When I showed up for work last Saturday
evening, I already knew that one of my regular coworkers was taking the weekend
off. This was a very reliable guy whom I work with very well because we knew
each other’s work habits. Despite him being off, I knew I could rely on my
other coworker who even though a little lacking in initiative, can pull his
weight when asked to. To my disappointment, he had called in sick (or cancelled
himself – how does one do that?!). I didn’t even know whom I was going to work
with on the floor. A licensed vocational nurse (LVN) showed up shortly and she
was assigned to work with me. Well, she didn’t like that idea because she was
expecting to work in the medication room. Not even concealing her displeasure,
she asked the charge nurse right away if she could go home instead. That wasn’t
really an option so she made it plain that she didn’t really want to work in
the position assigned to her that night. You would think that what she was
going to ask next was what she had to do, but noooo. She asked when she can
take a break. Oh my goodness! All she had to do was check on her assigned
patients to make sure they were present, alive, and not having sex with each
other. On the other hand, I had to do that same job plus the rest of the night
shift paperwork, making new charts, doing vital signs, and charting, because
she didn’t know the routine and how to do them. I was quite content on doing
all of them, which I eventually finished in a slightly longer time than usual.
I was just very surprised and disappointed at the way she reacted when asked to
work on the floor as a mental health worker. She was still getting her LVN
salary after all. She also said she didn’t like that there were cameras all
over the place watching our every move (oh well, welcome to my world). We had to be very nice to her despite that
because we needed her. If not, she would have been reported to the supervisor
already for such terrible attitude. Some people just don’t appreciate having a
job and if she didn’t need it, why even bother to apply?
We were lucky somehow because we
didn’t have difficult-to-deal-with patients that night. I couldn’t say the same
for a certain LVN.
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