What do you hate most about your job?

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Hey lovely (or studly) nurses,

Upcoming strong word advisory.

What do you *hate* the most about your job? Like over the past week or so --

what have you been most stressed, angry, hurt, or annoyed about?

I'm doing some informal research to help me understand the needs of nurses….and would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks!

Negative coworkers. Constant complaining about patients. Inadequate staffing.

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I hate my whiny coworkers. Whine, whine, whine.

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Specializes in PCCN.
Poor management... Hiring travelers while refusing to increase pay to local norms, running off the best nurses, staffing with 90% inexperienced nurses because they've treated people so poorly that everyone has left. Terrible communication, inaccessible management. Bad attitudes... Hard to overcome in current environment.

I am working exactly where I want to work, I don't want to leave...

You at least get travelers . We don't. we just run short if someone calls in sick. Manager doesnt help.

This is what I hate about this job.

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Hey pigginsrn,

Thanks for your thoughts! I can see how each of those would be a challenge. And the three together quite unpleasant...

I'm curious,

1) How does the negativity and complaining affect you? (example: puts me in X kind of mood, makes me start doing Y, etc.)

2) What kinds of things have you tried when you're around negative co-workers and the constant complaining? What (if any) kind of effect did it have?

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I hate my whiny coworkers. Whine, whine, whine.

Hey bossman,

Thanks for weighing in.

Whining, ug.

How do you handle the whining when it happens (e.g. ignore it, confront the person, make a joke, etc.)?

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You at least get travelers . We don't. we just run short if someone calls in sick. Manager doesnt help.

This is what I hate about this job.

Are you kidding, martymoose?!

No backup?

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Short staffed!!!

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Specializes in ER.

My pet peeve is when other departments make changes for us to implement without getting our input. Or they ask for input after the decision has been made, obviously it's all just for show. I went in to a meeting to provide nursing input about the layout of the new med room. Unfortunately they had already done the plumbing and ordered the counters. There was nothing left to decide.

Any nurse has had policies change that give nursing something extra to do because another department prefers it their way. For example, patients getting a CT need IV access with a minimum #20 in the AC. We try to keep this in mind, and will start a new site if there is time. They prefer a particular extension on their saline locks too. All our rad techs can start IVs, so when they start sending patients back to the ER because their preferred IV isn't in, it gets frustrating. If we complain, we're told that we are all part of a team,(but so is everyone else).

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I do not hate anything about my job.

What I do not like about the healthcare system is that the amount of work for floor/bedside nurses and the pressure to perform tasks for more and more acute patients. In a lot of cases it is a punitive environment and since there are already new graduates waiting an employer does not have much problems to replace those that do not "perform" 100%.

Also, I do not like that management in a lot of places will still guilt trip nurses into working more, "extra" and so on (the reason I left home hospice and home palliative care).

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Specializes in currently, hospice.
Poor management... Hiring travelers while refusing to increase pay to local norms, running off the best nurses, staffing with 90% inexperienced nurses because they've treated people so poorly that everyone has left. Terrible communication, inaccessible management. Bad attitudes... Hard to overcome in current environment.

I am working exactly where I want to work, I don't want to leave...

What she said.

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Are you kidding, martymoose?!

No backup?

Not remotely uncommon.

I have an Honorary Man Card now, so I think I count as studly.

This week the charge nurse assigned me two postop patients at literal opposite corners of the unit. 11 rooms apart, and we only have pt rooms on the outer perimeter.

Unsafe lifting expectations at every single nursing job I've had.

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Specializes in PCCN.
Are you kidding, martymoose?!

No backup?

nope- no backup. and although I wasnt there today( and no one called) I find out they had NO techs/aides because of 2 call ins and one medical leave. so no aides for 26 pts acute care on days.

Im sure we'll get glowing reviews for our customer service.

Oh, did I mention that? Customer service. with your hands tied behind your back. ugh Dont get me started. Sorry.:banghead::(

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