Tech vs Tech

[WCSU1987]

Not sure what I should do. Here is the situation today tech called me out raising her voice saying I gave a patient six ice cream, only giving the patient 3.

The tech has done this multiple times. One incident criticizing a group I was facilitating with patients in front of the patients. Another time yelling at me to print patient stickers. I tried to explain I had to transfer the patient to our unit.

I want to talk to the manager. However, the tech should be going soon and it's a small unit word gets around. Happen once to me on another place I worked where I mentioned something and the person I spoke up about I feel had a vendetta against me the whole time. So I am a bit apprehensive.

[umbdude, MSN, APRN]

It's terrible to have to work with someone like that. Since she's leaving soon, I would be tempted to keep my mouth shut. If she's not leaving and she does this regularly, I would ask her to stop raising her voice and criticizing me in front of the patients. It's very unprofessional and puts patients in an awkward position.

[funtimes]

Well if they're leaving soon, it shouldn't matter if they have a vendetta against you since they'll be gone shortly anyway. Maybe the complaint will expedite their departure.

Always amazes me the pettiness of some people. Who gets upsets and raises their voice over a patient getting ICE CREAM. Really? I mean its one thing to point out it wasn't helping the patient, but to get upset over it?

That is EXACTLY why the only tech job I didn't hate was in the ER. The floors and ICUs are full of people of nitpicky type A stress mongers like that, both RNs and techs. At least in the ED those people were usually weeded out and either fired or pushed out of the ED and onto a floor unit.