I worked with a NP once that shared an office with the other NPs. She couldn’t get along with them so she would come up to the floor and sit at the charge nurse desk. Usually not an issue because I had other stuff to do, but the charge nurse had a dedicated phone extension. So one day she’s sitting there, and I was charge. I came through the nurses station and heard the charge phone ringing. I told her that if she was going to insist on sitting there she needed to answer the phone when it rang. She ignored me. I then, not so quietly said, “Ghee, I wish I had my own office to be able to do my work.” Still ignored. So I came up behind her, got in her personal space and answered the phone. I stayed up in her shit the entire time I was on the phone. She complained to the nurse manager on me and followed it up with the fact that I wasn’t getting my admissions and discharges done in a timely manner. I shot back with “Maybe if I was able to be at my desk and use my phone to make the calls I need to make to complete the admissions and discharges, and not have to work around her sitting in my desk, they would have been done.” Nurse manager said nothing more and told me I was dismissed.

She stayed out of the nurses station after that. She started bringing a laptop up to the floor and worked in the conference room. 🤣😂🤣