If you cannot stay awake all night, perhaps you should switch to day shift. Even when I was in class all day I managed to stay up all night.
PLEASE be ready for report at 7am. Have your stuff put away and your clip board ready by then, and be done praying for a good day. I'm all for praying to your higher power, but not when it's already 0720 and I've waited while you did a bunch of other getting-ready things that should've already been done and answered a call from your out of state family. I'd get it if it were unusual and might be an emergency, but this is a daily occurence. Have them call to wish you a great day earlier!
Where did you learn how to spell? We all make typos, but it's ANEMIA, not eneamia, and IRRIGATE, not igrigate.
Just because you have a BSN And I have an ADN doesn't make you a better new grad nurse than I am. We still had the same clinicals, at the same hospitals, on the same units. But if you want to look down your nose at me, perhaps I should remind you my school has a 94% pass rate, and yours is 80%, and your school almost lost their accreditation? But why would I? We both graduated and passed the same nclex!
Don't treat the LPN's like they are glorified CNA's and sending them to do things you think you are above. It is so disrespectful. They can do almost everything we can as RNs, and many are using it as a bridge and are in RN programs in this area because it is the only way to get into school around here. I was never an LPN, but I have worked with plenty who were just as good if not better than some of the RNs I worked with!
PLEASE stop leaving orders for the next shift. The order was written at noon, or two, or whatever, plenty of time to have done it. Blood doesn't always need to be saved for night shift. Neither does giving an enema that was timed for 10AM. There are a lot of us who hate following you, because you do this on every patient!
I really do love the group I normally work with, but we all know there are a few bad apples! It's been that way at every job in every industry I have worked in, and it really is cathartic to vent!
There is nothing fun about anything that is posted above. It's mean. Hateful. Some things we think should never be given a voice. It's called discretion.
I wouldn't say it even if I could get away with it.
I would! I think some of those things frequently, but I know I could never, never get away with actually SAYING it.
And it IS fun, because maybe one in a million wouldn't love to say what's actually on their mind.
This post reminded me of a cartoon with little "thought bubbles" above the nurse's head.
Oooooooo what I would LOVE to say, but just bite my tongue and smile!
People need to get with the times. I use my smartphone (as do a lot of new Docs, nurses, RT's etc) to look up meds, procedures, etc. I have a fantastic med guide on there called Lexi complete as well as Davis Drug guide and Tabers medical dictionary. This is the only thing I use my smartphone for while at work. Its a lot faster that looking for a drug guide and flipping through thousands of pages to find what I want. It makes me much more efficient to have massive databases of information literally at my fingertips.
So don't "report me" just because you can't get with the times.
I agree with that plenty of people are looking up legit stuff on their phones and using them as pda's, but I think the poste meant the ones who are texting or playing games and stuff all the time
What I would love to say to all the social workers, PTs, OTs, etc who decide to 'go home a bit early' just (coincidentally) b4 a long weekend and leave us with all the patients:
You know, you signed up here to work. You actually signed a contract saying you will work so many hours per fortnight. We HAVE to work them. Yes, we do get paid for working weekends, I agree. But what really p****s me off, is when I page a SW, PT, whoever only to wait and wait with no answer, then when I ring the departmet, find out you have gone for the day because 'you suddenly were not feeling well', or 'you deserved to go early'. Surely ALL of you can't have been given permission to go home early b4 a long weekend by your head of department! (and the head has probably gone home early too). I am a nurse, not a combined SW, PT, cleaner and counsellor rolled into one. And no I don't get paid EXTRA for doing all of that!
I actually c/o this situation one day when I worked on a hospice ward as the unit secretary, there was a mum and daughter standing in the corridor crying as Dad had JUST THAT MINUTE died, no nurses, SWs there or anyone to help them. I had finished work and was trying to run off to my own birthday party (where I had people meeting up with me), but had to stay back cos of this poor woman and her mum collapsing on the floor with grief. Nobody at the party minded waiting for me to get there, but when I complained about the lack of SWs I was actually told by the very snotty, senior SW (who had gone home early that day as well!), that 'SWs don't work weekends'. That was IT. I think a whole audit should be done re people who leave work early all the time b4 holidays, or who just never seem to be around on a Friday afternoon - I used to get really angry about it.
Left that place not long after, as my contract fin anyway, thank God.
You are such an awesome NP! How can you work for Dr. CV Surgeon? He is so arrogant. If he rolls his eyes at me or abruptly ends our phone conversation one more time, I swear I'm gonna punch him in the nose!
To one of the charge nurses: Your controlling anal attitude makes me feel sorry for your wife/kids. If your face and bald head gets any redder, I think it will explode!
You always give me a "To Do List" during your report, yet get unraveled if I leave anything for you to do.
Please just collect the urine that was ordered at 1745. I'm sorry, I just didn't get to it. FYI: I cried in the bathroom earlier today because I have had.. the...worst... shift... of my career. You are better staffed tonight than we were during the day. I had a 7 minute lunch and literally ran from room to room. I already feel like I gave crappy care today because I was putting out fires all day. My spirit is broken and you are making me feel worse.
I love it when you are here. You always ask if I need help and let me know that I am doing a good job.
People need to get with the times. I use my smartphone (as do a lot of new Docs, nurses, RT's etc) to look up meds, procedures, etc. I have a fantastic med guide on there called Lexi complete as well as Davis Drug guide and Tabers medical dictionary. This is the only thing I use my smartphone for while at work. Its a lot faster that looking for a drug guide and flipping through thousands of pages to find what I want. It makes me much more efficient to have massive databases of information literally at my fingertips.
So don't "report me" just because you can't get with the times.
But make sure you tell others that is what you are looking up, otherwise if co-workers don't know, that is why they get annoyed.
Specializes in Acute Spine, Neuro, Thoracic's, LTC.
But make sure you tell others that is what you are looking up, otherwise if co-workers don't know, that is why they get annoyed.
I don't think I should have to explain this to people who know nothing about the uses of technology ever single time I want to look something up. We are professionals people!
To the ancillary depts: I get annoyed when you send out your "The Education Dept, Admitting Dept or the Administration Dept (or whatever Dept) will be closed in observance of the XXX holiday! (Memorial Day, Easter, Good Friday, Christmas Eve, Fourth of July, etc..) when it isn't a recognized paid holiday for those in direct-care positions. Especially, when we are working without holiday pay and our family and friends are off of work and BBQing, popping fireworks, going to church or just relaxing at home.
P.S. Don't flame me. I knew what I got into 21 years ago when I became a nurse. It still stings a little when I read the emails.
I'm confused, what is wrong with braiding your hair? How is it different from pulling it back any other way? I'd rather see it up/back somehow than down and swinging into sterile fields and lord only knows what else.
Depends on what you mean by braiding. It's a "fashion statement" here to braid tiny locks of hair from the roots, close to the head, and then secure the braids at the back. This style stays in place for weeks, sometimes months, without the braids being taken out to wash the hair properly. Yes, they wash their heads, but the individual strands stay braided.
The final "decision maker" for me was when I stood behind a middle-aged woman in a queue once and saw a species of vermin crawling about amongst the braids..... Yes, they look very nice, very cute, and the younger girls sometimes bead their hair as well, but I simply cannot see how it is possible for them to keep their hair clean.
LoneWolfRN2010
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If you cannot stay awake all night, perhaps you should switch to day shift. Even when I was in class all day I managed to stay up all night.
PLEASE be ready for report at 7am. Have your stuff put away and your clip board ready by then, and be done praying for a good day. I'm all for praying to your higher power, but not when it's already 0720 and I've waited while you did a bunch of other getting-ready things that should've already been done and answered a call from your out of state family. I'd get it if it were unusual and might be an emergency, but this is a daily occurence. Have them call to wish you a great day earlier!
Where did you learn how to spell? We all make typos, but it's ANEMIA, not eneamia, and IRRIGATE, not igrigate.
Just because you have a BSN And I have an ADN doesn't make you a better new grad nurse than I am. We still had the same clinicals, at the same hospitals, on the same units. But if you want to look down your nose at me, perhaps I should remind you my school has a 94% pass rate, and yours is 80%, and your school almost lost their accreditation? But why would I? We both graduated and passed the same nclex!
Don't treat the LPN's like they are glorified CNA's and sending them to do things you think you are above. It is so disrespectful. They can do almost everything we can as RNs, and many are using it as a bridge and are in RN programs in this area because it is the only way to get into school around here. I was never an LPN, but I have worked with plenty who were just as good if not better than some of the RNs I worked with!
PLEASE stop leaving orders for the next shift. The order was written at noon, or two, or whatever, plenty of time to have done it. Blood doesn't always need to be saved for night shift. Neither does giving an enema that was timed for 10AM. There are a lot of us who hate following you, because you do this on every patient!
I really do love the group I normally work with, but we all know there are a few bad apples! It's been that way at every job in every industry I have worked in, and it really is cathartic to vent!