Spelling/pronouncing the names of drugs incorrectly. Example, last week, i corrected a MAR that read "Phergan Suppitory" instead of phenergan suppository.
I hate when people call vicodin "VICODAN"
i hate when people call phenergan "PHENERGRAN"
i hate when people call risperdal "RISPERIDOL"
and then put this on the MARS.
i hate when people write on a MAR "Lotrisone Cream to affected area". can't they be kind enough to tell the rest of us where the affected area is??
I hate being called "waitress" YES IT HAS HAPPENED!!
I hate when people put the call light on, only to go in their room and they ask me for the remote, which happens to be 6 inches in front of them. Alert, oriented people, who just think they're in the Hilton vs. the hospital.
OK I have a few.... starting with all those spelling errors I see on MAR's...We had one unit secretary who wrote Hydrocortisone 5/500 q 4hrs prn on the MAR.... ummm try hydrocodone..... I would have just chalked this up to being a newbie mistake if just a few days prior she hadn't been acting all high and mighty saying "I have an associates degree." and if she hadn't gotten all peeved when I would not redline the order as it was.
Here's my biggest pet peeve.... and this is no one's fault and there is really nothing to be done about it... but why oh why does every patient want a pain pill or have to pee at change of shift and then get PO'd when it takes a little longer.
Next biggest pet peeve: direct admits from docs who for some obscure reason, cannot make any consults to specialists even when it's indicated. The patients really think these docs are THAT good. But we know better, don't we.
I had a parent of a frequently hypoxic child who always discussed whether her "stats" were low or high today in report... drove me crazy b/c otherwise no medical terminology got past this woman and she was very intilligent and on top of the kid's care... but over a decade of pulse oximetry and we were still monitoring her "stats"
Specializes in home & public health, med-surg, hospice.
Okay, here's a few more since I've had time to really think about it.
Nurses who refuse to log all of their hours b/c they're afraid it'll make their productivity look bad. This in turn, forces all the other nurses to wind up in the same predicament or face discipline for productivity discrepancies.
Nurses who refuse to practice good nursing judgment when they're dealing with VIPs b/c they think they'll get in trouble w/ mgmt. if they do.
Nurses who b!tch & whine about their woes instead of presenting their problems to mgmt. W/ POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS b/c they just know mgmt. won't listen.
ok, i still have more!! doctors who tell a patient that they are going to make a small incision ACROSSED their abdomen.
how about patients who don't want a pain pill when you ask them, but once you are a few rooms down the hall, they suddenly have excrutiating pain!
or the ones who WALK up to the nurses' station telling you about their horrible pain, you give them a couple of pills, and they continue to walk outside, smoke, hit the vending machines. all while experiencing this HORRIBLE pain!
or the ones who DEMAND you call the dr for colace.....at 9 pm on a weekend.
or the ones who complain of having loose stools 6 times all morning, but as soon as you tell them you need to see it, they suddenly stop having them.
Patients who tell you they are all right and need nothing for pain, 2 minutes later the doctor writes for another pain shot because they got told a completely different story.
Patients who tell you one thing in their history, and tell the doctor something different so that you sound like a fool.
The patient that denied anticoagulants until he was prepped for a cut down central line, then said "oh, did you mean my Coumadin? I forgot about that!"
Why is it that if anything is gonna go wrong, it happens at change of shift. I have gotten to the point where I go last thing before report and eyeball all my IV's and I still have pts turning on the light about the time I start report to say the IV hurts or is leaking. Is there little IV trolls running up and down the halls messing things up at 6:45 every evening???? When this happens I have to either stay over and restart the IV or go home feeling guilty that the IV was left for the next shift! Arghhhhhhh!
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Sapphy, BSN, RN
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OK I have a few.... starting with all those spelling errors I see on MAR's...We had one unit secretary who wrote Hydrocortisone 5/500 q 4hrs prn on the MAR.... ummm try hydrocodone..... I would have just chalked this up to being a newbie mistake if just a few days prior she hadn't been acting all high and mighty saying "I have an associates degree." and if she hadn't gotten all peeved when I would not redline the order as it was.
Here's my biggest pet peeve.... and this is no one's fault and there is really nothing to be done about it... but why oh why does every patient want a pain pill or have to pee at change of shift and then get PO'd when it takes a little longer.