What grinds your gears about your coworkers?

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I absolutely HATE it when a pt is NPO and my coworkers document "0" as the oral intake labeled "NPO". Seriously? Just unnecessary.

What grinds your gears?

I guess it's how you 'read' the question.....I take it as just a vent.....not a 'let's dwell on the bad stuff' type post. I must say, I am only entering nursing core in MAY (fingers still crossed) and I opened the thread to see what NOT to do!!!!!!!!!! At my current job, we have a small lock box, and put in petty little b***hy comments (some legit) and discuss them. That way there are not accusations flying and ppl taking it personally. The petty ones don't even get commented on. There is no blame game, it is " I dislike when rooms are left a mess for ME to clean up' etc.....

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
Find it hard to garner much respect for someone who refuses to work. There was one nurse on night shift that literally slept a good 6 out of every 8 hour shift, every night, right in front of the house supervisor. She made fraudulent entries for BG results, as well as other charting. The CNAs were often remarking, while looking at her sleeping, that they never saw her go into a room to do treatments at all. I did not like being placed in a position of responding to these workers when they approached me to take care of her residents. It just added to my fatigue level while the woman slept.

:eek: How was she not fired after one nocturnal LOC on the job?!?!

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Annoys me NO END when someone uses all but the LAST drop of a treatment solution or crème and then puts the tube/bottle back in its regular place. Equally annoying is that NOONE else has ordered a refill.

Of course, I betcha that these are the same people who do the same AT HOME with the milk carton or toilet paper.

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

When a new nurse in private duty who works one day a week decides to re-organize the entire #%!@#$ supply closet "better", mixes speaking valves and HMEs and long tubing and short tubing and some tubing that hasn't been seen since. It never occurs to some people that yes, occasionally there is method to somebody's "madness". :sniff:

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:eek: How was she not fired after one nocturnal LOC on the job?!?!

I know that I was not the only person to pose this question to the house supervisor (or other supervisors). I had a particular reason for asking. The reply I got was silence.

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Specializes in ER.

To continue on my little vent regarding my narcissistic coworker: When someone triages a pt, we place them electronically in the room on a little cartoony computer board. Someone starts triaging and the first thing you can read is the triage note, that gets filled out first. Then the ESI, which is the triage nurse's first impression as to how serious the pt is.

No matter if the pt is an ESI of 5 for a toothache that they come in regularly for, he has to give a pompous sounding full report to you on the pt, basically repeating exactly what the triage note is. He's such a grandstander. I started just telling him that I read his note.

Did I mention that one of his failed past careers was as pastor? Another was teacher, and he had a construction business. He's an expert in everything. ;)

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Thanks to those who actually answered my question instead of trying to teach me a life lesson about letting the small things go. I definitely don't lay in bed thinking about this after work. I slept very well after my shift!

I hate messy rooms too!

:whistling: Wasn't trying to "teach you a life lesson". You don't get to choose or have to agree with what others say/feel in response to your post. We took the time to reply and share our views and you post a sarcastic comment in response. Some of us just try to view the world through a positive lens instead of allowing petty things to drive us crazy. I'm still curious as to why you HATE when your co-workers chart a "0" under intake on NPO patients. Does it cause a difficulty for you or is it just that it's not the way you would do it? You did come on here and post that you absolutely HATE when co-workers chart that so apparently it was bothering you enough to motivate you to vent about it.

We all have a right to our own opinions. Personally, I try to weed the Negative Nancy's out of my life as all they do is drag you

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preceptors that disappear for a 20 minute smoke break and leave 2 fresh orientees (me being one of them) to run a step down unit.

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Specializes in long term care, alzheimer's, ltc rehab.

Something that happened today...I'm trying to give report to this girl who was late by 10-20 minutes, then starts running around stocking towels in rooms and stuff. A=work starts at 0700, not 0720 B=just because I have 6 wheels to your 2 feet doesn't mean I'm gonna chase your ass down to give you report. On top of that, if we (the UCs) are not clocked out by 0707 we have to go fill out a form so we don't get an attendance point for clocking out late.

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Specializes in hospice.
He constantly acts like he is the smartest guy around, in a rather condescending, arrogant way, pontificating on factoids, but he doesn't get the big picture. Then he'll start telling a story about himself while you are charting or trying to work. The fellow seems to be in love with himself, I suspect he was an only child whose parents were into endlessly inflating his self esteem.

I have one of these in class. I have to make sure I sit behind him because I'm one of those people whose face shows what they're thinking. At work I control it, but on my personal time not so much.

Every time he opens his mouth, a frisson of dread and irritation goes through the room. Thankfully the professors seem to be catching on and shutting him down. There was a girl like that in my CNA class and the teacher just catered to her. We all would have been okay with seeing her broken body in a ditch by the end. Some of the less-controlled among us might have been okay with putting her there.

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Specializes in Transitional Nursing.

Med wrappers, wound care supplies, paper towels, etc. all over the room from the Nurses. (A select few, usually).

It also really bothered me when they wouldn't be careful when cleaning wounds on bed bound patients, forcing me to change the linens. Sometimes its unavoidable, but at least make an attempt....

I found it really inconsiderate. :(

OH! And fellow CNAs who would ask for help "transferring" someone, but when I got to the room they weren't even dressed yet! AHHHH!

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Specializes in Anesthesia, ICU, PCU.

People whose gears are grinded by the idiosyncrasies of my nursing practice grind my gears.

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