BE HONEST! What part of your job do you hate?

[Cheers_G]

Hi All,

I'm in a nursing school and some of the stuff we see during clinicals gross me out! I AM getting used to most of it BUT, do you have any tips on how to take it easy?

Thanks!

[HazelLPN, LPN]

I hate it when corporate greed takes priority over quality nursing care.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

The part of my job I hate the most is:

The last thirty minutes of a private duty must-staff case, on a snowy day.

I just chew out the insides of my cheeks while praying that my relief show up and I don't get stuck doing a 24 hour shift.

Oh, yeah, that is THE worst!!!

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I hate it when corporate greed takes priority over quality nursing care.

I'll give you a BIG ​AMEN on that one!

[caliotter3]

Hate it when shift in and shift out, one encounters various examples of abuse from the client's family members when working in extended care home health. Especially when the 'lacking in social graces' individual reminds you that they can make your job disappear with a phone call. Every shift you have to put up with their unreasonable and grating behavior fully knowing that on any given day, they will indeed make a call to your employer and you won't have a job. And your employer won't do a thing to support you, yet they expect you to bring them new business and new employees.

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

I voted smells because that is the worst for me from your list. But if you had included as options stupid administrative crap and senseless duplicate, triplicate or more charting I guarantee those options would have ranked higher than the physically gross things.

[cocoa_puff]

I don't like the "flurries" of dead, dry skin that fly off patient's feet when I pull their socks off...or the smell of feet

But I don't mind any aspect of patient care and I'm used to body fluids at this point (...it's the "too much to do...too little time", customer-service-comes-before-patient-care, unsafe nurse to patient ratios, unreasonable family members and their drama, unsupportive management, repetitive charting, and lifting heavy patients that irritates me)

And I'm only a tech/nursing student! Wait til I'm a nurse!

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

I surely hope you're talking about a clinical rotation in peds. PLEASE a million times over, don't EVER refer to an adult incontinence product as a "diaper".

When you open a diaper to change a catheter and you see poop and you can tell it's been there for a long time!! And the smell... Feet and nails, esp older people! When you notice that they have poop under nails and they're touching the rails and their bed...

Also last week a lady asked me if I could help her to use the restroom. I told her I'll call her CNA (and she said, "She's not going to do it...", I know she does not have any confusion and mental issues but I still thought she's exaggerating, guess what? She was right, the CNA had such an attitude I felt sorry for the old lady and helped her myself. I know that all of us have our bad and good days, but some nurses especially CNAs have the worst attitude I've ever seen in my life! I know they are awfully underpaid but hey, deal with it! Be respectful, it's somebody's grandmother/mother/daughter etc.

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

Maybe the CNA had an "attitude" b/c the nurse wouldn't help someone to the restroom?

Also last week a lady asked me if I could help her to use the restroom. I told her I'll call her CNA

Perhaps the CNA had an attitude because a student wouldn't help someone to the restroom. Not saying it was right. Just a thought.

[Lola Lou, BSN]

I've discovered that my gag reflex is most sensitive in the early morning/start of shift. The one thing that has made me gag multiple times at this point in my career is the SOUND of diarrhea being emptied from the commode pot in to the toilet. Odd, I know!

[Nurseeverywhere, CNA, LVN]

Maybe the CNA can't make it because he or she is in another room cleaning someone else or in the middle of a hoyer lift. Why exactly are nurses beyond being able to take resident to restroom?

[ladynesh, BSN, RN]

What I hate is that I left my skill rehab weekend job due to hours to do home health nursing at the moment for pediatrics while I'm I'm RN nursing school bc the hours where better for me. I graduate in March 2016. But what I do not like is how the family I work for make me feel like I'm the dang maid as well as babysitter and lpn nurse all in one. I feel they take advantage of their nurses, example, load and wash dishes, do laundry, clean pt room clean her bathroom also, I'm at the point to where I wanna scream. I'm a nurse not housekeeper I remember seeing the caregiver come to work while I'm there just to clean they house like a maid, what kind of stuff is that, she didn't even do anything with pt bc I was there but she was cleaning and mopping the whole house and cleaned the parents room and bathroom.

Now I'm curious what Homehealth nurses have as for as responsibilities.

[annabanana2]

I don't like it when patients or families are mean or abusive to me. I particularly dislike the personal comments about my appearance or skill as a nurse.

But it sounds like the question was about what grosses me out... so the answer to that is probably when I'm doing wound care to a wound with exposed bone. Even worse when I'm the first one to discover it so it's a surprise!