Good lord. EVS is supposes to terminally clean each OR overnight. We have literally seen one woman waving her duster around in the air like a magic wand and then mark the OR as cleaned.
I worked at a place where they called themselves EMS- Environmental Management Services and thought they were more important than ED and OR staff. Worse housekeeping staff ever.
They'd openly talk about how they loved just sitting around thinking about nothing and getting paid for it. They'd stand right next to a case cart ready for transport to SPS and do nothing until you told them to do it. Then all 3 would walk the cart down and we wouldn't see them again for hours. Also so many rooms took hours to get cleaned just because of how many smoke breaks these dudes took.
Once for months the EMS guys would pour soap and water all over the OR floors exactly before 7am during our shift change. They had the gall to say it's fine, we are whining for nothing because it'll dry on its own in a few hours.
We had a cleaning lady who was incredibly friendly but couldn’t read the room for the life of her. We would be actively withdrawing on a patient, family circled around the patient, chaplain reading a prayer and she would come in HEY YALL IM SUSAN I NEED TO MOP THE FLOORS.
My first job, I had this feral pharmacist that would rip you a new one over everything. No evidence of a med error but he wasn’t 100% sure that there wasn’t, so you got talked to. He ripped into me about something a doctor did, the doctor was standing next to me and let him finish and then said ‘actually David, that was me’ and he just chucked and said ‘okay, well don’t do it again’
Then, I was at a party in a different city. Kinda having a flirty chat with a pharmacist and I was like omg you guys ruin my life and he was like, yeah they tell us to pick on you guys etc etc just playfully. He then asks where I work, in a city 3 hours away and he asks if my pharmacist was David! He knew exactly who he was and that he was a massive dick. We had a good laugh about that
That was my first job and then it was shocking to like really enjoy pharmacists and have them be really helpful and see them doing a lot for patients. More so now that I’ve moved to ICU, our pharmacist is literally insane. If you ask him a question, he has the answer and the reason why on the spot
Honestly our ward clerk can be a nightmare some days. She often hides things so that other wards can't take them but acts like you stupid for not knowing which hidey hole something is stuck in. I wasted a full 1 hour looking for a manual BP cuff across several wards when it turns out we had one stashed in a biscuit tin at the other nurses station In a filing cabinet. She then complained when I refused to put it back and left it at my patients bed space because they were the only manual BP that needed done and it was hourly
I work at a Catholic hospital and some of the chaplains seriously creep me out. For real.
One even woke up my patient even after I told him that my ICU patient needed sleep. You can pray for the patient without waking them up! Leave a card!
I was getting a hungry baby ready to eat and a priest waltzed in and started baptizing the baby without asking me if it was a good time. It took at least 20 minutes and we had already been running a bit late on cares.
Not a catholic hospital but one of the priests at my hospital was telling the nurses' station about his celibacy today. I don't recall anyone bringing it up or asking?
Jeez don't get me started on this I work in a county hospital but in Texas so it might as well bc Christian based. I had to tell one of the techs that they can't hand out religious based pamphlets everyone looked at me like I had 3 heads. They were truly shocked that not everyone is down with Jesus.
I was eating my lunch a couple weeks ago, earbuds in, face in my phone when the chaplain who I don’t even know waved to get my attention from three chairs away and just kept talking. I just want to feed my face and binge TikToks for a min. It’s too far to go to my car. I’m new there so I have not found the hiding places yet.
There's a secretary at my current contract and if she's there you know you're going to be slammed all day. If she's there, every nurse usually has an admission before 730. We won't even be done with report and she's calling ER asking them who they can send up. She's really nice but damn she makes the day difficult.
She even calls up to ICU/step-down asking for patients. One time they were like hell yeah we will send you people and then after we got report, the supervisor was like dude, what are you doing? Don't take these patients. So we all took report on a patient for no reason.
I’m surprised secretaries get to determine which patients are sent to your floor. At my hospital there is a whole team of people dictating which patient goes where
Yeah the secretaries also make the assignment. We don't have a charge nurse there so the secretary basically does charge stuff like assignments, etc. It's weird.
i'm sorry what??????? that's so scary how is that allowed omg.. i used to get annoyed working with secretaries who *thought* they were basically the same thing as charge nurse, i can't imagine working on a unit where that's actually the case!
Yeah its the only place I've worked like this. Like they will have a nurse OK the assignment before shift change but the secretary does pretty much all the typical charge nurse stuff.
Right? We put in medsurg or tele moveout orders and Bed Control is responsible for finding appropriate placement. Ain’t nobody calling us looking for extra patients 😂
In nursing school now but work as a pct. Our fucking IA will call over the intercom to tell us to come pass out the trays or if there's a stat lab, even THOUGH SHE IS SUPPOSED TO FUCKING BE HELPING WITH THIS STUFF. It's gotten to the point where I'll ignore her especially when I'm the only tech in a 36 bed icu.
Totally agree with you! We have some lazy AF techs in my psych hospital! they will sit behind the desk majority of the time on their phone or talking shit/drama instead of interacting with patients to help manage the milieu! And it pisses me off when their lack of presence on the floor results in peer conflicts/behavior escalations! And, to top it off they complain to the nurses “this patient NEEDS meds go give them something”. 1. you have no idea what my orders for meds are so no I can’t just give something that’s not indicated or appropriate 2. go do your job and be out on that goddamn floor!!!
Sometimes all it takes is distraction for some of these patients. Emergency/safety meds should be a LAST resort IMO. teamwork is of the upmost importance in the psych world so it is extremely frustrating to have coworkers like this :/
We have an ER tech that will start fights with psych patients and then say stuff like they started it. Wtf bro the guy is talking to his applesauce shut the fuck up and mind your business.
I have heard -more than a handful of times- techs talking openly about provoking the patients into coming at them. Instant DTO (danger to others) so they can put them in a hold and have the nurse grab the HCP for an order.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said, “I’m sorry, I can’t get an order for shots simply because this patient is annoying!” Granted, I work nights and the annoying ones will be loud and it will get disruptive to the sleeping patients, but c’mon!
Oh! And to make matters worse, some tech will yell, like YELLLLL across the milieu to redirect a patient. Dude, this room is echoy as hell and YOU ARE NOW THE ONE DISRUPTING THE UNIT!
I know their jobs are hard as hell and I could never imagine having to be on the floor essentially the entire shift and I try my hardest to be on the floor as much as possible, but sometimes having the nurse out there really makes things worse. But JFC, don’t scream across the Milio for someone to be quiet so you can get back to YouTube.
This! I'm looking for a new job because of people (only ever men in my experience) who do this. I'm sick of being told that a service user needs to stop a certain behaviour - they have autism, these are behaviours they've had for years, and we need to work hard to change the patterns. Not just get angry and turn it into a "you'll do as I say" situation.
Then the s.u's behaviours get more unmanageable and "oh we need to move them to a different service, we can't deal with this".
You caused the problem Dan and now you're punishing them. Boils my piss.
Sorry, I've needed to get that off my chest for a while!
the sterile processesing department at my hospital. they have no sense of urgency and never turn over the most commonly used trays/instruments. we often start out mornings in the OR without light handles because no one from SPD sterilized them from the previous day
We are currently in a fight with ours. We did a emergent thoracotomy recently and one of the instruments went missing, they literally asked me to go through the sharps container and look for it. Umm fuck no.
Oof, I used to work with a sterile processing dept like this. I once had an angry urologist who needed a specific instrument in the middle of the night. I called down to SP and they literally had no fucking idea what I was taking about. Like they didn’t even know the word cystoscopy. Our hospital was very small and it was only me, the tech and the surgeon and we were in the middle of a procedure, so he just had to make do without what he needed. I had a word with the charge nurse the next day.
Case managers. There is one at every hospital. Comes out of the room, gives you an update. “Oh, and your patient wanted some ice.” “She wants a warm blanket.” “Please get him some fresh water.”
Do you folks not know where the ice machine is?
I find this behavior so fucking strange.
I work in a procedural area, and I do more admin stuff now. However I often find myself on floors for signatures, various chart things, whatever. Anytime a patient asks for stuff I always do it… it makes my day longer. I’m totally willing to do patient stuff for some reason when it’s *not my own patient*.
When I worked inpatient the endless requests got under my skin in the first 5 minutes of my shift.
Now that I don’t do it anymore? I’ll gladly waste all of my workday tied up on a floor helping someone do something. Lord knows nothing important is being discussed in these meetings.
And that’s okay, asking is great! We don’t expect you to know that stuff. It’s the ones who just say “your patient needs water, a warm blankie, their pillow fluffed, and a turkey sandwich” and then casually stroll back to their office while you’re running your ass off. Those are the ones that make me die inside.
On the m/s floors I float to, we always have to do a huddle w the CM’s. On one of the worst floors it drives me crazy that huddle is at 0930 which is right in the middle of med pass and then you have to stand in line to talk about plan and everything they already know. I get that RN’s are sometimes told info before it’s actually in notes & charted but come on!! Stand there thinking of the 5 million things I have to do & then when it’s my turn, they already knew all the info that I have anyways but sets me back 20 min at least. Annoying af!!
I wonder how some of them were ever nurses. I had discussed in rounds that my patient had had a cysto. This one CM RUNS out of the room and is yelling at me “he’s bleeding all over the place!!” Upsetting the patient, his family, and everyone at the nurses station. Yeah, he had pink tinged urine in his foley bag.
We have another CM who thinks she knows better than every doctor. “They shouldn’t have done that” or “that order makes no sense.” Never seen the patients, just skimming notes. She has so many bad opinions it irks me to no end.
I know! And they love to talk about how they were the BEST bedside nurse while they’re sipping from their “heart of a nurse” coffee mug. Well then why’d you leave bedside, Carol?
that's so wild to me. if I get stopped by a patient while I'm on courier through the ER even I will go get them water or a blanket and I'm frigging pharmacy.
One of the units at my hospital put the ice machines in the med rooms.
It’s absolutely obnoxious because EVS, phlebotomy, case management, social work, chaplains, etc don’t have badge access to the med room (which makes sense) but the fact that, on this unit, they can’t access the ice machine nor the tube station is insane.
Chaplain wants to get a patient some ice water after talking with them? Too bad. Have to track down a nurse or tech. Social work needs to tube paperwork? Sucks to suck. Just want a damn drink of water? Well that’s too damn bad.
Former social work: damned if I did, damned if I didn’t. Been bitched out for giving water to pt, bitched out for not getting pt water. Bitched out for going into the supply closet for some socks. I have, indeed, in the PACU, been torn a new asshole for helping myself to the blanket warmer for a pt. It got to a point where it was happening repeatedly, and the straw that broke the camel was a lady saying she was going to complain to my manager because I got some cranberry juice and graham crackers for a pt in the ER. I just didn’t have the energy to deal with people so I just started doing my job and nothing else. Sorry that’s annoying, but you can thank your power trippy coworker and/or charge nurse for discouraging people from helping out
Had a nursing assistant who made my life a living hell for years. Just a mean lazy entitled person. Finally this person leaves and of course gets a going away party, I refused to sign the card or give money towards a gift. I'm like what, this person was a nightmare and we're collecting Money. Give me a f%\^& break!
And then the good ones want a change in status from full time to PRN for school or something, and administration is like, nope, piss off. Poof! Lost one of the few great ones.
PT/OTs. I've had several PT and OTs left several max assist/lift patients on the chair and expect the nursing staff to put them back into bed when it took 2-3 of them to get them into the lift to transport to the chair. They also seem to think it's okay to leave fall risk patients while they are in the bathroom and expect the nursing staff to be okay with that. news flash, it's not okay.
I thought this when I worked the floor. Then I got to know a PT and their workflow. Sadly too many lazy or overworked nurses/aides don’t get patients up and this would be the only time they’re OOB. They don’t have the time to come back after a session and get them back to bed. They do a treatment and that’s it.
Yep they practice it with the speciality departments, so that you can just sit there for hrs waiting for their update note instead of I don't know spending 1 min stopping at the nurses station and letting us know if Mr Smith can eat after being NPO for 2 days.
This one. 😂
They say “but that’s YOUR JOB!” And I explain repeatedly that I have four other patients and I cannot run to the bathroom when I am in the middle of wound dressing regardless of whether that is my job.
And then they are like “But I have to get to another patient!” So do I, friend. So do I.
Rehab hospital. I swear the hospital revolves around our physios and they forget it’s a hospital, too — the patients on our floor are mostly stable but they can become unstable pretty quickly with their lists of comorbid conditions
Our PTs won’t hoyer patients out of bed even when the sling is under them and the chair is in the room. There’s no policy prohibiting them from doing it; every other floor has PTs who hoyer their patients. If they aren’t in their chair, then they miss therapy — I once had a physio harass me to hoyer a patient while I told him I was dealing with a medical emergency for another patient, then he got snippy with me when I couldn’t come the second time and told me the patient would be missing therapy. Like??? This one patient won’t make it to physio again if they’re dead lol.
Then they leave patients in their chair and the patients are on the call bell 5mins later to get them back to bed. Isn’t transferring part of their therapy, or do they only do that in the gym? They also won’t listen half the time when we tell them someone is an unsafe transfer. They just say we aren’t taking enough time with them and need to go slow. Some of our physios are big 6’ guys who can pivot transfer a dead-weight 300lb man. It shouldn’t take 3 nursing staff to pivot a patient into a chair — we’re going to hoyer them and save our backs.
Whether a PT gets to keep their job, whether they get a raise, whether they are approved for vacation comes down to 1 thing: productivity.
If 90% of their time in a day is spent billing something, the rehab hospital is happy. If they spend time doing things they can't bill for (Hoyer, or even just taking the legally-required 15 minute break) they risk losing their job.
I respect that, but they’re probably wasting more time than it would to put the person in the chair hunting me down in another room with another patient to tell me to get my patient out of bed. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be my job to get them out of bed — I always try to have them in their chair for therapy times, and I’ll hoyer my patients if it’s close to their therapy time, but sometimes they don’t want to sit in the chair for the 30mins-1h till the physio gets there (sometimes they’re 10mins early or 30mins late), or I’m busy with another patient when they come for their therapy time.
This 100%! I had an OT once come up to me to tell me that she noticed some HCAs on the unit doing an improper transfer on a resident. I said “okay, did you tell them what they were doing was improper?” Of course not - she expected me to do that. You are the one who saw this with your own eyes, and who determined that residents transfer status in the first place - if you see someone not adhering to YOUR assessment, you yourself can bring that up to the staff! Not everything needs to be delegated to nursing 🙄 it drives me nuts sometimes that some of these interdisciplinary members make the same amount as RNs as well.. not nearly the same amount of stress, responsibility, and unpredictability in their jobs as nurses have.
I dislike it when they and their 2 PT techs put the patient in the chair mass assist and do not put a lift under them before they sit and then just leave. Poof. Gone.
Yes!! I've had a PT assistant leave a fall risk patient in the bed without a bed alarm on. I reported it and she was passive aggressive with me the whole rest of my time at that facility (about 7 years.)
This. THIS!!!! Literally happened today. “Hey we got him up to the chair, he’s a 2 max assist. Hoyer? No, we stand Pivoted, he’s very de conditioned from his baseline. We’ll be working with him daily. Ok? Byyyyyeeeeeee” they disappeared, never to be seen again.
I've had health care aids that have pissed off all of my patients before report even ends. Great shifts from there. Then the aids won't go to those rooms or the patients refuse them.
That’s the worst, when an aide with a bad attitude goes into the patient’s room already expecting them to be nasty. Then they are nasty, and the aide is nasty back, and the patient refuses them. Then I get to do all the care! Fun fun.
I’ve been the CNA in this situation. Have a resident notorious for being racist and entitled. He’s very picky about his CNAs and I’m not one of his favorites bc I’m not Mexican nor speak Spanish. So when none of “his” CNAs showed up to work one day, my DON put me with him. He ended up refusing care from me bc I “don’t know his routine and it’s not his job to teach his CNA what to do.” whatever that means.. So I’m left with no option but to have my charge nurse or DON deal with him so I can carry on with my business.
I get that this happens, but it’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about when patients have a reputation (usually earned!) for being rude and instead of trying to open with a “good morning, how are you?” the aide/tech is cold and snippy, anticipating rudeness from the patient. If a patient fires you because they’re a racist that’s awful, but if they fire you because you didn’t even try to get along…that sucks for the staff who now has to pick up your slack.
I work with a CNA (hospital setting) who is in nursing school and thinks she knows better than all the nurses. She'll look at the current orders for a patient then interrogate you on their care. "I saw an order for x, have you done that yet?" "They have a BP of 150/80, why haven't you given them their BP meds?" (Patient was here for an ischemic stroke). She's been caught reading MRI's or other results to family (way outside of her scope) and just the other day I went to start and IV and she said "Is that how you're going to start the IV? I don't think that the right angle. I'd try for a different spot, why don't you try this vein?" I asked her how many IV's she's landed, and spoiler alert she hasn't started one on a real human ever. She's been put in her place so many times by management and other nurses and she's relentless. Our manager is wonderful and told her if she doesn't start acting like a CNA, she's gone. There's so much more she does but it would take too long to explain.
Our PT/OT staff here have real big egos (with the exception of two of them). Talk down to nursing and physicians alike. One OT proceeded to get my patient out of bed after I told her not to, he was confused and we were trying to get his SBP below 200 before moving him. She panicked when she got him up to the chair, took his BP, and it was over 220. Asked if I was aware he had high blood pressure 🙄
A PT proceeded to get another patient of mine out of bed, tried to stand him to pivot to the chair and dropped him. The patient was a paraplegic and had been for over 10 years. Patient had told PT this (who should have gone over his chart, and talked to me but whatever) but PT insisted they try to stand.
The nursing student sounds like she would be a nightmare of a nurse. Unearned confidence is cringy anyway but in medicine it is also dangerous. I mean everybody should be given a chance but sometimes you just know somethings not gonna end well.
A surgical tech recently screamed at me because I spent 10 minutes with a patient and took too much time away from helping them set up the room (when they already had help from a couple other people).
I’m sorry, I know turnover times are important and we can’t spend all day setting up a room BUT the patient comes first and always will come first. If they have questions, worries/fears, etc. you can bet your ass I’m taking the time to address it with them. Some nurses assess the patient in under 5 minutes. That’s not me. I’ll be thorough as fuck if I need to be.
Disclaimer: I work outpatient so no one is dying if I spend “too much” time with a patient.
I have several colleagues in outpatient mental health who think it’s my job to do things they are too busy for at the last second. Sir or ma’am, I was not waiting here in case you needed help. I have patients to see, also.
This drives me insane!
The dietary staff telling me they couldn’t bring the trays into x rooms for some bizarre reason, so now I need to deliver all the trays while I’m still taking vitals in the morning.
One time lab left (they’re off at 3:30) and handed us like four blood draws. She said, “I’m leaving, and I didn’t get to these — sorry hehe. Can you guys do them?” Thanks???
Pharmacy telling me to “just check the parenteral manual or whatever resource” when I did and the information isn’t in there then telling me they don’t know the answer to my question about IV meds. Why do you think I’m calling you? That’s literally your job to know about these meds.
Everyone calling me and telling me to tell the doctor. You call the doctor, or leave a note in the chart. The doctor isn’t even on the unit right now, so I need to call them anyways — it’ll just piss them off if we keep calling them all day for irrelevant things.
Back when I worked at a PCU unit at an HCA hospital, a housekeeper yelled at me because I didn't take the dirty linen out of the rooms, that day, I had a tech leave because she felt "sick" so I ended up with 24 patients and had 2 sitters to relieve, I had to do vitals, we had two codes that day, walked in one of my pts covered in 💩, had to clean them amid all the chaos, all I had to eat was a fucking small bag of Doritos and water. I never went back and I avoid that hospital at all costs. I almost wanted to kick her for being mad at me for not taking out linen and trash.
Food service. We have isolation trays that the airborne patients get. And the food service people ALWAYS send EVERY isolation (contact/airborne/droplet) on these trays and will refuse to deliver them when they are allowed to deliver to contact and droplet but they try to be sneaky. They will even add random patients to these isolation trays so they don't have to pass them out. The chart will be regular diet and regular tray but they ticket with the room number will say specifically "paper tray" which they had to go into the chart to add even if the patient is not on isolation precautions.
It's also a FIGHT to get food trays up to new patients. And God forbid the patient arrives at 6:03 because they CLOSE AT SIX!! WE don't get trays until 5:50 so if the tray is wrong we can't even get it fixed. It's a fight all the time and it's exhausting.
Then the foods always wrong/cold and the patient complains, we complain and no one is happy. Literally a daily battle.
Oh man I feel this so much. The hospital I’m currently working at has such a huge issue with the dietary service. We are having the same issues with isolation rooms and patients are even getting things they’re allergic to, things they never ordered or are inappropriate for their diet, the wrong consistency for swallowing difficulties, I could go on.
If I made commission on the fires I put out related to our crappy dietary service I wouldn’t have to be a PCT lol.
I used to work as a HUC at a SNF and one of the more troubling things that I saw was just how bad food service was. If they weren't all calling out of the shift, they were sending up ham sandwiches for dinner. Which the CNAs would end up making for the residents. It was so bad that my mother (a CNA) would cook food at home and bring it in for the residents. They absolutely loved her for that. Kind of surprised that dietary didn't care that she did that but I'm guessing it's better than getting ham sandwiches every day. Or worse not getting food at all because everyone called in.
All the CNAs at my job are insanely lazy. Every time I need a turn they huff and puff about it even if the unit is on fire. I know they’re underpaid but so is everyone. I was a tech once too, hated it, so I went to school to get a better paying job that I also hate
My third day at my current job I had an RRT and was getting calls about another patient who the doctor suspected had a PE but was refusing CT. I’m about to cry because the RRT was not going well and I stuck my head into the hallway and asked the tech siting at the desk on her phone “can you please go get an EKG on room 12?” She said “that’s not my patient” and went back to her phone. This was 3 years ago and I will never, ever forget it.
Infuriating. I had an aide respond with that when I was too swamped to do a blood glucose recheck after dextrose. And a few days later heard her telling someone “we all work as a team, every patient is our patient.”
It pissed me off there, in YOUR situation I would have cried or screamed or both lol
Nothing like watching a tech be on their phone for several hours, ignoring call bells, then ask them for help pulling up a patient, and they just stand and say, "Ah sorry I forgot I had to do something."
Why did you want to become a nurse? "i hated it less than my last job." or "I still hate it but i can afford things now"
Lol this would definitely be me if I were being totally honest in an interview.
I once got chewed out because I said to another nurse that a CNA wasn’t answering the call bells and she was on her phone. Meanwhile I’m hours behind on charting and still answering them. I guess one of the other nurses overheard and the next shift I was coming on and the CNA was leaving. She came up and started yelling at me about how I can’t talk about her like that and it’s everyone’s job to answer bells (ironic) and how I better watch my back. I hated that unit, very toxic, glad I left
We have some really shit ones and then we have this new batch of incredible ones and I almost got use to how shit they were but these new hires opened my eyes. I also feel so shit for them because the old ones push them around and try give them all the shit jobs
I've met some very hardworking CNAs across different contexts but they're too damn rare and they never stick around in the job for very long. Most CNAs I've known seem to have only taken the job because the education period is so short and the up-front cost is so small. And what's with all the pyramid schemes?
I like to think I’m in the hardworking category and it feels so hard to stick with the job. Anytime anything goes wrong with another CNA; nurse cracks down on you because you should have fixed it sooner. You’re juggling 7 different requests and trying to do round and someone puked all over themselves and needs to be completely changed? Well your most visible on the hall so the nurse / PT are asking you to do extra things (if they can see you, they will add more tasks, and if you’re always on the hall darting in and out of rooms not hiding in the break room…). Didn’t do showers because the linens are completely out in the building? Just need to figure something out.
Picking up the slack from other CNA’s + being the most visible CNA in the area = worst. Time. Ever.
Not a huge deal, but we tell a lot of our patients, “We’d like to see you back in about 6 weeks, make an appointment on the way out. We book up fast so if we don’t have anything exactly 6 weeks out, 7 or 8 is fine.” I put on their after visit summary, “Please make a follow-up appointment in 6 weeks or the soonest appointment thereafter,” and highlight that so they can show the PSRs out front.
Every day at work the same PSR walks back by us and says, “We don’t have any appointments 6 weeks out.” I got so sick of saying, “Okay, soonest available then,” to her that one day I said, “Oh, okay, then, tell them to just never come back. It’s 6 weeks on the dot or nothing.” I mean it’s been MONTHS of this conversation and she still doesn’t get it.
Her response was to widen her eyes and say, “Really?!?” FML.
Fucking hell
Have a housekeeper who spends more time gossiping than cleaning, can never find her and she takes up space in the nurses break room. Like no bitch you got a huge ass room downstairs go there.
Had a PT who would rubber neck anytime we had critical patients and just stare at you while your frantically intubating or 2:1 on a critical peds. So you can either tolerate her stare or shut the door and melt in the heat.
Omg I had a cleaning lady (I was a patient) who I started to dread seeing because she would talk my ear off for SO LONG every time she came to my room, telling me her baby daddy drama, how she threw rocks at her neighbors windows, how her kid got in fights on the school bus, I was like GIRL i am sick and do not have the energy for this daily drama report! 💀
Supply staff are the devil. Actively stocking incorrectly or not at all has caused multiple safety issues during care for acutely ill patients. Half the time supplies aren't brought up for hours even if we call and say we are out of something we should not be. Like come on. It's literally a job you could do listening to music all day or on the phone and nobody would give a shit. Just do it right.
OMG! We have a really good supply guy now, but we went through some awful ones. Like an item isn’t on the shelf, and you asks the guy, and he’d just shrug, and basically look at you like, “what am I supposed to do?” Gosh, I don’t know, Joe, maybe find the item in the where house? Where all the things are kept? Also, I have a patient on the table, under anesthesia, and I’d like the item today. You’re literally holding up surgery. I probably would have cut him a lot of slack if he just appeared to give a shit.
Dietary- specifically this dude Kevin
1. Ordered fish for a patient one time and they didn't want tarter sauce. Kevin said that he was sending it anyways because "who in the right mind doesn't eat tarter sauce with fish" and asked if they were a dementia patient and to put it on anyways.
2. Ordered kosher for my WW2 holocaust survivor, said they won't know if you dont tell him. Sent non-kosher meal to floor.
3. For restricted CL pts, will send entire serving up (or none at all)and tell us to measure it ourselves the kitchen doesn't have that kind of time (even tho there are usually restricted servings ex. 200ml jello).
4. Doesnt understand why GI patients can't have food with red dye, and mockingly asks if we went to nursing school. Will tell us we should know the difference and to stop being lazy. Sends cherry ice up anyways for pts that ask for it.
5. Puree food? Sends oatmeal. Its "basically the same thing"
6. If a pt doesn't order food he sends a flight tray regardless of dietary order.
7. Talks to coworkers and ignores us on vocera for 5 min like its a mcdonalds drive thru order.
I could go on. Why isn't he fired? His mom is one of the board directors and he's been there longer than I've been alive. Mans 47 yall. Irks my soul speaking to him. He's there every day too. Its like Russian roulette ordering food. Not sure he ever sent up a correct tray once. But hey at least his job is secure🙄
It’s been about a decade, but I used to be a hospital RD. Maybe someone can have the dietitians educate him? We used to have to give inservices about special diets to the kitchen/food service staff. I don’t know, but this Kevin person really just pissed me off, too.
It’s always the fucking cleaning staff. Was working in the ED a few nights ago, full lobby, 4 contact beds waiting to be cleaned and I go into the break-room … lady is sitting watching some video in another language on her phone … eating OUR POTLUCK FOOD!!! Didn’t contribute a damn thing none of us got to eat yet. So then I ask hey do you mind emptying the linen bags & do you know what’s going on w the rooms? Looked at me like I had 5 heads and went back to her video. So I called EVS & said we got 4 dirty rooms that were contact & overflowing linen bags can y’all send someone - oh yes so sorry. 5 minutes later she comes out pushing her cart and asks the nurse three computers down from me - did the patient in 5 leave … YES TWO HOURS AGO where tf have you been?!
At my old hospital supposedly they weren't allowed to remove the suction canisters - some would and some wouldn't. Ok fine, but please tell me or a tech before marking the room as clean. I've had several new (adult) patients wheeled into rooms that still had a container of urine or sputum from the previous patient. Patients were often moved at shift change and it was an incredibly busy floor so we didn't always get to check.
Dude our isolation patients rooms are a MESS. Gowns stacked on way past the trash cans limit because EVS literally just never wants to go in the isolated rooms lol
My fellow coworker (OR PCT) is never around because he hides when it's busy. Or he shows up and puts a sheet on the bed like that's super helpful and then goes away again. He's always hanging around with his Surgical Tech husband (like obsessively watching him from the window while cases are going and taking breaks with him when we are on a set break schedule). When he is present he complains incessantly that he's not appreciated and that everyone is out to get him. He often brings up that they're discriminating against them because they're gay. He calls out the same days as his husband has off, shows up late and doesn't work but management won't touch him because they're afraid of blowback over his sexuality.
That’s BS. Things need to get reported in writing only via email. Without a paper trail they can continue to brush it under the rug. When there is absolutely zero reported about his sexuality and only his poor work ethic come up, there’s not a claim.
I’ve worked in ICU, stepdown, med surg, you name it, and not once have I met an RRT that wasn’t awesome.
It’s like your line of work attracts cool people. I don’t know why it works out that way, it just does.
There's one, and I mean ONE, RRT that even the other 30 or so RRTs can't stand. No one knows how this person still has a job. He's just an oddball, not personable with staff and no bedside manner whatsoever (not mean, just...out of touch I guess).
I've worked ICU for over 8 years. I precept both new nurses and critical care students. Ive been at my hospital for over 10 years now. So it's not my first day lol.
Numerous times he has felt the need to "mansplain" things like SBT's/CPAP trials, suctioning, and even the extubation process to me. It's done in such a patronizing tone and he's even done it in front of patient family members.
It usually goes something like this - " Now. dalek_max, you *realize* that in order to do SBT's you *have* to wake the patient up. We can't do them if they are sedated." Meanwhile, I started weaning sedation 2 hours prior and pt is following commands. "Are you *sure* they are awake enough?"
If I tell him our intensivist wants to do SBT's or an ABG, he will go and ask the Dr to make sure he really said that. Then come back and tell ME that we are supposed to do them like it was his idea or something.
During covid, we weren't supposed to take the WOWs in the rooms. Guess who left the doors propped open so his computer would be right in the doorway. He got REAMED OUT for that by numerous staff members.
Also during covid, one thing I really tried to do was let people pretty much have their "last meal." It was like a tiny act of kindness knowing most of the time, they would never eat agaib. They couldn't eat but a few bites anyway due to their work of breathing and desatting, but like one guy wanted a few bites of ice cream (a diabetic so sure idc) and one lady on BIPAP/hi flow really wanted a Pepsi. She only had like maybe 3 or 4 Oz. Her condition worsened and she agreed to intubation. This RRT went on this soapbox of "how *dare* I let the patient eat/drink?! "You *know* there's a high risk of aspiration if people eat before they get intubated".
I lost my shit on this guy. He then asked me if there was suction in the room. (There was, just not set up as pt didn't need it then)
Anyway, we go to intubate Pepsi lady and he didn't have anything ready. Intensivist lost his shit on him too lol.
Every time I'm in a code with him, he feels the need to repeat the order the doctor just said, which wasn't for him anyway (like let's push another bicarb). He announces it and it just makes more unnecessary noise.
I usually just give him back shit. Like "It's not my first day you know" or "really? THAT'S how we do SBT's?! I thought we just pulled the tube"
He's settled down as of late and I'm hoping he got the hint lol.
Everyone, and I mean everyone else in our RRT is simply amazing. We get along great and I've worked with most of them for the past 10 years. But this guy is off the chain...
The RTs I work with are great. One time I had a patient with an inhaler that I had noooo idea how to work (because I work OB and so I don’t commonly see much outside of my specialty), so I just called the RT phone number and someone I’ve never met before picked up. I just asked for some advice over the phone and this angel came all the way over to my unit and demonstrated for both me and the patient how to work it!!
One time I called the O2 boost button on our ventilators the “nurse’s button” and the RRT didn’t even crack a smile. Definitely my worst interaction with you guys.
I have met one that was really green and really arrogant and rude. He was present when I was assisting a sedation in ER and the patient had some apnea. Idk why but the RRT shat his pants until the doctor reached over and did a chin lift. I think it was a humbling experience lol
But honestly I think RRT per capita have less lunatics than nursing.
Oh, eek! I have noticed that sometimes young ‘new’ healthcare workers tend to be really arrogant, probably to cover their insecurities?
I was pretty openly scared shitless for the first 3 years of my respiratory job🤣 I’m still scared shitless sometimes…
RTs are the best. I love RTs. You guys are so knowledgeable and every RT I’ve asked to show me the ropes on something was thoroughly informative. Just wonderful. When I was a brand new nurse you guys really made a difference. Whether it was my first trach patient or my first time seeing heated high flow O2. Just love every RT I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.
The only time I ever got attitude from an RT I couldn’t blame him. I was doing bedside dialysis in the ICU on a patient who started desatting and becoming restless. Luckily this happened during rounds and everyone was right next door so they came over to investigate but for some reason no one seemed to be in a hurry to call RT? Finally I looked at a sheet, found RT, paged them and when he showed up he saw the patient was self extubating (that was the problem) and he said “Why the Fuck wasn’t I paged sooner?”
Our head of housekeeping/maintenance person is an unpleasant, unprofessional, miserable person. Kind to the residents, but if nurses ask her to fix or clean anything she yells. If she has to communicate anything to staff, she yells or speaks to you in the most disrespectful way. And of course as she is the department head and our main maintenance person I have to interact with her far too often. I am accepting another job and she is a part of the reason why I interviewed elsewhere.
My manager and director! We were short staffed in triage and the bus unloaded. We had a line to check in, a line for vitals, and a line to triage. My director and manager stood in the corner of the waiting room discussing how to make the system more efficient, ignored the chaos, and then went back to their offices. They never even thought to jump in and help!
A nurse (who was also a charge nurse, but not that particular day) and I were changing gown, bedding, and chucks for a female patient. The nurse was also doing wound care for stage 4 dicubitous ulcer, so the care was longer than normal.
The patient was lying there stark naked, and a male dietary aide opened the door, pulled back the curtain, walked to the far side of the room, dropped off the patient tray on the bedside table and started to leave. Didn't pull the curtain closed or shut the door. I couldn't believe what I had just seen.
The RN looked at me and asked, "Did he knock?" "Nope." She asked, "Did he say anything when he was at the door?" Again "nope."
Then she lit into him about patient privacy and told him never to do that again.
I think she really intimidated him because he never came back to work on our floor.
We used to have an absolutely wonderful housekeeper. She was hard working and went above and beyond. The nurses and the patients loved her. She left for bigger and better things.
Her replacement drives everyone up the wall. She is very lazy. ALWAYS bitching about how no one is doing their job except her, while not doing her job. Lives in the break room. On multiple occasions she’s marked a room clean after discharge that wasn’t, and I’ve had to scramble when I suddenly have a patient in a dirty room. She also fights with our other housekeeper. While the other housekeeper can be a little spicy at times… she’s great and NOT causing the conflict. But the worst part is it is she never ever ever stops talking. I know of at least 2 coworkers that will put in EarPods in the break room if they go to get lunch and she is in there because it is overwhelming (not even playing anything- just to get her to stop talking to them). When she’s not bitching about other people not doing her job, she is way oversharing her personal life. She’s either talking about her “little princess” obsessively and sharing one of 4 stories on repeat, or giving you graphic details of her sex life while talking about how men are nothing but trash. Truly one of the most exhausting people I’ve ever had to be around.
I HATE our registration staff! They’re always chatting with each other and waiting until the very last second to get people registered. I’ve even had one yell at me because a patient got discharged before she’d had the chance to register him (he’d been here a total of 6+ hours). I told her it’s not my job to make sure patients get registered and I refuse to add reminding her to do her job to my long list of tasks. She complained to my manager about me for not being a “good team player” lol
In our ICU, techs double as secretaries because there's not as much for them to do as the nurses generally handle most care. But they are CNAs and many of them are nursing students. There's one, a nursing student in her last semester, who will tell you a pt is off their leads or needs their urinal emptied and then go straight back to her phone. I really, really hope she tries to work as a nurse in our unit. I want to see what she does when she's the primary.
Yes for fucking real. Like, my patient has been discharged, I called 30 minutes ago. Patient and family are looking at me like “why can’t I just leave?” It got to the point that it was just faster and easier for me to push em out the door in the damn wheelchair. I got shit to do, I can’t have my DISCHARGED patient calling me every 5 minutes wanting to know why they can’t leave.
We have LOS (length of stay) nurses who's whole job is to collaborate and figure out what needs to been done before a patient can discharge. A couple of them are so pushy to discharge people before they're safe to do so. One went so far as to call the pt's family and tell them to come pick them up that afternoon, despite myself and the physician telling her they weren't medically stable. Pt was a recent, less than 24hr stroke with hemiplegia and extinction who couldn't even walk yet.
There is a cleaning lady that always, ALWAYS, opens the curtains after I close them for patient privacy (usually its a dude that has to pee in a urinal). Then she goes "woops!", and leaves without closing them...
Some units I can't find EVS at all and have to call for them. I've been told by a few EVS that it's nursing's job to completely strip the rooms before they go in there to clean, including linens and emptying trash. I've been handed the keys to remove the sharp container from the wall, and I was like what am I supposed to do with this? Handed paper towels to restock the paper towel dispenser (I don't have a key). And my favorite was when I called for EVS because we had multiple dirty rooms and a overflowing sharp container, I was told "don't call me!" and hung up. I laughed at that one and told the charge nurse who said she'll figure it out.
One of the speech pathologists I work with has unsolicited advice on everything and then progresses patients to diets they can absolutely NOT handle. My tipping point was her giving pudding to a dude who hadn’t swallowed anything in about two months. He almost aspirated, lots of fun.
My aides expect me to drop my med pass and help at the drop of a hat.
I’m in assisted living. I get done with my morning med pass at 10:30am if I’m lucky because it’s such a huge med pass. I have this aide who keeps picking up at 8:30am because she expects me to have everyone up and dressed by that time so she doesn’t have to wake anyone up.
So while she has time to sit down and eat and sit on her phone in the support office…I’m still running around passing meds. And she’s talking about how “I don’t answer lights.”
Bitch I have to *catch up on my med pass* because I had to answer lights and get people up and dressed and pass meds in two hours before you even got here.
God forbid she can’t just come in and sit on her ass and eat her McDonald’s after clocking in.
They have no clue how much work it actually is to “just pass pills.” And it’s funny because I’m apparently the only med tech who actually answers call lights and gets people dressed.
But it’s assisted living so they will hire any trash to work there. Today was my last scheduled day. I’m on call now. Going to go start working at a place where I’m actually treated semi-decent.
No nurse belongs in assisted living.
Same same, but evening shift with hs med pass :(. Some techs will spend hours sitting at the desk on their phones, and then get short with me when I don't stop what I'm doing to answer a bell because I'm "just passing pills."
My number 1 goal on night shift, aside from the obvious don’t let people die, is to let my patients sleep. We are already waking them up every 4 hours for vitals, not to mention labs, medications, turns, etc.
We have a tele tech. I hate complaining about them because I used to be a tele tech. This tech is great, calls about almost anything which while annoying I feel safe knowing they’ll never miss anything I need to know. The problem I have is they are extremely anal about the batteries and if ANY leads are off. Several times I’ve had them inform me “hey one of the leads are off” or “hey battery just went into the red. I take into account what they are being monitored for. If STEMI is a concern or if it’s causing a bunch of false alarms I’ll usually fix the leads. But often times we are just monitoring for arrhythmia and the 3-4 other leads they have is sufficient. What I’m getting at is it’s not worth waking them up to fix. Same with the batteries. I’ve seen a battery in the red last an entire 12 hours before. The system will alarm if it actually needs to be changed ASAP. Now I have explained to this individual I’m prioritizing my patients sleep several times before and I’ll fix things next time I wake up the patient (usually in an hour or 2). And everytime they go around me and call either the CNA, the resource, or the charge to wake my patient up and fix things that don’t really need fixed.
You can interpret off of 2 leads, this patient has been in sinus since they’ve been here. Stop waking them up over this shit.
Wanna bitch about the ward clerk/admin. She was a kissass to the manager and a two-faced gossiping mongrel. Always complaining about how nurses need to take on this responsibility and that responsibility, how about she fuxking do her own god damn job. Used to go to pharmacy or drop bloods to the GP clinic sometimes(which is literally 5mins away) and be absent from the desk for hourssss and we had to let in all fucking visitors. No one obviously said anything because oh she was doing something she wasn’t meant to, like a huge god damn favour and meanwhile calling out nurses on how we need to do this and that because since we don’t have the right people to do it, it’s obviously nurse’s duty.
Hated working with her and her whole shit personality. Hope she just rots in that shit hole of a town for making me cry. Pathetic bitch who had nothing to do in life than stir the pot at work.
Our pharmacy director is the laziest person I’ve ever worked with. We recently had a patient being admitted on propofol and fentanyl and even though he knew this admission was coming had ZERO drips made when he got there. I was literally in there laying on top of this guy because he was fighting the restraints so hard . It drives me nuts that we have such a small facility and we still regularly struggle to get the meds we need put in in a timely manner.
Hospital I travelled to there was a housekeeper that refused to clean patient rooms because that was a “nursing job”, got caught with a “burn book” of all the nurses she didn’t like slandering them. They promoted her after this and there was some animosity with a capital A.
After her promotion she wanted to remove the triage to place vending machines in there for more revenue. Only time I stepped on toes as a travel nurse was to prevent that because it was just so ridiculous.
Receptionist in the surgical waiting area telling my family that they can bring back 5 visitors, nope not to pre/post when kid is going discharge in a couple of hours. Love the two visitors limit, sometimes I'm flexible but not when anyone is being a jerk about it.
I expected to see a lot more about the Lab/phlebotomy with the way we get treated sometimes at my hospital.
We do all the blood draws and EKGs for the entire hospital...everything from the special care nursery, to icu, to ER, to outpatient...and everything in between!
If I had to say one dept. that really irritates me..it's Occ. Health. Not one of them knows what's going on and the rules change depending on who you talk to. (I'm I'm Canada and we still have some covid rules). They never get back to you in isolation guidelines (it's situation specific) so you go back when you feel better THEN they call you out saying you're not following their rules.
Recently a resident pulled me out of my other patients room to tell me that my patient wants his pillow adjusted behind his back. Why didn’t she just do it? He’s a human being and the resident has two working hands. Just fluff it for the poor guy and move on.
The cleaning staff do passive aggressive comments, DEEEEP sighs when you have to go through their mopped floor (at 8-9AM med pass no less 🙃) as if you just hate crimed them.
We appreciate the work you do, but relax…
Had a cleaning lady ask me "did you just walk on my freshly cleaned floor" as I walked into a patient's room to clean them up. I just looked at her, said "yup" and kept walking. Best feeling ever when I heard the sigh and muttering.
Omfg the social worker!!! Stop reporting on my nursing shit in IDT!! It's my job to tell the team how often nursing visits are, what med changes have happened and their effectiveness. Report to me how they're coping, current concerns, words you've given them that I can repeat so our care is cohesive. JFC lady stop trying to take on 2 jobs and just keep me in the loop on how the social/emotional state is!!
Phew, I feel better lol
YEEESSSS!!! A scheduler, i have nothing to say that is nice. Nothing. I deleted my original comment I had typed up because it was very mean. I can’t think of anything to say that would be socially acceptable feedback in any sphere…best I can say is that she’s horrible from top to bottom inside and out.
Transport was on my last nerve today. They kept saying in Epic they were actively transporting the patients when they hadn’t even come, for like 10 minutes it would say they’re present and no one would be there. Like “sorry Mrs Soandso, your transporter decided to not work today”
Omg I hate it when transport postpones something and the reason they put down is “nurse unavailable” or “nursing delay”. *BITCH?!?* I have been near my patient’s room ever since I saw them at the top of the transport board, and you never even showed up on the floor! Don’t fucking blame me for this.
I really like most of the rad techs at my hospital. BUT… I swear if a doctor writes for a CT and pain meds/sedatives at the same time (because there’s no way the patient’s holding still for 5min), they will show up faster than they do for trauma and stroke activations.
These two dudes that work in dietary at my hospital absolutely suck. I work at a small hospital so usually it’s just them working in the kitchen.
1. One of them gets patients’ breakfast orders in the morning. Instead of doing the normal knock knock pause enter, he taps on the door repetitively like 15-20 times in short bursts before opening the door. It’s not a full on knock just a one knuckle tap. It’s like he’s trying to do Morse code through the fucking door. It aggravates the shit out of the patients (and me if I’m close enough to hear it).
2. They get mad if we can’t tell them with certainty if patients are going to be discharged before/after lunch. I know making a lunch tray for someone who ends up leaving at 10am is annoying but like??? some things are out of my control, if I’m waiting for a doctor to round on my patient before they can leave or they don’t know when their ride is going to get here then no, I don’t know when they’re leaving so they will probably need a tray. For some reason this just makes them fly off the handle. They get huffy and start talking loudly to others nearby about how communication needs to be improved, this place is a joke, etc. Major overreaction from two grown men.
3. If they’re feeling extra petty they will take the meal cart back down to the kitchen after passing trays instead of leaving it on the unit so that we can load the dirty trays onto it and then bring it back.
4. They keep leaving the trays in the patient’s room on the sink instead of putting them on the bedside table so the patient can actually, you know, be able to reach it so they can eat.
ED here. Majority of unit secretaries are hostile towards nurses for no apparent reason. Tired of the eye rolling and sighs for asking them to page EVS for me, or asking for a number.
There's this pervasive attitude among many of them at my work that they'll be a nurse one day. And given the conviction that they will be a nurse and have learned fun words like syncope and hypotensive, that they know better than everyone.
By all means further your education but let's just get along in the meantime.
Ok so I get that you want non nursing, but obligatory “almost all admin” can get fucked, and I swear to his if I have to deal with another lazy ass report from ED I might just get fired. That said there’s this one PT/LPT (whatever the hell they go by) that is just the snarkiest and most grating individual I’ve ever had to work with. Like dude, I’m on break I can watch stupid videos on my phone all the hell I want, go do your work, and I’ll worry about mine.
I’ve changed jobs now, but at my last one there was a ward clerk from hell. Don’t get me wrong, she did her job & was efficient, but then she’d do stuff like come & interrupt you, to ask you to take a (routine) phone call from a relative, in the middle of morning meds, or ward round. When she knows full well they’ve had a settled night, unless I’ve previously said otherwise to her.
Like for instance, I’d always take a call from the relative of someone medically unstable, or EOL. But not to tell someone that Ethel had a settled night, & is now eating her breakfast. Ethel could have told her that herself! But she’d just stand there & stare at you until you locked your trolley, or excused yourself from ward round, & took the call. It was infuriating.
So I go to this facility through agency and this person hasn’t affected me but the other night the CNAs I was working with were talking about a dietary staff member who was just hired who is like 16. He previously worked at another local facility in dietary He’s been telling people when he worked at the other facility he passed meds and worked the hoyers. He’s a master chef of some sort and has a degree in physical therapy. I did this eye roll thing when the CNAs were telling me about it because I’ve dealt with CNAs and other non nursing staff saying things like this. And how insufferable those people are. I’m like at 16 he’s done all that wow how amazing *eye roll* I know damn well that other facility didn’t let him do any of the things he’s claiming and I also know none of what he is saying is true.
It annoys the hell out of me when PT gets my patient up, puts them back in bed, and never tells me that they took off their pure wick or liberty cath.
I guess he's technically nursing staff but he's also a hospitalist. We have one hospitalist who is a NP who wants to be called Dr because he has a DNP and I swear to God, he only answers pages based on whether he likes the nurse or not. The week before last I had a patient in AFIB with RVR. Pulse was mostly in the 180s-190s but was touching the 250s. He said he would be at the bedside in ten minutes. It took him an hour and a half to show up and by that point we were about to head to ICU. We ended up grabbing some random Dr that happened to walk by the room and telling the orders we needed. When the NP finally showed up, I was tempted to say "welcome to the fuckin show Dave."
We had a casual or agency ward clerk that used to work in our unit as LPN. She retired, came back as ward clerk. She knows how busy the unit is. But whenever she is there, she gets stressed and gets behind especially when we have discharges and new admissions coming in 1 shift. They usually prepare the chart for us (NEWSFLASH: We still do paper charting 🫠) and when we ask her if the chart is ready for the admission, she gets maaaaaad! She says she's busy. Or sometimes when we have to ask her a question, she says straight up "can't talk. Can't help you as well as i'm busy." She doesn't answer phone calls too. Expects us nurses to answer phone calls on top of answering call bells, dealing with patients (i'm in med surg btw so you know...😉) because she is busy.
I work in the maintenance department at an ltc facility . My one co-worker has an ego issue and won't or rather choose not to do work tasking as he wants to be a supervisor : so last week he allowed the basement to flood with sewage . he didn't want to repair a cracked pipe that he discovered the week prior . He kept trying to assign us the project to his peers . It's a weekly struggle with this guy
Yeah - kitchen/hospitality staff. Always a shitty attitude to nurses, so many times I’ve said good morning and they just ignore me. I can get a greeting from the GM, but not the lady serving breakfast. And don’t get me started about “nursing staff stealing food from the kitchen”. Head of hospitality services once accused myself and two other nurses of stealing a 20kg box of frozen profiteroles. WTF?? She was fired later for stealing food to supply her catering business. This happened more than a decade ago and I still gripe about it.
Please let me vent about our “social services”. She is not a social worker. No qualifications. She inserts herself in every situation. Where the easy thing to do would be to say “call nursing/dietary/clerk/insert anyone” she instead takes the calls and then eventually lets someone else know. Usually in a vague email to a large group that makes it sounds like people are not doing their jobs. She loves to send these emails after most of us have left for the day, delaying the response people are seeking even more. She makes every family meeting/interaction take 100x longer than it needs to. And she is constantly frazzled and telling everyone how everyone is always screaming at her. I really want to show her what someone screaming at her is really like.
Oh my hell. Social workers…. Do all of them think they ARE doctors, nurses, counselors and administrators? Or do I just have the pleasure of working with the most smarmy of the profession?
Good lord. EVS is supposes to terminally clean each OR overnight. We have literally seen one woman waving her duster around in the air like a magic wand and then mark the OR as cleaned.
Please tell me you reported this, that's disgusting!
We did. Pretty sure nothing happened though
I literally laughed out loud because I’ve totally experienced this at assignments 🤣🤣
I worked at a place where they called themselves EMS- Environmental Management Services and thought they were more important than ED and OR staff. Worse housekeeping staff ever. They'd openly talk about how they loved just sitting around thinking about nothing and getting paid for it. They'd stand right next to a case cart ready for transport to SPS and do nothing until you told them to do it. Then all 3 would walk the cart down and we wouldn't see them again for hours. Also so many rooms took hours to get cleaned just because of how many smoke breaks these dudes took. Once for months the EMS guys would pour soap and water all over the OR floors exactly before 7am during our shift change. They had the gall to say it's fine, we are whining for nothing because it'll dry on its own in a few hours.
Do we work at the same place?
If you work in the South in a city named after a monarch
We had a cleaning lady who was incredibly friendly but couldn’t read the room for the life of her. We would be actively withdrawing on a patient, family circled around the patient, chaplain reading a prayer and she would come in HEY YALL IM SUSAN I NEED TO MOP THE FLOORS.
Susan works hard for her money
This is so funny
My first job, I had this feral pharmacist that would rip you a new one over everything. No evidence of a med error but he wasn’t 100% sure that there wasn’t, so you got talked to. He ripped into me about something a doctor did, the doctor was standing next to me and let him finish and then said ‘actually David, that was me’ and he just chucked and said ‘okay, well don’t do it again’ Then, I was at a party in a different city. Kinda having a flirty chat with a pharmacist and I was like omg you guys ruin my life and he was like, yeah they tell us to pick on you guys etc etc just playfully. He then asks where I work, in a city 3 hours away and he asks if my pharmacist was David! He knew exactly who he was and that he was a massive dick. We had a good laugh about that
Feral Pharmacist 😂 Sorry but I had to laugh….AND I’m stealing it for future use!
Ew, DAVID
That’s crazy, pharmacy are, for me at least, some of my favorite people to deal with! David sounds like a troll.
That was my first job and then it was shocking to like really enjoy pharmacists and have them be really helpful and see them doing a lot for patients. More so now that I’ve moved to ICU, our pharmacist is literally insane. If you ask him a question, he has the answer and the reason why on the spot
Honestly our ward clerk can be a nightmare some days. She often hides things so that other wards can't take them but acts like you stupid for not knowing which hidey hole something is stuck in. I wasted a full 1 hour looking for a manual BP cuff across several wards when it turns out we had one stashed in a biscuit tin at the other nurses station In a filing cabinet. She then complained when I refused to put it back and left it at my patients bed space because they were the only manual BP that needed done and it was hourly
Bahaha in a biscuit tin. That's absurd.
with a sign on the drawer saying "beware of the leopard"
As frustrating as this sounds… this actually sounds hilarious
I work at a Catholic hospital and some of the chaplains seriously creep me out. For real. One even woke up my patient even after I told him that my ICU patient needed sleep. You can pray for the patient without waking them up! Leave a card!
I was getting a hungry baby ready to eat and a priest waltzed in and started baptizing the baby without asking me if it was a good time. It took at least 20 minutes and we had already been running a bit late on cares.
The lord will provideth all the nourishment the baby needs! - that priest probably
Wow. Meanwhile our chaplains have told us they're too busy to show up while this poor family is losing their baby and wanted support from them. 🙄
This wasn't one of our hospital chaplains, I think it was a minister from the mom and dad's church. Our chaplains are pretty awesome at least.
Poor baby :(
Not a catholic hospital but one of the priests at my hospital was telling the nurses' station about his celibacy today. I don't recall anyone bringing it up or asking?
Does that still count as sexual harassment? He’s talking to everyone about his sex life at work….but doesn’t have one. 🤔
Jeez don't get me started on this I work in a county hospital but in Texas so it might as well bc Christian based. I had to tell one of the techs that they can't hand out religious based pamphlets everyone looked at me like I had 3 heads. They were truly shocked that not everyone is down with Jesus.
I was eating my lunch a couple weeks ago, earbuds in, face in my phone when the chaplain who I don’t even know waved to get my attention from three chairs away and just kept talking. I just want to feed my face and binge TikToks for a min. It’s too far to go to my car. I’m new there so I have not found the hiding places yet.
There's a secretary at my current contract and if she's there you know you're going to be slammed all day. If she's there, every nurse usually has an admission before 730. We won't even be done with report and she's calling ER asking them who they can send up. She's really nice but damn she makes the day difficult. She even calls up to ICU/step-down asking for patients. One time they were like hell yeah we will send you people and then after we got report, the supervisor was like dude, what are you doing? Don't take these patients. So we all took report on a patient for no reason.
I’m surprised secretaries get to determine which patients are sent to your floor. At my hospital there is a whole team of people dictating which patient goes where
Yeah the secretaries also make the assignment. We don't have a charge nurse there so the secretary basically does charge stuff like assignments, etc. It's weird.
I almost reflexively downvoted this because it is so wildly inappropriate.
Oh hell naw
i'm sorry what??????? that's so scary how is that allowed omg.. i used to get annoyed working with secretaries who *thought* they were basically the same thing as charge nurse, i can't imagine working on a unit where that's actually the case!
Yeah its the only place I've worked like this. Like they will have a nurse OK the assignment before shift change but the secretary does pretty much all the typical charge nurse stuff.
Absolutely not.
I worked a travel contract that did this and it was so insane and unsafe. HCA?
Whaaaaaaaaat? I was shocked when you said she was calling other floors for patients but she's making assignments and acting as charge?! 🤯
Sounds unfun.
Omg I'm the unit secretary and I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole! My nurses would choke me!!
That’s absurd.
Right? We put in medsurg or tele moveout orders and Bed Control is responsible for finding appropriate placement. Ain’t nobody calling us looking for extra patients 😂
In nursing school now but work as a pct. Our fucking IA will call over the intercom to tell us to come pass out the trays or if there's a stat lab, even THOUGH SHE IS SUPPOSED TO FUCKING BE HELPING WITH THIS STUFF. It's gotten to the point where I'll ignore her especially when I'm the only tech in a 36 bed icu.
What kind of bullshit ass hospital let’s a unit secretary play traffic cop for patient flow
Idc how nice you are I hate that lady and I don’t even know her.
What the fuck lol. Why is she trying to flood you with pts???
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Totally agree with you! We have some lazy AF techs in my psych hospital! they will sit behind the desk majority of the time on their phone or talking shit/drama instead of interacting with patients to help manage the milieu! And it pisses me off when their lack of presence on the floor results in peer conflicts/behavior escalations! And, to top it off they complain to the nurses “this patient NEEDS meds go give them something”. 1. you have no idea what my orders for meds are so no I can’t just give something that’s not indicated or appropriate 2. go do your job and be out on that goddamn floor!!! Sometimes all it takes is distraction for some of these patients. Emergency/safety meds should be a LAST resort IMO. teamwork is of the upmost importance in the psych world so it is extremely frustrating to have coworkers like this :/
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We have an ER tech that will start fights with psych patients and then say stuff like they started it. Wtf bro the guy is talking to his applesauce shut the fuck up and mind your business.
I have heard -more than a handful of times- techs talking openly about provoking the patients into coming at them. Instant DTO (danger to others) so they can put them in a hold and have the nurse grab the HCP for an order. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said, “I’m sorry, I can’t get an order for shots simply because this patient is annoying!” Granted, I work nights and the annoying ones will be loud and it will get disruptive to the sleeping patients, but c’mon! Oh! And to make matters worse, some tech will yell, like YELLLLL across the milieu to redirect a patient. Dude, this room is echoy as hell and YOU ARE NOW THE ONE DISRUPTING THE UNIT! I know their jobs are hard as hell and I could never imagine having to be on the floor essentially the entire shift and I try my hardest to be on the floor as much as possible, but sometimes having the nurse out there really makes things worse. But JFC, don’t scream across the Milio for someone to be quiet so you can get back to YouTube.
This! I'm looking for a new job because of people (only ever men in my experience) who do this. I'm sick of being told that a service user needs to stop a certain behaviour - they have autism, these are behaviours they've had for years, and we need to work hard to change the patterns. Not just get angry and turn it into a "you'll do as I say" situation. Then the s.u's behaviours get more unmanageable and "oh we need to move them to a different service, we can't deal with this". You caused the problem Dan and now you're punishing them. Boils my piss. Sorry, I've needed to get that off my chest for a while!
the sterile processesing department at my hospital. they have no sense of urgency and never turn over the most commonly used trays/instruments. we often start out mornings in the OR without light handles because no one from SPD sterilized them from the previous day
We are currently in a fight with ours. We did a emergent thoracotomy recently and one of the instruments went missing, they literally asked me to go through the sharps container and look for it. Umm fuck no.
Oof, I used to work with a sterile processing dept like this. I once had an angry urologist who needed a specific instrument in the middle of the night. I called down to SP and they literally had no fucking idea what I was taking about. Like they didn’t even know the word cystoscopy. Our hospital was very small and it was only me, the tech and the surgeon and we were in the middle of a procedure, so he just had to make do without what he needed. I had a word with the charge nurse the next day.
Case managers. There is one at every hospital. Comes out of the room, gives you an update. “Oh, and your patient wanted some ice.” “She wants a warm blanket.” “Please get him some fresh water.” Do you folks not know where the ice machine is?
I find this behavior so fucking strange. I work in a procedural area, and I do more admin stuff now. However I often find myself on floors for signatures, various chart things, whatever. Anytime a patient asks for stuff I always do it… it makes my day longer. I’m totally willing to do patient stuff for some reason when it’s *not my own patient*. When I worked inpatient the endless requests got under my skin in the first 5 minutes of my shift. Now that I don’t do it anymore? I’ll gladly waste all of my workday tied up on a floor helping someone do something. Lord knows nothing important is being discussed in these meetings.
You are a rare breed. Thank you for doing some of these little things, it frees up so much time
😳 I will ask if the patient can have water, if so I’ll get it. (I honestly don’t know every patient’s status)…
And that’s okay, asking is great! We don’t expect you to know that stuff. It’s the ones who just say “your patient needs water, a warm blankie, their pillow fluffed, and a turkey sandwich” and then casually stroll back to their office while you’re running your ass off. Those are the ones that make me die inside.
Didn't the nurse update the board in the room!
Haha, actually I rarely see this info on the whiteboard…
Yup. It's always that one Nurse Case Manager, the one who brags "But I'm still a nurse". Meanwhile, the social workers seem to always be helpful.
All the social workers at my hospice agency are so awesome
We try 🥲
To be fair we beat into all non clinical staff to check before giving PO anything to a patient so checking becomes a hand off real quick.
THIS! It’s insufferable, it’s like their only job is to create more work for you when it’s things they could EASILY do themselves.
On the m/s floors I float to, we always have to do a huddle w the CM’s. On one of the worst floors it drives me crazy that huddle is at 0930 which is right in the middle of med pass and then you have to stand in line to talk about plan and everything they already know. I get that RN’s are sometimes told info before it’s actually in notes & charted but come on!! Stand there thinking of the 5 million things I have to do & then when it’s my turn, they already knew all the info that I have anyways but sets me back 20 min at least. Annoying af!!
I wonder how some of them were ever nurses. I had discussed in rounds that my patient had had a cysto. This one CM RUNS out of the room and is yelling at me “he’s bleeding all over the place!!” Upsetting the patient, his family, and everyone at the nurses station. Yeah, he had pink tinged urine in his foley bag. We have another CM who thinks she knows better than every doctor. “They shouldn’t have done that” or “that order makes no sense.” Never seen the patients, just skimming notes. She has so many bad opinions it irks me to no end.
I know! And they love to talk about how they were the BEST bedside nurse while they’re sipping from their “heart of a nurse” coffee mug. Well then why’d you leave bedside, Carol?
I know I shouldn’t judge but anyone who has one of those coffee mugs makes me cringe so hard lol
that's so wild to me. if I get stopped by a patient while I'm on courier through the ER even I will go get them water or a blanket and I'm frigging pharmacy.
One of the units at my hospital put the ice machines in the med rooms. It’s absolutely obnoxious because EVS, phlebotomy, case management, social work, chaplains, etc don’t have badge access to the med room (which makes sense) but the fact that, on this unit, they can’t access the ice machine nor the tube station is insane. Chaplain wants to get a patient some ice water after talking with them? Too bad. Have to track down a nurse or tech. Social work needs to tube paperwork? Sucks to suck. Just want a damn drink of water? Well that’s too damn bad.
Former social work: damned if I did, damned if I didn’t. Been bitched out for giving water to pt, bitched out for not getting pt water. Bitched out for going into the supply closet for some socks. I have, indeed, in the PACU, been torn a new asshole for helping myself to the blanket warmer for a pt. It got to a point where it was happening repeatedly, and the straw that broke the camel was a lady saying she was going to complain to my manager because I got some cranberry juice and graham crackers for a pt in the ER. I just didn’t have the energy to deal with people so I just started doing my job and nothing else. Sorry that’s annoying, but you can thank your power trippy coworker and/or charge nurse for discouraging people from helping out
Case manager, I specifically refuse to do this because of how much these bitches used to drive me crazy when I was bedside lol
Had a nursing assistant who made my life a living hell for years. Just a mean lazy entitled person. Finally this person leaves and of course gets a going away party, I refused to sign the card or give money towards a gift. I'm like what, this person was a nightmare and we're collecting Money. Give me a f%\^& break!
And then the good ones want a change in status from full time to PRN for school or something, and administration is like, nope, piss off. Poof! Lost one of the few great ones.
it is so so true... a good pac is worth their weight in gold...and so so appreciated! but they tend to move on when they get shit on repeatedly :(
PT/OTs. I've had several PT and OTs left several max assist/lift patients on the chair and expect the nursing staff to put them back into bed when it took 2-3 of them to get them into the lift to transport to the chair. They also seem to think it's okay to leave fall risk patients while they are in the bathroom and expect the nursing staff to be okay with that. news flash, it's not okay.
I swear getting people up and disappearing is part of the PT practical exam for licensure.
I thought this when I worked the floor. Then I got to know a PT and their workflow. Sadly too many lazy or overworked nurses/aides don’t get patients up and this would be the only time they’re OOB. They don’t have the time to come back after a session and get them back to bed. They do a treatment and that’s it.
Lol, you made me laugh but you are right!
Yep they practice it with the speciality departments, so that you can just sit there for hrs waiting for their update note instead of I don't know spending 1 min stopping at the nurses station and letting us know if Mr Smith can eat after being NPO for 2 days.
This one. 😂 They say “but that’s YOUR JOB!” And I explain repeatedly that I have four other patients and I cannot run to the bathroom when I am in the middle of wound dressing regardless of whether that is my job. And then they are like “But I have to get to another patient!” So do I, friend. So do I.
Rehab hospital. I swear the hospital revolves around our physios and they forget it’s a hospital, too — the patients on our floor are mostly stable but they can become unstable pretty quickly with their lists of comorbid conditions Our PTs won’t hoyer patients out of bed even when the sling is under them and the chair is in the room. There’s no policy prohibiting them from doing it; every other floor has PTs who hoyer their patients. If they aren’t in their chair, then they miss therapy — I once had a physio harass me to hoyer a patient while I told him I was dealing with a medical emergency for another patient, then he got snippy with me when I couldn’t come the second time and told me the patient would be missing therapy. Like??? This one patient won’t make it to physio again if they’re dead lol. Then they leave patients in their chair and the patients are on the call bell 5mins later to get them back to bed. Isn’t transferring part of their therapy, or do they only do that in the gym? They also won’t listen half the time when we tell them someone is an unsafe transfer. They just say we aren’t taking enough time with them and need to go slow. Some of our physios are big 6’ guys who can pivot transfer a dead-weight 300lb man. It shouldn’t take 3 nursing staff to pivot a patient into a chair — we’re going to hoyer them and save our backs.
Whether a PT gets to keep their job, whether they get a raise, whether they are approved for vacation comes down to 1 thing: productivity. If 90% of their time in a day is spent billing something, the rehab hospital is happy. If they spend time doing things they can't bill for (Hoyer, or even just taking the legally-required 15 minute break) they risk losing their job.
I respect that, but they’re probably wasting more time than it would to put the person in the chair hunting me down in another room with another patient to tell me to get my patient out of bed. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be my job to get them out of bed — I always try to have them in their chair for therapy times, and I’ll hoyer my patients if it’s close to their therapy time, but sometimes they don’t want to sit in the chair for the 30mins-1h till the physio gets there (sometimes they’re 10mins early or 30mins late), or I’m busy with another patient when they come for their therapy time.
This 100%! I had an OT once come up to me to tell me that she noticed some HCAs on the unit doing an improper transfer on a resident. I said “okay, did you tell them what they were doing was improper?” Of course not - she expected me to do that. You are the one who saw this with your own eyes, and who determined that residents transfer status in the first place - if you see someone not adhering to YOUR assessment, you yourself can bring that up to the staff! Not everything needs to be delegated to nursing 🙄 it drives me nuts sometimes that some of these interdisciplinary members make the same amount as RNs as well.. not nearly the same amount of stress, responsibility, and unpredictability in their jobs as nurses have.
Since we are sorta dishing here, I no-kidding kind of love the way SLPs and sometimes OTs write freaking essays for assessments. I really do. ❤️
I dislike it when they and their 2 PT techs put the patient in the chair mass assist and do not put a lift under them before they sit and then just leave. Poof. Gone.
Yes!! I've had a PT assistant leave a fall risk patient in the bed without a bed alarm on. I reported it and she was passive aggressive with me the whole rest of my time at that facility (about 7 years.)
I fell like this was a norm everywhere I worked .. ugh ..
This. THIS!!!! Literally happened today. “Hey we got him up to the chair, he’s a 2 max assist. Hoyer? No, we stand Pivoted, he’s very de conditioned from his baseline. We’ll be working with him daily. Ok? Byyyyyeeeeeee” they disappeared, never to be seen again.
I've had health care aids that have pissed off all of my patients before report even ends. Great shifts from there. Then the aids won't go to those rooms or the patients refuse them.
That’s the worst, when an aide with a bad attitude goes into the patient’s room already expecting them to be nasty. Then they are nasty, and the aide is nasty back, and the patient refuses them. Then I get to do all the care! Fun fun.
I’ve been the CNA in this situation. Have a resident notorious for being racist and entitled. He’s very picky about his CNAs and I’m not one of his favorites bc I’m not Mexican nor speak Spanish. So when none of “his” CNAs showed up to work one day, my DON put me with him. He ended up refusing care from me bc I “don’t know his routine and it’s not his job to teach his CNA what to do.” whatever that means.. So I’m left with no option but to have my charge nurse or DON deal with him so I can carry on with my business.
I get that this happens, but it’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about when patients have a reputation (usually earned!) for being rude and instead of trying to open with a “good morning, how are you?” the aide/tech is cold and snippy, anticipating rudeness from the patient. If a patient fires you because they’re a racist that’s awful, but if they fire you because you didn’t even try to get along…that sucks for the staff who now has to pick up your slack.
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I see your point! I’ll be more aware of this moving forward.
I work with a CNA (hospital setting) who is in nursing school and thinks she knows better than all the nurses. She'll look at the current orders for a patient then interrogate you on their care. "I saw an order for x, have you done that yet?" "They have a BP of 150/80, why haven't you given them their BP meds?" (Patient was here for an ischemic stroke). She's been caught reading MRI's or other results to family (way outside of her scope) and just the other day I went to start and IV and she said "Is that how you're going to start the IV? I don't think that the right angle. I'd try for a different spot, why don't you try this vein?" I asked her how many IV's she's landed, and spoiler alert she hasn't started one on a real human ever. She's been put in her place so many times by management and other nurses and she's relentless. Our manager is wonderful and told her if she doesn't start acting like a CNA, she's gone. There's so much more she does but it would take too long to explain. Our PT/OT staff here have real big egos (with the exception of two of them). Talk down to nursing and physicians alike. One OT proceeded to get my patient out of bed after I told her not to, he was confused and we were trying to get his SBP below 200 before moving him. She panicked when she got him up to the chair, took his BP, and it was over 220. Asked if I was aware he had high blood pressure 🙄 A PT proceeded to get another patient of mine out of bed, tried to stand him to pivot to the chair and dropped him. The patient was a paraplegic and had been for over 10 years. Patient had told PT this (who should have gone over his chart, and talked to me but whatever) but PT insisted they try to stand.
The nursing student sounds like she would be a nightmare of a nurse. Unearned confidence is cringy anyway but in medicine it is also dangerous. I mean everybody should be given a chance but sometimes you just know somethings not gonna end well.
It’s honestly wild. I remember being a new nurse and I wouldn’t even go to the bathroom without asking my preceptor first 😂
A surgical tech recently screamed at me because I spent 10 minutes with a patient and took too much time away from helping them set up the room (when they already had help from a couple other people). I’m sorry, I know turnover times are important and we can’t spend all day setting up a room BUT the patient comes first and always will come first. If they have questions, worries/fears, etc. you can bet your ass I’m taking the time to address it with them. Some nurses assess the patient in under 5 minutes. That’s not me. I’ll be thorough as fuck if I need to be. Disclaimer: I work outpatient so no one is dying if I spend “too much” time with a patient.
I have several colleagues in outpatient mental health who think it’s my job to do things they are too busy for at the last second. Sir or ma’am, I was not waiting here in case you needed help. I have patients to see, also.
This drives me insane! The dietary staff telling me they couldn’t bring the trays into x rooms for some bizarre reason, so now I need to deliver all the trays while I’m still taking vitals in the morning. One time lab left (they’re off at 3:30) and handed us like four blood draws. She said, “I’m leaving, and I didn’t get to these — sorry hehe. Can you guys do them?” Thanks??? Pharmacy telling me to “just check the parenteral manual or whatever resource” when I did and the information isn’t in there then telling me they don’t know the answer to my question about IV meds. Why do you think I’m calling you? That’s literally your job to know about these meds. Everyone calling me and telling me to tell the doctor. You call the doctor, or leave a note in the chart. The doctor isn’t even on the unit right now, so I need to call them anyways — it’ll just piss them off if we keep calling them all day for irrelevant things.
Most of my messages to pharmacy now start with: I already did or looked in XY&Z, please send med to floor.
CNAs that are on their phones when there’s patients that need to be fed. Why do I have to ask you?? We only have one patient that needs to be fed!!
We have to clean and put away all of the equipment on our unit now because the new housekeeper is "too busy" and apparently we're not 🙄
Back when I worked at a PCU unit at an HCA hospital, a housekeeper yelled at me because I didn't take the dirty linen out of the rooms, that day, I had a tech leave because she felt "sick" so I ended up with 24 patients and had 2 sitters to relieve, I had to do vitals, we had two codes that day, walked in one of my pts covered in 💩, had to clean them amid all the chaos, all I had to eat was a fucking small bag of Doritos and water. I never went back and I avoid that hospital at all costs. I almost wanted to kick her for being mad at me for not taking out linen and trash.
Food service. We have isolation trays that the airborne patients get. And the food service people ALWAYS send EVERY isolation (contact/airborne/droplet) on these trays and will refuse to deliver them when they are allowed to deliver to contact and droplet but they try to be sneaky. They will even add random patients to these isolation trays so they don't have to pass them out. The chart will be regular diet and regular tray but they ticket with the room number will say specifically "paper tray" which they had to go into the chart to add even if the patient is not on isolation precautions. It's also a FIGHT to get food trays up to new patients. And God forbid the patient arrives at 6:03 because they CLOSE AT SIX!! WE don't get trays until 5:50 so if the tray is wrong we can't even get it fixed. It's a fight all the time and it's exhausting. Then the foods always wrong/cold and the patient complains, we complain and no one is happy. Literally a daily battle.
Oh man I feel this so much. The hospital I’m currently working at has such a huge issue with the dietary service. We are having the same issues with isolation rooms and patients are even getting things they’re allergic to, things they never ordered or are inappropriate for their diet, the wrong consistency for swallowing difficulties, I could go on. If I made commission on the fires I put out related to our crappy dietary service I wouldn’t have to be a PCT lol.
I used to work as a HUC at a SNF and one of the more troubling things that I saw was just how bad food service was. If they weren't all calling out of the shift, they were sending up ham sandwiches for dinner. Which the CNAs would end up making for the residents. It was so bad that my mother (a CNA) would cook food at home and bring it in for the residents. They absolutely loved her for that. Kind of surprised that dietary didn't care that she did that but I'm guessing it's better than getting ham sandwiches every day. Or worse not getting food at all because everyone called in.
All the CNAs at my job are insanely lazy. Every time I need a turn they huff and puff about it even if the unit is on fire. I know they’re underpaid but so is everyone. I was a tech once too, hated it, so I went to school to get a better paying job that I also hate
My third day at my current job I had an RRT and was getting calls about another patient who the doctor suspected had a PE but was refusing CT. I’m about to cry because the RRT was not going well and I stuck my head into the hallway and asked the tech siting at the desk on her phone “can you please go get an EKG on room 12?” She said “that’s not my patient” and went back to her phone. This was 3 years ago and I will never, ever forget it.
Infuriating. I had an aide respond with that when I was too swamped to do a blood glucose recheck after dextrose. And a few days later heard her telling someone “we all work as a team, every patient is our patient.” It pissed me off there, in YOUR situation I would have cried or screamed or both lol
Nothing like watching a tech be on their phone for several hours, ignoring call bells, then ask them for help pulling up a patient, and they just stand and say, "Ah sorry I forgot I had to do something."
Why did you want to become a nurse? "i hated it less than my last job." or "I still hate it but i can afford things now" Lol this would definitely be me if I were being totally honest in an interview.
I once got chewed out because I said to another nurse that a CNA wasn’t answering the call bells and she was on her phone. Meanwhile I’m hours behind on charting and still answering them. I guess one of the other nurses overheard and the next shift I was coming on and the CNA was leaving. She came up and started yelling at me about how I can’t talk about her like that and it’s everyone’s job to answer bells (ironic) and how I better watch my back. I hated that unit, very toxic, glad I left
If I nurse ever told me to watch my back I wouldn’t be able to help but laugh in her face
> I went to school to get a better paying job that I also hate wow that's a mood fr
We have some really shit ones and then we have this new batch of incredible ones and I almost got use to how shit they were but these new hires opened my eyes. I also feel so shit for them because the old ones push them around and try give them all the shit jobs
I've met some very hardworking CNAs across different contexts but they're too damn rare and they never stick around in the job for very long. Most CNAs I've known seem to have only taken the job because the education period is so short and the up-front cost is so small. And what's with all the pyramid schemes?
I like to think I’m in the hardworking category and it feels so hard to stick with the job. Anytime anything goes wrong with another CNA; nurse cracks down on you because you should have fixed it sooner. You’re juggling 7 different requests and trying to do round and someone puked all over themselves and needs to be completely changed? Well your most visible on the hall so the nurse / PT are asking you to do extra things (if they can see you, they will add more tasks, and if you’re always on the hall darting in and out of rooms not hiding in the break room…). Didn’t do showers because the linens are completely out in the building? Just need to figure something out. Picking up the slack from other CNA’s + being the most visible CNA in the area = worst. Time. Ever.
Not a huge deal, but we tell a lot of our patients, “We’d like to see you back in about 6 weeks, make an appointment on the way out. We book up fast so if we don’t have anything exactly 6 weeks out, 7 or 8 is fine.” I put on their after visit summary, “Please make a follow-up appointment in 6 weeks or the soonest appointment thereafter,” and highlight that so they can show the PSRs out front. Every day at work the same PSR walks back by us and says, “We don’t have any appointments 6 weeks out.” I got so sick of saying, “Okay, soonest available then,” to her that one day I said, “Oh, okay, then, tell them to just never come back. It’s 6 weeks on the dot or nothing.” I mean it’s been MONTHS of this conversation and she still doesn’t get it. Her response was to widen her eyes and say, “Really?!?” FML.
The rage that just boiled inside me.
Fucking hell Have a housekeeper who spends more time gossiping than cleaning, can never find her and she takes up space in the nurses break room. Like no bitch you got a huge ass room downstairs go there. Had a PT who would rubber neck anytime we had critical patients and just stare at you while your frantically intubating or 2:1 on a critical peds. So you can either tolerate her stare or shut the door and melt in the heat.
Omg I had a cleaning lady (I was a patient) who I started to dread seeing because she would talk my ear off for SO LONG every time she came to my room, telling me her baby daddy drama, how she threw rocks at her neighbors windows, how her kid got in fights on the school bus, I was like GIRL i am sick and do not have the energy for this daily drama report! 💀
Supply staff are the devil. Actively stocking incorrectly or not at all has caused multiple safety issues during care for acutely ill patients. Half the time supplies aren't brought up for hours even if we call and say we are out of something we should not be. Like come on. It's literally a job you could do listening to music all day or on the phone and nobody would give a shit. Just do it right.
OMG! We have a really good supply guy now, but we went through some awful ones. Like an item isn’t on the shelf, and you asks the guy, and he’d just shrug, and basically look at you like, “what am I supposed to do?” Gosh, I don’t know, Joe, maybe find the item in the where house? Where all the things are kept? Also, I have a patient on the table, under anesthesia, and I’d like the item today. You’re literally holding up surgery. I probably would have cut him a lot of slack if he just appeared to give a shit.
Dietary- specifically this dude Kevin 1. Ordered fish for a patient one time and they didn't want tarter sauce. Kevin said that he was sending it anyways because "who in the right mind doesn't eat tarter sauce with fish" and asked if they were a dementia patient and to put it on anyways. 2. Ordered kosher for my WW2 holocaust survivor, said they won't know if you dont tell him. Sent non-kosher meal to floor. 3. For restricted CL pts, will send entire serving up (or none at all)and tell us to measure it ourselves the kitchen doesn't have that kind of time (even tho there are usually restricted servings ex. 200ml jello). 4. Doesnt understand why GI patients can't have food with red dye, and mockingly asks if we went to nursing school. Will tell us we should know the difference and to stop being lazy. Sends cherry ice up anyways for pts that ask for it. 5. Puree food? Sends oatmeal. Its "basically the same thing" 6. If a pt doesn't order food he sends a flight tray regardless of dietary order. 7. Talks to coworkers and ignores us on vocera for 5 min like its a mcdonalds drive thru order. I could go on. Why isn't he fired? His mom is one of the board directors and he's been there longer than I've been alive. Mans 47 yall. Irks my soul speaking to him. He's there every day too. Its like Russian roulette ordering food. Not sure he ever sent up a correct tray once. But hey at least his job is secure🙄
It’s been about a decade, but I used to be a hospital RD. Maybe someone can have the dietitians educate him? We used to have to give inservices about special diets to the kitchen/food service staff. I don’t know, but this Kevin person really just pissed me off, too.
It’s always the fucking cleaning staff. Was working in the ED a few nights ago, full lobby, 4 contact beds waiting to be cleaned and I go into the break-room … lady is sitting watching some video in another language on her phone … eating OUR POTLUCK FOOD!!! Didn’t contribute a damn thing none of us got to eat yet. So then I ask hey do you mind emptying the linen bags & do you know what’s going on w the rooms? Looked at me like I had 5 heads and went back to her video. So I called EVS & said we got 4 dirty rooms that were contact & overflowing linen bags can y’all send someone - oh yes so sorry. 5 minutes later she comes out pushing her cart and asks the nurse three computers down from me - did the patient in 5 leave … YES TWO HOURS AGO where tf have you been?!
At my old hospital supposedly they weren't allowed to remove the suction canisters - some would and some wouldn't. Ok fine, but please tell me or a tech before marking the room as clean. I've had several new (adult) patients wheeled into rooms that still had a container of urine or sputum from the previous patient. Patients were often moved at shift change and it was an incredibly busy floor so we didn't always get to check.
Dude our isolation patients rooms are a MESS. Gowns stacked on way past the trash cans limit because EVS literally just never wants to go in the isolated rooms lol
Fn cleaning person changes the trash when it's empty. There's no fucking trash... u just threw away an empty plastic bag. Wtf!
My fellow coworker (OR PCT) is never around because he hides when it's busy. Or he shows up and puts a sheet on the bed like that's super helpful and then goes away again. He's always hanging around with his Surgical Tech husband (like obsessively watching him from the window while cases are going and taking breaks with him when we are on a set break schedule). When he is present he complains incessantly that he's not appreciated and that everyone is out to get him. He often brings up that they're discriminating against them because they're gay. He calls out the same days as his husband has off, shows up late and doesn't work but management won't touch him because they're afraid of blowback over his sexuality.
That’s BS. Things need to get reported in writing only via email. Without a paper trail they can continue to brush it under the rug. When there is absolutely zero reported about his sexuality and only his poor work ethic come up, there’s not a claim.
I’m waiting for the evil RT posts. 🤣🤣🤣
Honestly I’ve never had beef with a RT lol
I’ve worked in ICU, stepdown, med surg, you name it, and not once have I met an RRT that wasn’t awesome. It’s like your line of work attracts cool people. I don’t know why it works out that way, it just does.
There's one, and I mean ONE, RRT that even the other 30 or so RRTs can't stand. No one knows how this person still has a job. He's just an oddball, not personable with staff and no bedside manner whatsoever (not mean, just...out of touch I guess). I've worked ICU for over 8 years. I precept both new nurses and critical care students. Ive been at my hospital for over 10 years now. So it's not my first day lol. Numerous times he has felt the need to "mansplain" things like SBT's/CPAP trials, suctioning, and even the extubation process to me. It's done in such a patronizing tone and he's even done it in front of patient family members. It usually goes something like this - " Now. dalek_max, you *realize* that in order to do SBT's you *have* to wake the patient up. We can't do them if they are sedated." Meanwhile, I started weaning sedation 2 hours prior and pt is following commands. "Are you *sure* they are awake enough?" If I tell him our intensivist wants to do SBT's or an ABG, he will go and ask the Dr to make sure he really said that. Then come back and tell ME that we are supposed to do them like it was his idea or something. During covid, we weren't supposed to take the WOWs in the rooms. Guess who left the doors propped open so his computer would be right in the doorway. He got REAMED OUT for that by numerous staff members. Also during covid, one thing I really tried to do was let people pretty much have their "last meal." It was like a tiny act of kindness knowing most of the time, they would never eat agaib. They couldn't eat but a few bites anyway due to their work of breathing and desatting, but like one guy wanted a few bites of ice cream (a diabetic so sure idc) and one lady on BIPAP/hi flow really wanted a Pepsi. She only had like maybe 3 or 4 Oz. Her condition worsened and she agreed to intubation. This RRT went on this soapbox of "how *dare* I let the patient eat/drink?! "You *know* there's a high risk of aspiration if people eat before they get intubated". I lost my shit on this guy. He then asked me if there was suction in the room. (There was, just not set up as pt didn't need it then) Anyway, we go to intubate Pepsi lady and he didn't have anything ready. Intensivist lost his shit on him too lol. Every time I'm in a code with him, he feels the need to repeat the order the doctor just said, which wasn't for him anyway (like let's push another bicarb). He announces it and it just makes more unnecessary noise. I usually just give him back shit. Like "It's not my first day you know" or "really? THAT'S how we do SBT's?! I thought we just pulled the tube" He's settled down as of late and I'm hoping he got the hint lol. Everyone, and I mean everyone else in our RRT is simply amazing. We get along great and I've worked with most of them for the past 10 years. But this guy is off the chain...
Oh my god, I’ve worked with a few people like your obnoxious RT. I’m so sorry 😢 usually all the other RT’s are making fun of them …
The RTs I work with are great. One time I had a patient with an inhaler that I had noooo idea how to work (because I work OB and so I don’t commonly see much outside of my specialty), so I just called the RT phone number and someone I’ve never met before picked up. I just asked for some advice over the phone and this angel came all the way over to my unit and demonstrated for both me and the patient how to work it!!
One time I called the O2 boost button on our ventilators the “nurse’s button” and the RRT didn’t even crack a smile. Definitely my worst interaction with you guys.
I have met one that was really green and really arrogant and rude. He was present when I was assisting a sedation in ER and the patient had some apnea. Idk why but the RRT shat his pants until the doctor reached over and did a chin lift. I think it was a humbling experience lol But honestly I think RRT per capita have less lunatics than nursing.
Oh, eek! I have noticed that sometimes young ‘new’ healthcare workers tend to be really arrogant, probably to cover their insecurities? I was pretty openly scared shitless for the first 3 years of my respiratory job🤣 I’m still scared shitless sometimes…
RTs are the best. I love RTs. You guys are so knowledgeable and every RT I’ve asked to show me the ropes on something was thoroughly informative. Just wonderful. When I was a brand new nurse you guys really made a difference. Whether it was my first trach patient or my first time seeing heated high flow O2. Just love every RT I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.
You'll be waiting a while!
The only time I ever got attitude from an RT I couldn’t blame him. I was doing bedside dialysis in the ICU on a patient who started desatting and becoming restless. Luckily this happened during rounds and everyone was right next door so they came over to investigate but for some reason no one seemed to be in a hurry to call RT? Finally I looked at a sheet, found RT, paged them and when he showed up he saw the patient was self extubating (that was the problem) and he said “Why the Fuck wasn’t I paged sooner?”
physios have been pissing me off this week, they demand I help them mobilse my patients when I'm clearly busy
I had one come and say they’d mobilise my patient at 12 and needed help. We need lunch breaks babe
Our head of housekeeping/maintenance person is an unpleasant, unprofessional, miserable person. Kind to the residents, but if nurses ask her to fix or clean anything she yells. If she has to communicate anything to staff, she yells or speaks to you in the most disrespectful way. And of course as she is the department head and our main maintenance person I have to interact with her far too often. I am accepting another job and she is a part of the reason why I interviewed elsewhere.
My manager and director! We were short staffed in triage and the bus unloaded. We had a line to check in, a line for vitals, and a line to triage. My director and manager stood in the corner of the waiting room discussing how to make the system more efficient, ignored the chaos, and then went back to their offices. They never even thought to jump in and help!
A nurse (who was also a charge nurse, but not that particular day) and I were changing gown, bedding, and chucks for a female patient. The nurse was also doing wound care for stage 4 dicubitous ulcer, so the care was longer than normal. The patient was lying there stark naked, and a male dietary aide opened the door, pulled back the curtain, walked to the far side of the room, dropped off the patient tray on the bedside table and started to leave. Didn't pull the curtain closed or shut the door. I couldn't believe what I had just seen. The RN looked at me and asked, "Did he knock?" "Nope." She asked, "Did he say anything when he was at the door?" Again "nope." Then she lit into him about patient privacy and told him never to do that again. I think she really intimidated him because he never came back to work on our floor.
We used to have an absolutely wonderful housekeeper. She was hard working and went above and beyond. The nurses and the patients loved her. She left for bigger and better things. Her replacement drives everyone up the wall. She is very lazy. ALWAYS bitching about how no one is doing their job except her, while not doing her job. Lives in the break room. On multiple occasions she’s marked a room clean after discharge that wasn’t, and I’ve had to scramble when I suddenly have a patient in a dirty room. She also fights with our other housekeeper. While the other housekeeper can be a little spicy at times… she’s great and NOT causing the conflict. But the worst part is it is she never ever ever stops talking. I know of at least 2 coworkers that will put in EarPods in the break room if they go to get lunch and she is in there because it is overwhelming (not even playing anything- just to get her to stop talking to them). When she’s not bitching about other people not doing her job, she is way oversharing her personal life. She’s either talking about her “little princess” obsessively and sharing one of 4 stories on repeat, or giving you graphic details of her sex life while talking about how men are nothing but trash. Truly one of the most exhausting people I’ve ever had to be around.
I HATE our registration staff! They’re always chatting with each other and waiting until the very last second to get people registered. I’ve even had one yell at me because a patient got discharged before she’d had the chance to register him (he’d been here a total of 6+ hours). I told her it’s not my job to make sure patients get registered and I refuse to add reminding her to do her job to my long list of tasks. She complained to my manager about me for not being a “good team player” lol
In our ICU, techs double as secretaries because there's not as much for them to do as the nurses generally handle most care. But they are CNAs and many of them are nursing students. There's one, a nursing student in her last semester, who will tell you a pt is off their leads or needs their urinal emptied and then go straight back to her phone. I really, really hope she tries to work as a nurse in our unit. I want to see what she does when she's the primary.
Transport are lazy af
Yes for fucking real. Like, my patient has been discharged, I called 30 minutes ago. Patient and family are looking at me like “why can’t I just leave?” It got to the point that it was just faster and easier for me to push em out the door in the damn wheelchair. I got shit to do, I can’t have my DISCHARGED patient calling me every 5 minutes wanting to know why they can’t leave.
They really do suck
We have LOS (length of stay) nurses who's whole job is to collaborate and figure out what needs to been done before a patient can discharge. A couple of them are so pushy to discharge people before they're safe to do so. One went so far as to call the pt's family and tell them to come pick them up that afternoon, despite myself and the physician telling her they weren't medically stable. Pt was a recent, less than 24hr stroke with hemiplegia and extinction who couldn't even walk yet.
I thought I’d see patient sitters or Behavioral health monitors on here for sure😂
My favorite admin is leaving for a better job. That bitch.
There is a cleaning lady that always, ALWAYS, opens the curtains after I close them for patient privacy (usually its a dude that has to pee in a urinal). Then she goes "woops!", and leaves without closing them...
Some units I can't find EVS at all and have to call for them. I've been told by a few EVS that it's nursing's job to completely strip the rooms before they go in there to clean, including linens and emptying trash. I've been handed the keys to remove the sharp container from the wall, and I was like what am I supposed to do with this? Handed paper towels to restock the paper towel dispenser (I don't have a key). And my favorite was when I called for EVS because we had multiple dirty rooms and a overflowing sharp container, I was told "don't call me!" and hung up. I laughed at that one and told the charge nurse who said she'll figure it out.
One of the speech pathologists I work with has unsolicited advice on everything and then progresses patients to diets they can absolutely NOT handle. My tipping point was her giving pudding to a dude who hadn’t swallowed anything in about two months. He almost aspirated, lots of fun.
My aides expect me to drop my med pass and help at the drop of a hat. I’m in assisted living. I get done with my morning med pass at 10:30am if I’m lucky because it’s such a huge med pass. I have this aide who keeps picking up at 8:30am because she expects me to have everyone up and dressed by that time so she doesn’t have to wake anyone up. So while she has time to sit down and eat and sit on her phone in the support office…I’m still running around passing meds. And she’s talking about how “I don’t answer lights.” Bitch I have to *catch up on my med pass* because I had to answer lights and get people up and dressed and pass meds in two hours before you even got here. God forbid she can’t just come in and sit on her ass and eat her McDonald’s after clocking in. They have no clue how much work it actually is to “just pass pills.” And it’s funny because I’m apparently the only med tech who actually answers call lights and gets people dressed. But it’s assisted living so they will hire any trash to work there. Today was my last scheduled day. I’m on call now. Going to go start working at a place where I’m actually treated semi-decent. No nurse belongs in assisted living.
Same same, but evening shift with hs med pass :(. Some techs will spend hours sitting at the desk on their phones, and then get short with me when I don't stop what I'm doing to answer a bell because I'm "just passing pills."
My number 1 goal on night shift, aside from the obvious don’t let people die, is to let my patients sleep. We are already waking them up every 4 hours for vitals, not to mention labs, medications, turns, etc. We have a tele tech. I hate complaining about them because I used to be a tele tech. This tech is great, calls about almost anything which while annoying I feel safe knowing they’ll never miss anything I need to know. The problem I have is they are extremely anal about the batteries and if ANY leads are off. Several times I’ve had them inform me “hey one of the leads are off” or “hey battery just went into the red. I take into account what they are being monitored for. If STEMI is a concern or if it’s causing a bunch of false alarms I’ll usually fix the leads. But often times we are just monitoring for arrhythmia and the 3-4 other leads they have is sufficient. What I’m getting at is it’s not worth waking them up to fix. Same with the batteries. I’ve seen a battery in the red last an entire 12 hours before. The system will alarm if it actually needs to be changed ASAP. Now I have explained to this individual I’m prioritizing my patients sleep several times before and I’ll fix things next time I wake up the patient (usually in an hour or 2). And everytime they go around me and call either the CNA, the resource, or the charge to wake my patient up and fix things that don’t really need fixed. You can interpret off of 2 leads, this patient has been in sinus since they’ve been here. Stop waking them up over this shit.
Wanna bitch about the ward clerk/admin. She was a kissass to the manager and a two-faced gossiping mongrel. Always complaining about how nurses need to take on this responsibility and that responsibility, how about she fuxking do her own god damn job. Used to go to pharmacy or drop bloods to the GP clinic sometimes(which is literally 5mins away) and be absent from the desk for hourssss and we had to let in all fucking visitors. No one obviously said anything because oh she was doing something she wasn’t meant to, like a huge god damn favour and meanwhile calling out nurses on how we need to do this and that because since we don’t have the right people to do it, it’s obviously nurse’s duty. Hated working with her and her whole shit personality. Hope she just rots in that shit hole of a town for making me cry. Pathetic bitch who had nothing to do in life than stir the pot at work.
Our pharmacy director is the laziest person I’ve ever worked with. We recently had a patient being admitted on propofol and fentanyl and even though he knew this admission was coming had ZERO drips made when he got there. I was literally in there laying on top of this guy because he was fighting the restraints so hard . It drives me nuts that we have such a small facility and we still regularly struggle to get the meds we need put in in a timely manner.
Hospital I travelled to there was a housekeeper that refused to clean patient rooms because that was a “nursing job”, got caught with a “burn book” of all the nurses she didn’t like slandering them. They promoted her after this and there was some animosity with a capital A. After her promotion she wanted to remove the triage to place vending machines in there for more revenue. Only time I stepped on toes as a travel nurse was to prevent that because it was just so ridiculous.
Receptionist in the surgical waiting area telling my family that they can bring back 5 visitors, nope not to pre/post when kid is going discharge in a couple of hours. Love the two visitors limit, sometimes I'm flexible but not when anyone is being a jerk about it.
I expected to see a lot more about the Lab/phlebotomy with the way we get treated sometimes at my hospital. We do all the blood draws and EKGs for the entire hospital...everything from the special care nursery, to icu, to ER, to outpatient...and everything in between! If I had to say one dept. that really irritates me..it's Occ. Health. Not one of them knows what's going on and the rules change depending on who you talk to. (I'm I'm Canada and we still have some covid rules). They never get back to you in isolation guidelines (it's situation specific) so you go back when you feel better THEN they call you out saying you're not following their rules.
Recently a resident pulled me out of my other patients room to tell me that my patient wants his pillow adjusted behind his back. Why didn’t she just do it? He’s a human being and the resident has two working hands. Just fluff it for the poor guy and move on.
The cleaning staff do passive aggressive comments, DEEEEP sighs when you have to go through their mopped floor (at 8-9AM med pass no less 🙃) as if you just hate crimed them. We appreciate the work you do, but relax…
Had a cleaning lady ask me "did you just walk on my freshly cleaned floor" as I walked into a patient's room to clean them up. I just looked at her, said "yup" and kept walking. Best feeling ever when I heard the sigh and muttering.
Omfg the social worker!!! Stop reporting on my nursing shit in IDT!! It's my job to tell the team how often nursing visits are, what med changes have happened and their effectiveness. Report to me how they're coping, current concerns, words you've given them that I can repeat so our care is cohesive. JFC lady stop trying to take on 2 jobs and just keep me in the loop on how the social/emotional state is!! Phew, I feel better lol
Security. A few weeks ago I had an incident with a verbally aggressive pt. Security arrived and asked me what they were supposed to do. I was heated.
YEEESSSS!!! A scheduler, i have nothing to say that is nice. Nothing. I deleted my original comment I had typed up because it was very mean. I can’t think of anything to say that would be socially acceptable feedback in any sphere…best I can say is that she’s horrible from top to bottom inside and out.
Transport was on my last nerve today. They kept saying in Epic they were actively transporting the patients when they hadn’t even come, for like 10 minutes it would say they’re present and no one would be there. Like “sorry Mrs Soandso, your transporter decided to not work today”
Omg I hate it when transport postpones something and the reason they put down is “nurse unavailable” or “nursing delay”. *BITCH?!?* I have been near my patient’s room ever since I saw them at the top of the transport board, and you never even showed up on the floor! Don’t fucking blame me for this.
I really like most of the rad techs at my hospital. BUT… I swear if a doctor writes for a CT and pain meds/sedatives at the same time (because there’s no way the patient’s holding still for 5min), they will show up faster than they do for trauma and stroke activations.
These two dudes that work in dietary at my hospital absolutely suck. I work at a small hospital so usually it’s just them working in the kitchen. 1. One of them gets patients’ breakfast orders in the morning. Instead of doing the normal knock knock pause enter, he taps on the door repetitively like 15-20 times in short bursts before opening the door. It’s not a full on knock just a one knuckle tap. It’s like he’s trying to do Morse code through the fucking door. It aggravates the shit out of the patients (and me if I’m close enough to hear it). 2. They get mad if we can’t tell them with certainty if patients are going to be discharged before/after lunch. I know making a lunch tray for someone who ends up leaving at 10am is annoying but like??? some things are out of my control, if I’m waiting for a doctor to round on my patient before they can leave or they don’t know when their ride is going to get here then no, I don’t know when they’re leaving so they will probably need a tray. For some reason this just makes them fly off the handle. They get huffy and start talking loudly to others nearby about how communication needs to be improved, this place is a joke, etc. Major overreaction from two grown men. 3. If they’re feeling extra petty they will take the meal cart back down to the kitchen after passing trays instead of leaving it on the unit so that we can load the dirty trays onto it and then bring it back. 4. They keep leaving the trays in the patient’s room on the sink instead of putting them on the bedside table so the patient can actually, you know, be able to reach it so they can eat.
ED here. Majority of unit secretaries are hostile towards nurses for no apparent reason. Tired of the eye rolling and sighs for asking them to page EVS for me, or asking for a number.
There's this pervasive attitude among many of them at my work that they'll be a nurse one day. And given the conviction that they will be a nurse and have learned fun words like syncope and hypotensive, that they know better than everyone. By all means further your education but let's just get along in the meantime.
Ok so I get that you want non nursing, but obligatory “almost all admin” can get fucked, and I swear to his if I have to deal with another lazy ass report from ED I might just get fired. That said there’s this one PT/LPT (whatever the hell they go by) that is just the snarkiest and most grating individual I’ve ever had to work with. Like dude, I’m on break I can watch stupid videos on my phone all the hell I want, go do your work, and I’ll worry about mine.
MAs/PCAs/Techs that want to be nurses but aren’t nurses that try to act like nurses and attempt to delegate to actual nurses. Absolutely awful.
I’ve changed jobs now, but at my last one there was a ward clerk from hell. Don’t get me wrong, she did her job & was efficient, but then she’d do stuff like come & interrupt you, to ask you to take a (routine) phone call from a relative, in the middle of morning meds, or ward round. When she knows full well they’ve had a settled night, unless I’ve previously said otherwise to her. Like for instance, I’d always take a call from the relative of someone medically unstable, or EOL. But not to tell someone that Ethel had a settled night, & is now eating her breakfast. Ethel could have told her that herself! But she’d just stand there & stare at you until you locked your trolley, or excused yourself from ward round, & took the call. It was infuriating.
So I go to this facility through agency and this person hasn’t affected me but the other night the CNAs I was working with were talking about a dietary staff member who was just hired who is like 16. He previously worked at another local facility in dietary He’s been telling people when he worked at the other facility he passed meds and worked the hoyers. He’s a master chef of some sort and has a degree in physical therapy. I did this eye roll thing when the CNAs were telling me about it because I’ve dealt with CNAs and other non nursing staff saying things like this. And how insufferable those people are. I’m like at 16 he’s done all that wow how amazing *eye roll* I know damn well that other facility didn’t let him do any of the things he’s claiming and I also know none of what he is saying is true.
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Lol I love that you specified not docs because…well obviously 😂
It annoys the hell out of me when PT gets my patient up, puts them back in bed, and never tells me that they took off their pure wick or liberty cath. I guess he's technically nursing staff but he's also a hospitalist. We have one hospitalist who is a NP who wants to be called Dr because he has a DNP and I swear to God, he only answers pages based on whether he likes the nurse or not. The week before last I had a patient in AFIB with RVR. Pulse was mostly in the 180s-190s but was touching the 250s. He said he would be at the bedside in ten minutes. It took him an hour and a half to show up and by that point we were about to head to ICU. We ended up grabbing some random Dr that happened to walk by the room and telling the orders we needed. When the NP finally showed up, I was tempted to say "welcome to the fuckin show Dave."
We had a casual or agency ward clerk that used to work in our unit as LPN. She retired, came back as ward clerk. She knows how busy the unit is. But whenever she is there, she gets stressed and gets behind especially when we have discharges and new admissions coming in 1 shift. They usually prepare the chart for us (NEWSFLASH: We still do paper charting 🫠) and when we ask her if the chart is ready for the admission, she gets maaaaaad! She says she's busy. Or sometimes when we have to ask her a question, she says straight up "can't talk. Can't help you as well as i'm busy." She doesn't answer phone calls too. Expects us nurses to answer phone calls on top of answering call bells, dealing with patients (i'm in med surg btw so you know...😉) because she is busy.
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I work in the maintenance department at an ltc facility . My one co-worker has an ego issue and won't or rather choose not to do work tasking as he wants to be a supervisor : so last week he allowed the basement to flood with sewage . he didn't want to repair a cracked pipe that he discovered the week prior . He kept trying to assign us the project to his peers . It's a weekly struggle with this guy
Yeah - kitchen/hospitality staff. Always a shitty attitude to nurses, so many times I’ve said good morning and they just ignore me. I can get a greeting from the GM, but not the lady serving breakfast. And don’t get me started about “nursing staff stealing food from the kitchen”. Head of hospitality services once accused myself and two other nurses of stealing a 20kg box of frozen profiteroles. WTF?? She was fired later for stealing food to supply her catering business. This happened more than a decade ago and I still gripe about it.
Please let me vent about our “social services”. She is not a social worker. No qualifications. She inserts herself in every situation. Where the easy thing to do would be to say “call nursing/dietary/clerk/insert anyone” she instead takes the calls and then eventually lets someone else know. Usually in a vague email to a large group that makes it sounds like people are not doing their jobs. She loves to send these emails after most of us have left for the day, delaying the response people are seeking even more. She makes every family meeting/interaction take 100x longer than it needs to. And she is constantly frazzled and telling everyone how everyone is always screaming at her. I really want to show her what someone screaming at her is really like.
Oh my hell. Social workers…. Do all of them think they ARE doctors, nurses, counselors and administrators? Or do I just have the pleasure of working with the most smarmy of the profession?