HIPAA DISCLAIMER

HIPAA DISCLAIMER

Writings in this space are purely fictional and have no resemblance to real patients or their families.There is no hospital such as the one talked about, it's a combination off all the hospitals I've worked in. The scenarios described are all made up from TV shows like House and Dr. Gee. Most of the scenarios described are are from dreams that I had the night before and then embellished upon. If you think that you know me, you probably don't because I'm not a real nurse, I only play one in the schizophrenic delusions that I'm being medicated for. I don't work in a hospital and never have, regardless of what else it says on this blog full of bald-faced lies.

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Nasty nurse

So, it's only been like 6 years since I updated this thing. Does anybody even read blogs anymore?

 Anyhoo, here we are 6 yrs later and I'm still in the ER. I moved across the country and had plans to find a nice sweet job to slide into retirement with. No such luck. The unions in the city I settled in make it hard to get into jobs here-unless you want to work in the bowels of the hospital. I got hired within days of getting here. Should have know what  I was in for. Forty years of nursing and I'm 3 hours into my first day on the floor with the nastiest nurse of all time. First words out of her mouth are what are you doing? Um, I'm logging in and signing up for my patients. NO! Don't you know the first thing an ER nurse does? She stocks her IV cart and cleans her rooms. Get to it. Off  I trot to stock my cart and when I come back she says did you do this, this and this? Um, no I just got done stocking. After rolling her eyes and sighing I'm thinking I'm going to leave and never come back at this point. There's more, much more on how she treated me. For no good reason.

 Here I am one year later in this country club of an ER. I held my head high and completely didn't feed into their bullying initation process that they put everybody through. Amazingly enough, this place has a bigger turnover than McDonald's. Why do nurses do this to each other? My old non- union hospital in a part of the country with no unions would have fired nasty nurse for her behavior. I didn't complain because I needed the job and needed to be there 6 months until my job was protected.

 To say this late in my careeer that is was one of the worse things to happen to me in nursing would be an understatement.  I would have thought this strong group of union nurses would support each other, be each other's cheerleader. Maybe it's just the dysfunction of this particular ER. Doesn't matter. I'm vested. I'll tell you though, she messes me with me I'm taking it through the channels, I'll make a formal complaint let HR deal with the union over her. I'm old, I can retire, and would make it my mission to see she doesn't do this to anybody ever again.
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