Annoying words/behaviours during report

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What annoys you the most when receiving report? For me is the: 'pt x, y or z had voided or had a BM for me! Really?? I am pretty sure pt x y and z did not void or had a bm for you or anyone else except themselves! It irks me to no end when I hear that! And I hear it almost every day! :***:

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Specializes in School Nurse.

Brace yourself, it won't end there.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

I'll bite:

Fluffy.

E.g. It's hard to keep baby on the monitor because the patient is fluffy.

Obese. The technical term is OBESE.

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Uh oh. Are those unicorns pooping under the rainbows?

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When the nurse I am reporting off to decides she would rather text on her phone! Unless it is an emergency situation, the texting can wait until AFTER I am finished giving important information about your residents! (I'm in LTC) Also, I have one particular CNA that is constantly wanting me to write behaviors in the behavior log book for things that ARE NOT BEHAVIORS! For instance, this CNA came to me the other day and said I needed to record a behavior for Mr.xyz, because when she went to toilet him he had an erection and apparently he laughed when she noticed it....okay, she entered his room in the middle of the night and he had an erection, so? These things happen! LOL. He probably laughed because it was embarrassing for him too! I asked, "did he ask you to touch it?" She said "no!" Okay then. If he didn't say or do anything inappropriate then an erection IS NOT A BEHAVIOR! We are going to run into this kinda thing in LTC, this is their home! Okay, vent over! LOL :)

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

LOL - these are great. I just love nursing euphemisms.

Staff nurses have been telling me that a consistently positive aspect of our adoption of Bedside Shift Report is the elimination of a lot of the extraneous 'nurse talk' They have to use plain language and focus on the important stuff. They are encouraged to involve the patient in any discussions of I & O, elimination, nutrition, pain management & mobility. Another benefit.... it has pretty much eliminated shift report bullying.... those mean old COBs can't interrogate and intimidate their victims in front of the patient.

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OK so I paid attention. It's not the older nurses who say that. It's the younger, off orientation nurses who report bms and voiding as "for them"!

Is that way of them trying to fit though???

What if I confront them????

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Everyone deficates for me. Everyone in the whole world!

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Specializes in mental health / psychiatic nursing.

Saying "Patient Y had a BM for me" is shorter and more colloquial speech than saying "During my shift patient Y passed a BM." It's lazy language, but I don't think it is worth making a big deal over. Common sense would mean everyone in the conversation realizes that the patient did not make especial effort to pass that BM just for that particular nurse or CNA.

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Saying "Patient Y had a BM for me" is shorter and more colloquial speech than saying "During my shift patient Y passed a BM." It's lazy language, but I don't think it is worth making a big deal over. Common sense would mean everyone in the conversation realizes that the patient did not make especial effort to pass that BM just for that particular nurse or CNA.

"Patient Y had a BM" is even shorter. "Patient Y had a BM on my shift" would be more specific.

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It's just short nurse talk. Why does it upset you so much? I'm not into watching out for dangling modifiers and subjunctive clauses while giving or getting report. As long as they're giving me the whole picture, I don't care about their English Composition abilities. Well...the verb tenses should be correct. :bookworm:

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