What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

JaclynBN05 · Aug 14, 2005

I must agree with the statement that jsut cause we are new doesn't mean that we dont know how to work. I was an LPN for several years before becoming a nurse and I know how to work!! I agree that there are a few that I know if in my class that don't but dont use broad statements like that to define every new nurse. I you are tired of hearing the statement"eating the young" then stop doing it!!

Or be mentors and show us what you think we should be doing Im sure we all have something to learn.

All nurses were new once...or did you forget!!

Hurt and offended!!

:angryfire

MissJoRN, RN · Aug 14, 2005

Nurses who say "You're a peds nurse? I could never do that... I love kids too much"

I hear it frequently. I know what they mean but do they know how it sounds to us? "oh, yes. I know what you mean. Luckily there are nurses like me who hate kids and enjoy being able to perform all kinds of painful invasive procedures on them."

KarafromPhilly · Aug 15, 2005

1) IV sites with no date/time.

2) unlabeled IV tubing--date/time, and what's infusing thru this?

3) NO oral care, especially on vented patients

4) Nurses who do these things, and then say, "WHO TOLD YOU TO DO IT THAT WAY? THAT'S NOT HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO IT." I mean, really. I don't shout in YOUR face about the things that irritate me--why do you think it's OK for you to do that to me, in front of six other people no less? Aack.

Schoolnursetrish39 · Aug 15, 2005

I did that when I was in nursing school until I figured darn that hot sun can't be good for that rubber tubing.. . I think its because we are so proud but you are right about the tattoo thing.... hehehe

Here in Oklahoma I had a co-worker another RN said for God sake don't leave your ID on the rear view or your stethscope these men here in Oklahoma will know you have money...I was newly divorced at that ime after 20 years and I guess she thought I needed protecting... :)

I laughed and still am laughing cause I am still waiting for the money... hehehehe Made me laugh at the time so when I see one in a car I laugh...

:rotfl: What would happen if the driver had to slam on the breaks? Stethoscope tatoo'd on the forehead....tehe te he

nocalmomo · Aug 15, 2005

These young nurses werent raised with the same work ethic I was raised with

You are soooooo right. I can't believe how some, not all of them act. Especially the uap's .(unlicensed assistive personel). Patients aren't being helped as they should be. My daughter, an ER nurse , was told by the manager he couldn't believe what a work ethic she had! Guess this old ?(seasoned ) RN did something right!

mattsmom81 · Aug 15, 2005

Why do so many nurses seem to think it their duty to dog another nurse who is new at a particular job...and make her look bad when she doesn't do everything absolutely perfectly the first time??? This out to get another nurse attitude out there today is appalling to me.

No wonder so many nurses walk away from nursing and never look back.

If a nurse has a legit concern about another nurse, the appropriate action is document and call the immediate supervisor's attention to it. But so much of the dogging out there is personal; about nitpicky, unsubstantiated 'worries' vs any real provable stuff. Nurses have gotten too embroiled in the 'potential problem' and use it to cattily hurt their coworkers.

OK I"m done now...the ugliness I see out there is bugging me, can ya tell??? LOL!!.

Jubei · Aug 15, 2005

That whole "nurses eat their young" crap and racist insecure nurses.

Nurses (including CNA nurses) who don't report injuries (bruises, etc).

Schoolnursetrish39 · Aug 15, 2005

Thats why I am taking a break from acute care for a while other than staffing agency stuff as I can... I really beleive its cattiness as you say... I wish it would quit.. whatever happened to the golden rule?

Why do so many nurses seem to think it their duty to dog another nurse who is new at a particular job...and make her look bad when she doesn't do everything absolutely perfectly the first time??? This out to get another nurse attitude out there today is appalling to me.
No wonder so many nurses walk away from nursing and never look back.
If a nurse has a legit concern about another nurse, the appropriate action is document and call the immediate supervisor's attention to it. But so much of the dogging out there is personal; about nitpicky, unsubstantiated 'worries' vs any real provable stuff. Nurses have gotten too embroiled in the 'potential problem' and use it to cattily hurt their coworkers.
OK I"m done now...the ugliness I see out there is bugging me, can ya tell??? LOL!!.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Aug 15, 2005

It's been said before, but it bears repeating. Nurses who act like the place would just die without them, yet it runs just fine when they're not there.

emeraldjay · Aug 15, 2005

I'll have to add a couple more to this list.

Co-Workers who refer to patients by their last names only (Jones needs this, Smith had a mod)

Got told by a resident last night I should have woken her up when I came in to her room to drop off her requested drink (at 4am)

Fighting my way to the time clock, so I can punch in, while the previous shift is huddled around it

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Aug 15, 2005

I'll have to add a couple more to this list.
Co-Workers who refer to patients by their last names only (Jones needs this, Smith had a mod)
Got told by a resident last night I should have woken her up when I came in to her room to drop off her requested drink (at 4am)
Fighting my way to the time clock, so I can punch in, while the previous shift is huddled around it

Yall dropp of requested drinks to Residents, is that in a patient, or a medical resident.

emeraldjay · Aug 16, 2005

Yall dropp of requested drinks to Residents, is that in a patient, or a medical resident.

Sorry, I work in LTC so I end up using the terms "resident" and "patient" interchangably.

Now it may sound callous that I won't wake someone up at night because they asked for a drink but fell asleep after asking, but I also regularly work on a unit full of residents that would be better served by a facility specializing in geriatric psych. It's bad enough that we have to get these people up and in the dining room by 0720, but to create problems due to sleep deprivation is a whole different ballgame.