What do your coworkers do to annoy you?

[RNinICU]

Last night when I got report from the RN who was leaving, he told me the doc had ordered a stat med for one of my patients. After report, I checked the chart, and found the order timed for a half hour before the start of my shift. I bit my tongue, gave the med, and when I discarded the syringe, found the sharps container overflowing. This was just too much, so I caught the other nurse just as he was leaving, and gave him an earful about the sharps container. He responded that the aides are supposed to replace the containers. This was the final straw. Not only had he not given a stat med ordered on his shift, he had put me at risk for a needle stick, then used the "It's not my job" excuse. I let him have it with both barrels. After he left, I checked on my other patient, a GI bleed who was having frequent bloody stools. She wanted to be helped off the bed pan, but I had to make her wait while I went for gloves, because the box in the room was empty. :(

I was venting to some of the others on my shift, and we came up with a list of co workers' annoying habits.

Not emptying an overflowing garbage can.

Leaving packaging from meds all over the counter in the med room.

Starting the GoLytely prep an hour before the end of their shift.

Leaving the bags from discontinued IV meds hanging at the bedside.

Leaving a patient in a dirty gown after he has spilled food on himself.

Not giving pain meds on time.

Leaving a patient's room a mess.

Not making sure there are adequate supplies in the room so you don't have to run for everything you need.

Not doing mouth care.

Always coming 5 or 10 minutes late and delaying report while they pour coffee and "get organized."

Giggling and whispering in report.

Not answering call bells for any patient but their own.

I'm sure I could come up with many more if I thought about it some more.

[AmyRN1227]

My pet peeve would have to be other RNs who aren't willing to help out new nurses on the floor that are on orientation or who are "bothered" when you ask them a question about something. How do they expect to keep or get any new nurses if they have attitudes like that?

Amy

[jschut, BSN, RN]

1) Nurse who don't finish their work and pass it on to me to do after they take most of their day gabbing with each other.

2) Nurses who are backstabbers. Who take the blame for NOTHING, even when they are wrong.

3) CNA's that feel they don't have to help answer call lights because it's "not their patient".

4) Messy nurses desks, that I clean up every night after 1st shift leaves.

5) Nurse who spill liquid meds on the med carts and don't wipe it up.

6)Nurses and CNA's alike who talk about and make fun of patients.

7) Caregivers who talk about patients and their condition in front of them!

and the list goes on and on...but these are some of my biggest.

[redshiloh]

I really hate nurses who continue to complain about staffing even when it IS adequate. We have a group that has a gripe session QS, if they'd just hush and get to work it would'nt be so bad!

Another peeve I have is nurses who continually talk about 'when things were done right around here'

[Brita01]

Originally posted by Gator,SN

Today, one of them breathed and it was annoying.

:rotfl: I know the feeling

[udontwannabme]

I have only been an aid for 4 months. I don't really feel that I got great training. I really hate it when I forget something, and have to hear it from someone other than the person that took my spot on the next shift. Tell me so I can try to make an effort to be better. Don't tell everyone else so I can screw up for a couple extra days before I even know what I did wrong. I really strive to be good at what I do.

[udontwannabme]

I have only been an aid for 4 months. I don't really feel that I got great training. I really hate it when I forget something, and have to hear it from someone other than the person that took my spot on the next shift. Tell me so I can try to make an effort to be better. Don't tell everyone else so I can screw up for a couple extra days before I even know what I did wrong. I really strive to be good at what I do.

[BBFRN, BSN, PhD]

Welcome to the passive-agressive world of nursing.

[BBFRN, BSN, PhD]

Welcome to the passive-agressive world of nursing.

[mamabear]

Rude, incompetent, lazy, cowardly, racist, sexist, OCD buffoons who are kept on the job solely on the basis of their attendance record and their gender (well, he's a male presence...) :angryfire

[mamabear]

Rude, incompetent, lazy, cowardly, racist, sexist, OCD buffoons who are kept on the job solely on the basis of their attendance record and their gender (well, he's a male presence...) :angryfire

[gizzy76]

Just thought of another one.... people I work with who are NOT team players. Although there are standards of care for each resident in our LTC, there are a certain few who do not follow the "rules".

For example, when to change a dressing on a thick eschar covered heel ulcer and found that a piece of telfa half on the wound and the telfa was stuck to it. Also, there was drainage from an open incision by the pinky toe. I have worked with this resident off and on for 2 weeks and that sore on the side of her foot was almost healed. I dressed the wound properly with intrasite and jelonet and wrapped her foot up with Kling to keep it all in place. When I went to chart on it in the computer, I quickly looked back to see what had been charted on the day before. Sure enough, this LPN had charted that the dressing was done the "proper" way, but needless to say, I saw that it had not been done that way! This woman later on in the day proceeded to use a stand-lift on a 80 year old woman with poor weight bearing abilities instead of the slinglift that had been ordered.

When I approached her about the matter (seeing as I was in charge) this LPN began ranting and raving about how this little ol lady is just fine in the standlift and that she (the LPN) is continually treated like she has no brain and can't make sound decisions on her own. It was excuses for everything.

Also, to finish off, she enjoys telling everyone else what to do. She came into the report room as I was doing some charting and informed me that one of the residents had been loose and instructed me to hold the noon dose of Colace. I nodded and began to think of whether the resident got the colace in liquid or pill form so I would remember to remove it from her pills when this LPN goes "Colace is Docusate Sodium just so you know". I immediately looked toward the door and smiled and said "yes, I am fully aware of that thank you." She left then to rush off to tell someone else what needed to be done that day.

Man that chaps my hiney!

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[gizzy76]

Just thought of another one.... people I work with who are NOT team players. Although there are standards of care for each resident in our LTC, there are a certain few who do not follow the "rules".

For example, when to change a dressing on a thick eschar covered heel ulcer and found that a piece of telfa half on the wound and the telfa was stuck to it. Also, there was drainage from an open incision by the pinky toe. I have worked with this resident off and on for 2 weeks and that sore on the side of her foot was almost healed. I dressed the wound properly with intrasite and jelonet and wrapped her foot up with Kling to keep it all in place. When I went to chart on it in the computer, I quickly looked back to see what had been charted on the day before. Sure enough, this LPN had charted that the dressing was done the "proper" way, but needless to say, I saw that it had not been done that way! This woman later on in the day proceeded to use a stand-lift on a 80 year old woman with poor weight bearing abilities instead of the slinglift that had been ordered.

When I approached her about the matter (seeing as I was in charge) this LPN began ranting and raving about how this little ol lady is just fine in the standlift and that she (the LPN) is continually treated like she has no brain and can't make sound decisions on her own. It was excuses for everything.

Also, to finish off, she enjoys telling everyone else what to do. She came into the report room as I was doing some charting and informed me that one of the residents had been loose and instructed me to hold the noon dose of Colace. I nodded and began to think of whether the resident got the colace in liquid or pill form so I would remember to remove it from her pills when this LPN goes "Colace is Docusate Sodium just so you know". I immediately looked toward the door and smiled and said "yes, I am fully aware of that thank you." She left then to rush off to tell someone else what needed to be done that day.

Man that chaps my hiney!

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