We are all supposed to love our jobs and most of us do! But we are all supposed to over look just danged annoying behaviors.
My pet peeve, I do not care for drama patients. You walk out in the hall and they are laughing and having fun with a visitor, they take one look at YOU looking at them and they are hanging on to the walls to help them walk and moaning in pain. I sometimes think my mere presence causes them harm... ;o)
Me: "Great! Your temp is normal!" Patient: "Oh, if it is normal I am SICK! My usual is 72(F).
Me: "Great! Your b/p is 120/70!" Patient: "Oh, if it is normal I am SICK! My usual is 50/10."
This happened all the time back when I was an aide in school.
Pts can call dietary and order what they want for meals, or they will send them a house tray. When they call down to order, they are usually placed on hold for a period.
So I would come in
pt: dietary isn't answering,
me: sometimes there is a hold and you just have to wait for a little while.
pt: well can you call down for me?
me: I cant jump the line, they would just put me on hold too
pt: well can you wait on hold for me?
me: *thinking in my head* what are you doing in the hospital that you are soooo busy, you cant wait on hold?
Not a big deal at all, but as a floor nurse I always got irrationally annoyed when I would go to do an A&O, mobile patient's BP, tell them this was what I was going to do as I opened the cuff, and they would just sit there looking at me, instead of raising their arm, requiring me to lift it like dead weight. Is it so hard to lift your arm??? Baffling.
When they throw things, like their water, their call bell, etc.
When their own nurse tells them they aren't due for meds, so they ask another nurse or aide to get it. Like do they think this other staff member will give it to them??
And yes, the vitals... When I tell them all their vitals are good, "BP is 130/72, temp is 98.8, heart rate is 70, Resp 17..." Then they agrue that those vitals are all too high, and ask me to do them again.
elijahvegas, ASN, RN, EMT-P
508 Posts
My biggest pet peeve is when patients come into the hospital and get admitted.
Really gets in the way of my candy crushing