How to perturb your coworkers, inaugural edition

Yes, this list will get long I'm certain, but here are a few things to make people really contemplate revenge.

1. Don't want to come into work? Call in tired. As in, "I'm just too tired to come in."
 NOTE: this is not a nurse who worked a double, but a cough, cough, provider who can't handle an eight hour work day...or children...or life.

Why no one's called the EAP for said MD is beyond me.

2. Wait for someone to leave, become the charge nurse, then reassign all the patients to the nurse with the least seniority. Can you say a$$H0l3? Why? Because said charge nurse can. (Thank goodness he/she will NEVER be my boss!)


3. Just be a general smarta$$. Don't have time for that! 

Mental health

With an interdisciplinary team in rehab settings, patients get the full spectrum of assistance to accomplish their goals and achieve a better quality of life following illness or injury.

Nurses, however, don't always use similar, available resources. How many times has your hospital's Employee Assistance Program sent out cards with phone numbers on them and have folks discussed the benefits? Probably a few times.

I found this interesting article on www.nurse.com called "Nurses With Depression Need Peer Support." It addresses a lot of issues, particularly this fact:

"Some 9.6% of full-time healthcare practitioners between the ages of 18 and 64 suffered a major depressive episode in the year before an October 2007 report published by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration compared with 7% among all full-time workers."