Who'd You Forget to Thank?

boulergirl, CNA · Feb 19, 2005

This week my car broke down and so I needed a ride to staff meetings during the day (a friend took me to work at night). A co-worker I barely know was willing to take me with her to the meetings. I thanked her profusely for doing that and for offering to take me to the store so I could pick up groceries if I needed to. :bowingpur Thank you, Robin!

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · Feb 19, 2005

Just a note to the wonderful tech who so patiently cleaned up the bloodiest mess I ever made when starting an IV the other night. The room looked like a crime scene by the time I got the flippin' hub onto the cath.

That was bad enough. The kicker was that a half hour later, I went into the room to flush the line, but the cath had somehow pulled loose, so I wound up giving the entire side of the bed another bloody bath. :chair:

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKK. :stone

So my tech grabs all the bed linens and changes the bed around me as I start the next IV site, before the patient can do any wriggling this time. One stick, presto, change-o, and it's in without a drop spilled.

Still, that was not what we'd call "optimal bonding" time there.

So THANK YOU!! All of you techs who grit your teeth and smile, and keep going. I really appreciate it.

fergus51 · Feb 19, 2005

One of my coworkers filled in a bunch of my paperwork when I got back from surgery with my patient. I would have never gotten out of work anywhere close to on time if not for that! And yes, I thanked her:)

lovingtheunloved, ASN, RN · Feb 20, 2005

Where to begin? How about yesterday, when my charge nurse got a doctor to look at me and give me antibiotics free because I don't have insurance?

Right now at work (in LTC) we've been short nearly every day. Me and two other CNAs have a 32 bed hall with residents who have dementia with behavior problems and most of them are total care. These other two girls are amazing. There's none of the "that's not my patient" nonsense. They really know the meaning of teamwork. It's really not that overwhelming if they are the two I get to work with. The nurses call us the dream team.

My ADON is one of those gems that would give you the shirt off her back. A CNA was about to get her electricity cut off, and the ADON paid her bill. A nurse who is a single mom and has no family here had her car break down, and the ADON had her husband fix it. When the nurse tried to pay him, they flat refused to take her money.

For all the crap that goes on sometimes, I love working where I do.

jnette, ASN, EMT-I · Feb 20, 2005

Oh my goodness... I do consider myself the most fortunate nurse around when it comes to coworkers. All our patients get such a kick out of us because they all say it's the first time they have ever heard coworkers fighting over "quit doing my work!" instead of looking the other way when a hand is needed.

We truly are like family, and not a day.. not an hour goes by without one of us looking out for what the other might need in terms of asistance... unsolicited assistance at that. :)

Thanx for a great thread.

sabRN2b05, BSN, RN · Feb 20, 2005

I will be graduating in May and I work as a Tech now....I will very much appreciate my techs when I graduate and become an RN since I've "been there, done that". The nurses that I work with not only appreciate everything the techs do, but they are not scared to get their hands dirty as well. I hope to follow in their footsteps with the gratitude.

Just a note to the wonderful tech who so patiently cleaned up the bloodiest mess I ever made when starting an IV the other night. The room looked like a crime scene by the time I got the flippin' hub onto the cath.
That was bad enough. The kicker was that a half hour later, I went into the room to flush the line, but the cath had somehow pulled loose, so I wound up giving the entire side of the bed another bloody bath. :chair:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKK. :stone
So my tech grabs all the bed linens and changes the bed around me as I start the next IV site, before the patient can do any wriggling this time. One stick, presto, change-o, and it's in without a drop spilled.
Still, that was not what we'd call "optimal bonding" time there.
So THANK YOU!! All of you techs who grit your teeth and smile, and keep going. I really appreciate it.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Feb 20, 2005

I did just this week! But confess I need to do better.

We usually have two CNA's. One had to go to the ER because a patient scratched him and he waited about four hours (conveniently being seen so he came back to the floor at the end of the shift). The CNA left on the floor by herself worked very hard doing two jobs.

We have a program that we write kudos down and give it to the manager, who gives the recepient a gift. We hardly ever do this for each other. But this time I did, and she received a $10.00 gift certificate to Publix grocery and was very appreciative.

lovingtheunloved, ASN, RN · Feb 20, 2005

Oh! And I'm off today, but the nurse who sent me home sick yesterday called just to see how I was and to make sure that I got my script filled. And said if I hadn't that she'd pay for it if I couldn't. I was able to pay for it myself, but how sweet is that?

begalli · Feb 20, 2005

Gosh! I hope I didn't forget to thank anyone!

What I really appreciate is when RT does suctioning for me. They are not required to do it, they are mainly responsible for the vent settings, but I can't thank them enough when they see that I'm busy and need a hand.

begalli · Feb 20, 2005

Oh! I thought of one I DID forget to thank.....my charge nurse last Thursday...

She listened and heeded to my opinion that an assignment should be 1:1 when it was planned after 4 hours into the shift that an assignment go 1:2. I felt the two patients were too sick to be safetly and effectively paired up. She accepted my opinion and left the two patient's 1:1.

So, thank you! There's nothing like the feeling of having your professional judgement acknowledged and respected! :yelclap: