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please, please, for the love of pete....spit out your gum!!!!!! if i want to hear snap, crackle and pop in the morning, i'll eat rice krispies.

i literally could not continue my day until that was off my chest....

Specializes in Med Surg, Nursing Administration for SNF.
please, please, for the love of pete....spit out your gum!!!!!! if i want to hear snap, crackle and pop in the morning, i'll eat rice krispies.

i literally could not continue my day until that was off my chest....

you know, i think that b$$$$ sat behind me during my a&p exams. i swore that if i ever went postal, she would be at the top of the list. :coollook:

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Specializes in Telemetry.
Don't rush me.

Don't interupt me.

Pay attention!

Don't criticize what I do without hearing why I did it.

Don't ask me "Are you done yet?"

just get to the point....keep it short and sweet! please

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

Pet peeve in receiving report: report of normal blood sugars and how much sq insulin was given. At least in our system, that info is easily retrieved and not that essential to me at the beginning of my shift.

Pet peeve when giving report--quizzing me about something obscure in the doc's H&P, like pt had bunionectomy 35 years ago. Dude, I've been running my tail off for the last 8 1/2 hours--no dinner, no potty, and surely no time to read a dictation that wasn't available at the beginning of my shift.

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Specializes in ER, L&D, RR, Rural nursing.

Keep it short, sweet and to the point.

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Specializes in PICU/NICU.

Don't ask me when routine meds are due!!! And you don't have to tell me either.......... I will look them up on the MAR as soon as I start my shift and so should you!!! For God's sake!!! The kid is on 3 abx, 2 diuretics, and 6 misc. other things---- don't make me wait while you draw little lines with times next to them so that you can go through all the meds and make me read them off so that you can plug them in our your report sheet! :banghead:

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Specializes in Oncology.

I had a nurse fail to mention last week that the patient had an intercranial hemorrhage. I get it, you don't always remember everything. But that's kinda important. I wouldn't think you'd miss it.

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As a new nurse, this thread is proving to be quite useful! :)

I am always nervous about giving report and it always seems to take me a really long time to give it. I'm trying to learn to cut out the not so important stuff and to focus on the main things that happened during the shift.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

Short, sweet, and to the point is all you need. I say, I just need enough infor for me to keep my patient alive for 12 hours. I don't want the patients life sotry and neither should you. I'm not going to read off every result of every radiology scan because you can easily look that up. Just tell me the significant points of the patient's admission/history.

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