Some people that I work with at times I just don't like. One of the girls I graduated with (and I don't like her, at all, for various reasons) was sitting with the patient I sat with last night. At around 6:30pm she came up to me and said "umm, are one of you coming to relieve me at 7?" and I told her I was, then she told me "k, because I normally clock out right at 7." I told her I would be in there as soon as I could.
I started 7pm vitals because I didn't want the other nursing assistant to be on the floor by himself doing them. I got through half of one side and then hastily put the vitals in the computer. It was close to 7, and this girl pops her head out and asks,
"Melissa, can you come in now?"
"I will be there in a minute, I am putting in vitals and I only have a three more to do." (I admit, I was kind of bitchy about it haha)
"Okay well I don't want to get penalized or anything...."
"I am almost done, you can wait another minute, and I'll be there as soon as I can."
I got in, she apologized for trying not to "rush" me but she didn't want to get penalized. She told me that if you don't stay until 7:25pm, you will get penalized because you only have 5 minutes before and after to clock in/out. I told her technically by right, you are supposed to stay here until 7:25pm to cover for the oncoming shift. She told me "well my manager doesn't enforce that rule." Bullshit.
This is the same girl who told my roommate, "I can't wait to be a nurse so that I don't have to clean people up or do this shit anymore."
Another nurse, who was an LPN turned RN, kind of rubs me the wrong way, too. She's just not that nice. And what really pissed me off was around 6:45pm, a bed alarm was going off, so there was a patient somewhere trying to climb out of bed. I was talking to my roommate and we went to go investigate when we heard the alarm. This RN was standing right outside of the room on her COW (computer of wheels) and said "Oh she's probably just trying to get out of bed again" while Candice & I rush in there. Patient was already up and around, thankfully not on the floor and didn't hurt herself in any way. What ever happened to SAFETY being a priority (considering the fact that physiological needs are met)? Ugh.
I have to go back to work today, but thankfully only 3-7pm. I'm just not looking forward to driving! The roads were terrible on my way home last night - very slick, and for awhile I couldn't see shit because the moment rain hit my windshield, it froze.
Now I'm looking outside my window and it's a total white-out!!
I've got news for that NA that is a future nurse...nurses have to stay til 7:30 and are lucky if they get out on time. If she doesn't plan on wiping bums, she better start looking for a pharmaceutical job. She will be the most hated RN by other nurses and NAs she delegates to with that sort of attitude. And guess what? I am a nurse that has to watch patients when no one else is available because they will get out of bed and be combative. Those types of nurses really grind my gears!
ReplyDelete"I can't wait to be a nurse so that I don't have to clean people up or do this shit anymore."
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!! That's the funniest thing I've EVER heard in my ENTIRE life. Uh, huh... keep dreaming girlie. LOL
I'm a new follower... found you on a blog I follow. :)
Haha that is why I have hate her so much!!! I really hope she doesn't get hired as an RN at my hospital. She would get hired onto night shift and thankfully the nurses that already work will have the final say on if she gets hired or not, and they're all going to say no!!!
ReplyDeleteOne night she was working and call lights would keep going off...she would sit there reading her magazine and would wait to see if anyone would get up and answer it before she did. That night the floor also had a bunch of blood sugars that needed to be done. Now, I don't mind doing blood sugars at all. One of the nurses kindly asked her if she could help with them and the girl looks up, rolls her eyes and says, "I HATE blood sugars."
Finally, a patient's IV accidentally came out, and a bunch of nurses were busy because a patient was going downhill and this other patient really needed IV access. One of the nurses asked if she could restart the IV and she rolls her eyes again and says, "yeah, I'll get to that." She was just sitting there! If a nurse asked me to start an IV, I am all over that shit. I'll take all of the experience I can get lol
I think she thinks she can just be a "pill popper" and do assessments and nothing else.
How do you like your job as a nurse tech? What department are you in? I've been thinking about looking for a nurse tech job (PRN) so I could do a shift or 2 on the weekends.
ReplyDeleteI love it! (most of the time haha...but in reality, you can't love your job 100% of the time). My "home" unit is renal/plastics (plastics as in decub ulcer repair, skin grafts, etc...we also get things like breast augmentation/reduction surgeries but not as often) but since my floor is considered med-surg we get a little bit of everything. I also frequently float to other units (acute care of the elderly unit, medical ICU and ICU stepdown). Working as a tech has helped me soooo much especially with skills, because at my hospital we are allowed to draw blood/insert IV's, do dressing changes (both sterile and non-sterile), blood cultures, foley catheter insertion and give non-medicated enemas. I work PRN and I'm not allowed to work more than 39 hours per week. I practically make my own schedule and work 4 hours at a time if I wanted to - they're very flexible with our scheduling. As much as I can't wait to become an RN, I think I'm going to the miss the scheduling flexibility as a tech. As long as I meet the 24hrs/month work commitment, it doesn't matter when I work. If you have the opportunity to work as a nurse tech then by all means do it! The experience is invaluable :)
ReplyDelete...and according to Pearson Vue's quick results, she passed her NCLEX and is now an RN. ugh!
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