What Is Your Biggest Weakness?

leslie :-D · Apr 15, 2005

my biggest dislike are the adl's, even if i do get to assess their skin.

also paperwork where it's a triplication of efforts....documenting the same thing in 3 different places.

my biggest weakness is getting sidetracked, i.e., doing one task then getting pulled in 10 different directions and forgetting what the original task at hand was.

Jennerizer, ASN, RN · Apr 15, 2005

The paperwork.........it takes way too much time. I cannot wait for computer charting.

Jen

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JeannieT · Apr 29, 2005

Speaking of computer charting....for those of you that have went to it....does it help with the paperwork? Our hospital is supposed to be computerized by the time I graduate (woopee).

hollyster · Apr 29, 2005

Mine is perfectionism. I will still wake up in the middle of the night wondering if I forgot something. I thought that I would have gotten over it when I was more experienced but I haven't. :rolleyes:

I also hate road trips with ventilated pts. :angryfire

ERNURSE4MS · Apr 29, 2005

I(and everyone around me) would have to say my biggest weakness is MY BIG MOUTH!!! If I see something that is wrong, I say something and I tend to speak what is on my mind. Some people do not like that. I just feel that people need a little reality and less butt-kissing. If a pt is non-compliant, I tell them(tactfully) that they need to get their disease under control, and then I explain the risks involved. But the what gets me in the most trouble is I question why something has to be done a certain way. Just because is not good enough. Well I guess I had better shut up now, my mouth just keeps going

mchup · Apr 29, 2005

Okay, guys....nobody here has mentioned weakness in ability to identify a tissue on a microscope slide by its histology!!!! :rotfl: So, as a pre-nursing student, I'm asking you, are you all just fantastic at that, OR...is it really not part of the job???? :chuckle Do you actually ever use the histology in any way that you had to learn in A&P????

I'll sign myself...

Frustrated student who can't tell a larnyx slide from a trachea... :sniff:

agwilkerson · Apr 29, 2005

Uh, nobody has mentioned food yet (esp chocolate) I work in the operating room and there is never a shortage of food. We eat when we are happy, when we are stressed, when we are bored...I've put on 25lbs since I started working in the OR 12 years ago.

aileenve, ASN, RN · Apr 29, 2005

Then I would have to say my biggest weakness in nursing is a strong dislike of doing ADLs. Handling someone else's dentures makes me want to :barf01:, and I don't enjoy toileting, feeding, bathing etc. either. It's not that I think I'm above it or anything---far from it!---it's just a really boring part of the job. Give me an unstable post-op, a mystery to solve, or an upset family member any day.......I love a challenge. Just don't make me stand there for 45 minutes and feed someone who doesn't want to eat, or take LOLs with weak bladders and bad knees to the toilet every half hour so they can dribble 50cc in the hat. I know it's got to be done, but I just hate it.

Ditto

Midwest4me · Apr 29, 2005

Well, I, too, must be a twin to several of you here as my biggest weakness is my big mouth and perfectionism--speaking my mind when things are not done "right" the first time; worrying about "the smallest things and everything in between. Sometimes, though, the worry is indeed warranted!

My mom got diagnosed a few mos. ago with a brain tumor, has been in and out of the nursing home to the hospital on 2 occasions due to definitely poor nursing judgements/poor care and I've been very vocal with the staff who cared for her. I try not to be too critical but in a recent situation, severe pitting edema was overlooked. :angryfire No call was made to the MD until I brought it to the nurse's attention to call the MD! :uhoh3: After several days and Lasix 20 mg ordered once a day was doing nothing, I raise the issue with my mom's radiologist during a radiation appt. Thankfully a doppler was ordered! It showed she had a deep vein thrombosis from her left ankle clear up to the top of her thigh!:angryfire After her last admit to the hosp. we did NOT readmit her to the nursing home but placed her elsewhere.

Ok--I've run off at the mouth again---

Oh--hey Agwilkerson those 25 pounds you gained is not too bad at all in my opinion for that amount of time--I've gained 30 in 9 mos since changing jobs from LTC to group home nursing(much slower pace)!

pooh54 · Apr 30, 2005

Hmmmmm...are we twins? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Triplets, actually. :)

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Apr 30, 2005

Little babies and kids, upset and crying. I just want to cry with them. Always have.

leslie :-D · Apr 30, 2005

another weakness i thought of and mean seriously.....my damned standards are too high.

i become extremely exasperated if i see shabby nsg care (nurses and cna's).

when i ran a floor, i would (diplomatically) point out various 'oversights' that hadn't been done. some of the nsg staff grew to resent me but after a few months, the cna's were performing top-notch care when i was on duty; they knew my expectations and standards of care.

so i must consider it a weakness but am still unwilling to lower my standards. i have high expectations and presume everyone feels as i do, which is not the case. and i still choose not to be more flexible.