Unfortunately, I'm stuck working with her every shift and I can't get away from her. Let me start out by saying that I really love all of the nurses on my floor except for this one and another one. The two that I don't care for are always up my rear end to give THEIR patients priority in everything (baths, rounds, water passing, linens, etc.), and if I don't jump to what they want, they never let me forget it and stay on my rear all shift long until I do what they want. They seem to forget while they have 3-4 patients max, I have 18. They don't want to account for real life things (beds needing changed, patients needing changed, vitals need done, post op vitals being done, etc.), they want THEIR patients taken care of and RIGHT NOW. I'm changing a bed, too bad, they can wait, their patients need a bath, their patients need this, need that, (which they really don't, and they can wait till I pull a patient up, get a blood sugar, etc.)
Last night, nurse was on my rear end because patient missed the bedpan, and I was changing her gown and pad, and I didn't snap the gown sleeves first (Patient had an IV) on one shoulder. Later on, patient had to have a Foley inserted, and she said to me "You can strap it to her leg". Um.... excuse me... never done this before.. I said please show me how, I've never done this before. She got all snotty with me and said "Just WHAT did they teach you in your class?" What would have been a perfect chance to teach turned out to be yet another incident that made me start thinking maybe I need to change jobs, and rethink nursing as a career. Can anyone offer some advice as to how to deal with this (fill in the blank) nurse? :angryfire
I don't want to bring this to my boss' attention because it will make me look like a whiner, and difficult to get along with, which I really am not. Usually I'm always happy to help the nurses and do whatever they ask. Of course, the other ones are nicer at asking than this one and the other one.
