As far as nurses, and in this case, techs, eating their young, I think I have now seen it all.
Yesterday I was unfortunate enough to lac my hand. I went ahead and called the ER I work at and asked if they could hook me up with some sutures. The charge nurse agreed and told me to come on in.
While I was there, one of the new grads was working. This girl is so sweet and very shy with a high anxiety level. She gets pushed around all the time, and I've seen her crying more than once (mostly it's the ancillary staff!) Anyway, the techs saw me and decided to play a really mean trick on this girl. One came into my room and said, "hey, can we hook you up to the monitor for a sec.. we want to show the new grads what sinus brady with a U-wave looks like." (I'm a runner.) So I said sure. I was super tired, so I was just sitting there with my head propped against the wall in the chair with my eyes closed. A few minutes later, this scared new nurse runs into my room, looks at the monitor, cries out and yells for her preceptor. She runs over to me and puts her stethoscope on me, practically crying. I'm pretty awake at this point and ask her what on earth is wrong and what she's doing. More crying.
Turns out the tech decided it would be funny to tell her that he found me "bradying with an abnormal wave" and "wasn't sure but she should come check it out" knowing full well that a) that's totally WNL for me and b) she wouldn't know the difference between a bradying old guy who's about to croak and me. Finally the techs came clean and were practically on the floor laughing. They're like "oh come on, can't you take a little joke..."
I told them that if I saw them picking on her again, I would write them up and show them more than just my u-wave
