Ask Amy: Parents’ many thank-you notes are a burden
I know she has allergies, as well as asthma.
She forces her belches, never covers her mouth, and coughs phlegm into a tissue without washing her hands.
We are nurses and her patients hear her. She also does this while treating patients in their rooms.
Her sounds have become so intolerable that I try to avoid working with her.
I have told her I could hear her in patient rooms when she was at the nurse’s desk or in the hallway, but she just laughs and says, “Sorry.”
I have talked with my supervisor, and I know she has discussed it, but it continues.
What can I do?
– Annoyed
Dear Annoyed: You may be annoyed but, speaking as a potential patient – I am horrified.
Yes, the sounds your coworker makes are annoying for you and others. And yet I was trapped by this phrase: “coughs phlegm into a tissue without washing her hands.”
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