Sometimes its the little things that make me wanna lose it!!

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Let me start by saying that every day that I work I go into each of my patients room and greet them for the day and introduce myself and that i'm there nurse, than I write it on the dry erase board in all of there room along with my phone's number for the day so that im available if needed. So than why is it that I've been called transport or even their tech. I dont think anything is wrong with either of these positions and maybe its just a me thing but I worked my butt off for that RN behind my name and I dang well nurse recignition of it! First of all I dont understand at all how I could be considered someone from transport when I worked with the patient all day passing meds and doing any needed procedures with that pt. But mainly what ticked me off to know end is when I went into one of my patients rooms had just provided her discarge teaching when she received a phone call as I was by this point removing her IV when I hear her say to her ride "oh I'll be done in just a minute, Im just wait for the tech here to finish and then I have to see my real nurse." I was fumming to say the least but i delt with it and just finished the task at hand, discharged her and havn't seen her since. I swear I could have been jumping up and down yelling hey hey its me, me I'm your nurse ahh hello didnt you think it wierd that i was giving you meds, pulled your ng and Iv and was giving you d/c teaching????????????? for petes sake what does it take to get some credit??? I feel as though i will forever be :banghead:

Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.
They tried to do something similar at my workplace, but the nurses shot it down. I personally like the idea, but everyone would have to be on board with it, otherwise it wouldn't work.

We have navy blue for nurses and maroon for aides. I really like it! At my last job they had just started with uniforms and they chose one color for aides and nurses. I think that adds to these types of confusions.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.

I think I'd like it too. I'm kind of bummed nobody else was on board with it. But then, I'd also like to see scripting for CNAs. Too many of ours just pop in at the beginning of the shift and wordlessly change the names on the greaseboard, then zip back out again without checking to see if the patient has water or needs to use the toilet. I'll go in a few minutes later to do my assessment, give meds, and do whatever teaching needs done, and the patient asks me for the water, the trip to the bathroom, a warm blanket, etc. Not that I am above doing those things, but it's kind of annoying sometimes when the aide was JUST in there two seconds ago. I think that often, the patient thinks the nurse does everything, and doesn't know who the aide is or what their function is.

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They almost never know who is who. We do have color coding at my hospital and we still have patients who will ask housekeeping who has just swept their room and emptied their trash if they can get them a pain med or call the doctor. lol I wouldn't be too offended by it.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pedi., Critical Care.

We didn't get to vote if we wanted color coded scrubs, it was an executive decision! However, they did give us money to buy our first three sets of scrubs! That was really nice!

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

I really can't stand when the previous shifts nurse leaves in a infiltrated IV, but just disconnects it. Drives me nuts. Seriously just restart the darn thing. I can see if you tried and weren't able to get a new one, but at least you tried.

I had a nurse do this to me and a orientee last week. I couldn't finish listening to report because I kept thinking why the heck didn't she restart the IV? I know the pt can be uncooperative at times, but I just sweet talked him alittle and voila I got a IV in, and only one stick.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

Some people are just that lazy.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

Trauma,

I can't believe how lazy some are.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.
Some nurses don't like this but a few years ago we went to color coded scrubs. Nurses wear blue and/or white, techs wear teal and/or beige, etc... Personally, I love it.

I like color-coded scrubs, too, as long as they aren't white. White scrubs shows every stain and (if you have dark skin) everything underneath.

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