What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

Jamesdotter · Apr 28, 2004

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Epidermal when they mean epidural. Prone when they mean supine. Drives me nuts. Also the misuse and overuse of apostrophes, but that's not just a nursing pet peeve.

SchoolNurseLisa · Apr 28, 2004

family members who are not caregivers, staying in the room (refusing to leave), during personal procedures, (changing, ect.). I am a nurse, and consider one butt the same as the next, but my dad would rather die as to have me seeing someone wipe his butt.

apnteacher · Apr 28, 2004

Morning report where we find out everything about the visitors a patient had, and nothing about the patient's condition!:uhoh21:

Rozhinitsy · Apr 28, 2004

1) The word "breaching"!!! Patients have to stay in A + E for four hours then they get transferred to CDU, and if there are no beds available then there is a panic as the patient will "breach" the time and then hospital management get involved to find out why the breaching has occurred.

2) Patients whose lives get saved, yet they still find something to complain about!!

3) Patients who are non - compliant.

4) Arrogant doctors.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Apr 29, 2004

The word "delegate". "Ordered" is more like it.

Friesw/that · Apr 29, 2004

wimpy, winy, pissy, no-matter-what-you-do-you-can't-please-me PATIENTS.

patients who complain of pain 10/10,(PACU) and before i can get them medicated, want their pillow fluffed, their legs propped, the curtains closed, their family called, a cup water, another warm blanket ALL AT THE SAME TIME---then after they have gotten 8mg of Morphine(titrated, of course), have been snoring, they wake wondering when i am going to medicate them. :angryfire

Uptoherern, RN · Apr 29, 2004

feeding patients, walking them in the halls or to the bathroom. toooooo long. necessary evil.

reelmomrn · Apr 29, 2004

nurse thatwill not answer a call light and just let it continue to beep, even if you look at them an say hey that is your room they say yeah i know s/he is always on the light i will get it in a little bit. which i will go answer, i usually just go answer them anyway but if that nurse is sitting there jabbering or even doing paper work , i guess i am old school but i still think pts come first!

i agree with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reelmomrn · Apr 29, 2004

These young nurses werent raised with the same work ethic I was raised with

I hear ya! Patient care? What is that? Lets order out before we finish report, I am not turning that patient, I can not wait to find a doctor to take me away from all of this?

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Apr 29, 2004

My all time favorite.

The pt. on contact isolation, EVEN THOUGH you've asked 5 times "Do you need anything else?", after stripping your gear off, and taking one step in the hall, there's the inevitable "Oh, i'm not comfortable...". AS USUAL.

Loving Life · Apr 30, 2004

Nurses who do not rinse out their suction catheters after suctioning someone and lets it build up in the tubing and those who do not pick up their rooms.

FutureArmyNurse · May 1, 2004

I hear ya! Patient care? What is that? Lets order out before we finish report, I am not turning that patient, I can not wait to find a doctor to take me away from all of this?

TeeitupTom and reelmomrn:

I find this offensive. Are you saying no one in their 40s/50s/60s has bad work ethics? I am 25 and cannot imagine being described the way you described "these young nurses."

Please, let's not stereotype. It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round.