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?

Specializes in Labor and Delivery.

Charting q15 mins for pit patients.

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Specializes in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgical.

Oh, where to begin-

1) chasing after pharmacy both to verify my meds and send up my pharmacy-prepared ones

2) paging residents off-service to give me basic order parameters

3) attempting to keep up on whatever stupid policy change someone on day shift or higher-ups felt the urge to implement, usually results in more charting

4) charting

Pretty much anything that takes me away from my patients.

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Charting. I need a scribe. Preferably one with mind reading capabilities. That would be the best Christmas gift like....ever.

I always thought that nurses should have the same capabilities of doctors and be able to dictate their assessments to be transcribed in the medical chart... Wouldn't it be nice?

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Dealing with families.

The phone.

Frequent interruptions.

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1. Charting

2. Patients who don't bother to ask the physicians questions or express their needs when they make their rounds but instead wait until they leave to ask me for x-ray and CT scan results or want me to call the physician for issues they've been having for hours or days. I ask why they didn't ask him or her when they came to see them. They say they don't know. Keep in mind I work night shift. :facepalm:

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Specializes in SNF,LTC,LTAC.

1. The phone

2. Crazy family members that mess with the medical equipment even after they've been told several times by the DON, ADON, administrator, and the Unit manager not to. When rounding on their family member you find a full IV bag of antibiotics full when it was supposed to be finished, tube feeding formula all over the bed, and o2 turned up to 10 L when the patient is on 2 L NC and the patient also has a bloody nose as a result. (End rant)

3.Chart checks. They must be done but they are a hassle.

4. Spending 20 minutes trying to find things I need.

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Specializes in Pediatric.

The phone. DEALING WITH MANAGEMENT. The phone. Also, did I mention the phone?

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Specializes in Pediatric.

Oh. And. PHARMACY.

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

Having to do others' work. What in the world prevents, say, pharmacist to call MD? What prevents the same pharmacist to just take a look on the meds the patient takes to see 5 (FIVE) different anticoagulants there?

Policies, schmolicies about nuthin' ( and absence of them where they are needed for immediate access)

Supplies spread all over the local Universe because "we always keep'em there".

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Charting q15 mins for pit patients.

And THIS, right here, ladies and gents, is why I want a scribe. LOL.

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Specializes in ICU.

Catering to family/visitors. Explaining every step I take or every titration I make, every med I give, every assessment i do, or every output I measure to family/visitors. Ridiculous nonsensical charting. Spending 89% of my shift searching for things.

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Specializes in ICU.

Oh and taking out the trash or changing full sharps boxes ðŸ˜

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