1. Never question why some coworkers are never busy, since you are jealous that they have learned a secret to survival.
2. Never question why some coworkers never get to work on time, since they do not feel that rules apply to them.
3. Do not get into an argument about the temperature control on your unit, since coworkers that complain of cold are not working hard enough to work up a sweat.
4. If a nurse spends extended periods of time sitting at her computer, you should ask her if you could shadow with her a day to learn the art of caring for a patient from the nurses station.
5. If a patient's bed alarm goes off several times and the nurse of that patient doesn't hear it, you may assume that she is losing her hearing and you should recommend a good audiologist.
6. If you are in the nurses station and some coworkers are speaking a different language, you MAY NOT assume that they are NOT talking about you.
7. If a coworker asks you to "cover" her patients so she can eat lunch and adds that they won't need anything, you can bet that she just told you a bare-faced lie.
8. If you think you saw your coworker walking down the hall talking to imaginary people, you might want to check under her wig for a blue tooth.
9. If a coworker jumps up suddenly from her computer work, you can bet that there is no patient emergency, but she is just answering her cell phone.
10. If you see a coworker in a staff meeting who is covering up her hands, you can bet that she is hiding her artificial nails.
11.If one of your coworker volunteers for every committee, you can bet that she just wants to get out of the house more.
12. If one of your coworkers calls you "Doctor so and so", you can be sure that she didn't mean it as a compliment and she should feel lucky that you didn't slap her across her sarcastic mouth.
13. If your coworker gets a tongue-lashing from the nurse manage and she thinks that you ratted on her, let her just think it. Maybe now, she will try to at least the minimum of her job description, which will be a definite improvement.
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Take a deep breath,put your best foot forward and smile.Stay focus on your mission,be a team player and all the foolishness will take care of it self.Don't even think about being a people pleaser,it will swallow you up.So you will hear often(she's a real bitch)or wonder who died and made he boss.All the while these conversations are taking place,guess who is doing their work.Treat these people as you do your own family,after all they are your family away from home.Smile so they can really put in the class with the crazy ones.The most rewarding way for me was to not get into a click with any.If Sally told you what Suzzie said you can beleive it she told Suzzie what you said or she thought you said.Sometimes we think we can figure out what's on a person mind by the expression on their face.Far from it,if only we would not be so quick to judge and try to fit every one and every thing into our little world we could all get along.The bottom line for me is do not go by the way a person look,or even what they say.Pay more attention to what they do and how they do it.Being Co-worker free for 2yrs.now have done wonders for me.
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