Pet Peeves

midwife2b · Oct 5, 2005

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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:

Else567 · Oct 5, 2005

This has happened to me more than once. Like I'm the one obligated to be on $h*t patrol.
Another thing, when nurses before you want to save time on the continuos feeding PEG tube pt's so they crush the meds and pour them in the bag getting the tubing nice and clogged and you get to change the whole thing out
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Wow,I'v heard it all now!
I cannot even believe that is leagl?
I would say not,unless specified so.
Happy Fall :blushkiss
Elsie

sonkat · Oct 5, 2005

My pet peeve is this: Consistant understaffing by management because they

want to save money. Patient's are not getting adequate care because you

can't move fast enough to meet everyone's needs. No lunch and you leave

late at the end of the day because you care about your patients. Then, to

top it off, you are told that you have to clock out on time, yet you still have to get all of your work done. ????? Help me out here someone!!! What's the

answer?

jodyangel, RN · Oct 5, 2005

amen sister!! My facility must hate staff, thats all I can determine. They would rather pay some travel nurse then let their own staff pick up extra time. They CANCEL us because travel nurses are guarenteed hours.

I'm really starting to hate working with travel nurses. Give me a good ole agency nurse any day!!

My pet peeve is this: Consistant understaffing by management because they
want to save money. Patient's are not getting adequate care because you
can't move fast enough to meet everyone's needs. No lunch and you leave
late at the end of the day because you care about your patients. Then, to
top it off, you are told that you have to clock out on time, yet you still have to get all of your work done. ????? Help me out here someone!!! What's the
answer?

Cheyenne RN,BSHS · Oct 5, 2005

My biggest pet peeves are simple ones.

1. IV bags at the start of the shift with

2. Coming back from 3 days off to find my same dressings and initial on a patient.

3. Peg tube feedings that beeped and annoyed someone once too many times so they "just cut it off and forgot it." Can you say s-t-o-p-p-e-d up tube?

4. Wall needle boxes so full you couldn't fly a gnat in them and no place to put your needles because no one took the time to change it out and put in an empty one.

5. Clean blue chux placed under a patient to cover up the dirty soiled one so things "look good" but the pads are dry with unmentionables.

6. Heplocks with antibiotics going that beep to be flushed, timed just right so that you have to run flush them before you can even greet a patient or assess anyone.

7. Rooms left in such a disarray on total care patients that you can't find a place to stand. Such as extra pads, pillows, diapers, 9 or 10 half open containers of 4 x 4's, six rolls of tape, IV abbc's brought in to start an IV line with and never removed, etc etc. But if the feeding tube is empty....not a single can of feeding is left to be found!

LOL

Retired R.N. · Oct 5, 2005

This is plausable (deterioration in route) in some cases - However, it is interesting to see a majority of these patients that are able to get in their own cars, go to the hospital, then act like they can't get out of the car and on "death's door" on arrival to the ER - walk out within 1-2 hours of being seen with little intervention.
It's just amazing!!! I guess "miracles" happen every day....

I wouldn't call it a miracle, but resting quietly in a safe place can do wonders for a person who has arrived in a stressed-out condition due to trying to drive an automobile under adverse conditions. I have seen this a number of times, and feel that anyone in a panic situation is vulnerable, and hyperventilation will often exacerbate the situation. Pease don't condemn people for having unpredictable reactions to what they think are emergency situations. When these patients recover after a few hours under your supervision, just consider it one of the rewards of "Good Nursing Care." :-)

pepcidcomplete · Oct 5, 2005

'wall needle boxes so full"

yep, where i work 98% of them are full

and the nurses don't have a key to open the durn box to change it. who's brilliant idea was that anyway... :idea:

have the box locked, and only house keeping can have a key.....duh:devil:

annjune · Oct 5, 2005

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 also get upset with people not putting bags In it seems as though I am the first one to use it with a hand full of stuff.I know the feeling

flashpoint · Oct 6, 2005

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

Doesn't bother me a bit when my husband calls me by his girlfriend's name...as long as he will answer to my boyfriend's name, we are good to go...

:smokin:

:lol2:

:biere:

sjb2005 · Oct 6, 2005

My pet peeve is this: Consistant understaffing by management because they
want to save money. Patient's are not getting adequate care because you
can't move fast enough to meet everyone's needs. No lunch and you leave
late at the end of the day because you care about your patients. Then, to
top it off, you are told that you have to clock out on time, yet you still have to get all of your work done. ????? Help me out here someone!!! What's the
answer?

Along with all that, your boss says that you can't get paid for that break you missed. "You need to find time to take your break". OH PLEASE.

sonkat · Oct 6, 2005

:confused:

Along with all that, your boss says that you can't get paid for that break you missed. "You need to find time to take your break". OH PLEASE.

Yes, you run all shift and every time you try to take your break, someone

throws up or needs something for pain. If you did what they told you to do,

you'd tell the poor patient "Well just keep throwing up and hurting for 30 min-

utes so that I can take my break"!! There's not really an answer and they know it. They couldn't do it either, but the answer is always "JUST PRIORITIZE AND MANAGE YOUR TIME BETTER". The problem with that is that

for the amount of time that you have, there is too much to do for the amount of staff you have.

rnparrot · Oct 6, 2005

Big Big Mess! Can I follow you after your shift is over? I cannot focus until the tangled web is straightened out. A major patient hazard. Especially when I worked IMC. Multiple IV lines, monitor wires, O2 tubing, catheter tubes,G-Tubes...On and on. All tangled and the patient has to get out of bed ASAP and toilet. Momma Mia.

oh my pet peeve entirely!! in fact, so much so it got me in trouble. i was in a pts room, fresh abdominal post op. had tubes and wires and drains everywhere. i swear the nurse before me painstakingly braided them all together just to annoy me. while i was in there, i had to step over the phone cord to get to this braided mess and needed to turn around quickly to leave and get a suction canister because braiding queen didn't think to notice the suction canister wasn't working, and i went flying across the room and blew out my freshly operated on knee...just came back from being out for the surgery!! words cannot describe my pain and anger as i lay on that floor calling for help. i think it will suffice to say that NOBODY likes tangled webs of tubes and wires and such, so please whoever you are, please stop making these messes!!!! you are making enemies!