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 work for doctor ..... example: pt is waiting to be called into a exam room...let's say pt has been waiting awhile.....I call pt...walk him/her to exam room...and THEN THEY ASK TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!!!

That really irks me!!!

UGH!

Annor

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Speaking of proper eating habits...

My favorite food peeve is those ubiquitous "Got Milk?" ads with their cutesy little white moustaches. When I visited a junior high-school cafeteria, and noticed that none of the girls were selecting milk with their lunches in spite of a huge "Got Milk?" poster in clear view, I asked if any of them had seen the "Got Milk?" ads for drinking milk.

Their response: "If the people in those ads won't even wipe their faces, what do you suppose their a**es look like?"

So much for the brilliance and insight from Madison Avenue who seem to think these ads are just what is needed to prop up sales for members of the Dairy Council. However, maybe they should get out into the real world and see what young girls think of their ads.

While eating lunch with those girls (and drinking my milk) I explained why I wanted enough calcium in my bones that I would not break a hip if I fell, and we had a general discussion of the variety of foods that will provide calcium for the person who has medical reasons for not drinking milk. I hope that my words left them with a few solid reasons to consider their food choices in terms of good nutrition.

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Bringing this one back to the front again.

This isn't Little House on the Prairie....Flush that toilet after you empty the catheter into it!

AND RINSE OUT the urinal or bedpan!!! :uhoh21:

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Specializes in Stepdown progressive care.

1) Doctors who tell you to only page them with emergencies.

2) When you call housekeeping for a mop-up we have to have a 20 minute discussion of what they're moping up, where etc before they'll even come up.

3) Family memebers of patients with MRSA who let their babies lay in the bed with them and use the pts bathroom. This after being told that the patient has an infection and should maintain precautions.

4) Med rooms not stocked with syringes or alcohol pads on nights after the day charge nurse has sat on her butt the whole entire time night shift is taking report.

And this is a new one, I had just come into work and none of the day shift nurses were at the desk so I had to answer the phone when it rang. Well on the other line was a guy looking for a friend of his that might be visiting her father on our floor. Said the father's name was "Billy" and that's all he knew. Then proceeded to give me a description of his friend to see if I had seen her. Like I have time to search for visitors.

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Specializes in Palliative, Geriatics.

this happened last night.

call bell goes off, all three aides are busy toileting or getting residents ready for bed.(32 residents) nurse sitting behind desk 'reading' nursing drug handbook announces over pa that "mrs. so and so, requires assistance!". like hello, get off your a$$ and assist the resident. turns out, resident just wanted a drink of water. :uhoh3:

biggest pet peeve!!!!!!!!

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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!!!!!!

NO NO NO NO NO, that is wrong and should be dealt with. I would be insane and I would have a hard time being professional about this. It is nothing more than neglect. I don't care what time it is. GET UP AND DO YOUR **** JOB!!!!!!!!!!:angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :argue: :banghead: :banghead:

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how about a thank you to the nurse that does re-stock the med cart and has it all set for the next nurse to take down the hall? it's amazing how far those two words go......just a simple "thank you" to let that person know that what they've done for you is appreciated.

and could the shift coming on atleast act somewhat interested in the shift report i'm giving?! i realize it's night's report, and nothing happens unless it happens on days, but someplace in there i just might mention something important like the 377 fbs or the fall out of bed.

oh, i almost forgot...what about nurses that don't restock the med-cart and you spend half the shift walking back and forth to the med room to get meds, so your med-pass takes twice as long... 36_1_40.gif
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My pet peeve in nursing is "chaos". I hate tangled telemetry or monitor wires. Tangled unlabeled IV tubing and messy cluttered tray tables

A thousand amens!

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my pet peeve is when I'm working triage people drive up to the door and say they can't get the patient out of the car-----How did they get in the car??

Oh my God do I ever hate that too, I thought I was awful but now I know I am not the only one, and I also hate the one that comes in shaking and the daughter says hes going to pass out on you from the dehydration , how many times has he vomited well once but, ONCE COME ON GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK, :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

Having access blocked to a web-based hospital application which is required for me to do my job and being told by the IT people that it is fixed...only to discover that it isn't, and losing two hours pay because of their incompetence. :angryfire

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.
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!!!!!!

An incident report needs to be filled out on this one. If that patient were to suffer skin breakdown due to their obvious neglect and "passing of the buck" to your shift, it would never stand up in a court of law. Back in the old days, if I had KNOWINGLY left a incontinent patient wet or dirty at the end of my shift, I would have been fired on the spot. What the New World have wrought... :angryfire

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this happened last night.

call bell goes off, all three aides are busy toileting or getting residents ready for bed.(32 residents) nurse sitting behind desk 'reading' nursing drug handbook announces over pa that "mrs. so and so, requires assistance!". like hello, get off your a$$ and assist the resident. turns out, resident just wanted a drink of water. :uhoh3:

biggest pet peeve!!!!!!!!

oh hate the call light thing you just mentioned. if i wasn't busy, i would have answered it. last week on the opposite end of the hall i was working a call light was going off, the cna who was at my end of the hall (who was sitting at the desk on the computer, not working btw) was trying to page one of the rns to answer it, i spoke up and said "obviously he's busy, since you are not doing anything right now i think you can go help him." she was miffed to say the least, but you know what, i didn't care.

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