The NEXT time someone says to me, that 'You're only agency' and 'What have u been doing all shift?' when I have been in the ED/ER and was:
- the reliever for ALL the patients; the ones sitting, the ones in bed, and the ones ON beds packed to the rafters in the corridors;
- had my own patient load to care for, including the ones in the waiting room, which is ALWAYS full, could be anything from 10 - 20 at one time, plus their children AND babies too;
- have had to also check/do VS on patients in the corridor, poor old things lying in a cold corridor who all need help with feeding, drinking, toileting, walking, etc; all that takes TIME;
- have been pulled around 4 different sections of the same hospital in one night due to staff shortgages;
- have had to coordinate wards/units where I've had nil or very little orientation, don't know the routine, etc and have managed to get through OK;
- have also had to do management's job recruiting staff for the next shift (cos everyone had rung in sick for the morning), AND I don't get paid extra for that;
I WILL be telling you that as an agency RN, I have very probably worked in more units/facilites than you can count, AND I'm damn proud to be agency and to be so flexible, knowledgeable and have been told I am one of the best and most valuable staff members of this and every other facility.
So there!!! (sticks tongue out and blows a raspberry!)
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
The NEXT time someone says to me, that 'You're only agency' and 'What have u been doing all shift?' when I have been in the ED/ER and was:
- the reliever for ALL the patients; the ones sitting, the ones in bed, and the ones ON beds packed to the rafters in the corridors;
- had my own patient load to care for, including the ones in the waiting room, which is ALWAYS full, could be anything from 10 - 20 at one time, plus their children AND babies too;
- have had to also check/do VS on patients in the corridor, poor old things lying in a cold corridor who all need help with feeding, drinking, toileting, walking, etc; all that takes TIME;
- have been pulled around 4 different sections of the same hospital in one night due to staff shortgages;
- have had to coordinate wards/units where I've had nil or very little orientation, don't know the routine, etc and have managed to get through OK;
- have also had to do management's job recruiting staff for the next shift (cos everyone had rung in sick for the morning), AND I don't get paid extra for that;
I WILL be telling you that as an agency RN, I have very probably worked in more units/facilites than you can count, AND I'm damn proud to be agency and to be so flexible, knowledgeable and have been told I am one of the best and most valuable staff members of this and every other facility.
So there!!! (sticks tongue out and blows a raspberry!)
Yeah and you can bet the bank on it : if the facility staff suddenly were thrown into any mix as an agency nurse they'd be squawking and whining complaints out every oriface!!!!!!!
Yeah and you can bet the bank on it : if the facility staff suddenly were thrown into any mix as an agency nurse they'd be squawking and whining complaints out every oriface!!!!!!!
Actully, I've seen permanent nursing staff asked to go up to the wards for a while when some areas wrere a bit slow, as the hospital tries to use it's own staff first to fill gaps b4 calling agencies. I saw one nurse refuse, and the NUM/Flow Coordinator said you actually can't refuse cos it is in their contract - nurses can be used & moved to any of our public hospitals as necessary. The NUM also said that certain staff get 'institutionalised' to where they work.
Actually I don't give a $**** what they think of me personally, as I'm used to going round to any and all wards/units, though I do still get a bit anxious at times though never scared. I just get frustrated and want to say: " I did did the same study & clinicals as you, paid (and am paying the same money), and had to pass the same exams to get my license!" You are seen as less by some staff cos ur agency, for some reason. I mean I didn't go to the University of Beyond the Black Stump, I went to a PROPER Aussie University!!
Yeh and they do whine and whinge till the cows come home - I've seen them do it!
Umm...RNs make more than Medical Assistants no matter how many years you've been there, sweetie. (not a bash on MAs, just a particular one who's been complaining about this)
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
Umm...RNs make more than Medical Assistants no matter how many years you've been there, sweetie. (not a bash on MAs, just a particular one who's been complaining about this)
I think you should add "DUH!", after your comment to 'sweetie'
I've already been "saved" and no I don't want to talk about the comming rapture during report or at work.
quit complaining about how much charting and work you have to do...just shut the f%*k up and do it!
your one night stand with resident x, y or z...TMI thanks, don't wanna hear it.
you made decaffinated coffee because you think caffine is addictive...augh!!!!!!!!
I know you think your butt is beautiful but I don't want to see your dimples....or the smiley face strippers tat.
You don't have to tell me how great you are, if you really are, I'll figure it out.
Don't freak out if someone has a mental illness, a history of bipolar or depression doesn't mean they'll morph into freddy Kruger in fron of your eyes...or try to jump out of the window.
The super obese are people not objects of ridicule. Some of my "fat" co-workers work circles around your skinny ass, mabe if you stopped dieting you'd be a little nicer.
I really could care less about your latest diet...or the last 20. I diet too, I just don't feel the need to discuss other's food choices.
I want a quick report, just the facts, you don't look like a better nurse because you tell me everything. and I just need to know there's an iv, I don't care which hand...I have eyes. I also don't care what size foley, if I have to replace it, I can look at the size then.
When we spend more time talking about outside stuff than work during report, it's time to go out for coffee and be real friends, not just work friends...the last one isn't a complaint, that's a good thing!
and the random "oh just shut the F87ck up and quit bothering me", I just want to eat lunch and read my Sookie Stackhouse novel...not talk about Trueblood...I need some downtime for the love of all tha's holy!
No I don't just love being a nurse, but I'm glad I'm covering it up, cause right now I'd rather be the one lying in bed!
Ok, now you know the truth, I'm really a horrible person...very unchristian of me! Maybe I do need to be re-saved!
one last serious one: that I am not married and never had children is a very painful place for me, please don't pry..and later don't gossip that I'm in the closet and a lesbian. and don't do it at all, someone right next to you could be gay and cringing inside. I hope they don't, it isn't a big deal one way or the other. Ok now I'll shut the fu&k up and go to sleep...sure will sleep better now! Good night moon, good night stars, good night where ever you are.
Yeah, how come I gotta tell everyone my personal business? I seriously get offended by that mentality. I am very social, we can hang out, drink coffee, or not, eat together or not, but I do NOT want to talk about my personal business inthe lunch room. AM I missing something, a new culture wave that says I gotta tell you this stuff? There are people that I have worked side by side with for many,many years that don't know any of that stuff. My friends are my friends. You might become one of those if you could EVER stop talking about yourself. Seriously.
So sorry I had to change ONE patient in your assignment from the night before...but you are a RN, and the float nurse we are getting is an LPN from a different floor and can't take that pt. SO quit whining and put your big girl panties on and DEAL WITH IT. If we continually dump on the floats, NO ONE will want to float here any more, and if I give the float a pt with multiple issues that requires a RN to take care of, then you or I will have to do that care anyways, and I am completely on the other side of the unit. SO it wouldn't be safe for me to assist the LPN with the pt with the trach and the IV K and Mag piggybacks would it?
No I'm sorry I did not get your 6 am treatments started at 4 am for you. I worked 6 am to 6 pm and then I was told I needed to stay over until 4 am. Sure I had a choice-go home and not have a job or stay. You are lucky I was able to stay awake and coherant until 4 am. You are one of the laziest b;(&$s I have ever worked with. Every day you do less than the previous.
carolmaccas66, BSN, RN
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The NEXT time someone says to me, that 'You're only agency' and 'What have u been doing all shift?' when I have been in the ED/ER and was:
- the reliever for ALL the patients; the ones sitting, the ones in bed, and the ones ON beds packed to the rafters in the corridors;
- had my own patient load to care for, including the ones in the waiting room, which is ALWAYS full, could be anything from 10 - 20 at one time, plus their children AND babies too;
- have had to also check/do VS on patients in the corridor, poor old things lying in a cold corridor who all need help with feeding, drinking, toileting, walking, etc; all that takes TIME;
- have been pulled around 4 different sections of the same hospital in one night due to staff shortgages;
- have had to coordinate wards/units where I've had nil or very little orientation, don't know the routine, etc and have managed to get through OK;
- have also had to do management's job recruiting staff for the next shift (cos everyone had rung in sick for the morning), AND I don't get paid extra for that;
I WILL be telling you that as an agency RN, I have very probably worked in more units/facilites than you can count, AND I'm damn proud to be agency and to be so flexible, knowledgeable and have been told I am one of the best and most valuable staff members of this and every other facility.
So there!!! (sticks tongue out and blows a raspberry!)