The things you absolutely cant stand about nursing.

Nurses General Nursing

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Hey Guys,

I've worked as a CNA/GNA years ago and really enjoyed working with the patients, but after the birth of my child I managed to get away. Today I work at a University in the billing department; sitting on my butt, bored, answering phones and clicking the mouse all day.:crash_com Anyways I've decidied to return to school and I'm hoping to enter the nursing program next fall. I'm wondering if there are things that you can't stand about your job, well besides all the charting. :angryfire I know nowadays it seems to be more about the paperwork and less abou the patient.:heartbeatSo I'd like to know what specialty you work in, what shift, and the various things that really tick you off at work?

Specializes in Med-Surg.
Agreed. I have no idea why they do this. We had a cold day a couple of weeks ago and no heating. Had a lady up in her wheelchair with two layers, found her a fleece jacket from lost and found, had a lap blanket on. After much questioning and egging on to complain she said, "Well, I'm just a bit cold" Guess which dept got the blame for her being cold, maintenance or nursing? :banghead:

Yeah, our hospital was built in the 1950's, and has many problems. Our hot water was out a few weeks ago, so we had to put off bathing patients. You would not believe the number of patient and family complaint about the nursing being too lazy to bathe the patients. Speaking for myself, I know the situation was explained well to patients. One doting daughter, whom I had not since once during her mother's 3 week stay, didn't see why I couldn't just pop down to the kitchen and boil some water...:banghead:

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

Really stupid nursing supervisors.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.

Joint commission and press gainey

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Specializes in Agency, ortho, tele, med surg, icu, er.

The massive amount of junk food that nightshift nurses tend to bring to the floor for me to be tempted to eat. Im 33 years old and in great shape. Run 8 miles a day. Older I get harder it is for me to keep my 6 pack. I dont need that!

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Specializes in Med-Surg.
The massive amount of junk food that nightshift nurses tend to bring to the floor for me to be tempted to eat. Im 33 years old and in great shape. Run 8 miles a day. Older I get harder it is for me to keep my 6 pack. I dont need that!

At 20 I started working nightshift. I was 135 pounds, and run 5 miles a day. After 2 years on nights, I blossomed to 160, couldn't run 5 feet. And the climb didn't end there. one day I'll get back to that, I hope.

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