It drives me nuts when....

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Finish that sentence. Could be clinical, could be every day annoyances.

I'll start. It drives me nuts when nurses pull the rings to open the binder/chart. It breaks them and then the rings stay partially open so paperwork falls out. That's why the little tabs to open them exist. With our binders, its one tab to pull to open them. Its more work pull the rings anyway! I guess it goes back to basics...if you have to force it, you're probably doing it wrong. Kind of like the nurses that force the gt extension until it doesn't lock because they force it to turn past the point it should.

Specializes in Tele, Cardiac Stepdown, (New) Peds PD.

I'm do have to eat at bedside. If only leave this patient for my two 1 1/2 min BR breaks per 12 hr shift.

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Specializes in Emergency room, Neurosurgery ICU.

Mom tries to tell us how a med works, when we nurses know what she is trying to explain )goes against everything we learned in pharmacology/anatomy/physiology

by the way, this thread has made me even happier to be a PDN, and much happier that I don't work for an agency! (oh, it makes my head hurt to even think of such things that agency management does to ya'll!)

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Specializes in nurseline,med surg, PD.

Yes. Like when mom tried to tell me that erythromycin is not an antibiotic. Scream.!

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
Yes. Like when mom tried to tell me that erythromycin is not an antibiotic. Scream.!

In her defense, when erythromycin is prescribed as a gastric motility agent by GI it's not considered an antibiotic in those low doses as it's strong enough to kick the gut in gear but minimal if any anti microbial action.

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Specializes in nurseline,med surg, PD.

It was in reference to eye ointment.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
It was in reference to eye ointment.

I like when they think prophylactic abx aren't really antibiotics

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Specializes in Emergency room, Neurosurgery ICU.

Mum seems to think we are (we being, the family and one day RN, one night RN, me) all going to go on "vacation" together next fall.... out of state....by car, as patient can't fly..... not realizing we 2 RNs will need to be licensed in every state we go in, or we can't legally provide care.....

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Specializes in Emergency room, Neurosurgery ICU.

oh, and it's for 7-10 days, did I tell ya'll that? (yea, like I'm working 7-10 12 hour night shifts in a row, uh-huh, yea, sure....

oh, and then she says, well you can sleep in the morning til about 2 and well wake you up to go do stuff (when I said, darn, I'll get to miss everything because I have to sleep during the day), and then you can take a nap before your shift... um no, I am older, I want 8 hours uninterrupted sleep now that my kids are all grown and moved out....no more 4 hours of sleep a day for this nurse!

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Specializes in Pediatric Private Duty; Camp Nursing.
Mum seems to think we are (we being, the family and one day RN, one night RN, me) all going to go on "vacation" together next fall.... out of state....by car, as patient can't fly..... not realizing we 2 RNs will need to be licensed in every state we go in, or we can't legally provide care.....

I think you can work out of state for short vacations. Check w your BON. And hey... if the family was paying for me, I'd go, no matter what crazy sleep I'd have to do. Free vacation!!!

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Agency expects me to keep a clear schedule and not accept work from other agencies even though client is in the hospital.

For example,client was in the hospital for 2 weeks. I called the agency Monday at 10am to confirm client was going to remain in the hospital. She was not coming home they tell me.

I took work elsewhere.

I get a call back at 3pm and they tell me she is coming home.

I told them i accepted work elsewhere and cannot come in.

The supervisor tells me that is considered a call out,apparently because i was still scheduled that night.

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Specializes in Emergency room, Neurosurgery ICU.
I think you can work out of state for short vacations. Check w your BON. And hey... if the family was paying for me, I'd go, no matter what crazy sleep I'd have to do. Free vacation!!!

oh, now she thinks we're going to Florida.... to Disney, oh yea how excited am I! (insert sarcasm here, puddling on the floor) at least I'll have to sleep through that, I hate crowds and have NO desire to go to Disney....even if it's a free "vacay...not a vacation if I'm working! (my ideal vacy is a cabin, in the woods, near a lake, with no one else around for at least 100 square miles!)

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Specializes in pediatric.

It also drives me nuts when...

the parent says, "let's go to the zoo!" two hours prior to my shift end. Really?? It takes at least 45 minutes to go portable with clt., 20+ minutes to drive/park, another 10 minutes to get pt. stable to actually got into the zoo, then the rigmarole of going back home. All of that and we went on the carousel and then left. Oh, and it was raining and windy to boot ^insert eye roll^

This has also happened with bath time (announcing it too close to end of shift). The last time I told clt.'s mom that I had to leave right at shift end, and actually took my charting into the bathroom and suctioned when necessary as I continued to chart (clt.'s mom in tub-dressed- with clt.). I have work to get done and the charting on the client is extensive, not to mention all of the chores that need to be done on my shift - I can't stand just sitting around watching them in the bath when there is so much to do, so I multi-task.

Ok, thanks for listening to me rant- I feel better now ;)

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