Nurses General Nursing
Published Mar 23, 2004
Nurses that are brilliant but do not know the difference between contraindication and contradiction! :rotfl:
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Jamesdotter
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Epidermal when they mean epidural. Prone when they mean supine. Drives me nuts. Also the misuse and overuse of apostrophes, but that's not just a nursing pet peeve.
SchoolNurseLisa
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family members who are not caregivers, staying in the room (refusing to leave), during personal procedures, (changing, ect.). I am a nurse, and consider one butt the same as the next, but my dad would rather die as to have me seeing someone wipe his butt.
apnteacher
4 Posts
Morning report where we find out everything about the visitors a patient had, and nothing about the patient's condition!:uhoh21:
Rozhinitsy
18 Posts
1) The word "breaching"!!! Patients have to stay in A + E for four hours then they get transferred to CDU, and if there are no beds available then there is a panic as the patient will "breach" the time and then hospital management get involved to find out why the breaching has occurred.
2) Patients whose lives get saved, yet they still find something to complain about!!
3) Patients who are non - compliant.
4) Arrogant doctors.
Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN
12,126 Posts
The word "delegate". "Ordered" is more like it.
Friesw/that
30 Posts
wimpy, winy, pissy, no-matter-what-you-do-you-can't-please-me PATIENTS.
patients who complain of pain 10/10,(PACU) and before i can get them medicated, want their pillow fluffed, their legs propped, the curtains closed, their family called, a cup water, another warm blanket ALL AT THE SAME TIME---then after they have gotten 8mg of Morphine(titrated, of course), have been snoring, they wake wondering when i am going to medicate them. :angryfire
Uptoherern, RN
337 Posts
feeding patients, walking them in the halls or to the bathroom. toooooo long. necessary evil.
reelmomrn
7 Posts
nurse thatwill not answer a call light and just let it continue to beep, even if you look at them an say hey that is your room they say yeah i know s/he is always on the light i will get it in a little bit. which i will go answer, i usually just go answer them anyway but if that nurse is sitting there jabbering or even doing paper work , i guess i am old school but i still think pts come first!
i agree with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These young nurses werent raised with the same work ethic I was raised with
I hear ya! Patient care? What is that? Lets order out before we finish report, I am not turning that patient, I can not wait to find a doctor to take me away from all of this?
My all time favorite.
The pt. on contact isolation, EVEN THOUGH you've asked 5 times "Do you need anything else?", after stripping your gear off, and taking one step in the hall, there's the inevitable "Oh, i'm not comfortable...". AS USUAL.
Loving Life
56 Posts
Nurses who do not rinse out their suction catheters after suctioning someone and lets it build up in the tubing and those who do not pick up their rooms.
FutureArmyNurse
65 Posts
TeeitupTom and reelmomrn:
I find this offensive. Are you saying no one in their 40s/50s/60s has bad work ethics? I am 25 and cannot imagine being described the way you described "these young nurses."
Please, let's not stereotype. It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round.