Missclean

Jesus, take the wheels of my cart before I run it full speed over this nures that has been disrespecting me all week. I know she is stressed. I know she has been disrespected by many people. Even though she has no right to redirect the abuse to me, I don't want to hate her for her cruelness. Please help us all to get along and respect each other no matter what our position in the hospital.

what i get sick of is going to clean a room and a nurse will offer up coffee, cookies, maybe even their next paycheck if i will put off cleaning that room so they can avoid getting an admit. then i'll get called back to it later with transport standing in the hallway with a patient, and the same nurse is standing there complaining they haven't seen housekeeping in hours. will anybody admit to this?

I appreciate all the replies. I plan on nursing school but keep putting it off because the nature of my husband's job involves moving often and usually with short notice. I got a job in housekeeping at a hospital shortly after our last move several months ago. I keep telling myself to remember this experience when I become a nurse. There are definitely exceptions, but overall we are overtly disrespected. I work 2nd shift now and we are sent to clean discharge rooms all over the hospital. We strip the rooms and usually end up taking 3 to 4 large bags of linen and trash out of a room. We aren't supposed to touch equipment but we end up taking it out because nursing simply refuses to. I've seen nurses throwing extra linen in a dirty room so they don't have to carry it to the soiled room down the hall. We are being pressured by supervisors to finish and go to the next discharge probably 3 floors away. While I'm rushing there is usually an angry nurse rolling their eyes and making some rude comment because I told them (as I'm pouring sweat) that I'm sorry I don't have time to wipe off the cake crumbs from the table they're sitting at in the fully epuipped staff kitchen. There is so much hostility! It really is a shame. Please keep sharing your frustrations and I'd like to do the same. It feels good to let it out!

Please list the things you wish housekeeping would do or stop doing.