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 Community, OB, Nursery.

I don't tell you how to do your job, so get the **) out of my face and quit telling me how to do mine!!!

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Remove your cranium from your orifice,

your probiscus from the DON's orifice,

and your self-righteous idiocy from

this vicinity, STAT!

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
remove your cranium from your orifice,

your probiscus from the don's orifice,

and your self-righteous idiocy from

this vicinity, stat!

ok, this one should have had a beverage alert. how exactly do you remove milk from a computer screen?

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

I am going to invent "Spit-guard" for AN subscribers! I will become rich and much-lauded!:D

Specializes in geriatrics.

I had a discussion about being "saved" the other night with a coworker. Since I am spiritual not religious, I'm not buying the "saved" bit. Whatever...to each his own. I felt this person was pushing it, so I said, "well I guess I need to go and have an exorcism then."

Lol....the look on her face was priceless ;)

Thanks, you have your beliefs, I have mine. I don't care to hear about being "saved" at work.

Do I look like I care?

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

"if you're going to spend an hour in our (only) employee bathroom every morning at 10 am, at least tell your orientee where to find you when she has a question because i don't know anything about your patient and cannot advise her. better yet, sign out to me first and then someone who knows what to do in an emergency will actually be watching your patient and your orientee1"

"if you're going to leave a resident with your patient unsupervised, you should expect to clean up a mess." (this after the resident decided to suction out the chest tubes -- without using a suction cannister. ever seen chest tube drainage dripping from the ceiling?)

Specializes in geriatrics.

Suctioning with no cannister? Duh!

Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.
I'm here for my patients, not for friends. Yes....to be civil and friendly is one thing. But work is work. While you spend your time gossiping, avoiding your work, and the residents, some of us are actually busy. Take some of that negative energy and turn it around. Do the job you are getting paid to do. If you hate it that much...please leave. You are making the rest of us miserable with the constant complaining!

AMEN...

Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.
"if you're going to spend an hour in our (only) employee bathroom every morning at 10 am, at least tell your orientee where to find you when she has a question because i don't know anything about your patient and cannot advise her. better yet, sign out to me first and then someone who knows what to do in an emergency will actually be watching your patient and your orientee1"

my god, thank you for that. my last preceptor disappeared out of thin air for a fifteen minute break, and left me alone on the medcart on my first day of orientation. good god.

Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.

You, as the supervisor, want me to come down to your office just so that you can tell me how to apply a warm compress on a compromised IV site? First of all, what kind of idiot do you think I am? I'm a beginning nurse, not a stupid one!

Also, why can't you come up to the nurse's station on MY unit when I've already got 30 sick and (rightfully) demanding residents to take care of?

Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.

If you want to know where all of your CNAs and nurses go, step outside of your cushy office, Ms. DON, and spend just ten minutes in my unit.

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