What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

dizzejan · Aug 7, 2005

a biggie with me is you can't do such and such a treatment on that wound...that will cost x amt of money...that came from the administrator.grr!!

another is i'm a nurse...i know what my brother needs....yeah right.....might be why ya keep bringing him in high sodium foods and cans of soda tuesday on your monthly visit and..mercy he's in chf on friday after eating it all..even though you have been "educated" every visit why brother cannot have them..gooo sister nurse :angryfire

ooh and ..the nurse that has concert tickets for friday ...and shocker...my big butt is mandated on saturday when she is toooo ill to report for her shift... :angryfire

dizzejan · Aug 7, 2005

calling the don to inform her that the entire shift has called off..only to be told to mandate your entire shift, only problem is that that shift was already mandated from the previous one!!(don't work there anymore..btw)

ValerieB · Aug 7, 2005

I can assure 100% that those "loving doctors and nurses that helped" your mom, often griped to other nurses about pet peeves, families, patients and co-workers. If you knew as much as you claim to know about pysch, you'd know it's basically a form of group therapy, where people can share and vent without having to explain that they do like their job, it just makes them crazy sometimes; it is what makes us able to answer that call light for the 50th time in one hour and be a "loving" nurse. It keeps us sane. I don't think that any nurse posting here has said "I hate and despise helping people". You are just too far up on your self-righteous horse to see clearly. Nurses are humans, not saints, who do a pyschologically and physically demanding job. You seem to think that you are a saint and will continue to be one....

Amen to that! Spoken like a "real nurse". OMG, it's amazing that we nurses actually are "real people". :rotfl:

spidermonkey · Aug 7, 2005

We have had several family members get rather pushy b/c "I'm a nurse & I know....." More often than not they're in an entirely different speciality- we do try to accomodate them so they feel part of the care, but it's a little different taking care of your patient on a vent & seeing your loved one in the same condition. I have had peds nurses (turns out she was an office nurse) turn off her child's IV b/c there was a "bubble" in the line, another family member/nurse take the oxygen off-- another "nurse" touching the monitors-- sometimes these family members are more of a hinderance!! And I can't even tell you the number that ask if they can watch surgeries "because I'm in tech school..." (or nursing school, or CNA school, MA school--whatever!) I make it a point to NOT let them know I'm a nurse when w/a family member receiving treatment. You can't be objective when you're emotionally involved w/a person.

nickola · Aug 7, 2005

Patients that always assume the male RNs are doctors simply b/c they're males!! "The doctor told me....." HE'S A NURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pink2blue1 · Aug 7, 2005

Strangers that find out you are a nurse and start asking medical questions AND expecting answers!

Ok Not a Nurse yet, I'm a CNA and nursing student, but even when they find out I am a CNA, they ask me medical questions. All my friends do this and that bugs me to no end, because for one I am not qualified yet! LOL.

Just had to pop my 2 cents in

Shannon

pm nurse · Aug 8, 2005

Nurses who do not rinse out their suction catheters after suctioning someone and lets it build up in the tubing and those who do not pick up their rooms.

I agree with you, nothing worse than finding the yankauer in bed with the pt, no sterile cover, nothing! And yeah, I often wonder what some of these nurses houses must look like? I wonder would it kill them to empty the trash and linens, like I do before I leave shift>?

casi, ASN, RN · Aug 8, 2005

This is from the CNA/HHA perspective

Families bringing mom or dad back from the hospital between the hours of 12am-5am. Such a cranky bunch of people. I've had one family member yell at me because I sent his mom to the hospital in her night gown. I smiled and really didn't know what I could say outloud that would sound nice. On the inside I was thinking yeah, paramedics would have loved that one.... Hold on a second, let me get her dressed first.... If she stops breathing... opps.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Aug 8, 2005

Omg-I don't really have many pet peeves yet, but I realy, really hate, in general, the belief that some women have that just because I am a woman too, I want to hear ALL about their PMS, their period, and their sex life! Unless you having an uncontrolled haemorrhage and need emergency help, I don't want to know, nor do I care! We are not all "sisters" because we are women; I have three sisters, I don't need anymore! sorry to rant, but when I worked OB ( Iwas a Tech)this was often a "main topic" (time to go stock the rooms)

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kadokin, ASN, RN · Aug 9, 2005

nurses who tell me they are not "into" bedpans and that sort of nursing(usually green or students). I have to laugh behind my hand and think to myself, "well then why didn't you go to law school or some such, it's part of the job, duh" And, by the way, I don't believe I have ever met anyone who was actually "into" bedpans and every thing that goes w/it. If I did meet someone like that, I'd run the other way.

kadokin, ASN, RN · Aug 9, 2005

I kind of laugh and get a lil bit irritated when people say "sugar diabetes", instead of, just 'diabetes". Why do they feel the need to say sugar?

because there is another type of diabetes, it's called diabetes insipidus.

kadokin, ASN, RN · Aug 9, 2005

Ah, I see you've been learning medical talk.
All those terms are still in use, albeit a tad archaic, and all are correct.

I learned it > 10 yrs ago in school and have yet to see any of it in text form and don't work w/too many people now who use them. I really don't see how they could be correct. What dictionary are they in?