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?
Specializes in Geriatrics, Cath Lab, Cardiology,Neuro.
Oh, I so agree....don't ya just hate it when another nurse talks down or corrects or criticizes in front of pts. OR other staff.....
Remember, the reason for this.....to make themselves look and feel better because they have a poor self image. !!
I talked with my managers today and this one nurse will be spoken to since she has been getting numerous complaints and awhile back it turned out she caused so much drama, one nurse quit! Also she is being spoken to about her behavior towards me. It was interesting how she "called out" today! I have been letting it roll off my back, then the other day I hit my peak! I so did not want to use my Irish side on her, but from now on I will use my Irish side, minus the being a bit** cause 2 wrongs dont make a right!
If one of your employees suspects that a co-worker, who happens to be the step/son of two prominent members of the medical staff and this is the only way he got hired, is repeatedly coming to work under the influence of something, do not write that employee up for bad-mouthing co-workers.
And if you do this and the employee's suspicions prove to be correct, an apology is in order.
Manager problem employees. Don't create new checklist or forms to deal with a problem being caused by one or two employees. Counsel, create a performance improvement contract and terminate if no improvement.
-No, the staff shouldn't have to forgo a raise this year..especially when the CEO made 3.2 million dollars last year, the hospital is actually one of the few making a profit, and the hospitals endowment was worth 1.1 billion dollars in 2008. Not to mention the ginormous bonuses that the executives got last December. What's that? You say lay-offs may be necessary? Two words for you, SCARE TACTIC. I'll be voting NO on that proposal, thank you very much.
-It's because of this kind of behavior that the hospital unionized in the first place, brainiac.
madwife2002 , This is a great posting. You could publish a book with these answers, because I'll bet EVERY nurse sees themself in each scenerio! I'm having a lot of laughs because its ALL so very TRUE!
Please don't sit in a nurse's meeting and admonish us for complaining about staffing, that you're always there to help, and then the very first time we are short staffed you scatter like rats on a sinking ship.
Please don't measure a wound to 0.25cm and then tell a floor nurse who needs help that you can't do her insulin injections for her because your eyesight is too poor to see the units on the syringe.
Please don't mandate me to stay for PMs after a 6-2, when I have to be back at 6am the next morning, on daylight's saving night. Yes, that really happened to me. I refused to stay for the whole shift, I told them staying until 10pm, losing an hour of sleep, plus drive time each way would only allow me to get about 4 hours of sleep--and I didn't feel it was safe and would report it HR.
Please don't tell our CNAs that they have to stay for an extra shift because "you haven't picked up in a while" Just hire more staff! Haven't you heard that there are ppl looking for jobs?
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?
if you REALLY want to know what staff thinks of how things are being run, meet w/us confidentially & one on one! Stop handing out surveys & showing them to your charge nurses-- sometimes THEY are the problem!!
I can't believe I missed this thread when it was new! Glad it got bumped up!
The only question is, where to BEGIN?!
Boss:
You recently confronted me about something that occurred on a particularly harried, awful shift. I explained to you what happened, in detail. You gave me that sneer, and told me THREE sources told you otherwise. It took me 30 seconds to prove to you (via documentation by someone else, not even myself) that I was the one telling the truth. Meaning, either they ALL lied to you, or JUST YOU lied to me. I've now lost any respect for you I might have had (which wasn't much, at this point).
The rules that you apply to me had DANG WELL better apply to EVERYBODY ELSE. And since I know they don't, just back off already.
Pushing stretchers up and down the hallways doesn't make you look busy. It makes you look like you're trying to look busy.
It is NOT okay to tell people that are single and/or don't have kids that they can work as many extra shifts or holidays as needed (and then schedule it accordingly)....just because I don't have kids of my own doesn't mean I don't have a family that I'd like to spend the holidays with, too. And since you scheduled me Thursday-Sunday on Thanksgiving weekend, I didn't get to do that. Thanks a lot. My time (and my single co-workers' time) is valuable, too. FYI.
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I talked with my managers today and this one nurse will be spoken to since she has been getting numerous complaints and awhile back it turned out she caused so much drama, one nurse quit! Also she is being spoken to about her behavior towards me. It was interesting how she "called out" today! I have been letting it roll off my back, then the other day I hit my peak! I so did not want to use my Irish side on her, but from now on I will use my Irish side, minus the being a bit** cause 2 wrongs dont make a right!