ER Pet Peeves

Anyone who uses the phrase "get it checked out"

1. Press Ganey (goes without saying)
2. Drama Queens/Kings
3. EMTs who don't know how to start an IV and have fluids running through an infiltrated line.
4. Restarting IV sites on pts who came in via those EMTs
(they stuck me in the ambulance, why do I have to have another one?)
5. Mean Drunks
6. Mean redneck women who think getting mad and threatening us gets them what they want. Look, hon that may work with your husband or kids, it just gets you kicked out here.
7. Mean men who think because they're bigger than me they can intimidate me. Kiss my a&& now these really big male nurses will help you (out the door).
8. People who ask for tylenol and motrin scripts while they talk on their cell phone and replace the pack of cigarrettes in their Coach/Vera Bradley/Doone & Burke purse.
9. No foley kits/tegaderms/alcohol pads/etc in the room (or the next five).

Did you tell them that sure, the cute little agent from the DEA had a pocket full of them at the side entrance?? Not only that, he'd give you a free ride to great little "hotel", all free....

Careful with this one, fibromyalgia is very painful, sure, not fatal as this husband made out, but life limiting in some cases.

Also, when I go to the hospital, I tend to tell them where I want the IV these days after some "lovely" RN decided to put it in my wrist and I ended up with painful phlebitis for a couple of months.