I work with a newer male nurse who's been nursing about a year as a second career. He's older than me, he could be my dad. We have a policy at work, all the piggybacks and drips must have a hide-a-sticker label over hippa type info and they carried out and disguarded in the medical waste bin in the dirty utility room. This nurse has built the reputation for leaving his old bags piled up in the rooms he works in and hardly ever throws them away, in addition to leaving his room and patient discombobulated in the bed. One day after noticing a pattern I addressed it stating how it's unprofessional and rude not to throw your trash and let the next shift pick up after you. He's response was "oh, did I leave my tubings and bags in the sink again??? Hahaha..." uh, yeah you did! So I had to follow him on a different day same patient with multiple bags changed through out the shift. Guess what I did!????
Every bag was due to be changed by the next morning, I'd tossed all the old tubbings with all the piggybacks out as they were completed. (so he'd have to start fresh) I even gave him a nice heads up that the patient was gonna need new tubings for everything he says "oh whatever, that's fine" ok. Pumps alarm after change of shift... I hung around to see. It's an isolation room too! Lots of gowning and ungowning, ESP if you forget to bring stuff in the room. He says omg! I didn't think you left it all empty! I said have a good day :-) and left. Come to find out from a another nurse "ohhhh, you are on his hit list" I said why, because he gets away with leaving his trash behind. Well all I did was cleaned up (literally) she too has had same issues. Today I get to see him. Was this too far? I personally don't know what else to do to get him to change his chronic bad behavior. What's worse is that he thinks it's funny and ok to do this. I'm trying to avoid going to the big boss, but how unprofessional is this???!!!!
