I love the thread things you would love to tell your pt and get away with.
But to be truthful for me I love the pts and rarely want to be horrid to them. However I do have lots of things I would like to say to the management and get away with my job. So here are a few things
1/ No you take the extra pt and flex up why should I
2/ Stop sitting on that fat bum and come out here and do some real work for a change.
3/ I wouldnt trust you to help me with my pts because you have no skills left so would be useless
4/ Do you even remember what it was like to work as a floor nurse
5/ Why would I ask you how to do anything you are not upto date and never know the answers
6/ In these days of financial crisis why are you getting an extra shift per week?
Stop trying to punish me for doing my job well! "Sorry, we don't have a unit bed, the pt (the one who's crashing!!) is just going to have to stay put for a FEW HOURS..but we know that you can handle it. We're glad its you, otherwise we would have to bring a unit nurse out to stay with the patient." Oh yes, they did.
Um, no. You need to bring out the unit nurse. Otherwise I'm gonna hit the code button every five minutes, and NONE of us is gonna get anything done. They brought out the unit nurse, but they were ticked at me.:icon_roll (For the record, I probably could have handled it, but it's not OK to ignore the other 3 pts i had, and I wasn't about to let them set precedent that way..)
first, let me set up the scenario. i work in a very busy alzheimer's "assisted living" floor (whoever gave it that title was smoking some crack, but that's a story for a later time lol.) anyhoo...i was running my butt off, helping with meals, toileting people, making beds, the whole bit...nonstop from 6:30 am till 3 when i finally got to sit down and rest my knee cause it was killing me. i no sooner get in the chair when the very lovely (sticks finger down throat and retches) manager sashays out of her office and says (get this) "you need to get up and do something productive."
ummmmm, excuse you? i go past your office before i even get to the patient rooms. did you not see all the work i was getting done since i walked in the door, or did sitting on your butt talking on the phone to god knows who pretending to work while sitting in that great big office cause you to go blind?"
i....ummm...may have come home and beat up on my teddy bear last night. no, i',m not proud.
i am reporting you to the teddy bear abuse committe :typing
Please STOP expecting me, a nurse who only has 1 year of ICU experience, to show a nurse who has been off orientation a few months how to admit a liver transplant patient. If you want me to learn or her to learn please tell your unit educators to BACK off instead of taking over. I was SO frustrated, I wanted to walk out of my room and sit at the desk and let them get everything settled last night. The learning experience was so good and helpful (insert sarcasm).
To my co-workers who came in to watch the mayhem: DO something or GET THE HELL OUT!
I'm stressed out. I can't stand it when managers expect senior staff to babysit the other staff. If you are so concerned, please work a night shift or too. I'm just stressed out. I had a wonderful cry before my shift.
Specializes in acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c.
I have to say I don't really mind my managers. They can get on your nerves once in a while when you are harried and they bring up something stupid but for the most part they know how hard we work and they stay just were we like them--out of sight. They are fair to the point of being too easy on some slackers but will always go to bat for us when we need it.
"Oh......What's that?" "You don't know how to take a team?" "You've never been a floor nurse?" "Then I think you should come and take a team at least twice a month." "This way, you'll understand why those blue sheets never get done." "You know....The one's that we"re are getting written up on and then they are thrown away?" "Apparently you have no clue what we are doing to keep YOUR unit running smoothly."
In response to the never ending nit picky paper work she keeps adding, and adding, and adding, and adding..............We are required to fill out these blue sheets upon admission of pt. You initial if the IV was checked, if you did the Braden scale, etc. We fill them out, only to have them thrown away upon discharge. Stupid basically, because all of these things are documented on in the Medi Tech system. Double charting. Apparently, she things we have tons of time on our hands. Yet, has never worked as a floor nurse and doesn't have a clue as to how to manage time and take a team. Cracks me up!
I have spent considerable time trying to figure out if some of the mind-blowingly out-of-touch comments and directives that disseminate from your office actually come from your brain, that of the VP above you, or from senior management above the VP.
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DeepFriedRN
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Stop trying to punish me for doing my job well! "Sorry, we don't have a unit bed, the pt (the one who's crashing!!) is just going to have to stay put for a FEW HOURS..but we know that you can handle it. We're glad its you, otherwise we would have to bring a unit nurse out to stay with the patient." Oh yes, they did.
Um, no. You need to bring out the unit nurse. Otherwise I'm gonna hit the code button every five minutes, and NONE of us is gonna get anything done. They brought out the unit nurse, but they were ticked at me.:icon_roll (For the record, I probably could have handled it, but it's not OK to ignore the other 3 pts i had, and I wasn't about to let them set precedent that way..)