What nursing or medical pet peeves drive you bonkers in movies or on TV?
I find myself yelling at the tv and huffing about how wrong they got everything.
For example, when people rip out their IV's but don't bleed. Or ETT that are not taped down. AT ALL. Or when they shock a flatline. Or when nurses and doctors run for even the most minor things. Code patients who wake up looking refreshed and alert/oriented. Oh! And when doctors do things like start IVs or clean up vomit (yeah, right).
Was just watching Everybody Loves Raymond last night and Ray decides to volunteer at a hospital. As he was signing in at the desk, a nurse walks past and dumps a bag of blood on the desk and says "Another one for the fridge!" and just leaves it sitting there! Then another nurse comes by with three more bags to stack on that one! Just sitting on the desk....
i love Grey's Anatomy but laugh every time you're clued into a life-threatening situation or a sudden decline in the patient's condition by the sound of insistent and incessant alarms going off. Even when there's nothing to alarm. Even when they aren't hooked up to any monitors at all lol! doesn't stop the alarm from sounding!
They are just that good! [emoji23]
I too love Grey's but watching it with me is bound to be accompanied by a slew of expletives and explanations as to what would really happen and why what they did would never happen ever. Same with House and Nurse Jackie.
Ummm why does Princeton PMC (House) have like 3 nurses in the ICU and they are generally incompetent and doing nothing? And the patients travel several times a day for procedures sans RRT or nursing accompanying. And no nurses in cath lab....really the list goes on.
It really annoys me that families think the doctor is going to stop in the middle of surgery to come "update" the nurse or them like they do in the movies. Like real-life docs are going to break sterility and walk all the way to the patient's room on the floor to talk to family members, then walk all the way back to the OR and gown up again and go back in. Family members are always shocked that I don't have any "updates" for them, and no doc will see them until surgery's finished. I really wish movies and TV shows would stop teaching people that this will happen.
Oh, that and the patient wakes up and the doctor's right there. LOL! The doc will send his resident to see you in the AM. You will probably never see your doc!
I'm not a nurse yet and I love watching Greys but what annoys me about is that the hospital seems to be run by nobody but the surgeons lol. They're all working in the ER for every simple case and there don't appear to be nurses anywhere except to be occasionally yelled at. I always think its funny that these surgeons spend their entire days providing basic patient care that a nurse would normally be taking care of.
I have posted several times that one of my pet peeves is when a patient yanks out their IV, gets dressed, leaves the hospital, and there is no bleeding from the IV site.
The other day I was taking my patients IV out, (it had only been in maybe 5 hours?) and was commenting about my pet peeve, I intentionally did not put gauze immediately over the d/c'd IV....and one very slow drop of blood oozed out!!!!!
I wish there was more representation of minorities in these shows. You can go to the whitest section of America and there will be Indian doctors, Filipino nurses, etc. cause everyone goes where the jobs are.
I hate strangulations/hanging scenes where people are eyes closed and look sleeping. nothing like that at all.
Not nursing-specific but, years ago an actor friend pointed out that almost always coffee cups and mugs are clearly empty. They are not being carried or handled as if they have actual coffee.
i always remember this greys anatomy episode where the pt has c-diff and theyre doing a fecal transplant....and all the doctors are in the room with the patient touching her....with no isolation at all. I'm just like....ewww
The one time I wished things were EXACTLY like on TV/movies was 2 years ago when my family and I decided it was time to turn off my elderly father's ventilator...darned if he didn't live for 2 and a half days!!! I was hoping for a pause, then a gentle beeeeeeeeep.....
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Was just watching Everybody Loves Raymond last night and Ray decides to volunteer at a hospital. As he was signing in at the desk, a nurse walks past and dumps a bag of blood on the desk and says "Another one for the fridge!" and just leaves it sitting there! Then another nurse comes by with three more bags to stack on that one! Just sitting on the desk....