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.
Specializes in Did the job hop, now in MS. Not Bad!!!!!.
How about doing your job instead of sucking up to the boss. Your lips are on the bosses backside so much that it's becoming an infection control issue.
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First time I laughed since reading every single vent here. As they all ring true to my own experiences. Wish I could offer something new, but y'all have hit the nails on the "heads".
Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
How about doing your job instead of sucking up to the boss. Your lips are on the bosses backside so much that it's becoming an infection control issue.
:yeah::bowingpurThis, in particular, is on the money!! There are at least three people who I don't want to kiss me or even shake my hand at this point for the exact issue...
1. sure I can get your new tubing for the plts you just walked into the patient room with cause you're in isolation. you need something else just as i get up to get what you asked? sure, I'll get your dilaudid syringe too, just give me moment to check your MAR. Hmm? you need something else? oh no? okay....Oh, you need your plts PREMEDICATIONS too...of course, I will check your MAR and pull them up for you....but i just have one thing to say: I DON'T MIND GETTING ONE OR TWO THINGS FOR YOUR BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL GOWNED UP, BUT SERIOUSLY NOW. IF YOU FORGOT SO MANY THINGS YOU NEED TO UNDRESS GO BACK TO YOUR STATION FIGURE IT OUT AND DO IT YOURSELF! AT THIS POINT AM I HIS NURSE OR ARE YOU? AND HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO GO INTO THE ROOM READY TO GIVE PLTS AFTER DOUBLE VERIFICATION AND THEN REALIZE YOU HAVE NO SETUP NOR HAVE YOU PREMED-ED YOUR PATIENT! IT IS NOT OKAY TO ASK SOMEONE TO LOOK UP AND PULL YOUR MULTIPLE MEDS JUST BECAUSE ITS INCONVENIENT FOR YOU TO GOWN UP AGAIN. JUST BECAUSE I'M CHARTING DOESN'T MEAN I'M NOT BUSY. AND JUST BECAUSE I CAN HELP YOU OUT ONCE IN A WHILE DOESN'T MEAN ITS OKAY FOR YOU TO KEEP CALLING MULTIPLE TIMES FROM YOUR PATIENT ROOM FOR THINGS EVERYTIME YOU WORK A SHIFT. OTHER NURSES DON'T APPRECIATE THIS EITHER
2.stop gossiping. its not classy. I was there to witness the same insignificant probably unintentional actions/attitude/comments you witnessed and didn't give it a second thought until you brought it up again.
The Dr. that you are sleeping with? The one that makes you think you are all that because he's a big and mighty MD? The one that you dress to impress with your tight Henley button down shirt tucked into your tight scrubs? Yeah, that one. He's short and bald and really not a big catch. So I'm not really gonna bow down and worship you because of that. In fact, we all secretly laugh about you behind your back.
Oh, and I caught him grinning at the new sweet young thang so you are probably going by bye!
2. just because you "wouldn't treat my kids like that" if you had any is not a reason to call children's aid on a family.
3. patient's are here because they are sick...no, they can't be discharged home because they are annoying you.
4. chronic illness means just that---it's not going to magically go away. yes, they will be back and no, they aren't earning frequent flyer miles and certainly aren't being readmitted so they can spend some more quality time with you.
5. if you're really that unhappy with being a nurse, maybe you should check out another profession where you don't have to interact with people.
Specializes in Rehab, Neuro, Travel Nurse, Home Care.
Picture This:
I'm running around caring for my patients, looking like a chicken with its head cut off. The rest of the nurses are reading magazines, surfing the web, on the phone, and gossiping at the desk. If the call bell rings and it's my patient, Please, please don't answer it and say "your nurse will be with you" and then never tell me. They just do it just to shut the bell off. Either help me, come get me, or stop giving one nurse all the patients that :redbeathe the call bell!!!!
Specializes in Pain Management, RN experience was in ER.
No ICU nurse, I'm NOT interfering with your assessment that you are attempting while we're trying to give you report on this patient we just brought from the ER. I'm trying to let you know baseline information of a new stroke patient that when he came in to the ER he was only answering yes or no questions. You might want to know that when completing further assessments to compare his progress/decline! You witch, don't bark at me when you have us waiting for 10 minutes and I offer this bit of information when you become frustrated with this patient because he can't answer your questions. UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH. ESPECIALLY WHEN I SAID IT NICELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The next time you decide to go off on a completely racist rampage about how awful our Hasidic/Orthodox parents are, and how they're sadistic and selfish because their religion doesn't permit withdrawal of care no matter how much the parents want to do the right thing, and how disgusting you find the kosher treats they bring in to be nice, and how offensive you find it that it makes the men uncomfortable when you touch them, would you mind directing it at someone who ISN'T JEWISH?
I... may have gone into the clean utility room and thrown a package of diapers against the wall after one of those. I'm not proud.
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:bowingpurThis, in particular, is on the money!! There are at least three people who I don't want to kiss me or even shake my hand at this point for the exact issue...
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Chloe'sinNYNow
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:fnypst:
First time I laughed since reading every single vent here. As they all ring true to my own experiences. Wish I could offer something new, but y'all have hit the nails on the "heads".
:lol:
Peace y'all!!
Chloe
RN-BSN, BA