Does Anyone Else Try to Know Everyone in the Hospital? 😅
I know it’s not a bad thing, but I definitely feel like the outlier here. I work in a hospital so we go all over the place and eventually when you’re having to ask nurses to pause IV or see about adjusting the time on a lab, you get to know people.
I guess I’m just wondering if anyone else is like this? I work in Idaho, so patients and nurses alike love the personalization and how I’m always trying to memorize people’s names. But I feel like I’m the only phlebotomist who tries to do this! All of my coworkers definitely know a few of the nurses, but I’m always stopping to thank EVS workers or CNAs.
I know it’s not a bad thing to be personal with people, but does anyone else do this? I mean, I literally made fudge for the mother/baby unit today lol. Idk, maybe it has something to do with the set up and how every hospital is different, too but why don’t we maybe try to learn people’s names more? Making friends with the nurses is never a bad thing.
So if you’re a super friendly phlebotomist as well, please drop a comment!!