What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

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Nurses that are brilliant but do not know the difference between contraindication and contradiction! :rotfl:

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Specializes in Hospice.
originally posted by ns_rn

full code patients who are terminally ill , have end stage disease or are over the age of 80!

i dont understand why this would peeve you. patients have the right to chose what procedures they do or do not want done. by the way - you have just offended a lot of people that have family members or friends who have a terminal illness and are elderly and want a code. i am sorry but your statement was ignorant and it would be a nurse with your kind of attitude that i would never want to have. sorry if this flames anyone - but honestly it is the truth someones choice of life or death should not peeve other people - especially when it is not your life or your loved ones life. :angryfire it doesnt matter if you feel the person is suffering or if you feel sorry for the person - it is not your choice and being annoyed by their decision to chose life is sick!

my pet peeve is fellow nurses who can't tell the difference between venting and behavior at the bedside.

so ... tell me ... where is the magic button where i turn my feelings into something you approve of?

Specializes in Telemetry.

When more experienced nurses eat their young-you were young once too. Teach me so that I'll become as good a nurse as you. It doesn't help to be grumpy...

Specializes in pedi.
Family members, first and foremost.

Rude ones, demanding ones, those who are in the medical field and are arrogant and demanding to you as a nurse, those who treat you like a servant, those who explode and take everything out on YOU because you are simply on the front line for 12 hrs straight, taking it for the doctor, the dietary people, the testing labs, everything. Those who think it is either their "duty" as the family "leader" to manage everything going on in the room and/or to come up with 50 silly questions everytime your'e in the Room, monopolozing your time and taking away from the care that goes on OUTSIDE of the room -- geez -- don't you people get it -- if you keep me standing here talking, I can't read the chart, can't find the answers, won't get the doc here -- I mean -- LET ME GO!

Families.

The patients I can excuse. They are sick. -My co-workers are also overworked like me, and so are the doctors -- I can excuse all of them. But I can't excuse a family member who has nothing to do but SIT there in the room and make work and life miserable for everyone. I wish they'd be banned from everywhere but at the bedside of the most critical patients, to be very honest.

I have to absolutely disagree with you here. As a mother of a child who passed away at 19 months, I know what it is like to be the advocate for my child. Did some of the nurses get mad at me when I said "no more blood draws unless you get someone from the IV team..."? Sure they did...but I didn't care. AI had to be there for my child, to speak for him...if being rude to a nurse to get her/him to listen to me stopped my son from having just one more minute of pain in his life, then it was worth it. I also had questions a lot for the nurses and doctors...DUH...I wanted to know what was going on with my baby boy...why they were doing what they did...what the side effects were...what it felt like...everything...that way when I took him home to care for him myself I would know everything. A mother is a child's #1 nurse, I knew my child better that any doctor, nurse, surgeon, better than anyone. I knew what was wrong with him, what they should look for, what they should do to make it better, etc. I am going to nursing school now to work at Children's Hospital, and I will know from my experience that I should listen to the parents whenever possible. I will be sympathetic as well as empathetic, and I feel those are the best kinds of nurses...

My pet peeve is fellow nurses who can't tell the difference between venting and behavior at the bedside.

So ... tell me ... where is the magic button where I turn my feelings into something you approve of?

I am sorry but do you mean to tell me that you find it acceptable to vent about someone making the decision to chose life? Those are the feelings that most people keep to themselves. And not only that how does my post have anything to do with venting vs behavior. I am complaining about the vent - I would pray that no nurse would actually put some kind of behavior like this at the bedside- but I have learned the hard way that some do tend to take life into their own hands- but that is neither what this post is about or what the other poster was talking about. Simply put - a patient has a right to want to live and if that makes you FEEL like they are making a bad decision or annoys you then I just dont understand.

Specializes in MS, OB, PEDI, VNA, TELEM.
When more experienced nurses eat their young-you were young once too. Teach me so that I'll become as good a nurse as you. It doesn't help to be grumpy...
I think we were all eaten alive once-I sure was--make sure you never do....:heartbeat
Specializes in Hospice.
I am sorry but do you mean to tell me that you find it acceptable to vent about someone making the decision to chose life? Those are the feelings that most people keep to themselves. And not only that how does my post have anything to do with venting vs behavior. I am complaining about the vent - I would pray that no nurse would actually put some kind of behavior like this at the bedside- but I have learned the hard way that some do tend to take life into their own hands- but that is neither what this post is about or what the other poster was talking about. Simply put - a patient has a right to want to live and if that makes you FEEL like they are making a bad decision or annoys you then I just dont understand.

So where is the magic button I push to change my responses to something you approve of?

so where is the magic button i push to change my responses to something you approve of?

lol. i never expected to change your opinion. just wanted to vent my own feelings on the matter. my feelings wont change just like yours wont.

by the way,

i am not sure where that magic button went maybe it is hidden under your bed? but i see you found your sarcasm button quite nicely. :bow:

since i seriously doubt this is the correct thread to have this conversation, feel free to send me a message. otherwise, it was nice arguing with you, gave me something to do beside change diapers. lol. hugs to you! :tinkbll:

Specializes in Hospice.

Always happy to oblige ... is there anything else I can do for you? I have the time...:nurse:

LOL, I hate the "It's not my patient" or a nurse who finds a wet or poopy patient & spends 15 minutes looking for the CNA who is busting a** taking care of 10 other patients, to go clean up that wet/poopy pt.

Edited to add:::: How on earth could I forget how much it truly pi**es me off, when we find a diabetic patient has not even been OFFERED their HS snack. . .even worse, when the next shift comes in & finds the HS snack, all snuggled under the blanket with same pt?!?!? UNREAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AGREED!! Even though I'm a CNA and not a nurse, any good nursing staff should know what diabetes is and what it does to a person.

Had a patient not three weeks ago who was clammy, pale, shaky, acting confused, c/o nausea... went and got the nurse, he had a BS of 43... Where was his HS snack? Sitting at the desk- because HE didn't come up to the desk to get it, the CNA said she figured he didn't want it!! *facepalm*

As for the looking for the CNA for 15 minutes... at least the nurse finds the patient wet and poopy- ours mostly walk right by the call light, look for us for 15 minutes, yell at us, only to find that the stupid light was someone requesting their PRN meds, meaning they needed the nurse anyway!!!... that's my biggest pet peeve.

"It's not my patient" bothers me- especially when the aide sits there on her butt while the person who has the patient in question is busting theirs!

sooooo, i'm a nurse tech...one of my biggest gripes is when you're running around like your head is cut off busting your a** and nurses who are sitting at the nurse's station doing absolutely nothing come up to me and say, "oh hey can you get so-and-so's blood pressure?" it really makes me mad when it's not even a patient that i have. i just want to tell them, "you have a stethoscope, there is a manual bp cuff in the room. it doesn't take long and manuals are more accurate anyway. get off your lazy bum and do it yourself because you are more than capable."

nurses who dump all of their work on the techs...if it can be delegated to us, they want us to do it.

there is also a time where i was helping some nurses and other techs help clean up a bariatric patient...there were 8 of us in the room: 3 techs + 1 rn on one side and then me and 3 rn's on the other. the backside gets turned to my side and this patient had a massive bm and normally poo doesn't bother me, but this wanted to make me vomit. one of the rn's looked at the mess, stopped for a moment, and said, "...i'm going to wash her back!" just because you're an rn doesn't automatically 'excuse you' from cleaning up poop.

dealing with these nurses makes me hope that i never become a nurse like them. i hate nurses who take advantage of their techs.

/rant

Specializes in ER.

Nurses that think just because they have a BSN they are better (they all take the NCLEX, adn or bsn)

Old nurses that will not retire

Nurses that are "too good" to clean a butt

Nurses that gossip about everyone while they sit there and just get fatter like the majority of them are

Specializes in A myriad of specialties.
nurses that think just because they have a bsn they are better (they all take the nclex, adn or bsn)

old nurses that will not retire

nurses that are "too good" to clean a butt

nurses that gossip about everyone while they sit there and just get fatter like the majority of them are

i agree with some of this. however, the part about "old nurses that will not retire" puzzles me. perhaps those "old nurses" must work due to: 1) being widows, 2) receiving insufficient social security, or 3) the present economy forces them to continue work.

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