TEXTING

[HILINE]

Does your center  allow employees to text while they are working? mine does but the management allows it

[HILINE]

Now texting is allowed at the nurses station only, due to a patient complaint

[cattlekid]

I would think that the staff should not be taking personal calls or texts at all while they are on shift, but that's just me.   

[willielt1]

Some of the Staff Text me during dialysis ... Keeps us all busy

[lmunchkin]

I personally love to txt, but not while driving or at work.

lmunch

[iketchum]

Having the staff text messaging while during working hours is very unprofessional. They should be concentrating on the patients, that is why they are there.

[Rerun]

I only have one Tech that TEXTS while working.  No one says anything.

[cassandra]

I have never seen any staff texting, or calling when outside the nurses station.

[sullidog]

Yep patients and staff are texting or on the phone all the time but I've never got lack of care because of it.

[RichardMEL]

Some of the Staff Text me during dialysis ... Keeps us all busy

love it! 

I only wish some of the cute staff had texed me when I was on D - sure would have made the sessions go quicker and with more fun, but my BP may have set off an alarm.... 

As for texting at work - I do it when I'm at my desk - I think most people do. I consider it only unprofessional when it gets in the way of whatever your job is - be it dialysis nurse, IT specialist(me), copper, train driver or whatever. Let's face it, most of us who work use the office phone or computer to do odds and ends - pay the odd bill, call someone up, maybe check personal email or hotmail etc. I think some study even found that a bit of this "downtime" during the day actually helps with staff productivity/morale.

Now there's obviously a real line there. Like I said above, if it gets in the way of your job - don't... but I'll tell you most of the time in my D unit the nurses did have time to themselves.. either everyone was on and stable, no alarms, paperwork done or whatever... writing a text or something.. that is no issue for me. Now if I'm waiting to go on or off the machine and someone's busy writing to their partner or checking the sports scores.. yeah, not so impressed.. but I never saw anything like that when I was on D. Everyone knew where the line was.

I'll tell you way more annoying was people spending an hour or more on the phone (this is patients!) talking SO LOUD we all could hear the intimite details of their lives... at least I watched my laptop shows with headphones and rarely made a phone call but did text.

I think with everything it should be about common sense and discretion.

[Hazmat35]

When I am at the center, I do Text and Email w/ my Smart Phone.  My boss considers me still working if I can responde to my emails while I am at the D-center.  And we use Texts back and forth as a quick response to a question between the sales staff and technicians. 

However, at the D-center, we have ONE Technician who is ALWAYS stopping what he/she is doing (don't want to be too obvious) to use his iPhone.  He is texting w/ his friends.   

And we have two or three, who in between checking patients, they stop and get on the internet and are doing "personal" things. 

OHHHHHHHH, they will sit there and tell you they are checking their work emails, or they are "ordering" supplies or filling out "paperwork", but when you sit right next to them and glance over at the screen and they are looking at "HOME SHOPPING NETWORK" or FOOD CHANNEL.com; then I think that patients are being ignored.  Espically when they are looking for something and the IGNORE the alarms on the machine.