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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.
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!!!
mindystl
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What are the top 3 dislikes about being an RN?