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

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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.

[bassandtea]

For a fellow nursing student... If somebody who works hard and spends a lot of time studying fails an assessment you do not need to go and tell everybody else in the program that she failed. You especially should not go around telling everybody that she failed with such joy when you have been known to pick up her books and copy her answers without even bothering to ask. (we are allowed to share results of the activities in one class, but this person just picks up peoples books and copies answers)

[KarynicaRN]

here's my few:

"if you can't hear the iv and feeding pumps beeping because you can't hear anymore, why don't you quit being a registered nurse? nobody said you had to work until you were 80. you are going on 75 now and it's about time you quit or we will be finding a bed for you!"

"if you don't like it when you go on break and i take over for you and answer your patients families questions and then you threaten to leave the facility and walk off the job, then just do it! yes, i can do your job and mine!"

"get off your orifice and do something about resident in room 100! you can't sit here all day long and eat oranges and not take care of your residents, and no i will not give your patient an injection or put on their condom cath just because you don't want to do it or don't know how because when i showed you how to do it, you walked out of the room in the middle of the procedure! what nursing school let you graduate anyway?"

argggg!!!!

[BrnEyedGirl, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

WOW!! I must admit that I work with a pretty great group of professionals! I thank them for putting up with my loud mouth and tendancy to talk too much,....hhhmmmm,....may be a few of my coworkers posting here,

[santhony44, MSN, RN, NP]

I don't know why you suddenly decided to be sweet as pie to me, but you might as well stop.

When you thought you were talking about me behind my back, I actually happened to be standing right behind yours.

[Dolce, RN]

Please do not spend your shift sitting at the nurse's station gossiping about other nurses who sit around at the nurse's station. There is something very contradictory about it.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

~ your shift starts at 0700, not 0710. i want to leave, too, and i know that if i came in at 1900 and drank coffee and gossiped for ten minutes before report, you wouldn't be happy!

~ no, my patient admitted with hyperglycemia cannot have juice as an in-between meal snack. that's right, no kind of juice. we went through the same nursing program - how don't you know this?

~ i am busy doing chart checks, checking labs and doing flowsheets, so if the call bell rings and you are the pct designated to that room and you're presently doing nothing, don't expect me to get it.

~ if my patient has vital signs out of the normal range, please let me know, rather than just documenting it and hoping i have a chance to see the 0600 vitals before shift change...or at least before the surgical residents do!

~ please check your incontinent patients often and care for them as needed. i know it's hard to do this every two hours, but make sure to get the last round in before the next shift arrives.

~ when you sign the chart stating that you've performed a chart check, make sure that you have, in fact, completed it. i know i'm responsible for the 24 hour chart check, but i'd rather you not get to your shift check then sign it without doing it!

~ i know you're supernurse and soooo busy but just because i didn't put out the supplies for the dressing change you must complete during your shift doesn't mean i'm evil. (i'm evil for other reasons!)

~ similarly, don't "leave it to day shift" or any other shift for that matter. all shifts have ups and downs, but we need to work together! (it may seem like i hate day shift, but i've worked maybe 3 of those, i was a 7p-7a'r...i know midnight has issues).

~ clear your pumps! i understand i have an obsession with i's & o's, and i wouldn't forget to do this, but that doesn't mean we all lack this responsibility. it may not be life-saving, but it takes very little time!

~ when people are pulled to your floor, roll out the red carpet for them! even if they are dumb and mean, they are doing you a favor, are your guests, and should be treated as such! i say this as a welcome wagon for those pulled and a pullee!

shutting up now,

jess

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To the PCAs, HCAs, NAs or whatever they call you: I make more money than you do because I went to school for 4 years, took out thousands in loans and work more than fulltime because I have to stay when you go home (I am the only RN).

To the PCAs and above, I worry about meds, treatments, dressings, orders, xrays, labs, DNRs, levels of care, supervising and replacing staff, charting, MAR, pharmacy orders. YOU worry about the BMs, call the kitchen to order or cancel trays, make beds, answer call bells when I am unable, and stop thinking that you are the nurse and need to constantly make yourself feel important because you could have gone to school but for some unknown reason would rather be mad at me for going and finishing and making more money.

To the PCAs who think we really don't need RNs in LTC, bite me!

To the RNs who have nothing better to do than audit charts and MARs to catch my mistakes, but neglect their own dressings and charting, PLEASE do your own work and leave me alone.

To the schedulers, I TOO have a life outside of work, and NO I don't want to work 7 12 hr shifts in a row, or every weekend of my life, and YES I do expect OT when I am here over 44 hrs per week or 80 per pay period. That's life, it's not my fault that I make decent money, I earned it by going to school.

To the Managers, see above, and realize that yes, I do expect you to make an effort to grant the vacation I requested. Other professions take time off, and so should Nurses.

[bethin]

Stop whining, you sound like a 2 year old and it sounds unprofessional.

Just because I'm nearing 30 and unmarried doesn't mean I want to be set up with your leftovers. I'm not that desperate...yet.

Demean me in front of others again and I'll break your nose.

[husker_rn, RN]

Pick up after yourself so I don't have to clean up in order to chart.

Restock when you use the last of something .

And for God's sake, take care of that IV that's been beeping forever !!

[CseMgr1, ASN, RN]

If you want something I documented wrong right the first time, then tell me how you want it done right to begin with, OK?

[pagandeva2000, LPN]

You whine and talk too much. (I actually did this)

Why don't you quit to make my life easier?

Yes, Ms. Nursing Administrator, I have a computer game where I shoot pictures of you with my mouse. You are full of bullets and it was therapeutic for me. Don't push me, or I'll make it real.

Your children are not more important than mine.

I think you got your license from a used matchbook.

I hate you.

Let's stop pretending and allow me to tell you how much you really disgust me.

[pagandeva2000, LPN]

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