What do you HATE to do at work?

lossforimagination · Jan 2, 2005

All of it! I hate everything about the hospital. And I won't even step foot into a nursing home. I'm doing home health at the moment and it's paperwork hell, but nothing as despicable as the hospital. Hopefully, I'll never have the "opportunity" to go to another hospital.....I definately don't want to be a patient myself.

ragingmomster, BSN, MSN, RN · Jan 2, 2005

feeding people who do not want to be fed.

Co-workers with fecal halitosis. "Um, can you talk to me from over THERE please?"

germain · Jan 2, 2005

This is really really discusting so read at your own risk

I thought I could do anything, take anything. I work as an aide in a big university hospital. One day the STAT nurse came to ask me to help her bring a body out of the Morgue for a family viewing on a sunday. The nurse was really nervous, trying to talk the mother out of it- she wanted to see her daughter who died of liver regection TWO DAYS prior. Mother said "I watch ER" So we went down (nurse and I- mom outside)to the morgue to set up the body on a stretcher. To take a body out of the fridge you use a lift like a Hoyer. THe smell was very powerful, and my nurse was a nervous wreck, so we weren't paying attention and the body tilted on the sling as we were trying to bring it onto a stretcher. ( no it did not drop- THANK GOD) WHen we opened the bag TONS of fluid had poured out from her stomach and my nurse just flipped out- tried to sop up the mess as best we could but- wow- that was a whole new world of yuck I never want to revisit. I could smell that smell for DAYS. I don't mind post- mortem care but two days post mortem? I wish the nurse had just said NO!

So I hated that.

Stehulak7 · Jan 2, 2005

I absolutely cannot stand to dump out bedpans, bedside commodes into the toliet. The sound is disgusting. I always stand as far back as possible.

I also cannot STNA's who do not give proper care and then ask for my help. I used to work with a women who was constantly never to be found. One day i was taking one of my residents into the bathing room, and there she was talking on her cell phone. I reported her to the nurse. You are there to do the job, not talk on your phone. I could have understood if it was an emergency of some sort but they should call the facility.

Dplear · Jan 2, 2005

It's a tie between emptying rectal tube bags and colostomies. Eeeh gads. Also hate dumping the contents of suction cannisters into the toilet. Makes me gag bigtime.

Ummm....thats a MAJOR OSHA violation. Suction cannisters are NEVER to be dumped out per OSHA they are to be disposed of in red bags. The fine is about 50,000 bucks for doing it.

Dave

ReinventingMyselfAgain, MSN, RN · Jan 2, 2005

Co-workers with fecal halitosis. "Um, can you talk to me from over THERE please?"

OMG!!! I can't stop laughing. Working nights, I feel like that is me. Thankfully, we have lots of mouthcare on the onc. unit (it tastes great!!!)

wjf00 · Jan 3, 2005

I hate to float. I think it is time we as a profession stopped this arcane practice. Can you imagine a plummer showing up at the job site and being told, "Sorry we are down 3 electricians today, and you have a tool box so you are an electrician today". Or how about telling one of our Neonatologists, "we had a sick call in Telemetry, so you will be covering for a Cardiologist today".

Jen,SN · Jan 3, 2005

I can handle any body fluid: sputum, urine, poo, vomit, blood...but I cannot do sweat. Ugh! Changing sheets that are all soaked in sweat just makes me shiver.

Oh, and dry skin that flakes off. I cared for a patient a few weeks ago who said that no one had taken off her TEDS in 9 days--when I peeled them off, this cloud of skin flakes went everywhere. I was certain I had inhaled them. Yuck.