Most annoying things when starting as a nurse or a nurse in a new place?

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Specializes in Geriatric, Pediatrics.

As nurses we all have crazy experiences when starting as a nurse in a new place....today was soo annoying. I am working in a school as a school nurse with another wonderful school nurse. However, I have been constantly called an "Intern". Also...the MOST annoying part is when you get the "_(Name)__ doesnt do it this way.." or going behind your back after a thorough assessment and asking the other nurse for a second opinion. NO TRUST! What are your crazy stories from when you first started nursing or started in a new place...FUNNY? ANNOYING? UPSETTING? I think this is great, especially for the new nurses...knowing that the frustrations of nursing during first years and new places are NORMAL!! What's your story??

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Specializes in adult ICU.

Mine --- YOU CAN'T FIND ANYTHING. I get so **** frustrated when I am wasting time looking for something that in a month or two, I will know exactly where it is kept. I, however, was not blessed with the virtue of patience. That probably annoys some people less than it does me.

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Dittos!

I also do not like being oriented to each nurse's special and specific way of doing this or that thing and expecting me to keep track and do it their way when working with them rather than acknowledging that every one has a method and as long as the end result is positive and equivocal what difference does it make how it is accomplished?

Right after school I worked as a float nurse in a busy doctor's office. I was in my 3-4th month and one of the long time nurses STILL talked to me like I was orienting (which I wasn't), and showed me that she liked this and that paper copied and placed in this specific section of the chart (a different place than other nurses), and her other titfortat kind of silliness. I threw up my arms and told her she was talking to me like it was my first day of work, and I found it unreasonable for her to expect me to memorize her preferences like they were actually important and that she could file her own stuff and I would do something more productive like triage patients and return urgent phone calls.

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Specializes in LTC.

Having to borrow from other nurses...b/p cuffs, thermometers, meds off their cart, or a moment of their time to answer a question......

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Specializes in TELEMETRY.

I hate all this too. i think that is why I am finding it hard to adjust anywhere. It sucks! Aometimes even if you look kinds young they automatically think your r a new grad and don't know how to do anything.

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I'm not a nurse, but I am a CNA. One thing that I hated when I started at my LTC (and to some extent now, though I've been there almost 3 months) is that I never knew which incontinent product each resident used. They're all kept in each room and it wasn't written down anywhere! The CNAs that have been there a while always just knew, but I kept having to ask. I finally said something about it, and they actually made a sheet with the day/night incontinent product for each room/resident!

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Specializes in PACU, CARDIAC ICU, TRAUMA, SICU, LTC.

I find it to be so disrespectful when you arrive on a unit to begin new employment and not one person acknowledges your presence. You might as well be invisible!

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Mine --- YOU CAN'T FIND ANYTHING. I get so **** frustrated when I am wasting time looking for something that in a month or two, I will know exactly where it is kept. I, however, was not blessed with the virtue of patience. That probably annoys some people less than it does me.

I assure you that you are not alone.

My pet peeve with the care assignments for agency nurses is this. If restaurants were so short of staff as to require agency waiters/waitresses, would they put someone who didn't know where the forks are, to work in the busiest station?

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Being a nurse on 'the floor' for >3years and having vent training and knowledge from my old unit, telling the nurse this is the case, and having the nurse hold my hand the entire day. I'm an independent type of person, and having another breathing over my shoulder makes me 100% uncomfortable. I understand it for those that are used to teaching newbies, but that is definitely something I am not.

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New computer charting that is NOT intuitive-more of a hassle than the system I beta-tested in 1993(at a different facility)!!

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