At work there are carts on each floor where nurses and CNAs put dirty trays from patients after they are done eating their meals. The cart for the fourth floor, which is the general medical floor, has a sign on it asking those who put the trays in it to please take all straws, spoons, etc. sticking up out of cups or whatever and lay them flat on the trays, because they can snag on trays above them and when removing them can cause spills on whoever happens to be the dishwasher that night, or just all over the floor in general (that happens almost every time I'm the dishwasher).
Tonight I was the dishwasher, and some RN or CNA had written between tonight and the last time I worked that shift, "I will try to do so in between saving lives.
" Keep in mind this is a general medical floor (in a hospital that only has five designations for patients: medical, surgical, OB, I/PCU, and ER) with at max 5-8 patients on it a time with 3-5 nurses working, at a hospital with 65 beds in which there are NO patients in life-threatening situations. They are air-lifted to a hospital about 45 mins away because this one doesn't have the equipment necessary to sustain them.
The nurses on this particular floor are typically just sitting around with nothing to do because that floor always has barely any patients on it, and the ones that are there don't need to be checked up on more often than the standard once an hour unless they call, and even then it's pretty much never
necessary, just protocol and good for customer service.
Anyway.... All that to say, I'd never seen a more condescending passive-aggressive note in person before that. I'd love to go off on whoever wrote it. The people who work in the kitchen and those in housekeeping are absolutely the hardest-working in the hospital. Regardless of how busy it is, there's still the same amount of work to do. The same can't be said for nurses and CNAs working on a general medical floor. Whoever wrote it isn't doing anything to save anyone's life, not on that floor. MAYBE that would be true in the ICU. MAYBE. The only code blues that are ever called are for incoming patients en route to the ER because all the patients that would be in the position to code aren't admitted here.
Completely condescending and disrespectful to my coworkers who work their asses off full-time for ~$8 an hour with no benefits.
ETA: I guess I should add a good example of how hard everyone in the kitchen works. When I work the 6:00-2:30 shift, I can never take lunch until at least 11:00. I'm supposed to take it at 10:30. I don't have time to even go to the bathroom or sit down at all until at least 11:00. Most of my shift, I am without exaggeration jogging. This is a near-daily occurrence for most of my coworkers. This would be normal for nurses as well in a lot of hospitals, but it absolutely isn't here!
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