Dillon
Well-Known Member
I recently started a job working as a patient care assistant at my city’s hospital within the oncology and radiology department and one of the things I like about my job is getting to interact and meet with patients I come across with. I’ve had several conversations as I’m taking care of a patient such as during transporting a patient from one end of the hospital to the next on a favorite hobby, music or just talking about the day and that makes a day enjoyable for me.
When I’m meeting and talking with co-workers I find that to be a different story. I’m having to communicate with other doctors and nurses sometimes in a quick manner but how my brain works I need time to process the information for a bit. I had a coworker (patient transporter) get annoyed with me because I wasn’t understanding in due time of how to raise the side railing of the hospital bed while I was helping another nurse bring the patient from the stretcher and onto the hospital bed. “Hey don’t disconnect that cable from the wall” “you mean this one?, you told me to unplug it from the bed” turns out I unplugged the hospital tv remote instead of the hospital bed plug from the wall. Another occurrence in which you tell me something and apparently it’s wrong but in my mind I thought it was right until I think about it a for second and it was In fact a misstep I had did.
More often than not I find it a bit more comfortable talking to people who aren’t my coworkers as I’ve noticed at my job there’s more a direct, narrow minded, and passive type of communication but with patients it’s more relaxed and mellow. Then again I just started this job a little more than a week ago so it would be wrong still for me to judge completely but that’s just me personally. Anyone else feel they have a harder time communicating with groups of people than others? Co-workers vs a stranger outside of work?
When I’m meeting and talking with co-workers I find that to be a different story. I’m having to communicate with other doctors and nurses sometimes in a quick manner but how my brain works I need time to process the information for a bit. I had a coworker (patient transporter) get annoyed with me because I wasn’t understanding in due time of how to raise the side railing of the hospital bed while I was helping another nurse bring the patient from the stretcher and onto the hospital bed. “Hey don’t disconnect that cable from the wall” “you mean this one?, you told me to unplug it from the bed” turns out I unplugged the hospital tv remote instead of the hospital bed plug from the wall. Another occurrence in which you tell me something and apparently it’s wrong but in my mind I thought it was right until I think about it a for second and it was In fact a misstep I had did.
More often than not I find it a bit more comfortable talking to people who aren’t my coworkers as I’ve noticed at my job there’s more a direct, narrow minded, and passive type of communication but with patients it’s more relaxed and mellow. Then again I just started this job a little more than a week ago so it would be wrong still for me to judge completely but that’s just me personally. Anyone else feel they have a harder time communicating with groups of people than others? Co-workers vs a stranger outside of work?