vregino36

Looks like i hurt a lot of feelings in this post, i did a great job of bringing out the prideful rns who cant seem to get over the fact that what im saying has nothing to do with competency. And you just reinforced my post by calling me lowest paid in the ed. That may be true but does that give you a right to 1. Give me an attitude when i have a patient with chest pains with the ekg in my possesion, and you tell me to go and get your little old lady some blankets and put her on a bed pan and i say i cant right now? No 2. Do you think because im "lowest paid" in the ed that you have to lie to me to go to a pts room for something else when you could just be honest with me and ill prioritize my tasks? No Like i said treat us like ****, we wont work hard for you. Dont lie to us, and dont micromanage. Being a tech is a specialty we wouldnt be here f we didnt know what we were doing. Im not taking anything from you guys so why is it hard for you to understand this concept?

And thats fine, as im sure they do. Like i said this is my opinion.

And unfortunately people like you never get help because you think you are high and mighty. Like i said. I love my staff, only one nurse does what i explained. Literally everything you said has an attitude attached to it. If you knew me personally you would know i go above and beyond. And the fact you think you are busier than me just shows you treat your "techs" like ****.

Speaking for myself on this topic I'd like to go over what is going through our minds on a day to day basis. And the Dos and Don'ts of delegating.... 1. Is the most important of them all, please if you see us techs with an ekg machine, or a phlebotomy cart, or something important DON'T ask us to stop what we are doing to go help room 20 to the commode or to get them a beverage. DO get it yourself because chances are we have more things to do. 2. DON'T tell us oh room 20 just needs the channel changed in the room. Knowing that the PT really has to be changed, wants the channel to be changed, and would like food. DO Just tell us ahead of time keeping that information from us and then hearing the PT say oh I told the nurse I needed to be changed she said she would get someone is really irritating. 3. DON'T talk down to us, can't tell you how many times I've seen it where a new grad nurse talks down on a tech then a few months later they are colleagues both with an RN degree and the tech is a better nurse than the new grad. We are all team mates looking for one thing, great patient care. I love my establishment now because the doctors and nurses and techs all sit together and we all speak to each other on a first name basis. DO delegate tasks to us techs in a respectful manner meaning do not micro manage have faith in us, and say thank you after we are done with said task. That means the world to us. 4. If we are walking into a room together and you start talking introduce yourself and myself with appropriate titles. I am no longer a CNA down in the ER. I am a Tech, just like doctors and nurses have specialties I too am in a specialty. Plus if you tell a PT I am a tech, rather than a CNA they won't think of me as their personal assistant having me fetch them drinks and blankets just because. Of course I will do all of that but it deters them from thinking all i do is wipe butts and wait on their hands and feet. Of course not every nurse does this in fact in the hospital i work in there's only one nurse who does this. I love my staff and i consider myself apart of a functioning team. Please dont take this list the wrong way its just ones Techs opinion. Thanks!

I am an ER Tech right now and the job itself is so rewarding. One thing for sure is dont be arrogant. Especially someone like yourself who has no medical experience you will be at the bottom of the totem pole. You will be collecting a lot of urine, transporting, fetching blankets and vitals. Show them you are eager and ask questions nurses love that. Ask why the nurses mix reglan with benadryl. Then will they become confident and let you do the cool stuff. Understand when to do ekgs instead of waiting for the order. Mean while please do not hide when some of the more manual labor tasks come around. Alway keep a smile on dont look like you are running around with a chicken with your head cut off because ten you look unapproachable and the nurses wont wanna ask yoi to do things. Never say no i cant do it. Say i have to do this and that but whats up how can i help you now.