What annoys you most in your daily tasks?

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Hello everyone!

Did you ever thought: Oh boy, if I could really get rid off this part of my daily work ... I would have so much more time to do the really important stuff here :-)

What du you think?

I'm imagining a place with coffee flowing freely and kittens romping in the halls. But that's just me.

LOL - that is too funny!!! Love it...

We do have a Keurig and the coffee is flowing freely in the morning if you bring in your cups....

No kittens but that thought is so funny!!!

I can not complain though. I have worked in highly rated hospitals and was less satisfied because working as a bedside nurse is very different. I also worked acute dialysis and loved it but the frequent on call and unpredictable work hours per day made it hard to plan anything.

I like that I can apply a lot from my graduate studies and that I am generally speaking provide work and assistance that is meaningful.

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I'm going to agree with charting- it's so time consuming!

Also- phone calls and processing orders. We don't have a unit clerk and it's an insane amount of work on top of everything else I have going on. If I could just get rid of the clerical stuff I would feel so much less stress.

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Specializes in Hospice.

Picking up after previous shift, including cleaning/stocking the med carts.

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical/Float Pool/Stepdown.

Since charting is legally necessary :cautious: And appropriate staffing doesn't seem to ever be a realistic probability, then how's about not searching high and low for supplies?

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Specializes in retired LTC.
Utility work, checking frig temps, filing, stocking carts...

Must be an 11-7 nurse! Knows the routine well! :roflmao:

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11-7 nurse I am! :)

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What bothers me most? Employees who won't or don't do their jobs so what they're supposed to do gets piled on the nurses. We don't have anybody to deliver linens, bring up breakfast trays, or take a patient to the BR because the tech is out back smoking. No problem, I'll leave my critical care patient or stop in the middle of a postop assessment to put a patient on the bedpan, stand at the elevator 5 minutes, go down to the linen room in the basement, go by the kitchen for the tray cart, and oh by the way the pharmacy tech is at lunch so I can also run by the pharmacy on the way back.

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Specializes in ER, Trauma, ICU, CVICU, EP.

Charting in a non-nurse friendly computer system, looking for stuff, multiple phone calls for one thing. Basically, anything that is a time suck. These are the most aggravating parts of my day. There's no amount of planning that can compensate for continuous roadblocks.

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care-Family Medicine.

I'm in a clinic. We have more clerical staff than nurses, so why in the world do all of the forms get dumped on my desk. I am NOT a clerk and don't have time to do your job and mine. I have to do the stuff you legally can't do (like medications, labs, direct patient care) so why can't you just fill out this stupid form.

Sorry for the rant. It's been a long day [emoji35]

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Specializes in ICU, trauma.

I'd say just waking up in the morning :sleep:

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Oooooo sevensonnets! Yup, yup, yup!

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Anything that the tech strangely delegates back to me. "Hey, can you grab the vitals for xyz? I'm behind." I'm ALWAYS behind as a nurse, and you just sat on your phone for several hours when you could have been getting to work...it irks me bc I can be their relief but they can never do my assessments, give meds or chart for me.

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