What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

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Nurses that are brilliant but do not know the difference between contraindication and contradiction! :rotfl:

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Specializes in Cardiac.

I hate it when someone uses the dynamaps and then leaves it in a tangled mess afterward. so annoying.

or when the CNA before me tells me in report that she "didn't get a chance to pass waters, take out the trash and linen, etc before she left." well, then you should probably stay and finish your work! I don't leave work for the next shift. I refuse to do it. :grn:

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Specializes in ICU.

Any doctor that sits at my work station the moment I stand up to answer a call light; logs me off in the middle of what every I'm doing and pushes my stuff to the side so they can log on. There is a doctor's office complete with computer and printers about 15 steps away from the nurses station. Then, they leave without logging off.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.

NM who give you certain duties to do when you float, another NM comes along & says no we want Carol doing such & such, they don't communicate with each other and I get in the s**t because I'm not doing the first set of duties!! I feel like yelling: TALK TO EACH OTHER! It ain't that hard...

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

The previous shift leaving the Pts room in a mess. Unless they had emergencies all shift long. I hate it when I walk in and there's trash, empty cups, a litter filled bedside tray, etc ...

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Dealing with the miserable Rotorest bed!

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I am a LVN of 15 years and my husband and I have a medical group home in our home. We have 10 nurses on staff. I have been labeled the psycho ***** mom because I expect them to: actually follow the plan of care for each child and do their job (I have had to make a daily schedule for each of my kids just so I know my kids are getting the care they need and deserve!!

I can't tell you how many nurses I have fired over the last 5 years for standing around while their child layed in the bed, or just wandered around the house while the nurses congregated and were gossiping!

Not to mention the amount of poop, meds, milk, snot and puke I have cleaned up off the floor, ceiling, beds, walls and everywhere else because they were too lazy to do it themselves.

As a mom this pisses me off. As a nurse it REALLY pisses me off!

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Visitors or family members who just STARE constantly. I can PROMISE them that nothing facinating is going to happen while I am pouring colace and calcium. I blame the tv shows like ER for making people believe something ******* awesome is about to happen.:yawn:

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Strangers that find out you are a nurse and start asking medical questions AND expecting answers!
They are just looking out for their own well being and don't give a hoot about ours!:mad:
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Specializes in Med/Surg.
Any doctor that sits at my work station the moment I stand up to answer a call light; logs me off in the middle of what every I'm doing and pushes my stuff to the side so they can log on. There is a doctor's office complete with computer and printers about 15 steps away from the nurses station. Then, they leave without logging off.

Or when they set their stuff right on TOP of what you were doing. I've had my clipboard covered with a chart that a doc is writing in more times than I can count, and a lot of docs do it. That's just rude to me. You can't move it over a foot before you plunk down?

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My huge pet peeve: Watching any trained medical professional walk out of a C. diff isolation room...., take off the gown, gloves....then stroll right past the sink sitting right in front of them. Please people. Wash your hands.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

I hate being the only non-smoker on my shift. All of the smokers (including the evening supervisor) take their smoke breaks together, leaving me alone to deal with falls and other crises.

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my biggest pet peeve today is when physicians, speech therapist or any other part of the health team wants to waste my time asking me a bunch of questions that they could easily find in the chart or emr.

I worked in one facility where the speech therapist thought she was the queen bee and expected nursing to read the chart to her. I was a traveler and was having no parts of that. I brought the chart to her set it in front of her and stated, "you can read cant you?"

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