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.
If you think "everything is so negative here" then stop fricking complaining all the time!
Going to the boss to tattle is going to bite you in the rear. Seriously. She is not your friend. She's your boss. You are NOT gaining points.
Mean people suck.
Answer your own call bells.
I'm not an idiot just because I smile, am cheerful, etc. I'm not naive. I'm not a sucker. I just actually have a happy life, a heart and a soul. I want to love my job. I actually want to get along with you, too. I know that's hard to recognize for some people.
For the most part - I work with incredible people. To them - THANK YOU! I'd trust you with my kids any day of the week (but hope that I never have to.)
I celebrate Christmas too. Come to think of it, I celebrate Easter, Thanksgiving, Memorial's Day, Independence Day, birthdays, etc. Every year. I don't CARE that you have kids and "can't" work holidays because they are out of school. So are mine. So is Suzy's. Suck it up. You'll have Christmas off next year.
Smell goods such as perfumes and body sprays are intended to be used as an ENHANCEMENT, not a cover up.
If you must wear what has to be your favorite skin tight white scrubs, please don't wear those red thongs with them. The bad boys doing work release down in maintenance are talking...Now that I think about it, ditch the leopard skin and psychedelic colored ones too.
Rule of thumb: If you can smell yourself, I can smell you. This isn't an insult, just a word of advice.
Don't take my kindness for weakness. I can be much nastier than you on any given day and walk away from the situation smiling.
Just for my knowledge: What does "turn q2h" mean to YOU?
Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.
If you want something I documented wrong right the first time, then tell me how you want it done right to begin with, OK?
That one has a corollary:
If you want something done right the first time, tell me how you want it done to begin with. Believe it or not, everything isn't done the same way everywhere.
Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.
Mean people suck.
I'm not an idiot just because I smile, am cheerful, etc. I'm not naive. I'm not a sucker. I just actually have a happy life, a heart and a soul. I want to love my job. I actually want to get along with you, too. I know that's hard to recognize for some people.
I don't think that your spouses/children/siblings/parents' lives/problems are interesting in the least, so please shut up about it. If they really bother you that much, then consider utilizing EAP services. Really.
Oh, and the newbie you hired? S/he is full of energy, enthusiasm, and compassion, so don't force him/her out of the RN ranks just yet when s/he is still learning and gaining in experience. That's what orientation is for. Be patient and s/he might teach you a thing or two.
Really it's okay when you sit at the nurses station doing Sodoku puzzles when everyone around you is running around crazy answering call-lights and bed alarms. *grumbles*
It's nice to share that you went to the drive-in movies with your boyfriend over the weekend, but I really don't need details about why you didn't get to see the movie.
I celebrate Christmas too. Come to think of it, I celebrate Easter, Thanksgiving, Memorial's Day, Independence Day, birthdays, etc. Every year. I don't CARE that you have kids and "can't" work holidays because they are out of school. So are mine. So is Suzy's. Suck it up. You'll have Christmas off next year.
LOL!
.....and don't hunt down the individuals that do NOT have kids and hound them or attempt to guilt trip them into working for you because you made the choice to have kids and now it is causing inconveniences for you.
The people without kids are on to you....they were on to you the first time you asked them to work for you on a Holiday....they know that the only reason you are so 'urgent' to track them down is to ask for more shifts to be covered.
Might be hard to grasp the concept that people that do not have kids DO have families, hobbies, outside interests and enjoy their time off, too.
if your going to call me to ask me a question please don't eat while on the phone with me. I don't need or want to hear you chewing food while asking me a question.
That is so incredibly sad.
kristenncrn
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If you think "everything is so negative here" then stop fricking complaining all the time!
Going to the boss to tattle is going to bite you in the rear. Seriously. She is not your friend. She's your boss. You are NOT gaining points.
Mean people suck.
Answer your own call bells.
I'm not an idiot just because I smile, am cheerful, etc. I'm not naive. I'm not a sucker. I just actually have a happy life, a heart and a soul. I want to love my job. I actually want to get along with you, too. I know that's hard to recognize for some people.
For the most part - I work with incredible people. To them - THANK YOU! I'd trust you with my kids any day of the week (but hope that I never have to.)