Have quite a few pet peeves myself:
1. Empty paper towel dispenser, that will still be empty the following night. Ditto on the soap dispensers and TP.
2. Beginning my shift with clean-up and bedchange, arrive at the linen hamper only to find no linen bag there.
3. The octopus known as IV tubing and electrical cords. Also having to contort yourself to reach the inaccessible plug, you'd think someone would have thought to put them at waist level in an easily accessible spot.
4. All of my patients never having water when I do my first med pass.
5. The stock room that is not stocked, me running high and low to find what I need.
6. Full urinals displayed prominently on every male patients overbed table and the CNA has just done a VS round.
7. Patient rooms that are dangerously small, in fact so small that it is a danger to both patients and staff, you cannot open the BR door without it hitting the FOB.
8. Patients arriving on the unit, no report, no notification.
9. Shoes sticking to the floor, your patient who has been there a week tells you they've never seen it washed.
10. Despite calling repeatedly for medication from pharmacy and still not getting it no sooner than 4hrs.
Essentially what it boils down to folks is lack of:
1. Professionalism
2. Pride in a job well done
3. Initiative
4. Basic common courtesy.
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