Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

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Please don't label this thread "negative". It is meant to be fun.

Your scrubs are ugly.

I don't think you are "cute" when you get all googley-eyed and giggly around the young docs. I think it makes nurses look bad.

I cannot BELIEVE you were nominated for A Daisy Award! Did you nominate yourself?

It's called deodorant, use it.

Do your own assessment and stop badgering me for every single detail during report.

I swear I am going to put Ex Lax all over my lunch so the next time someone calls out for the runs, I will know it is you who keeps stealing my food!

Yes, my stethoscope is nice and it was expensive. Buy your own.

No time to help me turn my patient, huh? Yet, every time you need help, I have been there for you.

Your situational awareness sucks. While you are browsing the latest deals on the internet, I am drowning. Look around and help out your coworkers.

I'm happy you look rested and ready for your shift. Next time get here 15 minutes earlier so I can leave on time and be rested and ready for you.

No, you don't ALWAYS get the crappy assignment. I don't think you'd be happy with ANY assignment.

If you're sooooo sick of this place- leave.

Specializes in floor to ICU.

My goodness, this was meant as a vent. I am not mean or spiteful. I love most of my coworkers! But every now and then...

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Specializes in Women's Health.

WOW and ouch!!!!! :redbeathe

maybe all of these need to be deleted!!! :yeah:

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Specializes in L&D.
There is no way you're giving me a hard time about the 22 gauge, patent IV being reported in the right hand instead of the right wrist when the horrible, inaccurate report you gave me last week nearly caused the sky to come crashing down.

I love the report one-liners. I once left in a middle of a report because I was literally being harrased about an arrythmia alarm that happened 4 days ago..We need some limits on behaviors during report.

These made me laugh and shake my head but it's all true.

Is there already an existing thread on how report SHOULD be given.

I love when coworkers give half assed reports then when they come in they want a fully detailed report while want to look to see everything was checked off, but when you try to get the same from them "you go, if anything tell me" :anbd:

To the OP, IMO some of the things you stated were mean spirited and could be considered personal attacks. I'm just saying.

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"I don't care to hear all your family drama while I help you clean this brown blowout"

"Just because im leaving to pick up something for lunch does not mean I want 'swing' by the KFC on the other side of town for you"

"Oh you dont have time to help me turn one of your residents while I do one of your txs?, thats ok, dont ask me to drop what im doing when you get slammed with admissions/discharges"

"Yes my pink scissors are pretty,and no you cant borrow them to go cut 3 colostomy bags 'real quick', Ill never get them back"

"Im sure the mess left for you by night shift was horrible,but really i dont have time to stand here and listen while you explain how everything is their fault"

LIKE OP SAID....."If you hate it so much here,LEAVE"

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Specializes in Emergency.

"Pull your pants up or get a longer scrub top or both."

"Don't give me a full handoff report when you're just leaving for a 30 minute break. I just want to know which one of 'em might die while you're gone". Oh wait, I did say that.

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Specializes in Home Care.

Just because you're having a bad day, bad life or whatever doesn't give you the right to be nasty to me.

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Specializes in -.

Please don't giggle and say "Oh I love LPNS, they are such good little helpers when it comes to making beds etc while we do the nursing work !"

:mad:

Do you honestly think I went to school for 2 years to study bed making and pillow fluffing ?

Please utilise me, your making it harder on yourself and your other "real nurse" colleagues when you don't!

(Im not above bed making etc but I can do a lot of "real nurse" things and am med endorsed too...)

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Took the words right out of my mouth! Not to be a witch but definitely feeling felt. :)

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Specializes in pulm/cardiology pcu, surgical onc.

I've been wondering if there was ever a thread of this nature.....Thank you, thank you OP for starting this *lighthearted* thread.

Really? How do you find time at 0530 or even think it's okay to sit obliviously at the nurses station and read a book after you've taken your hour break and everyone is running like banshees answering lights and bed alarms?

I understand you're an anxious, uptight person but pounding on that keyboard when typing won't help you out a bit...or will it?

It's really not okay to ignore a bed alarm going off just because you paged an MD and you're waiting for a callback.

This seems a little therapeutic....I think I can go to bed now :)

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what i wish i could say would get me banned from allnurses

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Specializes in CT stepdown, hospice, psych, ortho.

I'm sorry, how is this thread considered mean or nasty when the thread about things you would love to say to patients is massive?

When you spend 8 to 12 hours with a group of people on a regular basis, you start to pick up on certain things. Its a lot more healthy to vent on a safe site where we support each other and can relate than to verbally accost someone at work when you finally can't take it anymore and snap out.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Acute Rehab.
I'm sorry, how is this thread considered mean or nasty when the thread about things you would love to say to patients is massive?

When you spend 8 to 12 hours with a group of people on a regular basis, you start to pick up on certain things. Its a lot more healthy to vent on a safe site where we support each other and can relate than to verbally accost someone at work when you finally can't take it anymore and snap out.

ITA! Makes me wonder if those that thought this was a nasty thread ever had any of the mentioned thoughts? I would think so! Self rightousness is not an attribute, so to the OP: This is a good thread!

As for the the post about the IV being in a different area of the hand, that is so right on.....the oncoming nurse still has to assess it, so big, big deal. These are the nurses that like to intimidate newbies.

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