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.
Clean up after yourself. Don't leave the breakroom filthy. After you eat, throw your burger wrappers, napkins, condiments, away. Throw out your pop cans, and half filled coffee cups. Why do you leave the newspaper sprawled all over the table? Did you find it that way? Just stack it up in a pile geez.
Clean up after yourself. After you give showers in the shower room, pick up the 100 towels and washclothes that you've used and take them to the soiled utility closet.
Clean up your own front porch, and keep your personal issues to yourself. Who cares? All you are doing is setting up a platform of excuses, to cover 1. why you won't be coming to work for the next 4 days, 2. why you can't do your job, while you are here.
Quit gossiping at the nurses station. It's unprofessional and you look plain stupid.
How about, if you look me in the face, say hello or something. Just don't glare, duh, we're on the same team.
Before you approach me, and I don't know you, introduce yourself, just don't come at me, with a complaint, task or what have you. I don't care who you are, manners are manners.
No one is interested in hearing your cell phone conversations, nor your irritating ring tones. Do something about it.
Put a smile on your face sometimes. Quit scowling at everyone.
Where I work, we have walkie-talkies...and when "a certain person" is at lunch, she fails to let the US/MT know...EVERY TIME! So, when one of her IV's needs attention, or a pt. needs her, she, ever so rudely, says, "I'M AT LUNCH", "CAN SOMEONE ELSE GET THAT!".
This same person ******* all the time...about her assignment, that she' not going to get a lunch, or get out on time...etc.
So, I would like to tell her to..SHUT YOUR MOUTH, WILL YA? FOR ONCE AND JUST ANSWER YOUR OWN CALL LIGHTS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES...AND QUIT YOUR ********! WE ARE ALL TIRED OF HEARING IT EVERY TIME YOU WORK! JUST DO YOUR JOB AND SHUT THE *******!
-Your patient load is not heavier than the rest of your co-workers. Stop saying that you always get 'stuck' with the worst patients.
-You wouldn't be running around sweating and huffing and puffing at the end of the shift had you done your assignments throughout your shift like the rest of us do.
-No, I won't "Give you a hand for a sec". Not anymore. I've been giving you a hand for months now and not once have you ever come in to help me when I needed it. You are on your own now.
To my fellow nursing students: yes, the patient our instructor assigned me to smells badly. Yes, she's an overweight woman with areas on her abdomen with necrotic flesh that's probably infected with MRSA. Yes, I've given her a bath, and thanks for the help you offered. Standing in the hall talking about how badly she smells really helped. No, you won't get to choose your patients when you are out of school. So if you can't handle the smell of infected wounds, poop, vomit, etc., then yes, you should probably go into another profession.
2. You are not " perfect nurse " so quit complaining about others work and worry about your own work.
3. Use an indoor voice please, the patients might want to sleep at night.
4. Even if you are the " perfect nurse ", I don't want to hear it over and over and over again.
5. We realized you were given a difficult group that is why we are asking you what we can help you with. Duh?!!!
6. Would you please let me finish report before you ask questions?!!! Jeeze I might just answer the question if you let me finish what I am trying to tell you.
7. I know you did not just walk by that call light without even looking to see if the patient was ok!
Specializes in Cardiology, Oncology, Hospice,IV Therapy.
Thanks from us night shift people for asking us to pitch in for the party on the unit during the day and then not saving one morsel for for us when we come in at 7pm, thanks for all the empty pans and utensils that need to be cleaned.:angryfire
"Can't believe anyone didn't bring this one up: Mr. Really Cute Resident: Every time I see you, I just wanna cuddle up to you! (How inappropriate, I know.)"
Heh, heh...
I have one of those....
Mr. Drop Dead Looks Like a Model Gay Man I Work With: I know you are gay, but it doesn't matter. You are absolute "eye candy". Thank you for being soooo easy on my eyes. I am just awed someone could look so PERFECT in person and not be famous... wow!!!!
2. No, the world does not revolve around you, so the next time a change in the way "things" are done don't stand there with your lip hanging out and cry "unfair".
3. You DO need to get up off your butt and provide patient care....that's what you went to school for.
4. If you're THAT unhappy with the fact that you have to deal with stressed-out, unhappy, uncomfortable and scared patients and families, perhaps you should change careers cuz the last time I checked, being sick and in hospital wasn't a lot of fun.
5. If I hear "that's not the way it used to be" one more time I'm going to snap your head off.
1. Show up to work on time. I worked all night and have stuff to do later and I want to go home just like you. Be curteous to your co workers and get to work on time. We start at 7a and 7p like we always do. This means on the floor and ready to take report not getting to the shuttle bus (day shift) or the parking garage (night shift). We would like to go home on time too.
2. Stop whining that you have so much to do. If you stopped whining about it then you would have the time to do it.
3. Stop going on and on about how you are now behind becuase you helped a co worker reposition a heavy pt, and you are now 5 minutes behind. No one made you 5 minutes behind. GET OVER IT!! A little team work goes a long way.
4. Quit whining about how behind you are and then refuse all offers of help. I saw a co worker offer you help 3 times and you said no. Then you complain no one is helping you. You were offered and YOU refused. Also when you accept said help and whatever wasn't done just the way you would have done it don't complain. You got the help you needed and NO ONE wants to help you when you do this.
5. Check your patient before you go home. I know you just got back from CT, you had to move the pt so why didn't you clean up their poop? Same for the next night when I walked in and the pt brief was full and wasnt' changed. I feel this is terrible. I had to clean up as soon as I started shift 2 days in a row. I also know pt poop at change of shift, but have NEVER left it for another nurse to clean without staying to help. I think this is uncalled for. I always leave my pt clean and dry. You should do the same.
I forgot a few things that I want to say to my coworkers, LuvonI95 reminded me of a few more things I should say.
again, I am new here so that means that I dont know you, so why don't you introduce yourself before you walk up to me with a request, complaint, question, comment or anything.
and when we pass each other in the hall and you look at me right in my face, at least say hi, smile, nod or something pleasant don't just glare at me. (girl that always wears the pink scrubs)
stop sitting around talking about which doctor, or tech that tried to ask you out, shouldn't you be training me or showing me where things are or something?
stop gossipping and backstabbing.
Didn't you guys graduate from high school over 20 years ago? do you think that it's cute for you three to wear matching printed scrub tops every wednesday because you are bestfriends.( same three that go on breaks and lunch together leaving me to answer phones and call lights by myself)
Yes, I did come to work one night and didn't have my b/p meds and made the mistake of taking my b/p in the hallway, however, I had the machine facing towards myself(and the wall) you should not have been so nosey and looked at my v/s when I obviously didn't want you to!
Yes, my skin is very fair, it turns red when I'm hot and sweaty--I'm WORKING! Not having a stroke! My b/p is actually very well under control now, not that it's any of your business!
Maybe if you'd get off your duff and get to work helping me take care of YOUR PATIENTS you'd get a little pink skinned as well!
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wildrose02
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1). I Hate you
2). I am new here, stop going on break together and leaving me to man the nurses station all by myself.
3). I am new here, I havent had a lunch break or a break since I have worked here:bluecry1:
4). stop complaining that all the "new people" are messing things up, doesnt that speak on the type of training we were given
5). why is orientation only 1 week?
6). why have so many new hires made med errors on their first day off of orientation?
7). doesnt anyone in upper management wonder why there is such a high turnover rate here
8).I Hate you
9). I Quit!!!!!!