Dislikes

[mindystl]

What are the top 3 dislikes about being an RN?

[rebelgirl#1]

1) bosses who do not manage their unit well

2) coworkers with no consideration for the people they work with, come in late and leave early: see above

3) Non medical staff who think I have time to clean and do their job as they are so busy with phone calls to lovies, etc.

[MedSurgeMess]

1) patients and families who think I am their maid/sevant

2)doctors who think I am their maid/servant

3)coworkers who think that they should be treated better than rest of staff because (fill in the blank)___________

[bill4745, RN]

Idiots that have seen a dozen doctors without a definitive diagnosis who expect me to know what is wrong with them.

Idiots that think I should know every side effect of every drug that exists.

[diane227, LPN, RN]

1. Patients who do not keep a current medication list with them at all times.

2. Physicians who do not return calls in a timely manner.

3. Nurses who do not treat other nurses with respect.

[Rabid Response]

1. Performing painful and often degrading life-prolonging interventions on patients who will not benefit (ie octogenarian with stage IV metastatic CA whose family keeps him a full code until we've done chest compressions three times in one day). We can't give these patients pain meds or sedation because it will drop their pressures and they might die a day or two sooner than otherwise...ugh...

2. Charting.

3. Working night shift.

[Whispera, MSN, RN]

1. inadequate staffing

2. unavailability of needed supplies and equipment

3. other staff members who have a negative attitude

not necessarily in that order...

[retiredlady]

1. hours you sometimes have to work, working holidays.

2. Negative coworkers

3. inadequate staffing

Good things

1. The patients

2 The salary

3. I always had a job (not so much I know now)

[iluvdetroit]

1. Inadequate staffing

2. Doctors who either treat you like an idiot or assume that you want to do the horizontal hula with them just because they are a doctor.

3. Noncompliant patients who can't wait for you to quit going over their discharge instructions, including an 1800 calorie ADA diet, so that they can tell you just what all they are going to eat (their wife makes the BEST peanut butter pie in the world!) when they get home and "get off of hospital food". Can you say, "See ya back here in three weeks!"? Yikes!!!

[cardiacmadeline, RN]

1) Press Ganey

2) Rude and unrealistic family members

3) Working every other weekend

[Student2Registered]

1.) Never knowing what my schedule will be.

2.) Patients and family members treating me like I am their slave and not respecting that I have four other patients who feel the same way.

3.) Incontinence

but I still love being a nurse.

[chenoaspirit, ASN, RN]

1. paperwork takes over patient care

2. doctors who treat us like servants

3. patients who treat us like servants