This transporter looks as if he wants to punch me everytime I see him and Im scared

[willowRN]

well first off he always looked like an angry person, very angry

but esp. weird I think it started when he came to pick my patient and he had to wait some because I am dealing with a critical one. Ever since then when he sees me he looks like he wants to punch me. And he doesn't even make me sign back the patient which we do routinely. He's like acting out or something but quietly. I know an off behavior when I see one this is one. geez how do i deal with this guy. I've been ignoring but i want to confront him next time and say like "You look like you want to punch me" Idk this has to stop it makes me uncomfortable

[willowRN]

This is irrelevant, supposing that my problem with this particular person represents the entire transporter population, very wrong

[willowRN]

what's this BS of one person being important than the other? Seriously, that's way off the mark

[nursel56]

I'm sorry you found some of the replies offensive. I think people were trying to get you to look at things from a variety of angles. We don't know you or the person you are having problems with. When you post on a forum with hundreds of people viewing it, the odds are you will find some of it useful, and some not useful. That's the way it works here. I'm pretty certain nobody meant to imply you were an idiot.

Take what is useful and ignore the rest. Best wishes to you!

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

Alright you guys never mind, I feel that making this post is a mistake. I feel like one of those victims who made the mistake of speaking up and just being ridiculed. When I say a transporter is acting angry towards me that is what I meant, some posts make up sad stories to explain this behavior which is useless. Assuming that I am an idiot person with emotional intelligence of an ant not to try discerning a situation before asking help about it. Those comments are really shallow.

Thank you to those who assumed my assessment of the situation is competent that led me towards actionable solutions and did not make me feel guilty by being threatened and asking for help.

I did not read every word of every post, but the ones I did read did not seem like they were meant to ridicule you. Anyway, as for the OP--maybe the guy has a crappy home life; maybe he gets s**t from his boss everyday about how long it takes to do a transport; maybe he just always has that angry look. Whatever it is, I don't think it is a good idea to assume that his look is directed at you.

[LeO13]

Hey there, sorry to hear about your situation but I'll give you some insight of the minds of a transporter. I've been working as a transporter for about 5 years now and I can tell you it can get frustrating on both ends. At our hospital, we're given 15-20 minutes to complete a move, with an extra 5 minute delay if needed. Nurses will call our dispatchers when the patient is ready to go. Depending on how busy the day, we might get there very early or very late. 80% of my transport moves would require an extra delay (for meds, paperwork, RT, physician, etc). As transporters, we're timed for every single of our moves, and if they see that we are moving too slow, our dispatchers will assume that we are goofing off to milk the clock or whatever. Now every single transporters are different. For me, I would let the nurse know that I can bend it a little and give them some extra minutes because I understand the workload of a nurse. As for some, they worry too much about their times and would rather worry about their evaluation than the patient. So don't beat yourself too much with this situation. We have plenty of transporters who are like that and trust me, those are the one's that do not last long in our department.