My gripe
out of work for two days with my sick dog, so my boss worked my shifts, with one of the youngins that graduated xray school less than a year ago. Shes become a control freak little miss know it all. Then if she does something wrong its “nobody told me..., im a newbie baby tech”
I go in at 3, shes at 3:30. Im in the middle of setting up for a trauma alert and she jumps in and scans. Whatever, go for it. She knows nothing about whats going on at this point since she literally just walked in. But she likes the glory of scanning a patient while the trauma team is in the room. They leave, and im going through her images (not checking on her, just one person scans and the other one checks pictures, like a buddy system).
Im like “hey girl, you got any more images for this chest (ct)“? she says no, why. So i said, well, normally you scan the WHOLE chest on a chest ct. Literally she cut off the whole bottom of the chest, didnt include all of the lungs. Any ct techs here will vouch for me...a ct chest goes down to the kidneys. “Nobody ever told me that” she says. Well, even if she didnt know, which she does, you at least know to get all of the lungs on a chest lol. Its nothing out of the norm, you learn it in school.
If she responded “ oh crap i didnt realize i cut it off”....it woulda been “we all screw up, let me call trauma and have them bring the patient back“... She takes no accountability.
She starts texting...phone rings, my boss wants to talk to me. I go up, she tells me that this kid says i am mean to her. Im like noooo....she doesnt like to hear the truth. All she talked about to my boss is how mean i am to her on my two days off. Im not mean, i am blunt. She doesnt want to hear it and argues that “nobody ever told her“ when she screws up. Boss is like, well maybe you could have explained to her why. ??? Why what? Why you need to include the whole chest on a chest ct?
She doesnt transport patients because we have a transporter. Last week i told her that thats why she and the other (child) get backed up. The ER nurses call them bobble heads lol. Its not just me. No work ethic. Complain that we are getting killed, but never leave the room to do anything about it, unless its to fill their gallon container of water because of some new cleanse they are on.
My boss is already aware of this, i mean ACUTELY aware of it, and not from me. She just wants me to soften my voice when i speak to this kid. “Shes delicate”. Sorry, i dont walk on eggshells around someone who doesnt want to learn.
I have trained so many newbies out of school that have gone on to be great techs and supervisors. I have letters from new techs thanking me for training them.
So i went back down from my bosses office and took back and threw away the Red Velvet cake that i just bought her from the coffee shop, before i got called in the office lol. Now THAT was being mean. Hope she learned the difference.
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