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.
I'm just an LNA, and in LPN school, but I've got a few things too.
1. Just because you're an LPN doesn't mean you're better than the rest of us and don't have to toilet people. Also, it's EVRYONE'S responsibility to answer call lights, it's facility policy. But that doesn't mean that the one time that you do actually answer a light, that you jus turn it back on and wait for one of us to come in and take her when you're fully capable of doing so. There are 60 other residents that ring lights too, and with 4 aides, we could sure use your help! How come you're THE ONLY NURSE tht doesn't answer them?!
2. When you signed up to work here, you agreed to a contract saying that you would work every other weekend, at least 2 per month. I find it very rude that you then go and request 3 other weekends off, therefor giving you 5 in a row off! It makes it so none of the rest of us that work all the time can get a night off! I also hate it how 3 of those weekends, your days off fall around them so you actually get 4 days off in a row. And then you go and complain all night about how you can't pay your rent.
3. When we're doing rounds together, please don't stand there and watch me do everything. We're doing them together for a reason. HELP ME!
So much more. But i'm typing this on my phone, so i don't want to type more! :-) Thanks for listening to me vent!
This is a private duty case. There are only three of us nurses on it. The day nurse that you claim talks about me so much also talks about you. This morning I learned where your husband REALLY is. It was volunteered information. You are the one who told me that she talks to much. Watch what you say~word gets around faster than you think.
1) Please clean up after you self everywhere. I do not need to clean the breakroom after you and I am not your mother, nor do I need to see the remains of your food.
2) Do not eat my food, snacks or drink my beverage. I bought it and I want to enjoy it. Do not laugh when I mention my missing food. I am hunger and now I have to pay for another meal.
3) Please do not put down all the new hires, talk about them behind their back, and refuse to mentor them. They and I are not stupid. We know you do like us. We are appling for other jobs and soon you will have to get off that fat butt and work :chuckle
4) I know you are mad because we kept telling you that management was noting the fact some people were sitting to much. You were rude about it, and guess what now we are down one nurse. Thank you for telling the boss how you hardly did anything today.
P.S. I think I will love the new job. People seem to be nicer and more willing to mentor
For the love of all things holy...please try to give me a good *accurate* report. Telling me someone is A&O, reg diet and up ad lib is fine, but when I walk in room and find an end stage anything, with a GT, I tend to think you may not know what you are talking about!
It's called team work people. We have to help eachother. Not everyone has a easy assignment. If you see one nurse is drownding help her.
No we do not always have a aide right now. So stop complaining, and maybe help eachother out for once.
I'm sorry I had to make changes to the assignment to accomodate pt acuity, and that makes you mad. But seriously, it is about pt safety,NOT your happiness.
Stop telling me about how everyone is out to get you, THEY AREN'T. I do not want to hear about it anymore. JUST DO YOUR JOB and then no one would complain about you.
No I can't pull additional staff out of the sky, and neither can staffing office. Stop complaining about being short staffed and get to work. If I can make a extra nurse appear I would. That would make us both a little happier now wouldn't it.
And to the doc on call who has called me for the umpteenth time about labs not showing up in the computer, THEY ARE WORKING ON IT AS FAST AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. So stop calling me so that I can get my work done. If you don't I will send out a mass email with your on call room number to all departments and encourage all staff to call your on call room extension while you are sleeping every 5 minutes and see how you like it.
This doc called me multiple times in a hour about labs last night. I had to keep reminding him that I couldn't make it happen any faster.
And to the same doc also remember that your mobile phone number isn't secret ALL in house phones have caller ID. Also departments have EVERY right to call you. DO NOT blame me for giving it out. I did not. I don't appreciate it. Remember above threat.
Also to same group of docs: When you are admitting a walkie talkie to the ICU do not expect me to let them leave the unit. Also do not expect me to let them use the staff bathroom. I will next time offer to let them sleep in your on call room and use the shower and bathroom in there. We nurses would never suggest that about your on call room so don't suggest that about our bathroom. We will not be happy. We deserve some respect.
Specializes in Infusion Nursing, Home Health Infusion.
1, "STOP lying" you have never been an IV nurse before and there is no way you know as much about this subject matter as I do. I suppose that is why you can not hit the broad side of a barn and why you have to call me every day for your STARTS. By the way, when I am done with your IV start I am going into cardiac OR to perform a bypass b/c as you know that was my last job!!!!! After that I will head into Nuero OR to remove that pesky brain tumor.
To the on-call attending: do not say "never call me before 0530 again" when I request ntg for your 1st case CABG with chest pain. Guess what, YOU are on call, and YOU are the d-bag that failed to order it. Yes, I gave it, but yes, I need an order. Also, thought you'd like to know.
And to the nurse sitting next to me, thank you, I'm sure you've worked with him for years, and he's always nice to you. His response was unacceptable and you know it.
And seriously, little dayshift nurse, don't gripe at me about every patient for whom I give you report. I did not make them sick, I am aware that they are not appropriate for our floor, and I agree that no one wants to see "90YO F w/alzheimer's and GI bleed" on their nsg worksheet, but suck it up and deal, I had to be here whist she sundowned all over the place last night. I'm sure she'll sleep alllll day in that posey, since haldol and ativan never seem to kick in until 0730.
In general: I am so sorry that this place is full of sick people! I can't believe it either! Seriously though, shut your hole and do your job. It's 24 hour nursing, punkin.
To the charge nurse - could you stop cussing and swearing all night long at the nurse's station about every other nurse in from of every other nurse? Your're supposed to be setting a tone here, aren't you?
To my pt's roommate's nurse -- can you please come in and take care of your pt -- jsut because we're sharing rooms doesn't mean I automatically deal with your pt all night because you don't seem to want to check in on her. I'm in here also because I have my own patient in the other bed. Mind checking on her now as I've got some things to get DONE. On the other hand, she and I have built a good relationship tonight -- too bad she doesn't seem to want to call on you for her needs.
after you have charted fundal height on a post partum hysterectomy as well as noting her patent iv (removed yesterday) don't expect me to ever believe a word that exits your mouth, or let you touch anyone i care about.
Please, please stop lying and telling the boss that I did this or that when you know that I didn't. It is very distressing to be blamed for something that you didn't do. Just stop lying already.
Watch what you say~word gets around faster than you think.
1, "STOP lying" you have never been an IV nurse before and there is no way you know as much about this subject matter as I do. I suppose that is why you can not hit the broad side of a barn and why you have to call me every day for your STARTS. By the way, when I am done with your IV start I am going into cardiac OR to perform a bypass b/c as you know that was my last job!!!!! After that I will head into Nuero OR to remove that pesky brain tumor.
DorothyAnn0403
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I'm just an LNA, and in LPN school, but I've got a few things too.
1. Just because you're an LPN doesn't mean you're better than the rest of us and don't have to toilet people. Also, it's EVRYONE'S responsibility to answer call lights, it's facility policy. But that doesn't mean that the one time that you do actually answer a light, that you jus turn it back on and wait for one of us to come in and take her when you're fully capable of doing so. There are 60 other residents that ring lights too, and with 4 aides, we could sure use your help! How come you're THE ONLY NURSE tht doesn't answer them?!
2. When you signed up to work here, you agreed to a contract saying that you would work every other weekend, at least 2 per month. I find it very rude that you then go and request 3 other weekends off, therefor giving you 5 in a row off! It makes it so none of the rest of us that work all the time can get a night off! I also hate it how 3 of those weekends, your days off fall around them so you actually get 4 days off in a row. And then you go and complain all night about how you can't pay your rent.
3. When we're doing rounds together, please don't stand there and watch me do everything. We're doing them together for a reason. HELP ME!
So much more. But i'm typing this on my phone, so i don't want to type more! :-) Thanks for listening to me vent!