What I have learned to HATE about Nursing

[OhioCCRN]

**VENT VENT VENT VENT **

5 months into nursing as a RN, not a student.....

1. Dumb Residents. Yes... they do exist with their idiotic order sets.

2. Management saying " Staffing will get better- we are working on it"

3.The PCNA who charts nurse notified re: crazy vitals and they never said a word, so when you check vitals half an hour later, you see a BP of 190/110.

- same PCNA who wont do a manual check.

- same who tells the POD #1 pt " 99.1 temp? oh you have an infection.we have to tell the DR"

4. Family members who come running to the front desk screaming "i need my moms nurse...she was supposed to have gingerale. its been 10 minutes. this is unacceptable"

5. HCAPS!

6.Other departments that won't lift a finger, and spend 5 minutes hunting down the nurse for something idiotic like a blanket...

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

A nine-page thread that went off-topic with post #2! A new record!!

[Gold_SJ]

XD With Dudette, this thread just went totally off the charts. Would expect it's closure sometime as it hasn't resulted in anything really positive other then people disagreeing whether it's right to vent, not vent, when one can vent, what topics to vent.... you get the idea.

All in all I think everyone has the right to their own opinion, whether you want to vent or not. Just take the disagreements with a grain of salt OP not everyone will agree with your POV so don't take it personally, while others will be more then happy to share their experiences of their own frustrations.

I honestly respect both you and GrnTea you're just opposite sides of the coin on this one. Individuality makes the world go round I guess. I saw it as a more teasing comment then meaning to be harsh.

Hope things get better in the areas you pointed out. Some things at work really can drive you crazy at times. I totally agree with that XD

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

"so you have never complained about nursing, wow. i find that hard to believe. yet, you complain about others complaining/venting. "

no, i have always belonged to the camp that one can feel powerless and whine about it, or you can set about trying to do something about it. i was like this even in my first year of work. it's like we say in scouts: he who complains the most gets to run it next year.

before i had been at work two years i had contributed to a project to completely overhaul our icu's documentation to make it more intelligible and easier to use (and had the unexpected side effect of making the whole unit's awareness of physiology better, since all the causes and effects were right there in front of us). i helped develop better documentation for our donor-transport program because the stuff we had sucked. later i too a year's turn at chairing the staff nurse committee in charge of doing stuff (for lack of a better name), organized our donor transport supplies for ease in use, got an orientation program together including flight time in an air ambulance, and started a primary nurse program for transplants.

granted, we had a wonderful head nurse who let us do all that sort of thing so long as we could justify it by showing benefit (bless you, laurie gunderson, wherever you are:heartbeat); but she appreciated initiative. yours might be just as annoyed about those things you complain about as you are, but be bogged down by her own set of challenges. why not add to the solution instead of just whining about the problem? you, the staff nurses, are in the best position to figure out what would work better.

right now, i don't work on the perfect med/surg unit. i work for myself, which was a scary transition but is.... perfect for me. so i do not have much to complain about (except my cat contributing to my written work product by tromping on the keyboard), and if i do it's only my own fault.

in sum: i am willing to ignore a "rant"if so labeled (we all have days like this) but may likely be less tolerant of a "whine."

[GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

hate is a strong word to use in this scenario, and so it goes... i dislike it when i call a meeting and all i hear from nurses is their whining, it almost sounds like a litany for which i can almost recite by memory. for example: their schedule disapproval, the work conditions, having too many pts., how come so and so gets to leave early, i don't care to precept anyone, etc. therefore, take all the if’s and buts out of your head, it doesn’t matter if john or linda had a better schedule this week than yours this is you we are talking about and not them. in addition, think about the situation and why it happened the way it did. having said that, if another party was involved think about the situation from their perspective or if no party was involved, think about the situation from a neutral perspective. furthermore, list out all the possible ways you can potentially change the situation to be favorable for you. in conclusion, i have inform all of the nurses if you come whining about some issue you better have a solution for it, in other words "if your not part of the solution, then you must be part of the problem"

[jelly221,RN]

I'm gonna get back on topic - MDs that are CLUELESS about Core Measures to whom I hafta explain why pts with an MI must be prescribed a beta blocker upon discharge.