Writing “poop” is unprofessional?

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I got written up for saying poop. It was one of those nights and instead of saying” large, hard bm” I said “poop”. I just didn’t think it was a big deal. But apparently it was. The DON printed up my nurses note and explained why it was unprofessional. 

This is weirding me out. This is a place that can’t keep nurses btw. 

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3 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

The write up was inappropriate micromanagement establishing or maintaining a toxic culture.  Every nurse knows that documentation is reviewed.  Every nurse doesn't get exposed to bully managers who punish professionals for using words they don't approve of. 

Were you under some impression that any comment from this thread was going to impact the actual situation? On that level let me reply that your comment doesn't matter any more than mine or more than others that you might disagree with. You must have felt some need to make that comment...perhaps you feel frustrated.  

Time to move on, you guys have been on this for several days. She got the write up as deserved. Nothing you can say or do will change  that. Move on

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49 minutes ago, Ashlee59 said:

Time to move on, you guys have been on this for several days. She got the write up as deserved. Nothing you can say or do will change  that. Move on

I'm glad you're not my manager. 

You must be a difficult person to work with.

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56 minutes ago, Ashlee59 said:

Time to move on, you guys have been on this for several days. She got the write up as deserved. Nothing you can say or do will change  that. Move on

Bless your heart....you've been on it the same amount of time. Heed your own advice. Have a nice day

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2 hours ago, Ashlee59 said:

Time to move on, you guys have been on this for several days. She got the write up as deserved. Nothing you can say or do will change  that. Move on

Feel free to move on.  You have no jurisdiction over others commenting in these threads.  

 

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8 hours ago, Ashlee59 said:

Time to move on, you guys have been on this for several days. She got the write up as deserved. Nothing you can say or do will change  that. Move on

Serious question: Does any part of you feel that perhaps a manager who has time for this kind of thing right now is the seriously more unprofessional one? Like, as a matter of prudent nursing--which happens to be in crisis at this point in time--spending even a moment on this matter as a manager is neglecting people who are past the breaking point and neglecting matters that could help them provide some semblance of decent care to patients?

I can't see myself ever writing the verbiage in question but holy hell, one doesn't need to be a nurse to think the write-up is ridiculous. I think reasonable members of the general public wouldn't be impressed to know that while the healthcare system cries in their beer about how tough things are, there are managers running around with time for this kind of thing.

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10 hours ago, JKL33 said:

I can't see myself ever writing the verbiage in question but holy hell, one doesn't need to be a nurse to think the write-up is ridiculous. I think reasonable members of the general public wouldn't be impressed to know that while the healthcare system cries in their beer about how tough things are, there are managers running around with time for this kind of thing.

Amen! Many of us have seen way worse than this written by care providers of varying levels at one time or another. It's nothing that warrants mote than a cursory chuckle,  if that, tease the writer if you know them well, and move on

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The first time I ever got written up was for defacing hospital property.

I was an LPN working on a psych unit and regularly passed meds from a cart in the dayroom. Some of the patients would say things like, "Here comes the Drug Wagon" or some other seemingly illicit name for the med cart.

So, I had a contest with the patients to give the med cart an official name. I would select the most popular name and paint it on the med cart. The entry, "Pills on Wheels", was chosen and thus painted it in black lettering on the orange med cart.

The poop hit the propeller, I was written up, and had to remove the lettering from the med cart.

Thus began a long, eventful nursing career where I was regularly in deep poop.

 

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19 hours ago, Kitiger said:

I'm glad you're not my manager. 

You must be a difficult person to work with.

Mam I don't care how you feel or about your opinion move on. 

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19 hours ago, Hoosier_RN said:

Bless your heart....you've been on it the same amount of time. Heed your own advice. Have a nice day

Bc I keep getting alerts. Move on go to work do something. Nobody cares

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14 minutes ago, Ashlee59 said:

Bc I keep getting alerts. Move on go to work do something. Nobody cares

Maybe you should figure out how to silence the alerts and not treat other AN members as if you are their tyrannical manager.  We are doing something, we're responding to your comments. If you want someone to move on or go do something then you should probably get yourself busy moving on or going to work because you are the only member here whose activity you can direct.  

It's not lost on us that the person supporting the bullying and micromanagement of nurses also tries to bully and micromanage nurses on a public forum for disagreeing with her flawed assessments.  At least you are consistent in your inappropriate attitudes. 

23 minutes ago, Ashlee59 said:

Mam I don't care how you feel or about your opinion move on. 

If that were true you would ignore them...

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

HEY!

Since we're discussing some really deep poop here, please allow me to comment on relationships.

Once, at a regular psych department meeting, the director requested that we write something positive down on a slip of paper about the person next to us and give it to them. Okay, fine, la-dee-da.

However, I made the point that anybody and everybody I work with knows exactly how I feel about them, both personally and professionally. I praise in pubic, criticize on private, and practice loving indifference.

Most allnurses members- virtual friends/acquaintances- know I feel about them. There are allnurses members that I virtually love. Heck, I even have a virtual wife in Emergent.

However, there are those who I choose to treat with loving indifference. That means, they are persona non grata to me, and I do not respond to their posts. I am indifferent to them, they get absolutely no attention from me, which also means that I cast no stones at them.

It works out well. The members I ignore don't have to deal with me, and I don't have to deal with them. Everybody wins.

Just in case you're interested, I learned the concept of loving indifference from book by Pauline Boss titled Ambiguous Loss.

And now: Back to our program on poop.

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