What causes you to almost scream (internally of course) during your day?

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AnLe, ASN, RN

44 Posts

Specializes in Medsurg/Tele.

I had 2 patients assigned to me with ulcers. These people had been in the hospital for more than 2 days and no one had: taken pictures, documented in the chart, or completed the ulcer paperwork we are required to do. I stayed until 9am (I'm night shift) to complete both ulcer paperworks, midas, dr notifications, and initiation of orders.

No where in report did I hear about 1 patient's ulcer OR the never been seen 3rd ulcer in my 2nd patient.

BeckyESRN

1,263 Posts

School nurse here! 5th graders wearing 2 shirts and a hoodie with the hood up that are sent to the nurse's office for "fever, feels hot" well it's 80 degrees outside and even warmer in the classroom and they are bundled up like it's the dead of winter. 3rd graders that c/o "dry throat" but never thought to take a drink of water."My mom said you need to give this to me after lunch" while presenting to me a random pill from their pocket.Teacher's week being the same week as nurse's week and having a HSA parent say "You're not a teacher, but you can still have a cookie for teacher's week"but mostly parents...

NayNeyRN

12 Posts

41 minutes ago, BeckyESRN said:

School nurse here! 5th graders wearing 2 shirts and a hoodie with the hood up that are sent to the nurse's office for "fever, feels hot" well it's 80 degrees outside and even warmer in the classroom and they are bundled up like it's the dead of winter. 3rd graders that c/o "dry throat" but never thought to take a drink of water. "My mom said you need to give this to me after lunch" while presenting to me a random pill from their pocket. Teacher's week being the same week as nurse's week and having a HSA parent say "You're not a teacher, but you can still have a cookie for teacher's week" but mostly parents...

To be fair to the 5th graders, even though I’m a nurse I’ve always been perfectly happy to roast myself if I am sick and have a fever. I can’t stand the chills.

NayNeyRN

12 Posts

On 4/30/2019 at 8:22 PM, Snatchedwig said:

...sharing nurses week with the other disciplines.

As a night shift nurse- being an after thought or completely ignored for any type of celebration. Our facility is a specialty surgical center with an overnight inpatient pool. Everyone else goes home when surgeries are done and we drop down to skeleton crew nursing staff to take care of the inpatients. Everyone in the facility on days got treated to donuts for nurses week, nights didn’t even get leftovers...?

dream'n, BSN, RN

1,162 Posts

Specializes in UR/PA, Hematology/Oncology, Med Surg, Psych.

The computer makes me want to throw the darn thing at least once a day.

dhbrn

22 Posts

Humans. Just in general.

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