Please Start!

Nurses Professionalism

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Specializes in Gerontology.

Ok. A spin off from the Please Stop thread.

Please start: label the IV lines! I hate coming on and not knowing how long that IV line has been hanging.

Please start coming in on time! I am tired of staying late because you can't get your act together!

please start learning the computer system! We've been sunning this system for years, you have received the exact same training as everyone else, please figure out how to enter your own freaking orders cause I am tired of doing it for you!

Sounds like you need to hold a one on one meeting with the shift you are following!! My pet peeve would be for others to please re-stock items!!! When you take the last syringe, go get more, when you take items from the wound cart replace those items!! Everyone on all shifts can do this, leave things "ready" for the next shift. You like to have all the dressings, syringes, equipment on the ready so why not others???

Telling the CNA "there's no more ___________ on the cart/in the closet/in the room" when there's about 20 of 'em--you just have to open the cabinet to see them, look on the shelf or in the drawer of the cart. Where they have been for the last 100 years. The edge of the shelving is even labeled for ease of use...

Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

Please start calling the physician with patient issues when the patient complains if at all possible. Ignoring those complaints means we have to wake the physicians up at night (some of them) when the patients and their family members state in a less than polite tone "we asked for this hours ago, so call that doctor right now". Do like I do, hand the patients a pencil and a piece of paper so that they can write down those non-urgent things that they want and discuss it with the MD on rounds themselves if you're not going to do it for them. I do this because it is rare that I'm there when the doctor makes rounds. If the patient requests at sleeping pill at 3 am, I'm sorry. It's too late for one, so there is no need to call and get an order for a medication that won't be given for another 19-20 hours.

Another peeve of mine for the non-nurse readers out there in the void, why on earth (barring any medical complications) do you wait until I come on at seven o'clock at night to tell me that you haven't had a bowel movement in a whole week and you want a laxative tonight at bedtime? Is that you prefer to pay $30 for our stuff when you could have gotten your own at the local Dollar General for $3 and enjoyed the results with a newspaper and a can of Frebreze? Surely, the toilet paper is more forgiving at home that it is here. Who knows, if you had chosen to be at one with your bowels on a more regular basis, you wouldn't also be complaining about the rough sheets and the flat pillows.

Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

ooh, pet peeve thread! I love these. OK, here's mine. Please stop leaving the OTC bottle of tylenol on the cart with one tablet left. Who takes one tylenol anyway?

Specializes in Med Surg, Perinatal, Endoscopy, IVF Lab.

PLEASE start checking your hanging fluids before your shift ends. There is nothing worse then coming on shift only to hear beeping up and down the hall and lines running dry. Also, please restart your blown IV's before you give me your patient. What makes you think I have time to "get that IV" any more then you do? Rude.

Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Please let each other know how much you appreciate them helping you out.

Specializes in hospice.
Please let each other know how much you appreciate them helping you out.

Little things really can make a difference. My current workplace is so much more verbally positive than my previous one, and people are so strongly in the habit of thanking each other, that at first I was actually uncomfortable. I figured there must be some company kool aid somewhere. But even though I've gotten used to it, it still feels good to hear and has made me better about thanking people too. :)

Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.

- Please make sure the syringe driver has adequate supplies for over the weekend when our supply room is not open

- Please make sure you have the med charts up to date, even if it requires you to get it recharted for over the weekend.

Please address patient belongings... document them, and bag them/secure them/send them home as appropriate.

Very irritating when the patient's been in department for 15 hours, I've had them for 15 minutes, and *I'm* the one taking heat from the charge nurse about why they're not off the floor yet... them and their two suitcases full of stuff... which is *supposed* to be documented prior to transport.

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And please, night shift, have the courtesy to order the 0900 meds from the pharmacy so that I'm not late giving them...

Specializes in Orthopedic, LTC, STR, Med-Surg, Tele.

Please START calling the doc with abnormal labs! Let's not wait til the K or the H&H or Mg is CRITICAL before we place a call!!!

Specializes in EDUCATION;HOMECARE;MATERNAL-CHILD; PSYCH.

Please STOP complaining about how you are not enjoying your job anymore - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!:madface:

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