I am venting my pet peeves. I had one of each of these yesterday, 1 patient w/ 3 of these. Share with me yours.
I hate:
1. Giving enemas - I have never not caused a huge mess even before I get the solution INTO the patient.
2. Taking accuchecks - The accucheck needs a calibration or quality check, or has the wrong code card for the strips, or I don't stick the patient hard enough so there's not enough blood and then have to go run for another finger stick thingie because the second one I grabbed is faulty
3. Sitz bath - see #1
4. Simply having a patient in isolation - putting on and taking off the PPE can suck your time, and if the patient has the temp in their room up I get all hot and sweaty within 5 minutes
5. Putting in a foley - this is never as easy as it should be. Either the A&O patient is unhelpful "Please keep your knees up and apart Ms X" or the anatomy is unhelpful.
Specializes in private duty/home health, med/surg.
I hate charting. Hate it! I want an assistant to follow me all shift recording what I do. I would review the records & sign off at the end of my shift. Do you think management will ever go for hiring assistants?
I hate charting. Hate it! I want an assistant to follow me all shift recording what I do. I would review the records & sign off at the end of my shift. Do you think management will ever go for hiring assistants?
Hey that's a great idea! Put me down to order one assistant please, ha ha!
Hate Accuchecks too, especially when my patients are on the "sugar machine". I work in the ICU and we have a special computer program that requires accuchecks every hour. We input the number and it tells us what to titrate our insulin drip to. So annoying!
rnmi2004
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I hate charting. Hate it! I want an assistant to follow me all shift recording what I do. I would review the records & sign off at the end of my shift. Do you think management will ever go for hiring assistants?