What would you do?

[msmarshun]

:uhoh3:When I first heard this statement I was quite p****d off. This is the scenerio.... a GN fresh outta school , hasn't been a nurse 6 months good and she tells a tech that she could do her job and the techs job too, there is just a little difference in what they do and she could do it all.... now when this tech told me this I couldn't believe it. for one I thought it was extremely rude and she had a lot of nerve to say somthing so cocky. Now let me explain my point of view to this true I am not a nurse but I feel that any assistant be it a cna, pct, or whatever diserve more respect than that lord knows I love my job, true I want more pay and I choose the field I am in however to come off and say that I felt that that particular nurse needs to be put in her place. The tech didn't want to stir up any trouble so she let it go... then one day I meet a GN and we seem to hit it off pretty good she gets very truthful and honest with me and I do the same with her if you know what I mean, so my lucky self get to hear this new GN,the one who hasn't been a nurse for 3 months good, make the same comment to me as we are riding home from work one night. Her comment was that the nurses could do the work a tech does it would just take them a little longer to do but it could be done. she goes on to say that if she were running a hospital she would get rid of all the techs and only hire LPNs and RNs to do the work.....:angryfire I had to hold myself because I was so livid:angryfire:madface::angryfire... and the girl was a tech for a short while:uhoh3: I just didn't get it you have worked as a tech so you should understand both points of view at least this is what I would have thought... well needless to say I didn't say anything all I replied was "oh really." I remember thinking to my self that if I work with her I am not gonna do a damn thing for her she can handle it.. seeing how she can do it all... as it turned out I didnt have her as a nurse she got a tech that was not a very strong tech... she had to do everything alomost double because the tech kept calling her for everything...lol.... and I didn't tell any one what she had said....I am sure you could imagine the look on my face when I went over there to throw it back in her face about doin it all:lol2::lol2: I told to go ahead and let that AS work it on out since you can do everything... lol... now I am never one to throw somthing back at a person for fear of carma but i couldn't let that pass me by... and needless to say she would call on me to come all the way over where she was at to help her ... when she already had a tech... I did it because it isn't in my nature to be that way but I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced a situation like mine? and how did you handle it? thanks was i wrong for saying that to her?

now i realize a lot is on the line for new nurses, but to be so cocky and disrespectful is just not right.

[mama_d, BSN, RN]

Honestly, I could do my job and the tech's job too...but why on earth would I want to? I've had to before, and those shifts SUCKED. I was a completely frazzled mess by the end of the shift.

I've always said your tech can make or break your night...a strong tech means that no matter what gets thrown your way, it's still usually manageable...a weak tech means that even if you have a team of all walkie/talkies it's not gonna be a very good night. I'm lucky in that I get the opportunity to work with a few techs who can practically read my mind, and even the ones who can't are rarely off their game.

Not trying to tick you off, I was a tech while I was in nursing school, so I've been there/done that. And I get the feeling that the way in which it was said to you was not with the respect that is deserved for someone who has a very demanding job of their own to do. Hopefully you can tell that I feel that a good tech is worth their weight in gold, even if I could do it myself as well :)

[texastaz]

I know the personality - for as much as I try to ignore them they still get on my nerves like nails going across a chalk board. That type of person I have seen more than once and generaly are so full of themselves thinking they are better, can do better, are smater than everyonelse-they set themselves up for failure. So you did the right thing by being mature and helping her -I believe in carma, too.