So I work pool at a hospital. I worked 8 hrs in the SICU and was floated to a stepdown unit and as I entered the floor the charge nurse told me that she assigned me as a tech. I told her that would not be acceptable. I was hired as a nurse and that is the role I would work.
She looked at me as if I had three heads. I again told her if she wanted to use me as a nurse I would be more than happy to help her out but I would never work as a nurse tech.
Eventually they found a staff nurse to fille the role and I took her assignment.
Has anyone ever refused to work as a tech? Any thoughts?
It's great to go from "suck it! lalalalalalalal" to "I fart in your general direction."
Actually, whether OP is guy/girl, I am convinced they have the anatomy to make such offers. It takes balls to say that on here. I wouldn't. And.............my obnoxiousness is the stuff of legend.
Then again, I don't say that in RL. I mean, seriously, what if some not so pleasant person you don't like much takes you literally?
I have had to tech on several occasions when a tech has called off sick or something. All night I would hear, "hey, can you check this insulin with me" or "would you fix that iv pump that's beeping while you are in the room". GRRRR!!! What the heck? Do they want me to tech or nurse? One night I went as far as putting a post-it-note over the RN on my badge that clearly stated CNA! LOL
Every now and then we will have an RN fill in as our CNA if we are short aides in the house. Would I mind working as an aide? Heck no, it's alot easier to say I'll tell your nurse than to have to listen to whiny pts all night. Just because I'm a nurse now doesn't mean I'm above doing patient care. There are times we do not have an aide at all, and the nurses do everything. I appreciate our aides very much and ALWAYS thank them before I leave in the morning.
To the OP, I would be careful, being a difficult employee (which you're probably known as now), will follow you through your career in that facility. It might be a wise idea IMHO to apologize to that CN.
Obviously the OP is someone who is immature, selfish, and rude with the comments that he/she posted. Nurses who act this way don't really succeed and make it big. So I pity the OP. Maybe he/she also has some inferiority complex so it's very essential to him/her to feel important and big-time all the time and not just give out meal trays to patients or run down specimens to the lab.
so I chesked with my manager and director. Turns out there is a policy on floating and I was spot on. If a nurse wants to work as a tech all is good, but if they do not they do not have to. The step down was way wrong in trying to assign me as a tech....I was floated as as nurse period,
For all those evil female nurses who had nasty things to say about my stance - you were wrong! so suck it! lalalalalalalal
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eriksoln, BSN, RN
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Actually, whether OP is guy/girl, I am convinced they have the anatomy to make such offers. It takes balls to say that on here. I wouldn't. And.............my obnoxiousness is the stuff of legend.
Then again, I don't say that in RL. I mean, seriously, what if some not so pleasant person you don't like much takes you literally?