BItchy Nurses
Nurses in my ED have a reputation for being notoriously bitchy. I remember being scared of them when I ran EMS. I wonder if it's because we get hit, chased, bitten and generally abused by out patients on a regular basis. Yes, we take it... most of the time, but we can dish it out and then some. I can play the charming southern girl, but can flip into Linda Blair from 'The Exorcist' at the drop of a hat. Now that I'm back in the ER full-time I have noticed that some people don't need an excuse to be bitchy. I am happy when I go into work...I blast the radio (sometimes the songs predict my night... 'Highway to Hell' does not bode well!), drink my Starbucks and generally smile about my cool job.
I work with nurses that come in hating life. They are bitchy, treat the patients poorly and generally bring gloom and doom. I work with one in particular... she yells a lot. If someone is sick as shit I get pretty quiet, I hum Buffett songs under my breath. There is enough going on without my little soprano drawl over the noise. This chick yells over whoever is talking, it doesn't matter who. I caught her screaming over the trauma attending the other morning. Some poor guy wrecked his car, was crumping for ems and came in the trauma room. I was the trauma back-up and essentially the critical care resource. She was screaming for drugs and pressors (not the rights ones!) and when we started the Levophed she didn't know the dose. Grrr.... she pisses me off.
When she and her buddies get together they are almost intolerable. To say that they are "badge Bunnies" would be an understatement. I get dirty looks when the police officers come in.... I think the cop's buddies know them well enough to ignore them. With the current economic situation I know that I need to stay in the ER and ride this out. Even if a flight job comes up I still need to watch out for myself. Flight programs are expensive to maintain and can be considered "expendable," especially when the hospital is overbudget already. Ugh.... sorry this is a boring post.... am back for 3 days on Thursday. We will see what happens.
I work with nurses that come in hating life. They are bitchy, treat the patients poorly and generally bring gloom and doom. I work with one in particular... she yells a lot. If someone is sick as shit I get pretty quiet, I hum Buffett songs under my breath. There is enough going on without my little soprano drawl over the noise. This chick yells over whoever is talking, it doesn't matter who. I caught her screaming over the trauma attending the other morning. Some poor guy wrecked his car, was crumping for ems and came in the trauma room. I was the trauma back-up and essentially the critical care resource. She was screaming for drugs and pressors (not the rights ones!) and when we started the Levophed she didn't know the dose. Grrr.... she pisses me off.
When she and her buddies get together they are almost intolerable. To say that they are "badge Bunnies" would be an understatement. I get dirty looks when the police officers come in.... I think the cop's buddies know them well enough to ignore them. With the current economic situation I know that I need to stay in the ER and ride this out. Even if a flight job comes up I still need to watch out for myself. Flight programs are expensive to maintain and can be considered "expendable," especially when the hospital is overbudget already. Ugh.... sorry this is a boring post.... am back for 3 days on Thursday. We will see what happens.
posted by jeepgirl at 05:46
4 Comments:
i work with girls like this now. and have in the past...what's up with this? i don't understand...i mean, i know sometimes it's rough in the ER but jeez!
i wish we could put a little ativan in their drinks, although i'm not sure if it would help. hehe.
I've worked with your girls too. They just make you look good. They're going to be bitchy and unhappy even if they're working at Disneyland as Snow White!
Jeez, the last thing you want to do is alienate the cops!
I work with some of these girls. Unfortunately one was hiding a very horrible home situation under all that bitch, scream and moan and attempted suicide on New Year's Eve...now it looks like she will be a veggie on a vent for the rest of whatever is left of her life. It makes me sad.
There are nurses like this where I work. They seem to feel like victims, always complaining about how mistreated and unappreciated they are, as if to explain and justify their bitchiness. I feel like telling them to grow up- most people are here during the toughest times of their lives, they are here fighting, sometimes for their lives, they are down, in a foreign environment, often "out of it" , and under enormous stress. They are not here to stroke our egos. These nurses are always feeling like victims, always angry, if somebody looks at them the wrong way they go off, they drag everybody down. I wish they would figure out that if you're pissed off and bitchy all the time, you are going to bring out the worst in people, even in the nicest people.
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