Please and/or Thanks

[LoveMyBugs, BSN, CNA, RN]

I just need to vent a little.

I work in a farily busy ER as a tech and I am happy to do whatever a nurse ask me to do, but a simple please and/ or thanks goes a long way.

Most of the nurses I work with are great and usually always say please, but today was a farily slow day, and all I got from one particular nurse was "go get vitials in _" I heard that same sentence about 20 times today never once did she say, could you, when you have time, please, or thanks for doing that. At the end of the day I just wanted to yell I am a person at least talk to me like a person and aknowledge me by saying please. I am just feeling a little frusterated, thanks for listing to my vent

[riverwink]

You are absolutely correct, please and thank you go a long way. I'm glad to hear that most of the nurses are good at thanking you. Sometimes you have to remember that people were not raised in families where please/thank you are common words. A way to deliver the message that you would like to hear please is to give this person the vitals, etc. and then say, "You're welcome".

At any rate thank you for all you do. We are better nurses due to all the support staff that make our jobs easier. :nuke:

[grammyr]

You could do like I do my grandchildren. Just give them a blank stare until please is said. It doesn't take long for them to get into the habit if they know it's expected.

[Penguin67]

I agree that please and thank you go a long way in the workplace and I try to thank everyone that I work with at the end of each shift.

That said, sometimes we just need to our job and not get too bogged down with how things are delegated. I struggle alot with some PCT's that I work with who have a serious attitude and often do little to nothing during a shift. Often, I'll do something myself instead of even considering delegating anything, even though I am perfectly ok to do so. Do I want to say please and thank you to these folks? Nope. I try, but by the end of a shift where I have done total care for a patient, I'm not feeling like those words are in my vocabulary anymore.

If I expected every MD who writes orders for me to carry out to always use please and thank you, I'd be waiting for a long time and growing a beard!

It amazes me how far those two words can go, but in today's healthcare environment, they aren't too prevalent and I don't expect them. I'm just there to do the job.