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 Critical Care (SICU/Trauma).

Probably my biggest pet peeve is when the nurse I am following clearly hasn't done mouth care (VAP bundle) in a LONG, LONG time.

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When the pt has 2 IV's that both expired 2-3 days ago, and he has veins like a horse, we have had 2 patients on po abx now due to infected IV's on my floor. Seriously, it's that bad, and 4-6 shifts and NO one could start an IV on this man? He had veins like the mannequin you practiced on in school, only he was hairier. Come to think of it, his skin was easier to pierce than that plastic too.

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Specializes in Cardiac.
Probably my biggest pet peeve is when the nurse I am following clearly hasn't done mouth care (VAP bundle) in a LONG, LONG time.

Yes! I just wrote a whole thread about that! "lack of basic care--appalling!" Drives me up the wall!

:mad:

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Specializes in Med-Surg - Neuro Science - Cardiac.

My biggest peeve is a call bell ringing and a RN walks by without answering because it isn't their patient!! :rolleyes:

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Specializes in Hospice and Nursing home.

When I get asked are you a nurse or a LPN? Um.....both, k?

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coworkers :rolleyes:

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

"So you're studying to be a doctor, right?" :smackingf

And I hate it when the off-going shift leaves the room a mess, has an empty bag of IV fluids hanging (and this patient is on a continuous infusion) and when the water pitcher has been changed all day...

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Specializes in Med-Surg Nursing.

When I have to spend an hour cleaning up after the last shift! NOT with patient care things but with things such as syringe wrappers, IV tubing wrappers, medication vials that are strewn all over the med prep area. Walking into the CLEAN utility room to find supplies all over the floor because the previous shift RN's are too lazy to pick things up that they've dropped on the floor! It's the SAME RN's who do this time and time and time again!!!! I wonder who cleans up after them at home!

Day shift coming in late! The one RN lives FIVE MINUTES AWAY and she's ALWAYS late EVERY DAY!!!! We didn't start report yesterday AM until 6:58 and my coworker and I had 5 pt's to report off on. Our shift times start at 6:45am but because the day shift princesses don't WALK IN THE DOOR until 6:50am(or sometimes later) ,we don't get out on time!

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

When off-going shift leaves me with bad IV's...

and single-lumen PICC lines. Seriously, what's the point???

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Specializes in Med/Surg/Tele/SNF-LTC/Supervisory.

Trying to give report to the oncoming in the am and everyone is just chatting away having their coffee and muffin while I'm trying to get the hell outa there!

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

The "that's not my patient" coworker.

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I can't stand being interrupted during report or nurses who want to talk about how nice the patient is/or how horrible their families are for 20 min. I'm sorry they looked at you funny or asked for ice, however I can make my own opinion about them, thank you. Now lets get on the relevant stuff...

Also, when I am slammed and my co-worker is sitting down reading a book I tend to get irked.

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