It seems like there are so many childish things around nursing and I just don't get it. The frumpy cartoonish uniform tops, the corny "angel" statues and dust catchers aimed at nurses. Our billboards at work speak of "Being on the Bus" and features a short yellow school bus and a "pledge" form that we are all supposed to sign that features lots of cartoon characters. The form is for us to say we agree with the hospital policies on working as a team, getting along with others etc. Seriously our bulletin board looks like something I would expect to see in a 4th or 5th grade classroom. Lots of big fat yellow smiley faces all over everything. IMHO it's demeaning, debasing and I hate having this nonsense aimed at me, a 58 yo nurse working since 1975!
There are rolls of bright cartoon stickers we are supposed to put on glasses of ice water to give to the patients with phrases like "I've been a good patient"!, "You are awesome"!, "You are someone special"!. You know, the sort of thing you would expect to see in pediatrics, NOT on a general med/surg floor. Needless to say I refuse to use them.
Our supervisor recently told us that if we hear someone say something "not nice" we are supposed to get one of those fat oily yellow face stickers and put it on the person upside down, so the smile will appear instead as a frown.
Does anyone else see this, I know the other nurses I work with also find it stupid and ridiculous.
Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.
Let's put it this way - you can have fun and be professional, but cute does not serve "the cause". Here's a video that demonstrates it pretty well - It depicts a doctor, not a nurse, but the end perception on the part of patients is the same. Warning - it may not be work appropriate. This is how we are perceived when we put on the cute factor when working with patients. Their health is a serious matter to them, we should treat them as such. Doesn't mean we can't laugh and joke with patients, just means the hair flip, tweety bird tops and hot pink pants are probably not working in our favor.
More laughter!!! How funny! "your sperm are just as tired and old...and there are only 5 of them" was my favorite line from this skit! Thanks for the laugh!
Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.
It may depend on the state, I believe in conn. there is no battery just levels of assault ( however, i could have that backwards, it has been a while)
in mass. assault is "putting in fear" battery is touching.....so it might actually be both.
I am sure that ImThatGuy will be able to verify this since he is a police officer, but according to Black's Law Dictionary, the crime of threat is defined as assault, and battery is the intentional striking of another with intent to do harm. You oftentimes see the two definitions in conjunction with each other since the former usually follows the latter.
Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.
I remember getting a sticker as a gift for Nurses Day .... apparently I was a good girl.
The last time anyone else in my family got a sticker for being good were my children when they were in kindergarten
Now this is just petty. You mean you didn't APPRECIATE the sticker??? After all HR went through to print out and make sure that you got your sticker, you don't LOVE it?!? What is wrong with you? They went though absolute heck worrying over which design to use. And then they had to agonize over whether or not to print them in-house or outsource this mega project. Seriously...what do you want? A raise or something?
Just joshin' ya, Pedicurn. I agree; a sticker for nurses day is waaaay past lame. They could have saved the money and used it for buying equipment that actually works. That would be gift enough for me!
A FORMER manager I had offered us BUTTONS if she didn't like something we said. This behavior was encouraged, don't like what someone says? Give them a button and tell them to BUTTON THEIR LIPS!
Uh...that lasted a week, our director took the buttons after some brave soles went to HR about it all. The solution after that is now the Above the Line Below the line behavior board. The board is fixed up like a second grade class room board. When asked where the materials came from, the Associate Manager replied...OH! From this cute little school supply place! Yeah.....I totally get where you are coming from. I am sick of superstar gold stickers and candy bars for good behavior. We are adults for heaven's sake!
It would be battery, not assault, and that's ridiculous.
No, it's not ridiculous ... I do not tolerate strangers laying their hands on me unasked. So, call it battery, it's still a criminal charge. If you don't believe me, just grab a patient who's a&o and try to give them something they don't want.
Omg, some of this is really funny!!! I can't believe they really do that! Wow..................who's in charge that's creating this stuff?
Someone who clearly doesn't have enough to do.
We have stupid signs around our workplace saying things like "Take a moment" I always see it out of the corner of my eye when I've got a mental queue of six or seven immediate tasks to do.
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
It sounds like your facility is infected with the cute disease a little more so than most, lol. The last thread I read here last night had me perusing a document that talked about how nurses in the 21st century need to increasingly move from task-based proficiencies to higher-level competencies and navigagte regulatory and access stipulations.
But I'm not allowed to figure out how to say hello to you or introduce your oncoming nurse and -- I got 7 happyface stickers this week!!
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More laughter!!! How funny! "your sperm are just as tired and old...and there are only 5 of them" was my favorite line from this skit! Thanks for the laugh!