Pet Peeves

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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?

I hate seeing urinals on bedside tables!! There has got to be a better way. Would you want pee on your kitchen table? Of course not. But here we are picking full urinals up off the tables that are used for these patients for all thier meals, left over snacks and water glasses being pushed out of the way for a full bottle of pee!!! GROSS!!!

I'm with you on that one!!! Last time I worked my alert and oriented patient insisted his urinal stay on his side table. Yikes when I first walked into his room I saw his breakfast next to it was his urinal. I explained why I wanted to move his urinal but he insisted the urinal stay on the table.

The man was one of the nicest patients I've ever had but every time I entered the room....I'd see that urinal and cringe!!!!

I have pet peeves but too many to list!!!!

Coming out of shift report, and having the nurses from the previous shift just sitting at the nurses station, and one says, "The patient in 302 is wet and needs to be changed." IF THEY KNOW THE PATIENT IS WET, WHY ARE THEY SITTING AT THE NURSES STATION!!!!!!

My biggest pet peeve is not having gtt's to replace the ones that I have up and running. I work in an ICU and I just hate when I come on my shift and I have a dry levo gtt, epi gtt, ect.... and I have no replacement and my patient's vital signs are dependant on them. Everything else I can deal with myself.... I just hate not having replacement gtt and having to take the time to hound pharmacy for them or trying to get them out of our dispensing machine to mix them up.....

Yes I have a few of my own One is tube feed bottles not hung up when the nurse before me knows they are going to be empty soon secondly having all the tubing suction, vent tubing all wrapped around each other so if you go to suction someone all this rats mess comes too -- yikes--- & thirdly med cart a sticky mess & the final aggravation of my job babysitting the stnas to get there job done right --- I didnt realize I became a nurse to babysit a bunch of aides that dont care about the patients only want a paycheck... AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

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

The drama queen co-worker.

Despite what she thinks, i really could not care less just how long it's been since she "got some", that her boobs her during her period (didn't need to know about THAT either), or what a jerk her ex(?)-husband is, nevermind she let's him back in every time he scratches at the door. Yet she thinks people have an interest in her drama.

My biggest pet peeves:

1. Wife drinking the last of the milk then putting the empty jug back

in the fridge.

2. Wife using my razor.

3. My wife not answering to my girlfriends' name. :chair:

4. Dog drinking my last beer. :beer:

[font=arial][size=4]--tangled iv tubing, monitor cables, bp cuffs...

--when you start your shift and notice the waveforms are scratchy and go to discover the reason...mr. hairiest chest in the world did not have his chest shaved to attach the electrodes so they are dangling and reading the rhythm of his chest hair.

--wrinkled bed linens under patients.

--people that throw things away, yet miss the trash can and proceed to leave the garbage accumulate on the floor.

--walking into a room to find 2 boxes of large gloves, 3 boxes of medium gloves, and a nice big empty box of smalls. :)

--i will probably get flames from ed nurses, sorry :) having patients in chf come up to the floor from ed on primary tubing instead of plum tubing...i then have to take the tape off of the poor little old ladies tissue paper skin and change the tubing...

--changing the linens under a patient to discover that there are poop streaks on the bottom sheet (under the draw sheet and pad) that has been "cleverly" disguised by a previous shift, hoping the patient would poop for me and i wouldn't notice that the streaks were dry and crusty.

--a big red puffy hand/arm from an infiltrated iv that was "infusing without a problem 3 minutes ago"...yeah, ok.

and those are just a few!!!! [/size]

Whoa, that showed up huge. Sorry about that!

OMG, the one that drives me up the wall is when someone pages the Dr. then will not answer the phone. So, the phone is ringing off the hook, I answer it and have to go up and down the hall searching for the person who paged them. Meanwhile they are doing a dressing change or starting IV:angryfire

I hate the garbage that piles up in an isolation room. At my hospital housekeeping will not go into room until discharge in most cases.

My biggest pet peeves:

1. Wife drinking the last of the milk then putting the empty jug back

in the fridge.

2. Wife using my razor.

3. My wife not answering to my girlfriends' name. :chair:

4. Dog drinking my last beer. :beer:

Men not understanding why women are :angryfire mad :angryfire at them for calling them the girlfriend's name.

:chuckle :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

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

When people use rude, degrading generalizations to answer questions.

(Prime example: animosity in nursing, when people say it's because "women are catty". :rolleyes: )

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