It was a busy night for me, as usual, but I was able handle the shift smoothly until the incoming staff nurse begun intoxicating me with her demands to endorse my other patient to her. This is what she normally does, makes sure that the endorsement gets done early so she could start or end her shift ahead of the others. It was okay if I was not busy but the thing is, I was attending to two patients when she started asking about the patient that I was supposed to dowload to her. It was really irritating. There was also this other orientee who waits for me to get done so she could endorse all her two patients to me. She was quiet though because we had an agreement that she we let me know if she’s already ready for the endorsement.
So when I was done attending to my patients, I sat down and asked who between them will I attend to, then she snapped at me. Begun with her lithany of me being arrogant. All the three nurses there were shocked. And as the orientee and I started with our endorsement, I tried to assure the orientee that everything will be okay and we giggled. This made the mad nurse furious as she thought we were laughing at her.
I have heard that she had issues with other staff nurses because of her attitude.
I still kept my silence. I wanted to snap back but then again, a mature person would not do that. Instead, I turned the other cheek. She will get transferred to another ward anyway. I cried though in the morning when I got the thing off my chest with my batchmate during our post duty breakfast.
I was thinking if I will let it slide or bring it up to our headnurse.