Toxic Nurse

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When I was a nursing student my professor told me that 1 out of 10 nurses is a toxic nurse. It's a colloquail term that we used to describe nurses who are always busy in their shifts. 2 months since I started working as LTC nurse I guess I consider myself as a toxic nurse. No matter what shift it is, which unit I'm assigned I'm always busy and few residents get sick. For a week I might have send 2 residents in the emergency department because of various health complaints and in a day I normally call the doctor or on call nurse more than 5 times. The funny thing is when it's my day off the facility is peaceful and calm and nobody get sick. But when I come back to work all their diseases show up. I'm so frustrated I feel like I'm being cursed.

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

I am that nurse....we call them feces magnets....images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRnfiqgsqsSIxVx0XqQ3Yx1XRF05dGTRlPUNOrWINzl83eD6H3B9Vyw

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

Put me and a certain co worker together and the poo hits the fan.

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It doesn't seem to follow individuals on our unit, it's more like everything happens to everyone at once. We call it a "Bad Moon" without regard to what the actual lunar cycle is, lol!

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Specializes in Emergency.
Put me and a certain co worker together and the poo hits the fan.

Yeah, same thing happens with me & a co-worker. And if one of us is triage and the other squads at the same time, then the entire ER feels it.

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