Thirty Five

Nurse Threepeat

Or as I think of him The ER equivalent of Foghorn Leghorn:

I call him Nurse Threepeat because he says everything three times, I say three times, three times I said. The man truly does not know when to shut up. I've pointed this out to fellow co-workers and we are all stunned at the similarities between Nurse Threepeat and Foghorn Leghorn.

Saying the exact same thing three times although quirky and borderline annoying is one thing being a hardheaded lout is another. Nurse 3P (threepeat) is never wrong there is no give and take with the man, you cannot get your point across even if you think it's right or even a teensy bit better because he never ever shuts up. You throw up your hand in frustration just to get away from him. The other thing is that the dude cannot make a decision. He is now a charge nurse and has been for awhile. This goes along with the long standing tradition at any hospital I have worked at. Which is to promote the incompetent. I gather from reading other posts that this is a standard practice at most any hospital in America.

Waiting for an assignment at the beginning of shift. Well fellow BCH co-workers we'll keep on a waiting. With the previous shift getting more and more upset cause hey they wanna go home and sleep. Nurse Leghorn is busy flirting with the Ukrainian nurse or the newly divorced European nurse. Trouble is that he's married and oh so is the Ukrainian nurse.  It's a regular "As the bowel churns" soap opera before shift at times.

Another frustration aspect of Nurse 3p (and there are quite a few) is his wanderlust. When he was a nurse who carried patients the man would wander all the time, shit he still does and he's a full time charge nurse now. Why you ask, well he is how he puts it "making time" he's chasing women. Now Crusty does not fault any guy for being a swordsman in fact I give a nod to such behavior thing is that well that whole married thing and he'll hit on anything with a heartbeat and a vagina. ladies whether you have a ring on your finger or not you will be an object of his poonhoundery.  Need a decision made on where to move a pt when he is in charge? Well try to do that and get chewed out if you make a decision in his absence. If you don't then get chewed out for NOT making a decision in his absence.

Nurse 3p is on rails when he's working if you do anything outside the lines (which often happens in an dynamic environment known as the BCH ED) color outside the lines and well, he gets his all flustered. Triage nurse order stroke labs on a Pt they are sending back with signs of a CVA? Not with 3P. As with all of us he gets his job done, often slowly agonizingly done. So the bowels churn.