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're going to chart that you bathed and did a linen change on a patient, don't leave the the same fresh gown/linen change I got for you in the chair for me to find 24 hours later.
If I ask you a really simple question about insulin administration, it's for one of two reasons -- either I don't know how to give an insulin injection (WRONG), or I'm trying to keep you from giving insulin to the WRONG BED without alarming the patient (RIGHT).
Don't be such a jerk all the time. You don't know everything and you don't know all the things I have to do as part of my job while you just sit there surfing the internet or talking. Hey, I know, maybe you could get up and actually help me.
Stop being so judgmental and stop talking about people behind their back. Also, there are many things that are none of your business so butt out. Similarly, no one cares about every minute detail of your life, so shut up!
Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.
The universe doesn't revolve around you. Really, it doesn't.
Just because there are a few- a very few- things you know that I don't, does not make me stupid. I have, in fact, a far broader and deeper knowledge base than you do. Just because my ego doesn't require me to boast about it, doesn't mean I don't have it. So far, I have managed to treat you like the petty thing you are. You are, however, rapidly approaching my tolerance limit. If you talk down to me one more time, someone is likely to be prying my hands from around your neck.
You know, I really didn't have anything to add to this post until yesterday....
To my co-worker: Sweetie, yes, I know...we're all behind on our charting.
When I have to politely ask 4 people to help me turn my 480lb patient because he can't do it himself and is wedged in a regular bed because the bariatric one has not arrived, it means I can't do it by myself with the 100lb tech.
Please don't stand there, in the room mind you, and keep discussing why you can't be here and trying to call other people on your cell to replace you. I've asked everyone already, including a nurse from another hall because the other nurse said she was too busy with HER paperwork.....
For the amount of time you spent trying to get out of it, we could've had him turned, sheets changed, wiped, and a visual skin assessment done....oh, and you'd already be back to your charting.
I've helped you with your 350 pounder who has a heavy finger with the call light....just shut up and help.
Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.
must be the same miracle that allows one to find a fundal height on a hystectomy patient...
when i was a graduate student, i did think i'd lost my mind when i was doing a pap on a post-hysterectomy patient and found a cervix! my preceptor explained that, some years back, for reasons best known to them, some surgeons actually did leave a partial cervix. a fundus, of course, would be a miracle indeed!
And, if you don't think it is my job to empty out the trash cans, then take my name off the Cleanup Rotation Schedule. That will give you one less thing to tell me that I've done wrong for the week. :angryfire
And from this morning's LOVELY shift change:angryfire...If I tell you a person is having completely asymptomatic sinus pauses, and you jump on the phone to the doc without waiting for me to finish, don't jump me when he jumps YOU for someone with sleep apnea and a known atrial defect causing...you guessed it...sinus pauses. I saw something weird, and I ran a 12 lead EKG on the pt at 3 in the morning, read both the current chart and their old one from last stay, consulted my charge AND the MD who was in the hallway due to another pt having problems, and we all agreed the pt's doc didn't need to be awakened. You heard two words and overreacted. Yes, I'm new, but you're the one who called the doc before you even went in the person's room....
File this one under, "How the hell can you assess the pt from the nurse's station?"
Just because you have spent 20 years on the same ward, it doesn't mean you can sit on your backside and expect everyone to do everything for you. Daily obs means "daily"...anytime in the 24 hour period is good. Sometimes it gets busy and I just dont have time to get everything done. Morning shift is not there to do your afternoon jobs as well as ours. BTW when was the last time you did a morning shift? ...Thats right you would have to lift a finger.
No I didn't write those obs in the chart, it is on my planning sheet because the chart has been down in the pharmacy for the last three hours. No I am sure that they wont change if I transcibe them when the chart returns.
Things have changed since you completed your nursing training, we have got rid of the veil and men are allowed to do this job. Please move with the times, just cos Auntie Flo (Nightingale) did it that way, doesn't mean there isn't a better way....such as the hospital policy manual way.
To everyone else...if that one gets to me I apologise for my rudeness, it is better I internalise my anger than vent. You wouldn't like the results of that!
Sorry everyone that was harsh but felt soooo good! Most of the staff I work with are awesome and I would have to try hard to find fault with them, not that I would want to.
nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN
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If you're going to chart that you bathed and did a linen change on a patient, don't leave the the same fresh gown/linen change I got for you in the chair for me to find 24 hours later.
If I ask you a really simple question about insulin administration, it's for one of two reasons -- either I don't know how to give an insulin injection (WRONG), or I'm trying to keep you from giving insulin to the WRONG BED without alarming the patient (RIGHT).