while I find her annoying, I don’t believe I show it: I greet with a simple hi and proceed to do my job. I don’t look angry or exasperated at her, if you mean that. I don’t leave the coffee room when we do our pause and she enters the room. I simply don’t engage with her, but answer her questions politely.

Try talking to her - say you think she is a competent and friendly coworker. Say it might sound silly and weird but you find it hard and stressful to pull your head out of work to greet people, and say you hope she will understand you mean no ill if you sometimes grunt and nod.

Have you ever done this with a coworker? I don’t understand why I have to give validation to somebody who is, simply, a coworker, not a friend. I’m not a therapist.

I wouldn’t even know how to approach it. I would find it creepy.

I thought you always give patients medication on time and watch them take it.

if this is true in most hospitals I work in a strange one

how many years in nursing?

you are misguided. Take a minute to calm down, breathe in deeply, exhale. Stop reading this and do it.

Now that you are hopefully calmed down, if you care to read my post you’ll read the words A&OX4. Do a quick search to find out what those words mean.

it is the patient who is playing with his life, not me.

ETA: do you enjoy being treated like an incompetent child when you enter a hospital or like a competent adult capable of deciding what care he wants? If the former is true, I can understand why you get angry.

your answer makes sense. This is something nobody taught me in nursing school.

HCA atlanta,

you are welcomed not to come

Now, whether they’re going to take into account how much cumulative time/work that adds to the nurses and then staff accordingly is another story… (Hint: they won’t)

nope they wont

Id ask you to stop assuming

and what strategies we’re using.

please do share some of those strategies with me. The patient is not geriatric, but in his 40s. What works for you?

if this is not an autonomy issue, please explain how would you force an AOX4 patient to take the blood thinners without the nurse losing his job.

what could you possibly do with a cup full of blood thinners?

thank you

if my job consists on engaging on staring contest with patients who passively refuse their medication the calculus changes considerably and I need any other job. Where do you find the time to do your job AND to engage on strange games like this?

How long have you worked in nursing?

What an odd question.

how come?

why thanks…?

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