[sjb2005]

Orientation on days or evenings when you are hired for straight nights. I recently started a new position within the organization. I have been straight nights for many years and continuing on the same in my new position. Problem : I kept documenting my military time as if I were on nocs. 1300=0100. I had to redo lots of charts when I realized it.

Originally Posted by stevielynn

We use military time

So, 8:00 vs 2000.

steph

[christvs]

How about when you have had a crazy busy evening & it is nearly 30 min past the end of your shift but you stayed a bit longer anyhow to help tie up loose ends & you tell this to the nurse coming on, but she STILL says to you at 30 min past the end of your shift "Oh, so the doctor never called you back when you paged her? Well, can you stay here & follow up with that because I don't know the patient who asked you to call her doctor about her bladder fullness." ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Sure, I'll just stay all night long at the hospital even though I keep paging the one doctor who is covering all these surgical patients at this late hour. All the incoming nurse had to do was relay the message from my patient who wanted to have the doc come check her out! Geez! It turns out (I'm new, so I found out about this later) the nurses I work with think this doc is nasty, so no one is really eager to talk to her. Well, too bad! Nursing is a 24 hour job & I already stayed waaaaaaaaaaay past my shift helping out-so deal with it! Sorry I went off... It just ticks me off cuz it is not my fault my pt. is fine the whole shift & then at 10:55 PM she complains her bladder is full & can the doc check her out (she had nephrostomy tubes out in & they were draining fine-but she said she started to feel her bladder was still full or she had pain-she wasn;'t sure which, so could the doc please come see her) anyhow-at the VERY end of my shift my pt. complained of this, so I paged the doc twice while still finishing up other stuff & by the time I gave report it was so late & the incoming nurse is all *itchy! I just hate how another nurse knows how rough your night was & how hard you worked non-stop trying to get everything done & yet she (or he) still has this attitude with you like, well why wasn't THIS done? Augh!!!!

[nialloh]

When you page a Dr 2-3 times. You wait for 4-5 hours, and they call just when you go to the bathroom. They have then hung up when you get to the phone.

[DusktilDawn]

Originally Posted by shellyjellybelly

Orientation on days or evenings when you are hired for straight nights. I recently started a new position within the organization. I have been straight nights for many years and continuing on the same in my new position. Problem : I kept documenting my military time as if I were on nocs. 1300=0100. I had to redo lots of charts when I realized it.

I wasn't orientated on days for my present position. BIG MISTAKE as far as I'm concerned.

[student4ever]

Bedside commodes being placed in the dirty utility room and left - full of pee - gives off a nice smell after 8-12 hours!!

Patients who think it would be funny to go into the public restroom (where we keep the bedside commodes when not in use) and for sh*ts and giggles, take a sh*t in the bedside commode which happens to be sitting right next to the toilet. Then not tell anybody about it until the entire bathroom smells like something died, but laugh and bragg about it at the top of their lungs to all 5000 of their friends/family who thinks a trip to the emergency room equals a trip to six flags.

Mayo stands being left in patient rooms, not in their proper place, so when I need one because the doc says "oh, while I'm here, can you set up an LP tray, and we'll do a spinal tap real quick?" I have to run around looking in rooms until I find a stand to set the tray up and one for the Pt. to lean on...

Laundry bags overflowing because the nurses are all busy, I'm busy, ER is slammed and the other PCT is sitting on her azz in the lounge hoping no one will realize she's not doing anything.

No knot tied in the laundry bag, so that the minute you drop sheets in it, it falls right through - how long does it take to tie a knot anyways???? really... if that's too difficult, what the heck are you doing working in the ER???

Housekeepers who are SUPPOSED to clean monitors/cables NOT cleaning monitors/cables and having to scrub off dried crusty blood myself or leaving full bloody suction canisters in a pristine, sparkling room - the suction canisters are completely sealed, nothing can "escape" and are fully disposable. I don't care if you don't know where to get another one, at least throw away the used one!!!

Suture trays/cath trays/any type of sterile tray set up, not needed, and just "wrapped back up." You really think I'm going to use a sterile tray that I did not set up myself??? You've gotta be kidding me - how do I know the other PCTs truly kept it sterile? How do I know they didn't accidentally break sterility while wrapping it back up?? DUH!!!

Doctors who leave needles on their suture trays so I am always at risk for being poked when cleaning up.

Doctors who irrigate a wound ALL OVER THE ROOM!

Doctors who can't hit a biohazard trash can if it was the broadside of the barn... I have much more to do in a night than pick up bloody 4x4s all night.

Doctors who do a pelvic exam on any female who happens to mention that her belly hurts - even when she's pointing to the epigastric region.

LPNs who think that just because you're not quite finished with school for your RN means that you know nothing and they know everything. I know I'm not an RN yet - you don't have to tell me 20 times a day, or tell me I don't know anything because I'm not a nurse when I SAW you pull a med under the wrong patient's number. I DO know how the DIEBOLD works ya know!! I simply asked why the doctor was giving a 19 year old guy w/ a toothache lasix! Don't jump me and scream that I know nothing because you're a "REAL NURSE" and I'm just a student.

Patients/family members who throw EVERYTHING in a biohazard trash bag - when it's in a teeny tiny wastebasket sitting next to the GIANT regular trashcan.

Wow, maybe I've gone on a little too long... lots of pet peeves. I just don't know why people can't get things done efficiently - especially when they spend most of their time sitting on their azzes. Laziness and sloppiness get to me really bad.

[renerian]

Gum crackers make me nuts both in and out of the workplace.

renerian

[Marie_LPN, RN]

announces over PA that "Mrs. so and so, requires assistance!".

Sorry, that is a HUGE privacy violation that someone should have been reprimanded for.

[Marie_LPN, RN]

LPNs who think that just because you're not quite finished with school for your RN means that you know nothing and they know everything. I know I'm not an RN yet - you don't have to tell me 20 times a day, or tell me I don't know anything because I'm not a nurse when I SAW you pull a med under the wrong patient's number. I DO know how the DIEBOLD works ya know!! I simply asked why the doctor was giving a 19 year old guy w/ a toothache lasix! Don't jump me and scream that I know nothing because you're a "REAL NURSE" and I'm just a student.

That behavior is not excclusive to LPNs.

[chaosRN]

EMPTY IVF at the beginning of your shift. Especially when it's a med that you have to get from pharmacy and not on the cart, ex. Amiodarone. ("It'll be up on the next run" says pharmacy, when you bottle is BONE DRY!!!!!! )

I really hate that!!!!!

[Kitkat23]

My pet peeve is how certain people look down at me for being a CNA and working in LTC. They said that all I do is wipe peoples' asses and empty bedpans and it's a gross job. They don't look at it as being a caregiver and caring for people who can't care for themselves anymore. Somebody has to do it. I like my job and except for my few snotty friends, I'm appreciated by a lot of people mosty my residents and their families.

I'm thinking about nursing school and I'm taking the PCT program (Patient Care Technician) at the community college and the clinical will be at the hospital. I'm very excited, I needed at least 3 months experience as an aide in LTC. But I'm proud to be an aide. It's an honest and noble profession; the first step in the nursing field.