Certain nurses are just so obnoxious. I came in to work to find that this nurse I work with has done even more to annoy me.
The humidifier tubing is due to be changed once a week, drainage bag twice a week. I changed the tubing on the scheduled day. Come back in to work and she changed it a day later because the drainage bag was due to be changed. But she left the tubing too short so it was pulling on my pts neck. Plus she doesn't get that we will run outif she keeps going through supplies like that. She's so anal, to the point that she documents every shift that there is antibacterial soap and paper towels!! Ok, that's a bit much to me. She has it on the maintenance sheet to check the smoke alarms daily...again, a bit much. But yet, she documents some of the maintenance on the MAR and some on the maintenance sheet. She writes in every month on the MAR a place to initial for changing the gauze and felt the need to get an order for that. Its nursing discretion and already on the 485 for us to do that. We have an order on the MAR to spot check o2 every 2 hours and she has to add on the MAR "document on the flow sheet every two hours"....really?....every case we have we are required to document every hour on the flow sheet and we just record the vs as ordered without all the over kill. She is supposed to do all of the ordering for supplies but doesn't have a clue and we always run out because she doesn't call until we are out of something. The office has told all of us that we aren't allowed to order supplies and that only she can call. She got an order for us to wash our hands and had it documented that the soap was safe to use for the nurses. Again, really? I thought hand washing was a given. She makes the pt get up at the start of the 7a shift even when nothing is going on for the day. She won't let the pt who likes to sleep in get rest. The family stays up late on weekends, holidays, etc and it doesn't matter if the kid was up until 3am because that nurse is going to have her up at 7. She documents the angle every time the pt adjusts the level of the HOB and the pt adjusts the HOB sometimes every 5 min. She even documents what position the fan is in on the floor and at what speed it is running.
Every time I come in to work she has changed something. Great if its a necessary change! But 9 times out of 10, its ridiculous changes. She managed to get the office to agree to leaving the sxn machine unplugged until it dies before plugging it in. I refuse to work with a dying sxn machine. I leave it plugged in and charged because anything could happen. Policy is that the machine is plugged in or charged, but she still managed to get the director to agree. The director isn't a nurse and has no clue. I challenged the sxn machine issue and was told I had to do it the crazy nurses way. I still won't and I continue to document that the machine is charged and plugged in at the end of my shift to cover for myself.
The family complains to me that the nurse is always on the phone with the office about something. No case requires constant contact with the office like the family is claiming. The family says the nurse will give o2 just because when the pox was being turned on, a low number showed for a split second, but the pt before o2 will show a sat of 100% consistently.
