if you can't approve overtime, stop talking to me when i just told you my shift ended twenty minutes ago.
i'm off the clock, i'm no longer obligated to talk to you.
i choose to work weekends because the managers are gone, so i can do more patient care, less bs.
no no, really, go ahead and work at the nurses station, take the last chair. even though you're not in the nursing department and you have an office right down the hall. even though charting is the only time i get to sit down during the day. it's cool, i can stand here and chart--i'll sit when i get home.
to the 3 cnas sitting at the station chatting: the station phone has been ringing for several minutes while we are running around putting out fires. answering the phone is within your scope of practice. there was no special "phone-answering" lecture in nursing school. i know you know how to answer a phone because i see you answering your personal cell phones all the time. answer it. find out what they want and who they need, then find that person and tell them.
to one very, umm.. special cna: when i come to work and find out you're not working, my day automatically brightens!
to the chart auditors:
1. while i perform patient care, you can take those audits and shove them up your ***.
2. trained monkeys could perform audits better than you. (seriously.)
3. i have no respect for your job.
to all but one of the nurse consultants i've met: you are a sick, sick individual.
to the other nurse consultant (i would have said this to her, but she was the first one i met, when i was new--i had no idea how special she was): you are a role model of how managers/consultants should be. your supportive attitude and actions give me hope for this profession. you don't just bs about teamwork, you materially support the team. thank you.
to multiple bosses i've had: please stop trying to discourage me from reporting abuse/pressure ulcers. you make it difficult for me to be able to continue working here, and i really hate job-hunting. yes, i reported those things anyway--maybe we should talk about my much-deserved raise another day, when you're not so irritated at my insubordination.
Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
When you were new I did everything I could to help you get yourself organized. I led by example-I attempted to mentor you. I picked up and finished many of your tasks,day after day. I told you over and over "I've got your back". I finally figured out that there had to be a reason it still took you 3 or more hours to complete a med pass that I can finish in an hour or less so I began to observe and here is what I discovered-You can't do two things at once, YOU TALK TOO MUCH when you should be WORKING. I no longer pick up and finish your tasks for you-I think you took advantage of me. You made it clear that you didn't appreciate my efforts with a few snarky comments when I left on time because I had things to do and you were running behind. SO now you are on your own...
no one minds if you brown bag it. that's why we have a well equipped staff kitchen. but when you reheat your foul smelling -- or is it just plain weird ? --lunch and it boils all over the bottom and up the sides of the microwave, would you, for heaven's sake, have the decency to clean whatever it was off so the other lunches that follow taste right?! it should not take a chisel or sandblasting equipment to clean a microwave...
Even in the best teams, there is at least one person who is just negative. Negative while taking report, negative and complaining about assignment EVERY time! It is not pleasant to work with such people who poison your own attitude. All the above quotes are sarcastic, but not negative. This is a way of self-defense of those co-workers whose attitude is poisoned every time they come for their shift.
Don't ask me for the lecture I recorded so you could skip class and stay home to study extra for the exam in the next class. I wanted to stay home and study too but started studying for that test a week ago and drug my but in to the first class so I could record the lecture for my self, not so you could have extra study time because you waited till the last minute.
Believe it or not, I don't want to check in after every exam and tell you my grade.
Stop complaing about "the exam was unfair" because you didn't start studying till the night before..
I don't care that you are SNA and student council leaders, or that you tutor and peer lead, and work as a PCT, that doesn't make you better than me and is actually the reason your grades are suffering and you complain that tests are hard...
And yes, please shut up-some of us are trying to actually listen.....
Specializes in Orthopedic, LTC, STR, Med-Surg, Tele.
Oh really? The previous shift CNA left before she could give you report? It's probably because you were late. As usual. So you just assumed 7pm vital signs were done? And didn't look in the computer to see if they were? Hmm. YES I want you to do them now.
Specializes in Med-Surg - Neuro Science - Cardiac.
No you don't always get the assignments with the most difficult patients. No one else seems to struggle with these patients, so give some thought as to why you find them so difficult. ;-)
I work every floor in this hospital and I get along with EVERY tech in here but you so don't try telling me *I* have a problem. New nurse (>1yr) headed for management, I hope it's making you feel special by loudly announcing all the fires you're putting out because no one else thinks so...except, sadly, management.
To the co-worker who has made my work life a living h#*! I sincerely wish you all the best. To my manager who did nothing to stop it, despite numerous requests, I am leaving. Good luck with her. Oh, wait. I did say that.
Specializes in Orthopedic, LTC, STR, Med-Surg, Tele.
Did you ever notice that when you come in after working after me, the patients aren't screaming and moaning with pain? Maybe one day you could return the favor, so I don't have to spend an hour catching up on pain meds with hurting, cranky patients? Hmm?
Specializes in Phys. rehab, Chem. Dependency, Home care.
To the passive -aggresive nurse I have to give report to:Do you really think you are helping me by staring at,me with contempt because I dont' seem to do things just like you? You may think I have no clue what you are thinking of me, but I am not just a pretty face. Your body language tells the story everytime you look at me whem I give report, walk past you while you are at the desk,etc. Don't take my silence for ignorance either. Instead of looking down at me, why don't you say what to have to say and get it over with so there doesn't have to be so much tension it's like cutting cheese. And by the way, I may not be the fastest nurse, but I take excellent care of whatever patients I have that day. Did you think they were smiling when they saw me because they were passing gas? So get off your high horse and be supportive instead of destructive.
Did you ever notice that when you come in after working after me, the patients aren't screaming and moaning with pain? Maybe one day you could return the favor, so I don't have to spend an hour catching up on pain meds with hurting, cranky patients? Hmm?
on the same theme to my CNA co-irkers:
Notice how when you start the shift, non of the patients I have been assigned are dirty, wet, smelly, thirsty, hungry, hanging out the bed, vital signs are up to date, rooms are clean/tidy? I would love to start my own work one day rather than spend hours first cleaning up after you. Thanks.
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if you can't approve overtime, stop talking to me when i just told you my shift ended twenty minutes ago.
i'm off the clock, i'm no longer obligated to talk to you.
i choose to work weekends because the managers are gone, so i can do more patient care, less bs.
no no, really, go ahead and work at the nurses station, take the last chair. even though you're not in the nursing department and you have an office right down the hall. even though charting is the only time i get to sit down during the day. it's cool, i can stand here and chart--i'll sit when i get home.
to the 3 cnas sitting at the station chatting: the station phone has been ringing for several minutes while we are running around putting out fires. answering the phone is within your scope of practice. there was no special "phone-answering" lecture in nursing school. i know you know how to answer a phone because i see you answering your personal cell phones all the time. answer it. find out what they want and who they need, then find that person and tell them.
to one very, umm.. special cna: when i come to work and find out you're not working, my day automatically brightens!
to the chart auditors:
1. while i perform patient care, you can take those audits and shove them up your ***.
2. trained monkeys could perform audits better than you. (seriously.)
3. i have no respect for your job.
to all but one of the nurse consultants i've met: you are a sick, sick individual.
to the other nurse consultant (i would have said this to her, but she was the first one i met, when i was new--i had no idea how special she was): you are a role model of how managers/consultants should be. your supportive attitude and actions give me hope for this profession. you don't just bs about teamwork, you materially support the team. thank you.
to multiple bosses i've had: please stop trying to discourage me from reporting abuse/pressure ulcers. you make it difficult for me to be able to continue working here, and i really hate job-hunting. yes, i reported those things anyway--maybe we should talk about my much-deserved raise another day, when you're not so irritated at my insubordination.