Verbose coworkers about their patients

[FireStarterRN]

Does anyone have a co-worker who, the minute you walk into the med room or supply room, or bump into her is the hall, gives you a lengthy accounting of her patients? :chuckle

It goes something like: Oh, my patient in 46 is on the light constantly. Her only order is Ativan 0.5 mg every 4 hours. I'd like to see Dr So and So come up here and deal with this woman for awhile. She weighs 150 kg, I swear, shoot me if I ever get that big. And the family of the patient in 47 is driving me UP THE WALL! If they have one more trivial request I'm going to need some ativan myself. You walk in the room and they want a warm blanket for the patient, then you bring the blanket and they want some juice for her, then when you bring that, they want something else. The patient is doing okay, I'm weaning her off her O2 and I'll bet she'll go home tommorrow. And, my patient in 48 is incontinent of course. I had two code browns already, and couldn't find an aide. It's probably all these antibiotics he's on, but of course the doc ordered a C-diff screening and he has to be on contact precautions. The guy doesn't even know his own name, I don't know why we're doing this.....

Meanwhile, you're still trying to figure out why you came into the med room in the first place. You get a running account of her thrilling story throughout the day and ending up knowing more about her patients than you do your own. :chuckle

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

We don't have a med room, our floor has med alcoves at the desk. They are locked cabinents with all the meds. We also have the pyxis in the supply room. So our place of refuge is the break room, the locker room, or the supply room. If the walls could talk in those places, it would be very interesting.

[patrick1rn, MSN, RN, NP]

People vent, its how they deal with stress

[Pepper The Cat, BSN, RN]

People vent, its how they deal with stress

This nurse doesn't vent. She just talks. and talks. and talks.

For example - she'll say she went to a conferance. But it starts - I went to a conferance and I took the train down and do you know there are people that take it every day and if you take their seats they get really upset so I took the train and it was really hard to find a parking space but finally i did and got on the train and went downtown and of course its really busy there.....

and so on. 15 minutes later she'll tell you want the conferance was, and if you are still listening, 30 minutes later you might actually hear what she learned.

of course, my brain has checked out about 30 secs into the converstaion.

[la bellota, BSN, RN]

I am a new grad....and there are some nights that we have a bunch of folks like you described. I understand people like/need to vent....but eek!

I feel bad sometimes because I need their knowledge but I suffer under their bad attitudes. I pray the day comes soon where I can hide in a nook. But it IS the med room...and one never know what lurks...

hee.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

i work with a few nurses who talk constantly all shift -- in the med room, the break room, the supply room or the dirty utility room -- constantly! and most of them start every sentence with "i" or with the name of their spouse or child. it gets old!

[FireStarterRN, BSN, RN]

This woman is just venting, it just is rather hilarious how much detail she will share. I feel as if I have to pry myself away, the same as I would do with a overly chatty patient. She'll burst into the med room, you're trying to pull meds from the accu-dose, and she will proceed to launch into a small run down on her patients. It's classic.

[diane227, LPN, RN]

Oh Honey Please!!! Is there something that is going to kill the patient right now? If not, save it for report.

[whodunit]

I also have been known to vent in the med rm so I try to be caring when it happens to me.:heartbeatThe problem we are having at work is a nurse who is soooooo negative about everything and everyone.She rants about the pts we have and why the doc is keeping them, other nurses she works with and how she does all the work and no matter what is said to her by mgmt or us other nurses she keeps on ! Its hard to get report because she interrupts and you have to be rude at times to redirect her back to report.:argue:Also we give report in a small enclosed rm and goodness knows why but her breath always smells like feces.So the moral to my vent is we all gotta deal with stuff, its life !lol:cool:

[FireStarterRN, BSN, RN]

You're definately right about that, you can't sweat the small stuff with your co-workers. :chuckleThis co-worker is a good egg, but a very verbose venter! She doesn't talk bad about co-workers at all, I like that about her.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Not quite the same thing but I once had a "friend" who would keep me on the phone for hours every might and never pause for breath. If I told her not to call me after 10 she'd call me at 9:59.

One night I got so frustrated that I put the phone down and went and did the dishes. Came back and she hadn't noticed I wasn't on the other end.

[Princess_M83]

Not quite the same thing but I once had a "friend" who would keep me on the phone for hours every might and never pause for breath. If I told her not to call me after 10 she'd call me at 9:59.

One night I got so frustrated that I put the phone down and went and did the dishes. Came back and she hadn't noticed I wasn't on the other end.

Ok, that's just pretty darn funny. ROFL :roll:lol:

[Pepper The Cat, BSN, RN]

Not quite the same thing but I once had a "friend" who would keep me on the phone for hours every might and never pause for breath. If I told her not to call me after 10 she'd call me at 9:59.

One night I got so frustrated that I put the phone down and went and did the dishes. Came back and she hadn't noticed I wasn't on the other end.

I have a friend like this. We were on a long car trip - she was driving and talking and talking and talking. I nodded off - when I woke up, she was still talking. I don't think she even noticed my 20 minute cat nap.