What annoys you most in your daily tasks?

[mangi]

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?

[jelloqueen]

Care plans. Seriously, is there a better synonym for "wasted time"? We do them only because JCAHO demands them, JCAHO demands them because 30-40 years ago our nursing academics/theorists felt that they promoted nursing's identity as a profession, and no one has revisited the concept.

A revisit is badly needed. The idea that nurses need to use "nursing nomenclature" because we can't assess, define and meet a patient's medical needs using medical terminology is obsolete. The idea that we must write down universally accepted standards of care, and pretend that they are "individualized" to each patient....

[barbthenurse]

When the CNA's don't wash the patients faces (only provide peri care), don't bring them water, or fill out the room dry erase board in the morning.

[quazar]

Oh and taking out the trash or changing full sharps boxes ������

I secretly enjoy changing out a full sharps box. There's something so satisfying to me about taking that full box out and replacing it with a fresh box. Yes, I'm weird.

[Adele_Michal7, ASN, RN]

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.

This, and it gets uber fun when the family insists on taking snap shots of the DynaMap every. single. time. a set of vitals is taken.

[BSN-to-MSN, ADN, BSN, RN]

Annoying social workers, activity aides, dietary that sometimes think they're the nurse. Also, they come up to talk to you while you're pulling meds/drawing insulin, and start talking. Like their s*** matters more than yours.

[CountryMomma, ASN, RN]

My case managers writing in their notes "floor nurse present/notified". Oh really - its the first I've heard of it but sure, just keep writing it. I love looking like an idiot when I'm the last to find out sweet Grammy had to be ready for her medical transfer to GreyPerms Living Center in two hours, and I find out when the dear daughter starts packing up Grammy's room.

[brandy1017, ASN, RN]

Taking vitals because of the hassle with equipment, battery dead, shortage of the right size cuffs, previous shift leaving the thermometer probes empty. Then everyone needs either to go to the bathroom or wants something while the CNA sits and does nothing! Meds are such a pain since the computer and that brings back the stupid computer charting. Being forced to put Dr's orders in when the system is meant for the Dr to put it in and we are told they are to do it, but they refuse and the computer asks questions for the Dr so we have to guess what they want or call them back constantly! For some stupid reason the unit clerks are no longer able to put orders in. They keep adding to the workloand and then you come to work one day and they decide to raise the staffing ratios! Breaking my back moving people. People are a lot bigger now than they were 20 years ago! What I like is using my brain, not my body. Lastly hard to concentrate when a million different alarms are going off constantly! I guess I'm in the wrong field! My mistake not going back for an NP. I encourage the new nurses to go back to school and not plan on staying at the bedside.

[NotYourMamasRN]

My phone!!! Every 5 seconds it is a call from another nurse, the charge nurse, the doctor, another ancillary staff member, an overbearing family member that wants an update every 5 minutes or thinks that I have time to tell them all the meds their mother took last night while I am in report, the Tele monitor tech, pharmacy, case management, patients who want a ginger ale and the tech is on the phone, lab with a question about blood draws from the previous shift, etc. Some days with that phone, I want to Light. It. On. Fire!

[amoLucia]

Oh, and don't you love it when sharps boxes are overflowing because NOONE ELSE knows how to change it when it reaches that 'FULL LINE (like at 3/4 full)!

Or better still, they take the box out of the med cart but don't replace it and just keep dropping sharps down into the box!!!

[Debbie Anne]

1) Core Measures addressed in multiple ways.

2) Supply room stingy with stocking (to save hospital $). Then multiple calls to get those supplies sent to you from central supply.

3) Duplicate (sometimes triple) charting on the same thing. Supposed to be "paperless" but more and more forms to be filled out as the years go by.

4) Emails from management on what we aren't doing right, what we need to do better and also now we will be filling out _____ paper each shift. Oh and if you don't start or stop doing such and such you will be written up.

5) Losing our much needed only tech to a unit that "needs them more".

6) Two words - patient satisfaction

On the other hand there is a lot I love about what I do. Co-workers I love. Being involved in saving lives. The patients' (we've all had them) that have made an impact on your heart. Yep we put up with a lot of crud but luckily so far the positive outweighs the negative. I wouldn't mind getting rid of some of the above though!

[Scrubs_n_sirens, MSN, RN]

That when a family member comes to the ER, every other family member calls to "check on them." I'm perfectly cool talking to one person and updating them. I am not cool with getting pulled away from things and getting behind talking to one of five different family members every ten minutes.

[Scrubs_n_sirens, MSN, RN]

Oh and pharmacy having to venture out into the wilderness, collect all the things to make a drug I ordered, brew it over a bubbling cauldron under the full moon when Leo is in the house of Mars, and then forget to send it to me [emoji58]