RANT, sick of certain nurses

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Specializes in ICU Stepdown.

I'm so irritated, not sure who else to vent to.

I was working on a trauma and had to leave my assigned section because I am also assigned to traumas. Was in the trauma room for 30+ minutes. One of the nurses in my assigned area came to the trauma room and said, word for word "when you're done I need to do some stuff." [emoji58][emoji58][emoji58] who does that???

I found that extremely rude but since I was busy I brushed it off at the time, but after I'm just like ***. I honestly can't believe it. Then I come back and there are 6 dirty beds, an almost hour late EKG on top of other things.

I'm still upset about the whole situation and was going to let my manager know but she had left for the day.

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Specializes in ICU.

CNAs dont "work on traumas" they assist with tasks under the delegation and supervision of a Trauma NURSE. Are you ATLS or TNCC certified? Didn't think so.

YOU need to can the attitude and stay in your lane.

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CNAs dont "work on traumas" they assist with tasks under the delegation and supervision of a Trauma NURSE. Are you ATLS or TNCC certified? Didn't think so.

YOU need to can the attitude and stay in your lane.

Exactly........

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I'm so irritated, not sure who else to vent to.

I was working on a trauma and had to leave my assigned section because I am also assigned to traumas. Was in the trauma room for 30+ minutes. One of the nurses in my assigned area came to the trauma room and said, word for word "when you're done I need to do some stuff." [emoji58][emoji58][emoji58] who does that???

I found that extremely rude but since I was busy I brushed it off at the time, but after I'm just like ***. I honestly can't believe it. Then I come back and there are 6 dirty beds, an almost hour late EKG on top of other things.

I'm still upset about the whole situation and was going to let my manager know but she had left for the day.

I would suggest not making unnecessary enemies in nursing. I would speak to the nurse that you feel that you hand an issue with first before I go to anyone. Remember respect the chain of command

The nurse didn't sound like she was saying anything rude, it's trauma, so don't expect to be treated like a princesses. If someone says something inflammatory or derogatory then addressit. You're blowing your situation out of hand.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I think more information would be helpful. Was the nurse busy, drowning, and overwhelmed? What she said in itself doesn't sound rude to me. Needs more context. Could be that the nurse is a (generally) lazy coworker and that's why the 6 beds were dirty and EKG not done. Or the nurse could be absolutely busy and needing assistance, and that's why things weren't done.

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Specializes in ICU Stepdown.
CNAs dont "work on traumas" they assist with tasks under the delegation and supervision of a Trauma NURSE. Are you ATLS or TNCC certified? Didn't think so.

YOU need to can the attitude and stay in your lane.

Thanks for the clarification :)

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I think more information would be helpful. Was the nurse busy, drowning, and overwhelmed? What she said in itself doesn't sound rude to me. Needs more context. Could be that the nurse is a (generally) lazy coworker and that's why the 6 beds were dirty and EKG not done. Or the nurse could be absolutely busy and needing assistance, and that's why things weren't done.

She shouldn't have been drowning, the licensed nursing staff was adequately staffed and when I came back the same patients were in their rooms. Not to mention this is an urgent care type of set up

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The nurse didn't sound like she was saying anything rude, it's trauma, so don't expect to be treated like a princesses. If someone says something inflammatory or derogatory then addressit. You're blowing your situation out of hand.

Maybe you had to be there, but the entire day this nurse had been expecting to be "treated like a princess." Maybe that's why she thought it was okay to barge in unannounced.

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So you say her "word for word" comment was "when you're done I need to do some stuff."?

Or was it "when you're done I need you to do some stuff."?

Big difference between the 2.

You can make any story sound bad depending on how it is written.

I can write the exact same story from a nurses point of view and make it sound like your the one to blame.

For instance:

Last night I had the worst tech. I am assigned 7 beds (this is what we can infer from your 6 empty beds and 1 needing an EKG) and had patients in all of them. We had a trauma come in so I was covering that nurses other beds also. I have a tech assigned to me, but then she just disappears for over 30 minutes. I have 4 pts to discharge, 2 to admit, meds to give, a few EKG's and a new pt who needs a line and labs. I am running my butt off trying to get it all done then happen to walk by and see her in the trauma room. She is assigned to the trauma team, but still, she could have let me know. I stuck my head in the room and said I had some stuff that I needed her help with when she was done. By the time she got out, I had moved out 6 of the 7 patients, gotten the line and labs, taken care of the other nurses pts but still had the EKG to do (the machine was tied up in another room) and had not cleaned up the empty rooms yet. She had been like this all day and I feel like it would almost be better to have no tech, at least I would know that everything was my responsibility.

See what I mean?

She shouldn't have been drowning, the licensed nursing staff was adequately staffed and when I came back the same patients were in their rooms. Not to mention this is an urgent care type of set up

So a few more questions, How many patients is this 1 nurse responsible for? You say she had 6 empty beds and 1 EKG needing to be done, so that is 7, but you also say the same patients were in their rooms. That means at least 8 (you said patients, not patient). Was she covering the patients of the other nurse in the trauma room?

As for trauma, if your an urgent care center, how bad was this trauma? No EMS should ever transport trauma to an urgent care center, and a walk in is usually not bad (but can be on occasion). If it is bad, it should be transfered out.

IMO, having been on both sides as a ED tech and RN, just let it go. Some nurses are lazy jerks. Some techs are lazy jerks. Some are rude and unhappy people, some are just having a bad shift. Over time you learn to ignore them and just do your job. No point in getting all huffy about it.

Venting is OK, but if you do it here, don't expect to get much sympathy for it.

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So you say her "word for word" comment was "when you're done I need to do some stuff."?

Or was it "when you're done I need you to do some stuff."?

Big difference between the 2.

You can make any story sound bad depending on how it is written.

I can write the exact same story from a nurses point of view and make it sound like your the one to blame.

For instance:

Last night I had the worst tech. I am assigned 7 beds (this is what we can infer from your 6 empty beds and 1 needing an EKG) and had patients in all of them. We had a trauma come in so I was covering that nurses other beds also. I have a tech assigned to me, but then she just disappears for over 30 minutes. I have 4 pts to discharge, 2 to admit, meds to give, a few EKG's and a new pt who needs a line and labs. I am running my butt off trying to get it all done then happen to walk by and see her in the trauma room. She is assigned to the trauma team, but still, she could have let me know. I stuck my head in the room and said I had some stuff that I needed her help with when she was done. By the time she got out, I had moved out 6 of the 7 patients, gotten the line and labs, taken care of the other nurses pts but still had the EKG to do (the machine was tied up in another room) and had not cleaned up the empty rooms yet. She had been like this all day and I feel like it would almost be better to have no tech, at least I would know that everything was my responsibility.

See what I mean?

So a few more questions, How many patients is this 1 nurse responsible for? You say she had 6 empty beds and 1 EKG needing to be done, so that is 7, but you also say the same patients were in their rooms. That means at least 8 (you said patients, not patient). Was she covering the patients of the other nurse in the trauma room?

As for trauma, if your an urgent care center, how bad was this trauma? No EMS should ever transport trauma to an urgent care center, and a walk in is usually not bad (but can be on occasion). If it is bad, it should be transfered out.

IMO, having been on both sides as a ED tech and RN, just let it go. Some nurses are lazy jerks. Some techs are lazy jerks. Some are rude and unhappy people, some are just having a bad shift. Over time you learn to ignore them and just do your job. No point in getting all huffy about it.

Venting is OK, but if you do it here, don't expect to get much sympathy for it.

I let the nurse know beforehand that I was on all the teams. I also let her know I was going to the trauma. She was in charge of 3/6 patients and did not cover any of the trauma nurses that left. It's not an urgent care center, there are just different areas and I was assigned in the "urgent care" type area for my shift as well as the other teams. So it was an actual ED trauma.

I understand what you're saying and I'm okay now, just needed to rant after a hectic shift. I'm still kind of upset when I think about it but it's really not a big deal.

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Specializes in ER.

Just curious, but what was a tech doing in a trauma for 30+ minutes? What role does your techs usually play? Are you a paramedic?

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Just curious, but what was a tech doing in a trauma for 30+ minutes? What role does your techs usually play? Are you a paramedic?

No, I'm just a tech. I had to do the initial process of obtaining vitals, blood sugar, EKG, etc. then I stayed to assist with restraining patient, continuous monitoring, grabbing whatever the nurses and doctor wanted (having pharmacy paged, etc) and didn't leave until they said they didn't need me anymore. I've been in there longer before giving chest compressions

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