Belly up to the Bar (aka The Post Whorin' Thread)

[Rangerscott]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIjKCJGr1OA

[Corey]

The next shitbag nurse who questions my lead placement on my EKG is getting a piss bag dumped on them. Your patient is sick and now you have to do actual work instead of staring at your fucking phone. If you don't like it, please quit your job and walk in front of an ambulance.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Corey

The next shitbag nurse who questions my lead placement on my EKG is getting a piss bag dumped on them. Your patient is sick and now you have to do actual work instead of staring at your fucking phone. If you don't like it, please quit your job and walk in front of an ambulance.

Nurses questioning lead placement. EKG is like a 4 letter word to soem of them and I think a few of our ekg techs would punch them if they said stuff like that. Our good techs love me though becasue I let them do cool stuff and teach them procedures. One wants to be a PA and 2 others are going into nursing so I always get them if I have something cool to do.

[Corey]

Originally Posted by tommymac

Nurses questioning lead placement. EKG is like a 4 letter word to soem of them and I think a few of our ekg techs would punch them if they said stuff like that. Our good techs love me though becasue I let them do cool stuff and teach them procedures. One wants to be a PA and 2 others are going into nursing so I always get them if I have something cool to do.

I know my shit backwards and forwards. My placement was spot on. The nurses are pissed because they now have to do actual work. One of the nurses tried to get a Doctor to chew my ass out on my "bad" lead placement. Doctor looked at the EKG and my leads and said it was spot on and exactly what he was expecting. Eat shit, lazy nurse.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Corey

I know my shit backwards and forwards. My placement was spot on. The nurses are pissed because they now have to do actual work. One of the nurses tried to get a Doctor to chew my ass out on my "bad" lead placement. Doctor looked at the EKG and my leads and said it was spot on and exactly what he was expecting. Eat shit, lazy nurse.

If theres a lot of artifact they may change up the lead placement a bit, and occasionally we can atribute findings to lead placement, but most of our guys know that and will sometimes do several ekg's till they get a good one and will tell us that. keep the nurses out of the equation all together.

[Corey]

Originally Posted by tommymac

If theres a lot of artifact they may change up the lead placement a bit, and occasionally we can atribute findings to lead placement, but most of our guys know that and will sometimes do several ekg's till they get a good one and will tell us that. keep the nurses out of the equation all together.

Artifact is for amateurs. I'm the EKG Kid.

[Rangerscott]

Its sad that people wont give a shit about work even when it deals with peoples health.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

Its sad that people wont give a shit about work even when it deals with peoples health.

it goes down the line, for a tech or transporter they dont care because theyre name/license isnt on the line. Nurses are in the middle sometimes, theyre kind liable but soemtimes just dont give a shit. Docs, PA's, NP's have to care because were the ones who can get sued if things go wrong.

[Corey]

Originally Posted by tommymac

it goes down the line, for a tech or transporter they dont care because theyre name/license isnt on the line. Nurses are in the middle sometimes, theyre kind liable but soemtimes just dont give a shit. Docs, PA's, NP's have to care because were the ones who can get sued if things go wrong.

Around here, it seems to be a game of "who can I dump my workload on". The nurses I deal with seem to think they're entitled to greatness because they were able to get a two year degree and they didn't like that they had to work while they were doing their clinicals. Why know a thing about EKGs when some underpaid EKG scrub like me can do it for them? Why clean their shit covered patient when they can call in a nurse tech? Why start a line when they can get one of the paramedics to do it. Why get vitals when they can get one of the students to do it for "practice". Why check on their patient when telemetry will call them if something bad happens. Besides, it's cutting into their DrawSomething and Facebook time, and they need to get down to the cafeteria to get some food before there is a line. Nurses aren't the only ones who do this, granted, but they sure act like the most entitled of the groups. I haven't taken the class that teaches that sense of entitlement, but then again, I'm not in the nursing program.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Corey

Around here, it seems to be a game of "who can I dump my workload on". The nurses I deal with seem to think they're entitled to greatness because they were able to get a two year degree and they didn't like that they had to work while they were doing their clinicals. Why know a thing about EKGs when some underpaid EKG scrub like me can do it for them? Why clean their shit covered patient when they can call in a nurse tech? Why start a line when they can get one of the paramedics to do it. Why get vitals when they can get one of the students to do it for "practice". Why check on their patient when telemetry will call them if something bad happens. Besides, it's cutting into their DrawSomething and Facebook time, and they need to get down to the cafeteria to get some food before there is a line. Nurses aren't the only ones who do this, granted, but they sure act like the most entitled of the groups. I haven't taken the class that teaches that sense of entitlement, but then again, I'm not in the nursing program.

We get that too. I have had nurses spend 20 minutes looking for a tech to do a fingerstick when they easily could have done it themselves. Then I will ask some of the techs to do something and say its not in my area. I tell them its in the ER so it IS part of your area. Our problem is there is no middle ground with our techs. We have a handful that are rockstars and will help me out with anything, even if its not in their area, then the others are hardly worth the oxygen they breathe. They see the others will work hard so that means they can slack off even more.

Our problem is its nursing management whos in charge of them. Most of our charge nurses are useless as managers and our nursing supervisor is even more useless. She tried to write me up fo rgiving an ortho resident some fiberglass to use on a PT across the street at the other hospital. So she triies this in front of her little circle of looser friends. So my response was if you need to do that to justify your existance or make yourself feel important then go for it. She didnt like me much before but that sealed the deal. But a lot of the techs and even nurses loved me for saying it since they hate her her too.