My two least favorite words

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"Nurse's discretion"

Translation: we have no intention of giving you any guidance, so you're on your own, but if a family member doesn't like something you said or did, we're totally going to yell at you.

Specializes in ER, PACU, Med-Surg, Hospice, LTC.

I absolutely hate: "No offense..........".

Of course what you have to say is going to be offensive, if you have to state, "No offense" before saying it.

There is a Nurse on my floor that says this all of the time. It is as though by saying this it will make the rude, mean and biting digs acceptable.

I also hate: Family Leave

My experience has been that people that take Family Leave end up quitting. Family leave+PTO=Quit job.

I've lost some of my favorite co-workers after "Family Leave". :(

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In psych:

" just re-direct" pt

" targeting you"

In LTC:

"can you give ..... PRN?'

" crush c pudding"

In hospital:

" involved family" ...never good

"flow sheets"

"pathways and protocols"

ha ha good thread, just my experience!

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"Nurse's discretion"

Translation: we have no intention of giving you any guidance, so you're on your own, but if a family member doesn't like something you said or did, we're totally going to yell at you.

Funny, those are two of my favorite words.

Nurse's discretion = a little autonomy.

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Specializes in NICU.

"New policy"

:icon_roll

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Specializes in orthopaedics.

bed pan

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"new orders"

we have pts with 10 consults and all 10 come in on the same day and write "new orders" for the same pt, some of them contradicting each other!!!:angryfire

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Please hold

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

"Excuse me"

usually followed by "I hate to bother you, but......" normally stated by pt family while you are pulling meds, answering the phone, redirecting 2 or 3 dementia pts.

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Specializes in Rodeo Nursing (Neuro).
As a new nurse, my least favorites are "new admit"

and "learning opportunity" which usually either means I have messed up somehow and get to learn from it, or they're making me do something really difficult/complicated that no one's taught me to do yet.

I tend to think of "Building character," as a learning opportunity in the process of happening. Still, it's a phrase my mentor, and one of my favorite people, used when I was having a hectic night in orientation. So now whenever I'm having a terrible shift, I tell anyone who asks that I'm "building character...in a handbasket."

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

flight risk

suicide watch

gotta minute?

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

female room / male room

meaning we have to move patients around in order to accommodate another new admission...usually when we are running around in circles already.

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Specializes in NICU.
Funny, those are two of my favorite words.

Nurse's discretion = a little autonomy.

Ahh, but only if you have management that will back you up if a family member/MD/ancillary staff/stranger off the street doesn't like whatever you did. Which... is not the case where I work, at all. No policies, no protocols, but also no backup.

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