[cre8tivRN]

When you hear your IV pump ringing just as you come on shift, and you go into the room, only to find it sucking air. When you go to put a new bag up, it still thought there was at least 200+cc left in the old bag.
Why do they do it? It doesnt take a rocket scientist to hang a new bag and punch in 1000 volume to be delivered!!!!!!!!

[misschelei]

Oh lets see I just got off work so this could be dangerous
Full sharps containers
No gloves in room
Overflowing garbage and linen receptacles
Unused tubing draped over the pole with uncapped ends
Nearly empty drips with no replacement on the way
Anything less than perfect waves on the monitor (unless there is a good reason of course)


And last but not least................IV locks that don't flush because the IV is no good especially when it is charted off neatly every two hours as intact.

[askater11]

Originally Posted by Jacquie RN

I hate seeing urinals on bedside tables!! There has got to be a better way. Would you want pee on your kitchen table? Of course not. But here we are picking full urinals up off the tables that are used for these patients for all thier meals, left over snacks and water glasses being pushed out of the way for a full bottle of pee!!! GROSS!!!

I'm with you on that one!!! Last time I worked my alert and oriented patient insisted his urinal stay on his side table. Yikes when I first walked into his room I saw his breakfast next to it was his urinal. I explained why I wanted to move his urinal but he insisted the urinal stay on the table.

The man was one of the nicest patients I've ever had but every time I entered the room....I'd see that urinal and cringe!!!!

I have pet peeves but too many to list!!!!

[rogramjet]

Coming out of shift report, and having the nurses from the previous shift just sitting at the nurses station, and one says, "The patient in 302 is wet and needs to be changed." IF THEY KNOW THE PATIENT IS WET, WHY ARE THEY SITTING AT THE NURSES STATION!!!!!!

[butterphlyrn]

My biggest pet peeve is not having gtt's to replace the ones that I have up and running. I work in an ICU and I just hate when I come on my shift and I have a dry levo gtt, epi gtt, ect.... and I have no replacement and my patient's vital signs are dependant on them. Everything else I can deal with myself.... I just hate not having replacement gtt and having to take the time to hound pharmacy for them or trying to get them out of our dispensing machine to mix them up.....

[botch92]

Yes I have a few of my own One is tube feed bottles not hung up when the nurse before me knows they are going to be empty soon secondly having all the tubing suction, vent tubing all wrapped around each other so if you go to suction someone all this rats mess comes too -- yikes--- & thirdly med cart a sticky mess & the final aggravation of my job babysitting the stnas to get there job done right --- I didnt realize I became a nurse to babysit a bunch of aides that dont care about the patients only want a paycheck... AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[Marie_LPN, RN]

The drama queen co-worker.

Despite what she thinks, i really could not care less just how long it's been since she "got some", that her boobs her during her period (didn't need to know about THAT either), or what a jerk her ex(?)-husband is, nevermind she let's him back in every time he scratches at the door. Yet she thinks people have an interest in her drama.

[BamaBound2bRN]

My biggest pet peeves:

1. Wife drinking the last of the milk then putting the empty jug back
in the fridge.
2. Wife using my razor.
3. My wife not answering to my girlfriends' name.
4. Dog drinking my last beer.

[super_rn]

[FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]--Tangled IV tubing, monitor cables, BP cuffs...
--When you start your shift and notice the waveforms are scratchy and go to discover the reason...Mr. Hairiest Chest in the World did not have his chest shaved to attach the electrodes so they are dangling and reading the rhythm of his chest hair.
--Wrinkled bed linens under patients.
--People that throw things away, yet miss the trash can and proceed to leave the garbage accumulate on the floor.
--Walking into a room to find 2 boxes of large gloves, 3 boxes of medium gloves, and a nice big EMPTY box of smalls.
--I will probably get flames from ED nurses, sorry Having patients in CHF come up to the floor from ED on primary tubing instead of PLUM tubing...I then have to take the tape off of the poor little old ladies tissue paper skin and change the tubing...
--Changing the linens under a patient to discover that there are poop streaks on the bottom sheet (under the draw sheet and pad) that has been "cleverly" disguised by a previous shift, hoping the patient would poop for me and I wouldn't notice that the streaks were dry and crusty.
--A big RED puffy hand/arm from an infiltrated IV that was "infusing without a problem 3 minutes ago"...yeah, ok.

And those are just a few!!!! [/font][/size] :hatparty:

[super_rn]

Whoa, that showed up huge. Sorry about that!