[dawnb70]

Nurse who don't restock supplies.....GRRRRRRRRR! I also hate clutter at my portion of the nurse's station, and it seems that people always use my part of the desk (I believe because it's the only clean part) and they don't put away charts or papers when they're done with them. Then there are the nurses who leave one line of blank nurse's notes or use the last line and don't put in a new blank page. Or someone uses the last copy of some form and doesn't make copies. I could go on and on. But then again maybe I'm just too particular.

[clee1]

Originally Posted by kriso

Patients who brag about how well "that lab girl" could get blood on the first stick and why can't we call her to start the IV?

It's funny that you say that.

I worked in a hospital as a vampire right after leaving the service, where I spent alot of time as a dustoff medic. This large regional hospital had an IV team. If the floor nurse couldn't get it, the "team" was called. If THEY couldn't get it, I was called. The last resort was a cutdown if I couldn't start the line.

[laura.lynn_rn]

My all time favorite is coding a pt and the primary nurse is nowhere to be found!

(happened WWAAAYYY too often at my last job.....one of the reasons it is my last job)

[pauwwa]

I have been watching this site for a while, and I really enjoy it. It is informative and lets me know I'm not alone. I work in a very fine hospital and have one particular pet peeve. I work on a tele unit with high acuity patients, and most are in CHF or have had strokes. We have a 3-11 PCA who does vitals and that's all. She won't tell you if your patient has a very high b/p (last night 215/110) or if a patient is wet, bleeding, dirty, has a critically high blood glucose level. She hides on the other side of the hall, in an empty patient room and talks on her cell phone about her dogs or her house, etc. Last night I had a patient in restraints who was wrestling with security and an admission at the same time, two call lights going off, and she went to lunch. She's union, so she goes at the same time every night, no matter what is happening. She bursts into tears at the suggestion that she might help out, and REFUSES to answer call lights. Because she is a union employee, we have to fill out a lenthy form with paper documentation to prove that we are having difficulty with her. I like her as a person, but as a PCA, she lacks industriousness. It makes everyone's job harder.

[thumperRN]

Originally Posted by sjb2005

What is your pet peeve? With everything a nurse has to deal with in a day, the one thing that gets on my nerves is someone who takes the garbage bag out of the can but doesn't replace the liner. It makes me psycho. How bizarre is that?

That happened to me ALL DAY yesterday!!!!! I was on the verge of murder if I found the culprit! Nothing like trying to change a pt's poopy brief, and not have a trash can liner in!! I also had to restart about a million IV's yesterday (everyone decided it was pull out your IV Friday) and never a liner!! You're not the only one who has issues with that.