I swear to the heavens this is the absolute truth. I have done 18 years plus in critical care nursing and I thought I had seen it all. But! Oh no! I agreed to do recovery (one-on-one specialty). I don't want to identify the specialty because I know this new nurse is aware of this website.
My room was next to a new nurse - one year in another hospital and now 3 months in the one where I work. She arrived 20 minutes late and took report. I was in the middle of assessment and I hear loud music so I step out of my room to find the source. She has her MP3 hooked up to her speakers, the computer on some crazy website and she is dancing around the room!
During the course of the evening she showered me with how smart she is; how many times she has been written up for her attitude, and that given enough time, she will be either a CRNA or a PA or whatever her talent and her brains allow her. She is going places and we older experienced nurses will be waving to her in her parade.
To be fair, she helped me whenever I asked; I did the same for her. She is likeable but oh my god!!!!
An update - it's me!! Not them! Honest-to-God! The other night I worked with 3 other nurses and one wore her music ear phones ALL night! The other nurse (closest to me) had loud metal music coming from the computer at the end of the desks.
My God!!! What a world! What a world!:loveya:
If it's you then it's me too! I remember one night looking up to see a twenty-something nurse with an ipod in one ear, text messaging with one hand and dopplering pedal pulses with the other.
They don't see anything wrong with it and even are proud of their ability to "MULTITASK".
Ah well, someday they or someone they love will be critically ill and then it won't be so cute.
Not to be a poo-poo, but bimbos like that nurse make all us nurses look bad by her, (ahem), "unprofessional behavior", and reinforce some doctors who believe they can treat us like handmaidens because we didnt' do 8 years of college. I'm a sorta-new RN in orientation in a combined MICU/SICU unit, and I'm damn proud to be there. I hope to be a CCRN someday like the nurse who posted the thread. Somebody rag on her, please.
I know that we (fogies) are constantly warned not to judge the millenials and to accept that "things are changing". But this is really hard to believe.
Music can be soothing to patients - IF it is the music they want to listen to. We use it a lot in neuro and CV areas. However -- I find it difficult to comprehend that a hospital tolerates use of any 'headphone' devices that could prevent the nurse from hearing essential sounds (ventilator alarms - patient going "aaaggghhhh").
Specializes in ICU of all kinds, CVICU, Cath Lab, ER..
An update: one chronic "problem " was FINALLY written up for wearing IPOD earphones and, for a serious medication error. Bet she will still be around since the place doesn't fire anybody. Warm body, valid nursing license in hand........... help me Lord!
You're bringing back memories of my critical care rotation in school, I recall one of the nurses turning on the radio to a local rock station and blaring it quite loudly while providing some one-to-one care with a pt. I never had that particular pt, so I don't recall whether the pt was sedated or not, but I do know the pt never got any visitors, and ending up dying before the end of the rotation. Who knows, maybe the nurse brought the pt a last little bit of happiness?
I'm not saying that what your co-worker did was acceptable, it certainally did bother others, but if your ICU has a pod, she could close the doors on her pod when she's working with her pt. ICU's are depressing enough, I think a little "music therapy" every now and then might be nice. :)
Yes, I have done music therapy for my patients. Different music for different people; I have a playlist for vented patients called "sleep" that older patients seem to like. One little dude who was maybe 23 and into heavy metal liked my 80's playlist although I'd prefer not to know from his buddies that he'd think it was "oldies"... Anyhow what I do, is not carry speakers around. I hook it up to the headphones (ear clips, not ear buds) and turn it on, then shove the whole tiny mess into a glove, and tape the gove to the pillow near their head. Several hours of fewer vent alarms usually follows.
Rules. Since this is my personal property there are rules that I have. I don't use it for myself at work, because it's work. The patient has to be pretty much helpless and unable to entertain or relax him/herself. It's a gift, not something I hand out to whoever happens to be bored. But really, it is nice to give people something to listen to other than the idiot box and the vent.
:D it sounds like she may be quite young, 
AMEN to that............. sigh *
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If it's you then it's me too! I remember one night looking up to see a twenty-something nurse with an ipod in one ear, text messaging with one hand and dopplering pedal pulses with the other.
They don't see anything wrong with it and even are proud of their ability to "MULTITASK".
Ah well, someday they or someone they love will be critically ill and then it won't be so cute.