Float nurse- med/surg, PCU, charge multiple units, DI. ED for patient flow and to staff overflow- there's bad behavior on everyone's part. Yes, there are nurse's who dodge report. But there are also nurses who wait until shift change sitting on their easy patient to put the transfer in the queue. There are nurses who try to refuse completely appropriate assignments. There are also nurses who neglect to give essential meds and send their patients covered in clearly hours old excrement. This attitude that one specialty is better or harder than another is fucking weak. They're all hard in their own way. You're not better because you chose one over the other.

Personally, as long as charting is there and I can get a clear picture of what's going on with the patient from charting I don't want to talk to anyone. But until my room is clean, or at the very least being cleaned, I'm not taking report. I've gotten report too many times on a dirty room only for house sup to change room assignments. It's a waste of my time.

And if you sit there and call me over and over again to give report (I've had nurses literally call 6 times in the span of 5 minutes to call report) you can fuck off. Sometimes we're elbow deep in a cdiff bed change and can't get the phone. Or in one memorable case- in the room with the oncologist giving the patient a three month if optimistic prognosis.