Peeves at work

This isn't really work related, but kinda .... since it happens mostly at work.

When I go to get off the elevator and the people waiting to get in just start coming in. Umm, HELLO!! Elevator etiquette (or even just plain common sense) anyone?! Wait for the people to get off. For some reason I just get so annoyed by this ..... I get to the point where I just stand right in their way and let them move. You need to let people OFF before you get ON.

*whew*

Coworkers who don't believe in teamwork.

Managers who believe that "time management" makes up for short staffing and too much work.

People who don't keep accurate I/O when it's ordered... like don't record the 200 ml of an IV med they just gave the kid,etc. throughout their shift; so it looks like the kid has a negative I/O balance and has to stay another day when they really shouldn't have to.

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Biggest pet peeve------ People who don't silence their vent alarm prior to suctioning a pt!!!!

So now I'm wandering through the unit looking for the alarm, hoping to not find an self-extubated pt, and it's just you, in the room, letting that darn alarm go on and on and on!!!

1) 16 patients on floor and one aide, oh there are 3 nurses, one nurse and the aide go to lunch, leaves me to answer call lights for everyone because the other nurse sitting on her butt will NOT answer lights, she's better than that. Even if it's her patient. Not to mention i still have to take care of my patients.

2) Being so busy you can't chart at all, go to collect your I&O's and find out your patient hasn't voided in 7 hours, OMG hello, doesn't anyone think this is important.

Looking for the Vitals the aides take at the beginning of the shift for an hour to find out you have a bp of 212/123 and a pulse of 153. Yeah ok i think thats is something to worry about,and when you say what the heck they said "what"

Helping a fall risk patient to the bathroom and find that the aide forgot to put the bed alarm or personal alarm back on them

Write up's omg you can't smile and you get wrote up, it's insane

Ok i could probably go on for an hour lol

~ Medcarts that I have to restock at the beginning of my shift, then restock at the end.

The next day, they're completely empty again.

~ Receiving report and discovering that all patients except 1 will be going home. I know

this means that I'll be slammed with back to back admits.

~ When I walk into each patient's room to eyeball them and discover that everyone's

IV bag is empty (Dopamine, Dobutamine, Sandostatin, you know the 'easy' meds

that can wait...

~ The days I have no techs, no unit secretary, and short nurses and ask a fellow nurse

to help me move a total care up in bed and she says, "No, I can't, I don't have time."

~ When I have 2 patients that require crushing meds and mysteriously, we don't have any pill crushers in the entire unit!!??

1). Liners not pulled up in trashcans in pt. rooms.

2). Other nurses telling you they don't have time to take the full sharp container and place it 5 ft away in the hazardous barrel.

3). The CNA is hiding in a pt room watching tv saying the pt needed their help.

4). The other nurses not counting off their narc drawers but report you to D.O.N. the first time you don't.

5). Getting called at home for things that were left in report that day shift is pitching fit about. Namely calling Family member on new order received in the middle of the noc.

6). The D.O.N. thinking that am shift needs 4 RN's on days, 2 LPN's on evenings and only 1LPN on noc's for the same amount of Residents and the same amt of work.

7). Walking into the hallway 30 min's after bed rounds and the hall smells of bm and urine. The cna swears they did a complete check on everyone but you find the source of smell and it's all over the bed the pt and has been there for quite sometime.

I could go on and on, I work in a LTC facility on Noc shift.

when people carry on animated discussions in a language other than english over a patient while they are doing their care (and the patient is cognitively intact).

Or, for that matter, when people carry on animated discussions in English over a patient while they are doing their care (and the patient is cognitively intact).

Having experienced it from the patient's perspective, I can tell you that there is little more demoralizing than being deemed unworthy of casual conversation, a simple greeting, or even eye contact by someone tending to your basic physical needs when your mind is still operating on all cylinders.

Will ER please try to date and time the stroke scale assessment? I'm a nurse, not a mind reader!

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pt.s that after you have spent 20-30 minutes in their room, ask them if you can get them anything else or if they need pain meds, put their light on 5 minuets later to ask for pain meds or another blanket:madface:

those dang press ganey surveys

blatantly walking by a call light to go talk or text on the cell phone.