I was wondering if anyone else has any "pet peeves" at work. Things that slightly irritate you, or things that irritate you a LOT. Things that do not benefit the work flow/productivity in any way whatsoever, or things that just make your job harder than it already is
1) Alarms. I find them slightly irritating. Especially when a pump alarm is going off, and everyone in the hall except me acts completely oblivious to it. Maybe they need to have mandatory hearing tests prior to becoming an RN?
2) People who answer call lights from the nursing station. Worse, when they don't follow up on them. Actually, it drives me nuts when people answer them from the nursing station period. Especially when the pt's room is right across the hall from the nursing station!! I think this is a holdover from my nursing home days when the call light system didn't allow you to pick up from the nursing station.
3) When patients don't have fresh water in their room . Nothing worse than going to pass meds, hand the patient the pills, and find that their water cup is empty
4) Aides that are nursing students that literally spend more time talking than actually working. Listening to them talk about what an awesome nurse they are or won't shut up about the nursing job they're going to get after they graduate makes me wanna punch babies, trip an old lady, or kick my dog. Guess what? If you're not coming to work on our unit then I don't really care if you're going to the ER, ICU, NICU, Labor + Delivery, or wherever else. Good for you!!! Until you graduate you're still an aide so Shut up and go get to work!!!
I'll think of some more but those are the three off the top of my head.
I really only have one pet peeve: Nurses (or should I say specifically ONE nurse?) who don't even LIKE people, little alone CARE about them! Why, oh why, would you choose nursing for a profession? I think you would sit on your butt and let your own mother circle the drain without checking on her, nevermind a total stranger! (Sorry...just finished a long shift...feel better after getting that out!)
Patient on narcotic pain medication has a serious bout with consitipation. Doctor orders Fleets enema x2, miralax, colace, duc supp, and MOM. Pt developes diarrhea... Doctor places pt in isolation for probable C-Diff..... Come On! Lets think about this for a minute... 1+1= what?
I hate it when other "more experienced" nurses come into your room when something is going on and try to take over, even when they have absolutely no idea what is going on and just make my life more difficult. And then I have to be a jerk to them and I hate that too.
We carry little phones on our unit so that we can be contacted if we're not at the desk. It never ceases to amaze me that the phone always rings when I'm in the middle of starting an IV, foley insert, Ng insert, etc. Of course I finish what I'm doing and then go out to the desk to ask what was needed. I am then asked why I didn't answer my phone. I usually tell them just trying to do my job. And, of course, it's something retarded like, "You're getting another pt." Ok....couldn't that have waited until you see back out at the desk? It irritates the hell out of me. Come on people! Just because you have the luxury to sit on your tush all day doesn't mean other people are not busy taking care of pts and doing things.
1. Nurses and CNAs who talk on their cellphones during working hours. It's irritating to have to stand there and wait for them to finish their conversation that is not about an emergency, in order to get their full attention.
2. People who empty the trash in a resident's room, and don't put in a new one. What is the big deal about doing that?! Especially when the plastic roll is right there.
3. When a fellow CNA from the previous shift takes the dirty sheets off the bed, and doesn't put on clean ones.
4. I also hate it when whoever restocks the gloves replaces a pack of large-size gloves with mediums, thereby having 2 boxes of mediums in the room that are too small for my hands.
I know that these are not life-threatening peeves, but these are just a few of the things at my LTC that drive me crazy.
Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
patient on narcotic pain medication has a serious bout with consitipation. doctor orders fleets enema x2, miralax, colace, duc supp, and mom. pt developes diarrhea... doctor places pt in isolation for probable c-diff..... come on! lets think about this for a minute... 1+1= what?
annoying! :hdvwl:
or when the physician learns while doing the h & p that the patient had one episode of diarrhea the day before presenting to the ed and orders a c-diff culture. then the patient doesn't have a bm for a few days.
1. Managers who offer to help "anytime" but when you ask do as little as possible before racing back to their office.
2. Coworkers receiving non-emergency personal phone calls each and every day. This continuing despite official and personal requests that these phone calls need to be in case of emergency only.
Along with this: leaving your personal cell phone on at work and answering it.
3. I'm up to elbows busy, my coworker isn't. Somebody comes around needing something. Please take the initiative and help this person. Don't sit and wait for me to do it.
4. Work meetings that are a waste of time.
5. Loud talking and laughter while someone is on the phone.
This is great...................pet peeves............I love it.............here goes:
Co-workers trying to sell you Mary Kay or Avon
Loud talking and laughing when there are pt doors open
Unanswered call lights.........and people are right by the door............
Flirting with Doc's, that is embarassing to see
Gum popping, or proped feet up at the nurses station
Management who comes out and sees how busy the unit is and just stares and does not offer assistance
Linens in the bathrooms, dirty bedside tables, family members who camp out and think their needs need to be met more than the pt.
Thanks for the opportunity, I can think of more but do we really want to go there, oh one last one, when a pt has had a bm the shift before you and the room still smells, yuck.....................................
amen, to the trying to sell you stuff. Especially when all the school kids are trying to sell stuff at the same time. I cannot afford to buy something from each and everyone of your children who are fundraising.
My daughter is a teacher and she tells her own children at the beggining of the school year. "Don't bring any of that stuff home, we're not selling it"
1.People who never re-stock anything....:angryfire
2.Nurses who always manage to care for only 1-2 minor Pt's to your 5!
3.Doctors who disassemble charts....you find parts here & there
4.Ward clerks with an attitude & opinion about everything.
5.Putting chucks next to a Pt's skin! Call lights across the room & bedside tables anywhere but at the bedside. Potty chairs/urinals that are running over.
6.X-ray, lab techs that can take a B/P cuff off but can't put it back on.
7.Pt's that come in as an emergency for whatever....that has been going on for months, but they haven't been able to get an appointment with a doctor!
8. Never getting to take your supper break...
9. parents that cannot/will not control their children.
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I really only have one pet peeve: Nurses (or should I say specifically ONE nurse?) who don't even LIKE people, little alone CARE about them! Why, oh why, would you choose nursing for a profession? I think you would sit on your butt and let your own mother circle the drain without checking on her, nevermind a total stranger! (Sorry...just finished a long shift...feel better after getting that out!)