What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

[SharonH, RN]

I don't know what made me remember this but I had a coworker once with whom I had developed(I thought) something of a rapport. Well one day we were in the nurses' station and I jokingly made a comment about her not working hard. I forget my exact words but it was something along the lines of are you hardly working or working hard. You know that lame joke, well not that lame but it was harmless like that. Well a few days later, guess what I got invited to a meeting with her and the charge nurse to discuss my attempt to slander her! She said that she felt like I had a low opinion of her as a nurse and my comments left it open for people to believe that she was not a hard worker. And I was attempting to destroy her reputation as a nurse. As broadsided as I was, I apologized profusely for my faux-pas but she wasn't in a forgiving mood. So *shrug* what could I do? Obviously we weren't as good of friends as I thought or she might have given me the benefit of the doubt. Also she must have had a massively low self-esteem or insecurities if she was that bothered by my little joke. I just moved on. I can remember being quite annoyed at first but it's funny now.

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

Oh and everybody knows that paper towels are not the only nurse stationery, scrub pant knees and palms of your hands are also in the definition.

[arizonanurse]

Oh and everybody knows that paper towels are not the only nurse stationery, scrub pant knees and palms of your hands are also in the definition.

Yup :)

I had a CNA complain that I was mean and demanding because I expected her to get ten sets of vitals done within an hour and a half.

[DDRN4me]

not a formal complaint... but one co worker went to HR because I moved her desk . She also convinced my boss that I am too clinical and do not do enough administrative and training work (she just happens to be the director of training) hmmmmmmm

[JeanettePNP, MSN, RN, NP]

A co- worker complained that I did not give a glass of water to my man who was literally dying in front of me w/ CHF. " He only asked for some water

'. He died 10 minutes later. It was the " joke

' in the ER that I wouldn't give a dying man his last drink of water.

So why didn't you give him the water?

[morte, LPN, LVN]

Oh and everybody knows that paper towels are not the only nurse stationery, scrub pant knees and palms of your hands are also in the definition.

and in the ER, the sheets on the stretchers count, too!!

[nursejohio, ASN, RN]

I had a CNA complain that I was mean and demanding because I expected her to get ten sets of vitals done within an hour and a half.

You mean you only gave that poor girl 9 minutes per patient for vitals? How inconsiderate of you! Really, that only gives her 6 minutes to leave the room, take a potty break, stop to chit chat about how mean you are with another cna, go smoke, and make it to the next pt! How can you expect her to work under those conditions?

[nursejohio, ASN, RN]

So why didn't you give him the water?

My guess would be that if the guy's in the ER, he wasn't a DNR. As a full code (or suspected one anyway... if you don't have the papers, everyone gets treated as a full code) literally drowning in excess fluid, the last thing I'd want to do is add more water that's going to go directly into his lungs.

[medsurgnurse, RN]

For our annual evals co-workers were chosen to submit peer comments. The peer comment was: " She doesn't spend any time socializing with co-workers." The manager told me this in all seriousness. I told her " I thought I was here to perform a job, if they want to socialize invite me after hours, and while they are socializing at an extended 90 minute lunch, I'm working by myself." Not working there anymore.

[GardenDove]

This lady told me she was nauseous, and I told her it would probably be a good idea to put that cheeseburger from McDonalds down.

She told my NM and I wasn't allowed back in her room. I was thrilled.

Oh, that's classic! Was she also a 10/10 on the pain scale?

[MIA-RN1, RN]

I used to work in the back office of an amb. care setting and my coworker and I were once 'spoken to' for having too much fun. Apparently, the person who had to work up front was jealous that he wasn't in the back and so complained that we had too much fun in the back office.

[GardenDove]

So why didn't you give him the water?

I was wondering the same.

[santhony44, MSN, RN, NP]

I used to work in the back office of an amb. care setting and my coworker and I were once 'spoken to' for having too much fun. Apparently, the person who had to work up front was jealous that he wasn't in the back and so complained that we had too much fun in the back office.

I did once work telephone triage; we worked in the same physical area as the answering service and the referral center. We worked evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. The referral center was 8-4, M-F with no holidays.

One morning one of the referral center nurses came in and saw one of the triage nurses (gasp!!) playing Solitaire on the computer. Complained to the boss, who was a bean counter and not a nurse. She had the three or four games which were on our computers taken off. Never mind that the nurse who was "caught" had absolutely nothing else to do at the time. I unsucessfully argued that solitaire was very useful in teaching nurses who weren't accustomed to working on the computer. I found that they caught on to using the mouse a lot faster with a couple of games of solitaire.

They also demanded that we follow the same dress code (business) that they did. They occasionally had to go meet with physicians and so forth in person. We saw no one but each other and could've worked just as well in a robe and pink bunny slippers. We weren't even allowed to wear denim dresses, jumpers, or skirts, much less jeans!