her my 2-week notice the next day. That particular day we were carrying 8 pts each with no techs and this was common load then.

Toq

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Specializes in ER.

lupin- they were crazy for even mentioning it to you. Nursing=insanity, I'm amazed any of us puts up with it.

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Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

Hey blueridge that isnt nice Im a Sup. and Im not spineless or mean, I take up for my nurses and I usually end up the one on the chopping block. I usually try to resolve my staffs issues without going to the manager.

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Specializes in 1year medical surgical, 8 years ER..

I can't stand when people can't accept responsibilities for their wrong doing and then blame you and accuse you of violence. what is up with that? Glad she's terminated. Way to go!

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Specializes in Rescue+Medic+ER ER ER ER.
Hey blueridge that isnt nice Im a Sup. and Im not spineless or mean, I take up for my nurses and I usually end up the one on the chopping block. I usually try to resolve my staffs issues without going to the manager.

rgroyer:

1) You do not exhibit the steriotypical behaviours of a supervisor. THANK YOU!

2) With your positive attitude towards your staff, you will most likely be promoted from the chopping block to the wood chipper by upper management. (Been there, done and seen that.)

I wish you well. Be careful my friend.

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Specializes in NICU.

I didn't so much get yelled at, but I came in on my day off because my primary patient was dying. His other five primaries also came in. When the morgue tech came to get him, we BEGGED him to let us come downstairs with him and the baby. Nope, no dice, against policy. So I'm working the next night and the funeral director shows up to pick up the body. Which they can't find. Seriously. So the morgue tech told the FD that the NURSES brought him down and must have put him in the wrong place. So the other ex-primary and I are both working, both kind of traumatized to begin with, because we loved that baby like he was our own, and they're accusing us of LOSING HIM.

Is it any wonder I ended up sticking myself with a dirty needle later that night? Jesus.

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Specializes in ER, PACU, Med-Surg, Hospice, LTC.

Cared for pt. in Pre-Op.

She gave me her glasses and told me to keep them safe (and admitted that they were dime-store cheap-os).

Cared for patient in PACU.

Transfered pt. from PACU to CICU.

Placed pt's glasses in plastic baggie, with a HUGE note GLASSES in red marker on it.

Gave report to CICU Nurse-pointed out the glasses, made note of it in paper work.

Next day WWIII in PACU. Called to office. Unit manager, Floor manager, CICU Nurse, letter from patient's family and on and on about lost glasses and how I was the last person to have them.

Got written up.

Next day, Unit manager comes to me and tells me the glasses were found...in the CICU...in the baggie...with the note on it.

Not one apology.

The way they acted, you would have thought that the glasses had platinum frames with diamonds on it. :coollook:

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Specializes in Home Care, Hospice, OB.
hey blueridge that isnt nice im a sup. and im not spineless or mean, i take up for my nurses and i usually end up the one on the chopping block. i usually try to resolve my staffs issues without going to the manager.

since i'm the director of clincal services, i, too, am a supervisor, and have been for most of my nursing career. doesn't mean that most nursing administrators have no (metaphorical) cajones, and lack any understanding of management or leadership. at least as an army officer with a business degree, i learned the basics of manangment early on. most nursing supervisors don't have this background, and it shows. learned a long time ago, as you apparently have as well:

"you watch out for your people, and they'll watch out for you"!:bow:

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Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

Yes they will and thank you, actually the nurse manager job for SICU is open as she recentley quit and then they also have an assistant nurse manager job opening for er Im thinking about applying for one or the other.

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Specializes in emergency.

i had a manipulative pt come with a c/o vomiting blood so of course the er doc ordered an ng tube. i lubed the tube with lido jelly. well the pt refused to cooperate and wouldnt swallow and started swinging at me. so i pulled the tube and asked another nurse to come in and help me. the pt flat out refused to allow us to try again. i charted everything that had happened and told the er doc. pt ended up being admitted.

a few days later i had to respond to a complaint lodged by the pt to the pt advocate because i "used some sort of jelly on the tube". the kicker is the pt advocate is a NURSE :angthts:. guess next time he comes in he gets a dry tube...jk

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