What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

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Nurses that are brilliant but do not know the difference between contraindication and contradiction! :rotfl:

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Specializes in Psych.

I hate to nitpick, but did you notice that your entry from the website used oriented and NOT orientated in it's "use of the word in a sentence" examples

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

Oh Yeh

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

Old nurses that talk about young nurses and cant even see how to start an I.V.

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Laziness such as unwilling to step outside an assignment to help another nurse or patient. Lazy RNs that won't get up and answer a light or get their hands dirty, lazy CNAs that scream at the nurse "why didn't you do it yourself".

Tardiness. Selfishness. Pettiness. Getting all bent out of shape about small things. Eating each other up for every petty little thing.

RN's who come in 2 hours late and say that they dont have time they need to put on their 5 layers of turqoise eyeshadow.

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DON's who come on the floor and ask you what you are doing!!! Im like working my tale off here, cant get so and so's IV can you try? DON: how does this thing work?

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Specializes in Psych.
My biggest pet-peeve after reading a lot of these posts, is how it seems to be okay and accepted to make vast generalizations about BSN students or BSN prepared nurses! It has really teed me off time and time again when I read some of these comments from people who LOVE to say all kind of negative things about BSN's. Everyone chose their particular entry into the nursing practice for whatever reasons..... if you are TRULY comfortable and happy with the path that YOU chose, then I feel that you would not feel the need to constantly find ways to down the BSN's (be it the program itself or the nurses) just to somehow try to elevate your particular educational choice! I personally think that people who tend to down others are doing so out of jealousy and/ or insecurities about their own whatever.... you fill in the blank.

I am proud to be a BSN graduate, I will be proud to be a RN (as soon as I take my NCLEX),....... I will be proud to be whatever I choose to be and I DON"T have to down ADN's or LPN's to feel that way. The differences in the educational levels are indeed differences, if it weren't then they would all be called the same, right! There's absolutely no need to say "Well, the ADN and the BSN programs are the same except those BSN's have "fluff" classes" or "We ADN's have much better clinical skills than those BSN's and yada yada yada. Anyway.... that is probably my biggest pet peeve since I have entered into this wonderful world of nursing. I have just started my 1st nursing job in the PICU and I am sure that in a couple of months I will have others, lol!! :)

Brina BSN Graduate....... and PICU RNA!!!!

No kidding. It has been my experience that more ADNs denigrate BSNs than the other way around. BTW, what is an RNA?:)

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Specializes in med/surg,CHF stepdown, clinical manager.
Talk about opening a can of worms...... :rolleyes:

Now for the clincher:

2. We are all human! When a nurse at any healthcare facility makes a mistake, that nurse gets yelled at, reprimanded, talked about, you name it. But when a doctor makes a mistake (yes folks, they are not infallible), it gets brushed off and swept under the rug.

(Quietly stepping down off my soapbox)

Or 95 percent of the time, it gets blamed on the nurse!!! Not fair!

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No kidding. It has been my experience that more ADNs denigrate BSNs than the other way around. BTW, what is an RNA?:)

RNA = RN Applicant

This is what my title is until I take (and pass) the NCLEX. You work as an RN with RN pay and privileges, but you're just an app!!

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
No kidding. It has been my experience that more ADNs denigrate BSNs than the other way around. BTW, what is an RNA?:)
It's been my experience that it goes all around from all sides, i just wish it'd stop.
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Specializes in Psych.
RNA = RN Applicant

This is what my title is until I take (and pass) the NCLEX. You work as an RN with RN pay and privileges, but you're just an app!!

Oh, OK. Wasn't familiar w/the term. Around here, we practice as RNLP (license pending) while we wait for the results of our NCLEX. Thanks for the response, I was curious.

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Specializes in Psych.
It's been my experience that it goes all around from all sides, i just wish it'd stop.

AMEN, Sistah!

Do you subscribe to the theory that management(TPTB) actually keep these disagreements brewing for their own evil ends? I'm not much for conspiracy theories, myself.

I often feel that all of this infighting/bickering is a direct result of the stress and frustration of our jobs and the perceived lack of power to do anything to change it.

Any one else?

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
AMEN, Sistah!

Do you subscribe to the theory that management(TPTB) actually keep these disagreements brewing for their own evil ends? I'm not much for conspiracy theories, myself.

I often feel that all of this infighting/bickering is a direct result of the stress and frustration of our jobs and the perceived lack of power to do anything to change it.

Any one else?

I think some of it lies from a personal insecurity.

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