Pet peeves!

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I am sure this has been addressed along the way, but what are your nursing pet peeves?

A couple of mine:

How many times have you been taking a medication history on a patient, only to have them tell you they have no idea why they're on a particular med. Hello?! It's kind of an important thing to know :banghead:

Or, when a patient calls on the call bell asking for the nurse to "come here" and I ask if there's anything I can bring with me (trying to save a few steps and a little time) and the patient says no and then get to the room and they give you a laundry list of things they want. (this will almost always happen when you have five other things you're trying to do at the same time..) :smackingf

Okay, I need to quit now..I can actually feel my BP rising...LOL. Any others?

I thought you were nice, being a cat person and all. People aren't necessarily dumb, they're just not all nurses.

Try to remember, Dear, they don't want to have to be there any more than you do. I agree about the laziness of some staff and the lack of mouth care. Keep up your good deeds.

Gabie, it is a pet peeve thread and people are venting. It bears pointing out that some people are only posting things that they would like to say out of frustration, not how they actually behave.

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This is just a little pet peeve but it really bugs me when I am listening to someones anterior lung sounds and they breathe heavey on my face. Please, just turn your head the opposite way. Meanwhile, I am trying to bury my head in my scrub jacket.

In the same token, when I am assessing a pt.-you know getting real close-and they cough all over you, without covering their mouth.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
We have an OB/GYN nearby who is rumored to have sent pt's home from appts with the order to wash and then come back, lol!

We've actually had incidents where the OB/GYN actually wrote and order for a shower.

Especially after an incident where a woman was told she'd get a Foley before her c-section, and her labia was so caked with months and months of ick that it was stuck together. Because she hadn't bathed in months.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

I'll probably get flamed for this one, but people who use message boards to answer all of their clinical questions without doing any research first. Seems like the easy way to get the answers.

Another one, two weeks ago, actually had some dinky airhead HAND me her objectives paper for the OR and aid "i need these answered" and it was quite obvious when she handed me the pen what she expected. I'll answer what i can but i'm sure as hell not going to write the answers for you, lazy ***.:rolleyes:

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Disappearing surgeons. We have one that's notorious for being gone for at least an hour, and no one has a clue where he went to, nor does he say where. Meanwhile, pt.'s left waiting that whole time.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Gossiping co-workers and the ones that act like you're the enemy when you choose not to participate. Several times i'd left the table after the same group of people sat down and started hashing everyone. When one approached m and asked what was up, i siad "Sorry can't stand the backbiting". I think every since then i've become one of the subjects, considering the silence and stares i get when i walk past that table now.

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Nurses, EMTs etc. who say "O2 Stat" for O2 Sat.

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Specializes in Acute Care - Cardiology.

A pet peeve of mine is when people use the last of something, i.e. IV tubing, cups, etc. and don't replace them.

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We've actually had incidents where the OB/GYN actually wrote and order for a shower.

Especially after an incident where a woman was told she'd get a Foley before her c-section, and her labia was so caked with months and months of ick that it was stuck together. Because she hadn't bathed in months.

:barf01:

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*When you are givin report and the nurse says "oh by the way (resident) is on the floor and R door was shut. Then there was no charting done on this R. :angryfire

*When an aide tells you they have not touched a R for 12 hrs.:madface:

*When you pull the sheets down on a R bed and find dirty wet pads.:uhoh3:

*When an aide tells a resident im not putting you in bed wait for the next shift.:angryfire

*When the facility will not take the garbage out for over two months:madface:

*When the bio hazard is so full you cant open the door, so the put air freshners in front of the door.

*Paychecks bouce:nono:

*When you tell your nurse a R wants to kill themself and she replies dont write it down, because I will have to do charting.:angryfire

*When you dont have no washclothes to clean the R.:uhoh3:

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AT LEAST YOU HAVE SUPPLIES:angryfire

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WHEN...

the other shift nurse leaves u with empty cart or a storm in the cart

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