Your nursing practice varies from mine, therefore, you suck!!

[wooh]

We so regularly get posts, and I see people at work doing this. Judging someone because they do something different from how we do it. Then the self righteous, I'm perfect, other nurses that disagree with me suck diatribe.

We've all got our little pet peeves in nursing. It bothers me when people are stingy with narcotics. It bothers me when people insist on waking someone to take their 8am qd vitamin. It bothers me when people crush a pill, mix it with water, THEN pull it into the syringe, leaving half the pill in the med cup. But people do those things, and their patients survive. I'm sure I do things that bother other nurses.

Can't we just accept that we're different??

Unless your nursing practice varies from mine because you routinely stab your patients in the eye with a 18 gauge needle to make sure they're arousable, I'm thinking that we're both doing ok.

[chicookie, BSN, RN]

Can't the bananas and pancakes just get along?

When I come across those type of people I just smile and wave.

Smile and wave, fellow nurses, smile and wave.

[AmeliasAunt]

The only time something like this bothers me if when Im the charge nurse. If I have spoken to a nurse about something that needs to be done for the good of the floor in my mind its going to be done ASAP. However, some nurses like to work in the "I have all day to do it" mode, and will put it off. This drives me crazy!! Because, guess what?!?! Between now and the end of the day, something else is going to come up! And now we are running out of time and have a list of "to do's". Absolutely, cannot stand that type of nurse!

[llg, PhD, RN]

i understand the point the op is trying to make and i agree.... everyone else who does not get-it either has never worked with unprofessional nurses by bedside or is blinded to his/her rotten co-workers. well, surprise... there are bedside nurses that bully his/her co-workers.

part of the ease with which backbiting and backstabbing can occur by bedside is directly related to the fact that nursing skills and talents vary, even when ebp protocol is followed. the bully will nit-pick others based upon tasks or skills performed. in addition, the same bully whom thinks that he/she is perfect will follow his/her harassment of a co-worker with gossip that gives the wrong impression that the nurse in question "sucks", as the op pointed out. for those of you that do not understand this scenario please note that this type of behavior is not constructive criticism; rather it creates a hostile work environment for all involved.

:yeah:

as mbarnbsn is pointing out, we need to judge each situation on its own merits. yes, there are some nurses who take dangerous shortcuts, practice unsafely, etc. and those nurses need to counselled appropriately. but there are also bullies who use differences in practices (whether they be unsafe or perfectly fine, just different) as a weapon to prey upon the colleagues and create a hostile work environment. we need to eliminate such behavior from our culture.

we need to focus on the evidence that serves as the foundatin for our practice and identify what is in the best interest of the patient in order to judge whether or not a particular action is ok or not -- and then act professionally about it. simultaneously, we need to focus on the bad behavior of the bullies who poison the patient care environment and bring the whole place down.

those are really 2 separate issues at work in these situations.

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

I know you should have used affect where you used effect. My grammar is better than your grammar therefore you suck.

*Again more sarcasm, and gentle chiding of the grammar police.

Didn't really understand effect vs. affect in grade school, and several years later I still have not heard a good explanation for when to use one vs. when to use the other; however, I know I have better grammar that someone who ends a sentence with a preposition!

[Edited so the grammar police don't come after me]

[chicookie, BSN, RN]

Didn't really understand effect vs. affect in grade school, and several years later I still have not heard a good explanation for when to use one vs. when to use the other; however, I know I have better grammar that someone who ends a sentence with a preposition!

[Edited so the grammar police don't come after me]

Completely off topic but this is how I remember it:

Affect is an Action

Effect is an End result

Also the grammar police is going to come after you no matter what you do

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

Completely off topic but this is how I remember it:

Affect is an Action

Effect is an End result

Also the grammar police is going to come after you no matter what you do

LOL...thanks

[AgentBeast, MSN, RN]

I like off topic discussions.