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 NICU, PICU, educator.

Cleaning up and stocking after the previous nurse. At least leave me supplies to get thru the first round of cares!

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Specializes in Family Medicine.

Constant phone calls/interruptions. Especially, during med pass.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

Agree that I'd love to dump a huge portion of the charting. I work in a SNF so our charting requirements are probably significantly different from the charting in an acute setting. We use a ridiculously designed EMAR/ETAR program that requires entering the same VS information in about 4 different places. Also signing off multiple idiotic orders every shift that aren't even really orders. Why do I have to chart every single shift that every resident on any psychotropic is not having any of the listed side effects after being stable on the med for years? About 90% of these people are on some kind of psychotropic by the way. Not to mention the required narrative charting on extremely stable residents. I spend more time trying to figure out a new way to say the exact same thing I said yesterday using different words than anybody should ever have to. Some nurses will continually copy/paste their previous note but I just can't quite bring myself to do that.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.
I'm going to agree with charting- it's so time consuming!

Also- phone calls.

Phone calls! Yes! That could / should be answered by someone else. Not nursing related. Time consuming!

Duplicate charting sucks! Charting pain levels for each person 3x/shift is redundant!

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Specializes in OR.

Answering pagers and phone calls for the surgeons. Some find it amusing to have me search their waistline to find it under their gown. And having to deal with those calls while I'm supposed to also be charting, opening supplies and implants, trying to do a sponge count AND running out of the room to fetch a supply we didn't have in the room. Then to be put on hold when we return those pages because the nurse who paged is now on to another patient. Have only seen the following page once, but we all got a good laugh out of it...and i didn't have to return the call... A nurse asked for a "STAT A1C".

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

Getting report on 6 patients from 5 different nurses who each begins with "this is going to be your problem child".:madface: And you ask why I only sign up for one shift per week? It's that old cause-and-effect thing that apparently you still don't get!:smokin:

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I love my job and all of the people involved. I even like my boss, coworkers, patients and their families LOL

But I can have the most childish reaction to the copier running out of paper. Why can't the fairies keep that sucker full?!

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" Spending 89% of my shift searching for things."

Holy ****! Do you really spend that much time for seach? Do you work in a gigantic hospital? What stuff do you search?

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Specializes in Flight Nursing, Emergency, Forensics, SANE, Trauma.

Losing pens, finding pens. Rinse and repeat

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