There are a couple of threads that are currently rather popular probably because of their universal negativeness. We can all identify with negativity because we all have to deal with it, and for some of us, it's a constant thing.
I was going through my journals from 15-20 years ago, looking for a specific drawing for a project I'm working on. While flipping through the pages, a flood of memories came back, the vast majority positive ones. Even though our work at Wrongway Regional Medical Center was very stressful at times, we could always find some humor in having fun with situations, our peers & patients, and ourselves.
I found one drawing of a tech I worked with who could be sweet as pie or mean as a snake. I made a cartoon with something she said that I have no memory of the reference.
I got to thinking about the song and Paul McCartney describing the Yellow Submarine as "just a happy place".
So, even though Wrongway could be a workplace "of wrath and tears", it could also be a Yellow Submarine.
Have you found any Yellow Submarines in your workplace of wrath and tears?
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
14 hours ago, Hoosier_RN said:
I'm currently in my yellow submarine job. Do I have crappy days? Sure, every job presents them. But I have so many fewer that they really seem nonexistent
What would you say, Hoosier, that makes your job a Yellow Submarine job?
It’s funny what time does. I changed jobs at the beginning of 2020, while I didn’t hate my old job I always found something to complain about. Thought there was something better out there. Boy was I wrong! Only now I realise how great I had it.
Im ready to jump into that yellow submarine back to a rural hospital, where everyone knows everyone, and nurses are encourage/supported to increase there skills and knowledge. But the allure of a big city ER got me, which just ended up being a workplace of wrath and tears.
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
33 minutes ago, EDNURSE20 said:
Thought there was something better out there. Boy was I wrong! Only now I realise how great I had it.
EDNURSE20, I could echo your story with one of my own: I got my EMT-B, NREMT-A, LPN, and RN in being associated or working with Weed Rover Community Hospital between the years of 1979 to 1990. I worked CD treatment, Psych, OR , ER and helped out on other units. Looking back, it was one of, if not the best, places I ever worked.
I left Weed Rover on the last day of 1990 and worked at numerous facilities in varied roles for the next 30 years. I never again truly found my Yellow Submarine that was as bright and shiny as the Weed Rover one.
I tried to go back to Weed Rover in the late 90's, but it closed down in 1999.
What would you say, Hoosier, that makes your job a Yellow Submarine job?
The fact that it flows. It fills my helper spirit. As far as heathcare jobs go, dialysis clinics can be hectic. But after years of acute, hh/hospice, and especially LTC, it's an ebb and flow hectic. You leave at the end of most days and can pretty much leave most of it behind. In other settings, 24/7 settings, there are calls and text constantly, invading the off time. Maybe it's the company I'm with, maybe the management and/or workers, maybe it's Maybelline...
I've repeated the words of the supervisor of the CD treatment unit I worked at in the late '80's many times here on allnurses. He gave me and the other nurses a task none of us really cared to do, which was to call back potential patients seeking inpatient treatment.
He said, "My job is no more important than yours. We just have different responsibilities and one of mine is to tell you what to do. And, hey- you don't have to like it, you only have to do it!"
I could get behind that.
He also said something to our team which I could get behind:
I thought, yeah, just like an actor in a play. I don't have to feel the part, I only have to act the part.
So, like your boss said, Daisy- kill them with kindness!
Although I agree with the "be on" part, that is what is just exhausting. I hated it when management got the bright idea that nurses should sit in the hallway to chart because you never got a chance to be "off".
The pic you drew of your boss reminds me of someone, a talk show host or actor circa 70's but I cant quite put my finger on it and it is really bugging me...just though I would share LOL
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
1 hour ago, Daisy4RN said:
Although I agree with the "be on" part, that is what is just exhausting. I hated it when management got the bright idea that nurses should sit in the hallway to chart because you never got a chance to be "off".
The pic you drew of your boss reminds me of someone, a talk show host or actor circa 70's but I cant quite put my finger on it and it is really bugging me...just though I would share LOL
Is there anything else? I have the time.
It is now, at the current time, exactly 3pm.
That is actually a caricature of the first CEO of Wrongway. But it looks so much like the supervisor of the CD unit- dark hair, moustache, suit- I used that one.
Didn't just about every actor or talk show host look the same in the '70's?
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
1 hour ago, Hoosier_RN said:
As far as heathcare jobs go, dialysis clinics can be hectic. But after years of acute, hh/hospice, and especially LTC, it's an ebb and flow hectic.
It is good to be busy when you know the job. You do your thing and the time flies.
Belinda has three distinct statuses she gives me when she gets home from working IMU and I ask her how her shift went:
"Terrible" means patients were crashing and/or dying and/or were behavior problems and staff members were a pain. "But you were a good nurse, provided quality care, and no one cried, right?" I have noted.
"Busy" means she did her job and the shift passed quickly.
"Boring" means the patients were self-care and there were no problems.
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What would you say, Hoosier, that makes your job a Yellow Submarine job?