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What is your pet peeve? With everything a nurse has to deal with in a day, the one thing that gets on my nerves is someone who takes the garbage bag out of the can but doesn't replace the liner. It makes me psycho. How bizarre is that?
Since I have too take the am sick calls, I ran across this situation this am. Girl calls me in pain and wants me to decide if she should call off. "But I don't want to put you guys in a bad spot"....Sorry girl, any call off puts us in a bad spot. We went round and round....I only wanted her to tell me she was calling off sick...I don't make a big deal out of it. I had to push her so I could get to other matters. I told her, "you have two options. Call off sick or come in. Which do YOU decided?" No reply. Finally she pushed me to the edge..."You are an adult, before you call, you need to decided if you are sick, then call me and tell me. No big deal!" Finally she said "Oh,forget it!" "Forget what? Are you calling off sick or are you coming in...." "I'm sick." Wonderful, I hope you feel better. Thank You for calling in timely" (at least she did that). That was so bizarre.Moral to the story...If you are sick...just call off sick.:barf01:
however - calling off sick in our area is very easy to do with a doc excuse - ( docs tend to give anyone off for anything) then calling in for the whole holiday weekend yet being seen out drinking and partying for the weekend even though they have a "hurt back " bad enough to "need an mri after the holiday" ummmm yeah color me stupid - ..............................
1. Nurse Aides who have to be "reminded" to get VS, fingersticks, etc.
2. Nurse Aides who will cross the unit to chart a FSBS but won't simply tell you what it was, en route....
3. Being in a patient's room on one end of the unit and a tube feeding beeping with a nurse sitting right there in front of that room, at the other end of the unit, and having to listen to it beep for 15 minutes because I can't just drop everything and run to take care of it, meanwhile, the nurse just sits there and charts.....
I could go on......................
Suture trays/cath trays/any type of sterile tray set up, not needed, and just "wrapped back up." You really think I'm going to use a sterile tray that I did not set up myself??? You've gotta be kidding me - how do I know the other PCTs truly kept it sterile? How do I know they didn't accidentally break sterility while wrapping it back up?? DUH!!!
Um, forget whoever set it up, if it's "wrapped back up", it's not even STERILE anymore!!!!!!!! Boy, does THAT need STOPPED!!!
Someoen did that where i work ONE time. Maintenance put a stop to that with a memo that read "if you choose to empty colostomy bags in the sink, we gladly provide whoever did it with the necessary supplies, but not the manpower to unclog the drain, at the expense of the person that did it."
Haven't heard of it happening again, gee wonder why.
ua was ordered on 27th - i come in on 30th and get an order for cath ua as noone has gtten it as the person is incontinent - get rsults fromlab on 31st - days still has not called md - call md on call and get yelled at cause why if suspect a problem did it take 4 days to get this ua when i was not even there !!!! arrghhhh - thank god it was a negative ua - i was not impressed to have to come in and take care of a 3 day old lab test and on day 4 have to finsih taking care of it........... if we suspect a problem there is NO reason to wait that long t obtain the results.......................
1)long nails on a pt who is supposedly in someones care
2) belly button boogers
3)the previous shift leaving their drink containers and cafeteria trays for me to deal with
4) garbage cans without liners
5)the nurse who whipped out her cell to talk to her bf while the pt was in a hoyar
6)opening a wipes container to clean up a monster BM to find it was left empty
7)finding my personal food eaten from the staff fridge
8)any problem that gets"dumped"
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what annoys me is i work few days a month but dont get told about meetings unless i happen on em a day before when they are psoted - now our place has started a new thing - saving money they only allow you to show up for meeting if you are working or if you come for free - damn cheapskates - annoying..........