What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

begalli · Jan 9, 2005

When a new person comes to the unit and someone says they have been
ORIENTATED..... the word is ORIENTED, people!!!

And it's a PROSTATE not a PROSTRATE!

:)

I guess that could be another pet peeve of mine. How did some RN's make it through a rigorous nursing program and come out not knowing how to spell....even non-medical words or not have a basic understanding of punctuation or grammar.

PARAGRAPHS! Please use PARAGRAPHS!

I'm certainly not perfect, but sometimes I cringe when I read these message boards.

Laurlaur · Jan 9, 2005

the family and patient where "thank you" never even passes their lips and where the child asks for coke - we are NOT McDonalds!!!!!

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Jan 9, 2005

And it's a PROSTATE not a PROSTRATE!
:)
I guess that could be another pet peeve of mine. How did some RN's make it through a rigorous nursing program and come out not knowing how to spell....even non-medical words or not have a basic understanding of punctuation or grammar.
PARAGRAPHS! Please use PARAGRAPHS!
I'm certainly not perfect, but sometimes I cringe when I read these message boards.

I cringe when listening to Bushie speak

then I laugh out loudly

nursepotter05, RN · Jan 9, 2005

the ADN versus DIPLOMA versus BSN argument. very very tired of it.

I agree. We are all nurses no matter which degree we have. We all had to pass the same test to get here!!

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · Jan 9, 2005

how can you expect patients and their families to take you seriously when you are wearing Spongebob Squarepants or Winnie the Pooh all over your shirt...

Easy. I have a big "RN" on my badge and a $200 Cardiac stethoscope around my neck, a syringe containing lifesaving medications in my hand, and I have just explained how important it is for cardiac patients to use humor to teach themselves how to relax and enjoy life.

Another pet peeve: FLOATING. I love my home unit so much, I really am beginning to despise floating. If I wanted to work different units, I'd have been a traveller.

ldynwht · Jan 9, 2005

My biggest pet peeve is medical assistants calling themselves nurses. I was so happy when recently my state (CO) made it a misdemenor to say you are a nurse unless you are a LPN or RN. Made my day!!

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Jan 9, 2005

Anyone who's not a nurse saying they ARE a nurse.

Town & Country · Jan 10, 2005

What gets my goat is working with lazy CNAs who think they are too good to do their job and want YOU to do it - in addition to your OWN job.

No, it isn't good enough just to help them with a bedchange or whatever; you have to do it, ALL....and if you don't, well then...you have an "attitude."

If CNAs aren't there to do their work, pray tell me what are they there for?

They certainly can't pass meds or do treatments.....yet if we don't interrupt a med pass to do their job, we're "bad."

-gag- :angryfire

annmariern · Jan 10, 2005

I had a few million today!:angryfire Cleaning up someone elses patch jobs. If a dressings intact on a IJ and there is no specific order to change it, leave it, who cares if you can't see the site? I did, line was infiltrated, site all swollen and red. Catheter leaking? Don't change it, Stick a bit more in the leaking balloon, same pt mind you, totally helpless all care no family to *****. Open wound? Leave it for the wound care nurse Monday. Took me ages. Chest pain, tachycardic on a non tele floor? Don't call anyone. Today I was told why were a lot of my pts transferred to tele lately and stop it? Hmm. Because I actually do an assessment and make calls!!!!! Hello, is that not my job? That's one.

Other nurses with downtime chatting, reading magazines and commenting on how busy I look! When when I have down time I always ask if someone needs a hand. Same people who do, still sit and look at you! Yesterday I asked a nurse and she looked so suspicious. "what do you want me to do for you?" Not a thing, just being nice.

begalli · Jan 10, 2005

When when I have down time I always ask if someone needs a hand.

GOOD FOR YOU!! I'm the same way. There are some of us out there, and can I just say thanks for your help!

jaimealmostRN · Jan 10, 2005

#3- those cartoon scrubs!!!! Yuck! (unless your peds of course :))

#2-Nursing and Medical students who do not ask the pt or the family if it's OK that they spend the day with them...no you are not entitled to this person!

AND THE WORST!!!!!!!!!!!!.........

#1-MA's or pseudo-MA's who refer to themselves as "nurses" (or the dr.s that call them that) URGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGggg. Especially when they are rude and/or dumb and/or unprofessionable and give real RNs/LPNs a bad image.

TiffyRN, BSN, PhD · Jan 10, 2005

Always running out of the same &*%$ supplies every Sunday. How long does it take to figure out we need a couple extra boxes in before the weekend (since obviously they can't deliver supplies on the weekend)?

I work NICU and amazingly (being sarcastic here!) we use lots of newborn size diapers and volu-feeds (bottles with ML marks on the side) and big surprise here nipples!! Every Sunday night I work (and I work way more than my share) we are out of one or all of those items. What was bad was the weekend we ran out of newborn and preemie size diapers and had these poor 2-3 pound kids wearing diapers designed for 8-11 pound babies.

That and the parents who call our 55+ bed NICU and say "I need to know how my baby is". Yea, unfortunately I missed the day we had our ESP installed in nursing school.