ADN 2002

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...

The sad thing is that so many of these family members are SO VERY IGNORANT, and even worse, they don't care that they are. Did you ever want to shake a visitor and shout "WAKE UP!!" We have so many issues with visitors, particularly the "under 14" r...

All right, fess up. How many of you screen your calls against the facility where you work? Here's my story: I have been on vacation since last Tuesday, and I'm scheduled to go back tomorrow. I got called twice yesterday by my facility asking me to ...

HA! That's hilarious... UPDATE: I was NOT the on-call nurse for the evening shift tonight, the supervisor yesterday saw a problem with staffing and made a decision to inform me I'd be staying late. :angryfire I should start keeping a copy of the ...

I'm thinking I probably didn't ask my question correctly -- I think we ALL probably check our caller ID before answering the phone. To rephrase, I guess what I'm asking is how many people look at the ID, see that it's work and say "ha! yeah, right...

LOL, I totally agree. No offense to anyone intended, but this is absurd! Who ARE these people? Are there other similar "agencies" out there?

We open lidocaine as it's needed. Depending on the doctor, we'll either pour it into a sterile cup on the table or the doctor draws it up (while we hold the vial) with an empty syringe from the sterile field. I think it's a good idea, cuts down on ...

We have to call in to the house supervisor -- all but one of them asks why and most of them try to talk you into coming in anyway. The one that doesn't ask says it's a HIPAA violation.

Actually, in my facility, PP technically just gets mom - we have a well baby NBN. (Not to say the baby never comes out to the room and we have to handle baby care as well.)

For the most part, I am happy with postpartum. I kind of wish I had just postpartum patients so that I can do all the good teaching stuff but in my facility, they throw in lap choles, non-infectious med/surg overflow, breast surgeries, GYN surgeries...

That's hilarious. :yelclap:

I am a PP nurse. Our patients do not recover in L&D - as soon as the episiotomy is sewn up, they're out the door to us. The biggest problem I have with the labor nurses is that they'll sit on a patient in recovery after a c/s or take a while wit...

I'm an OB RN with an ADN.

For the record, I AM nice. I am not saying everyone should talk/think/act like nurses, but it's not unreasonable to expect a patient to know what they're allergic to. I also have no problem telling a patient exactly what will happen to him/her if th...

I got so messed up on my meds (namely, Effexor) awhile back that between that and my natural tendency for mild tachycardia I ended up in the doctor's office with a resting heart rate of 160. Bought myself a night in the hospital on tele with that on...

Okay, here's another one -- how about when you walk in the pt's room and their phone immediately rings and suddenly it's like the most important call in the world and YOU have to wait for their stupid phone call (does not matter you have 15 things yo...

It's times like that you want to tell the pt "Okay, well, we'll know for sure when you're in full-blown anaphylaxis!" How dumb can people be?

Good grief! I've had stuff left for me (not nearly as critical as yours) and it really bugs me. The IV thing would have totally freaked me out..

*gasp!* You mean you DON'T know what the little white pill is? Despite the fact that only about 50% of the PO meds out there are little and white? LOL! I love to give the pharmacists a hard time on that one -- "you mean I can't send their pill bo...

It sounds nuts, but I sit sometimes when I'm watching TV or something (not looking at my arms) and palpate veins - I learned fairly fast how they feel and where they are and now I am a lot more confident in starting IVs.

I would probably unleash on the family member and say all (okay, maybe not ALL, but most) of the things I wish I could say to patients and their families.

I am so aggravated. I have been ill since last weekend (on and off, I have times that I feel okay), but earlier in the week, I was having diarrhea x 3 days (TMI, I know) and actually had a syncopal episode while at home alone (not really sure why - I...

I actually have a doctor's appt. tomorrow with my PCP - I think I"m going to see if he'll order a couple days bedrest for me..I think I need that worse than anything else right now. :stone

I also work in a hospital in a small town - my hometown of about 10,000 people. And, while I know a lot of people on my own - a great many more people know my parents and recognize the name from my name badge, so this has come up a lot. I'm also an ...

Exactly. What is the point of having sick days vs. vacation days if all you can touch really is vacation days? I've worked here three years and I've only been able to use "sick" days once -- after I'd been hospitalized and made to stay off of work ...