I was working on one of our step-down Units recently, a Unit I don't like working because I feel that some of the staff are lazy.
Thanks for proving me right.
As I was getting ready to round on my patients, I heard the distinctive 'beeping' of an IV infusion pump from the opposite side of the Unit. I went ahead and rounded on my peeps.
As I returned to the Nurse's Station, some 15 minutes later, the alarm was still beeping. I decided to check it out, found the room, and corrected the problem (kinked tubing).
I looked at the patient assignment board to see who the nurse was.
There she is, at the Nurse's Desk....on the computer....on Facebook....tending her Farm.
Bitch!
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Hmmm, looks like they need to set-up a site blocker there.
I hope you told her supervisor? Her behavior is unacceptable.
I would write her butt up! I had a nurse once call me at home (I was director) and tell me I HAD to get her another nurse as she was too busy. Come to find out she was on the computer playing games. When I called her in to discuss this she said she was playing games because she was so STRESSED! Are you kidding me? I wanted to jump across the desk and strangle her.
I get that all the time in oncology. I hear a beep, I run to correct the problem, wander back to my pod and shazam!!! the patients nurse is STILL on the 'puter reading her "e-mail". I think I'm just gonna head to the bathroom whenever I hear the beep!!!
Steve
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I run all the time. We have some people who are just deaf to IV pump bells....but phones...another story.
They always get their personal calls at work, unless, of course, they're dodging the bill collectors.
One of our float pool nurses used to bring her own laptop to work and play on facebook while we waited for report. That would really burn my ass because she made twice as much money to play games. Fortunately, that problem was nipped in the bud quickly. Lazy people are everywhere.
Waaaaaayyyyyyy back in the olden days us nurses on the unit under ever vigilant charge nurse Nancy knew the 'standing rule': "No one sits until we ALL can sit."
I do not get Farmville or Mafia Wars or any of that stuff. I do go on facebook to stay in touch with far flung family, but I block all of that stuff.
Who has the time?
I'm in nursing school. At the hospital where I do my clinicals, there are signs everywhere warning not to access the internet from the computers. Internet access is for researching patient care only.
I assume the signs are to combat a problem they've had.
ha! On my old floor (Oncology), i was a CNA. We had a couple nurses that would let call lights go off for 30+minutes, believing them to be the "CNA's Job" and would sit at the computer looking at real estate ads all night long, right next to the computer that displayed the room/patient that was calling (I often had 6+ call lights going off at once).
Then we had these 2 amazing nurses that would run like hell for everything, to help any and all the patients, even if it wasn't theirs.
Lazy staff tick me off..
Well you know...if you forget about your crops...they die! And thats a waste of money for the cost of plowing and seeds! Then you have to go hang around the marketplace and beg to be hired so you can make more money to plow and seed over the crops that just died on you cuz you had to go fix some tubing in an IV at work! Where as if you harvest your crops instead of fixing this patients tubing - you can sell your on-time-harvested crops...making money instead of losing it...and when your done...the IV will still be beeping just as it was pre-harvest! Cmon now...Farmtown is always priority over any patients needs! Do you have any idea how HARD it is to get hired at the marketplace???? (I'm kidding of course - that nurse should be written up and/or fired! Report her!)
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