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 Operating Room.
Bit extreme.

No, it's really not, that's the scary thing. I've run into a few real scary surgeons. I asked a doctor once about these people and he said it is just about impossible to get thrown out of medical school. Doctors aren't like nurses- they tend to cover for each other- often to the detriment of patients.

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I am a nursing student and this thread is seriously making me question my major!

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Specializes in Operating Room.
I am a nursing student and this thread is seriously making me question my major!

Nah, don't worry..any field is going to have coworkers that drive you nuts. I think with nursing, there is this perception that we're supposed to be all saintly 100% of the time. We're human and we all need someplace to vent before we snap, say these things at work, and get fired.:lol2:

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Specializes in MCH,NICU,NNsy,Educ,Village Nursing.

I am doing the best I know how. If I ask questions, I'm not trying to be obnoxious, I really do want to learn.

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain that to me. I now understand it.

I really am not a bad nurse. I've just not done this type of nursing before/in a very long time and need some knowledge refreshing because my orientation was only 3 weeks and I can't get anyone to understand that I really don't know this and want to be safe. Please help me.

Please don't judge---there but for the grace of God go you.

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I am a nursing student and this thread is seriously making me question my major!

It seems to me that this is a safe place to vent and so it has been well used for that. Everyone can share what co-workers do to drive them nuts and also what they do to really help and support. We all have to take the good with the bad. That's life and that's the way it is everywhere. Anyone with an open mind can learn a great deal from this thread. Don't be scared, but be aware. Best of luck.

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Specializes in CVICU.
I am a nursing student and this thread is seriously making me question my major!
Trust me, if you were in a corporate job and came to a site dedicated to that profession you'd see the same sort of venting, just different issues. I could have said all the same things that the OP said in her OP, and yet I love my coworkers. Nursing is a high stress job and there's nothing wrong with blowing off a little steam in a place like this. It's better than actually saying the things you think that might hurt someone's feelings.
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I am a nursing student and this thread is seriously making me question my major!

Awwwww. You'll be swear'in like a sailor in no time. Don't worry you'll catch up.

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Awwwww. You'll be swear'in like a sailor in no time. Don't worry you'll catch up.

LOL, I am a nursing student and former sailor. Haha and I swear all the time :lol2:

Looks like I am in the right field!:yeah:

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.
lol, i am a nursing student and former sailor. haha and i swear all the time :lol2:

looks like i am in the right field!:yeah:

:cool::rolleyes::D when i was taking a psych course in college, it came with a practium at the va neuro psych hospital. this was during the viet nam war and i worked with the returning vets who mostly had ptsd.

pre-practium, i really didn't swear or use vulgar language much. by the time i went home for thanksgiving, however, different story entirely and i didn't even realize it.

i was unloading grocery bags and dropped a dozen eggs. i didn't swear. i swore:eek: and for once of very few times in his whole life, my poor dad was absolutely speechless.:uhoh3: stunned.:eek: when he could operate his vocal chords again, he commented that i'd have to sum up cases before the bar without using those particular words. (i had been planning on getting a law degree as had both parents.) he also said that when you could render your combat veteran pilot former pow father totally speechless, you'd accomplished something that day!;)

i can still outswear my husband. ... and my poor mother tried soooo hard to rear a "proper" young lady!

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Specializes in mental health, aged care/disability care.

NO! you don't get to ignore me or talk over the top of me when I'm asking if anyone needs help and then run to the boss whingeing that no one ever helps you!

And while we're at it, whoever told you that green hair is attractive was WRONG!!

You might like that music that sounds like someone is killing a cat but we work on a psych ward!! This is NOT good for client relaxation ..

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Specializes in Cardiac.

The CA's on our floor are a gift to be treasured; we have the best. PLEASE stop barking orders at them. They know the job. Also, an occasional "please" and "thank you" will go a long way towards easing the tension between you. And yes, it's entirely possible that they hate working with you.

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You're obviously an awesome person. Thank you for appreciating the aides.

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Specializes in Cardiac.
Yes, I am a male. I am also an RN. That means I have my own assignment, my own assessments, my own treatments, my own meds, etc. I am NOT a pack mule who can drop everything to help you lift/pull/push/turn your patient. I do so whan I am able to do so, but I cannot drop everything when you need help.

On a similar note, sometimes even I need lift help.

STOP pronouncing it O2 stat. You sound ignorant.

Don't you EVER feel well? Most days, I end up being sorry that I ask you how you are.

Your new super smart phone is very pretty. Please put it away, at least until after the lights are answered, the IV pumps stop alarming, the telemetry bank is quiet and the bed alarms are silent. Gosh, I even think there's a mandate about this.

The CA's on our floor are a gift to be treasured; we have the best. PLEASE stop barking orders at them. They know the job. Also, an occasional "please" and "thank you" will go a long way towards easing the tension between you. And yes, it's entirely possible that they hate working with you.

I don't hate you because you're pretty.

I spend a great deal of time with you. Many of you are like my family. Thank you for having my back, for teaching me to notice the subtle nuances in patient condition, for telling the best jokes, for being awesome cooks and for allowing me to be a part of your family.

To my RN coworker and friend that I love dearly: You irritate me so much sometimes that I need to scream. lol (pretty good start) You're not always right about everything. Maybe you should have listened to me when I was trying to report v/s to you, maybe you would have figured out your pt was in afib a little sooner!

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