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Ok, I haven't seen a thread where people can just vent about whatever....So I will start!

I am tired of walking into **** when I clock on for night shift. Cleaning and fixing your mistakes just for you to come in the morning and complain about the stuff I didn't get done!!! Get your stuff done and stop dumping it on me! :mad:

Specializes in Home Care.

And I'm going to post thank yous to the nurses who helped me on my Wednesday shift.

Its breakfast and one of my patient's coded. Thank you to the nurses and doctors who were there. She died, I was a mess, it was my first code blue.

Thank you to my team leader who consoled me, thank you to my clinical nurse who listened to me vent, consoled me and helped me with charting. Thank you again to her for taking the time to assess and chart on the new admission.

Thank you to my unit manager who debriefed me, let me cry, consoled me and then kindly pointed out lessons learned.

Thank you to my team mates who were concerned, helped me with a new admission, a discharge and consoled me.

Thank you to the other patients on the unit who recognized the humanity in me.

This, to me, is what team work and a supportive work environment is all about. I love my job.

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I used to get irritated with a certain supervisor when I was a new grad stuck on an insane floor on second shift. He'd walk by the nurses' station on his way out the door at 11pm exactly, having left a written report for the 3rd shift supervisor so he didn't have to stay and talk to her, with his bag slung over his shoulder and his coat on.

He'd see us at the station frazzled with our hair standing on end and three hours work left to do before we could go (admits on top of admits on top of admits etc.) and he'd say, "hey, you need anything before I go?" without even slowing down as he strolled past the station. What the heck were we supposed to say? Once I said, "yeah, as a matter of fact, wanna come note some of these orders piled up here?" and he just chuckled like I was joking and kept right on going...

Seriously, why even offer?

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Specializes in ICU.

i am the nurse who worked both day shift and night shift in the same unit, ICU.

I am the nurse who will stay if I can to complete what wasn't done.

I am the nurse who says to the apologetic nurse giving me report who can't finish everything to "go home, this is a 24/7 job, I got it."

I am also the nurse who knows which nurses are taking advantage of me and which ones are plain lazy. And when they fall into either one of those categories, they hear it from me.

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I used to get irritated with a certain supervisor when I was a new grad stuck on an insane floor on second shift. He'd walk by the nurses' station on his way out the door at 11pm exactly, having left a written report for the 3rd shift supervisor so he didn't have to stay and talk to her, with his bag slung over his shoulder and his coat on.

He'd see us at the station frazzled with our hair standing on end and three hours work left to do before we could go (admits on top of admits on top of admits etc.) and he'd say, "hey, you need anything before I go?" without even slowing down as he strolled past the station. What the heck were we supposed to say? Once I said, "yeah, as a matter of fact, wanna come note some of these orders piled up here?" and he just chuckled like I was joking and kept right on going...

Seriously, why even offer?

I've had this problem, but not in nursing. I was a lead cashier and my store manger would walk up to the front of the store (His office with camera's was in the back of the store) and tell me I need to call for backup, and then walk away. Instead of just jumping on a register to help with the line, he left his office, told me a seven word sentence and walked away.

I would then get on the 2-way-radio (this is why I mentioned that he walked up to the front, he could have just said something over the radio) and ask for help, making sure to say "[store-managers-name] was just up at the front and told me I need back up. Can anyone drop what they're doing and jump on a register?" :D

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Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.

Have you gently told the other shift this? I don't like your chances in getting everything solved overnight. Can u talk to ur NUM re all these problems? Or call a meeting after work maybe for everyone (which is hard when everyone is on different shifts).

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When I was driving home this morning, I was thinking, "Allnurses needs a vent thread! Where we can just dump our vent and go!!!"

Our staffing grid has been changed AGAIN!! And strangely enough, it wasn't to give us more staff. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in Med Surg.
ok so i clock into my shift....lalala hmhmhm....walking to my area...ka boom..everything hits the fan...the nurse giving me report states "this ones going down to get an eeg any minute now and i'm sorry i haven't been able to get him ready" and "that one needs to have an xray and mri done but he is a ward of the state so you are gonna have to call the sheriffs department and get a hold of the oncall social worker since it is after hours" and "oh yea you are goin to get an er admit in that one. by the way they have been trying to call report for an hour now" and "that one needs to be discharged home" "can i help you with something before i leave"

uhh, yea you can help me. seriously! but the nurse left any ways because she had to pick up her kids from so and so's. i was really trying to attempt to grow horns on the top of my head and say listen here ***** this is the second night in a row you have left me drowing and i have not even been here for 5 minutes!!!!:spbox:

:D we must be working at the same hospital!!!!!:devil: you can say whatever you want as long as you are respectful in your words. next time, put the word 'nurse' in front of the ***** and let it rip!:yeah::yeah::yeah:

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[color=#2f4f4f]i almost got into a fight at work in new year's day 2010 because a nurse wrote on the white board all of the narcotics that she told the patient that i was going to give her at bedtime. i politely told her and the patient that there was no way that she was getting all of that stuff from me in one shift, let alone all at once at bedtime. i told the nurse that if she wanted her to have it, then stick around and give it to her and stay later for the code. i also told her that until she becomes me, "do not tell any patient what i will do when i come to work because you don't know me or my judgement and with **** like this, you don't know if i'm even gonna come to work". for me, that was the end of it. i walked off and she followed me up and down the hall, apologizing. at that point, i didn't want her apology because this had been going on for at least the 3 years at that time, that i'd been there. this time, i just decided to confront her in front of the patient so that there would be no misunderstanding about the patient's meds. i walked away from my 'nurse *@##%' 3 times before i told her to stop following me. on time number #4, i didn't really care if i lost this job. by that time, upper management walked out of their office, of course it was when i finally decided to have my say, and pulled me into the office. it was patient's family members/visitors that witnessed the whole thing and told management that 'nurse :devil:' provoked me as they had seen that i walked away from her 3 times before turning around to confront her. hallelujah, 'nurse*@##%' was suspended and then eventually fired for something as stupid as eating off of a patient's tray and then daring the don, again in the hallway in front of witness, to fire her. heave-ho, out you go!!:yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::D:d:d:d

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