Things you'd like to say to your co-workers, but never would ....

[SoundofMusic]

We've got a thread for what we'd like to say to our patients ... now onto what we'd like to say to a few (not all) of some of our fellow nasty nurse co-workers -- and I'm not even including our CNA's here -- I'm talking our fellow colleagues in nursing -- you know the ones I'm talking about:

1. Could some of you just be HUMAN for one day and not be out to get your fellow co-workers for one minute? How about showing a bit of forgiveness, and not walk around threatening to "write him or her UP" for every little nit picky thing you can find. It can come to bite you right back in the butt SOMEDAY.

2. Try laughing. Try some humor. Try a personality. Don't glare. Smile. Don't think I don't notice your little darting glares you throw at me all day -- I see them, and they poison my day.

3. Your co-workers are NOT the whipping board for every little thing that is wrong with your life, your relationships, your health, your finances, and your "woe is me" life problems. Take care of those at HOME and stop bringing them to work. Stop talking about them at work -- I'm seriously not into hearing about it. I have my own very real problems, but I don't burden everyone else with them. Wouldn't dream of it. But you do.

4. Could you also try siding with your co-workers and stop butt kissing the management? It's so tacky to do -- and it shows. You have no idea how very much it shows.

5. Do your job. Do your paperwork. Just do what is your responsibility on YOUR shift. Please stop leaving everything for the next nurse to "clean up." Give the extra five minutes and please clean up that chart so me, the nurse following you, does not get dragged down for the next 2 hours trying to fix it.

6. Try looking out for your fellow co-workers, and just not so much yourself. Work CAN be fun. Work can be full of camraderie and good will -- if folks like you could just be cleared out and re-trained. Nursing COULD be so much different -- if you'd just get out of your other-destructive patterns.

I don't have as many years in nursing as i'm sure some of you do -- but I'd love to hear more... I hope to God I don't recognize myself in any of these comments, or ever will.

[BlueRidgeHomeRN]

[quote=cursenurse;2902545

forget cuddling up, there is one staff doctor anytime i talk to him about anything all i can think is that i would have sex with you right now on this desk! .

yep..sometimes a little mental mini-vacation gets you thru the day!!

[nervousnurse, ASN]

oooh, sex on the DESK....me likey!:loveya: I work with a guy who is NICE to look at....too bad I'm usually too busy to notice! LOVE the fundal height on a hysterectomy, and the glass eye--OMG, and I LOVE the pedal pulse on the bka.....

Before I start, I have to say I have some GREAT coworkers and I'm usually a cheerful gal and love to make my coworkers laugh----HOWEVERRRR---

**Yes, there's a PHYSIOLOGICAL reason that we ONLY use 10 cc syringes to flush PICC lines----and uh, if you don't believe me, just read the POLICY MANUAL!!! THEN, do a little research as to WHY we only use 10cc syringes----it'll make you realize why we TRIED to tell you---it wasn't just to pick on YOU---wasn't about YOU----we're trying to watch out for your PATIENTS!!!

**PLEASE stop sitting at the nurse's station with your legs wide open (female), complaining about your personal problems, and SIGHING because you're bored while we're all running our butts off!"

**PLEASE don't tell me you've been applying medication to this poor man's MULTIPLE stage II decubiti----First of all, NO order was ever written, there's none in the med cart, and none at his bedside.....oh, and by the WAY------do you REALLY not know about turning him Q 2 hours? :angryfire

**PLEASE stop talking about your new house, new pool, and vacation you're going on....it's ALL you've talked about since you started here a WEEK ago, and we're already sick of it.......Some of our fellow employees are struggling to make ends meet, and YES---I make the same as you, and everyone KNOWS what RNs make, so STOP BRAGGING!!! I have never nor will ever BRAG about my salary---it's TACKY!!!

And.....to that same nurse----you might try and ask people "how are YOU today?" instead of telling us all your credentials and bragging about the aforementioned material things (I SWEAR this brand new nurse does NOTHING but talk about what she's gonna buy, all the credentials she has, oh yea.....and is already complaining of BOREDOM while we run our butts off!) Hey honey-----you're alienating everyone and you've only been here two weeks!!!

[djc1981]

All these dreams about the doctors! How sexist! jk:p. In retaliation...how about a random "Oh, I love all these hot, thin, young graduate nurses. So naive and doe-eyed, just looking for help at any turn. And every May a new batch! Yummy!"

[nervousnurse, ASN]

oh yes, and one I forgot------our protocol is to get blood cultures x2 with a temp of 102 or more....

When he spiked a 101.9 last night at midnight and you didn't think rechecking was necessary, don't be surprized if I look irritated 7 hours later, he's now a 103 AND his wife is complaining that no one rechecked his temp all night----

I don't have ANYTHING else to do first thing in the morning but draw blood cultures anyway, and I'm SURE his wife won't be yelling at me the entire time! I'm SURE

she'll just bring me a cappucino and some danish as I explain to her in my sweetest voice that there;'s just NO WAY you could've gotten cultures when her husband's temp was ONE TENTH of a degree off! And then I'm sure she'll smile and say she understands why no one took his extra covers and socks off, didn't encourage incentive spirometry, TCDB, or maybe got him some fresh ice water...

And when the wife says "what's incentive spirometry?" and I explain it, I'm SURE she'll understand and smile when she realizes no one ever thought to look in the bedside drawer to find it and actually TEACH him to use it.....I'm sure she and her husband who now has pneumonia will be perfectly happy and recommend us to everyone they know! :angryfire

[BlueRidgeHomeRN]

"oh, i love all these hot, thin, young graduate nurses. so naive and doe-eyed, just looking for help at any turn. and every may a new batch! yummy!"

except many gn's are now 3o-something, well-rounded mommies!!

[SoundofMusic]

forget cuddling up, there is one staff doctor anytime i talk to him about anything all i can think is that i would have sex with you right now on this desk!

yikes. can you imagine all the clatter in the nursing station if this were to ever happen?? :heartbeat:redpinkhe:specs:

rofl!!!!

there is one in our area that is so gosh darned handsome - except that he's total and utter a**. everyone hates him -- if he only knew how lovely he was and could at least adjust his personality to match his looks.

[ohmeowzer RN, RN]

1. since your the charge nurse today and have so much free time to make posters and clean around the nurses station and talk on yor cell phone and tell me how bored you are... why don't you try helping us on the floor who are working their butts off , ask if you can hang a iv or do a blood sugar , or help with one of the many admits you gave me

2. for the oncoming shift , stop rolling your eyes at me when i don't know all the answers about the pt .. why don't read the history and physical and be kinder to me after a long hard day...and i am exhausted.. just let me go home

[nervousnurse, ASN]

How about----I realize you're agency and maybe this isn't your regular type of floor---so instead of laughing and telling me I'm "obsessed" with my QUADRAPLEGIC patients' urine and stool output, ask me WHY I REALLLLLLLLLLY do need to know this or their doctor is going to have a COW when she makes rounds in the morning!!! I'll nicely give you VERY brief (I promise!) education on autonomic dysreflexia.....thanks! :)

Now, pleeeease dont laugh and say I'm obsessed----just tell me about my patients' bowel and bladder output on your shift so I know whether to start their day w/ caths and laxatives....thanks!!!

[santhony44, MSN, RN, NP]

To the Drama Queens: Just because I don't throw my hands up in the air and frantically run around in circles, all excited, it doesn't mean I don't understand the seriousness, or potential seriousness, of the situation. It just means I'm not competing with you for the Oscar. Thanks.

For the troublemakers- if you recognize yourselves, you know who you are: you have no idea how truly, truly happy I am that I can leave, and you are stuck with your miserable selves. I'd wish you a happy life, but that would be a waste of breath. You will never get the kind of co-workers you want, because no one will ever live up to whatever standards you set. You don't, yourselves, and you don't even know it. In the words of a friend of mine, if I could buy you for what you're worth, and sell you for what you think you're worth, I'd make a fortune. You will always undermine everyone who comes in contact with you. I'm sorry for them, sorry for you, and very happy for me.

[neko11111]

Get your ~orifice~ out of the break room and answer your own call lights, fix your own beeping pumps, and watch your own sundowners -

Quite Frankly, I'm sick and tired of doing this every night that I'm scheduled to work with you!!! I've got my own assignment to cover.

[kbnocturna]

If you'd stop running your mouth about how behind and overwhelmed you are, you'd have plenty of time to get caught up!

[SoundofMusic]

if you'd stop running your mouth about how behind and overwhelmed you are, you'd have plenty of time to get caught up!

i think i'd like to see this made into a t-shirt . . . that i could wear to work!