What nursing task do you loathe???

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Just realized today that I can't stand ostomy appliances. It's not the poop, it's just cutting and sizing the appliance and that messy paste. Tedious and irritating but somebody's gotta do it.

How about you?

Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.
Really? It provides immediate results, somehow satisfying.

This list is fascinating- every nurse is different.

I swear the following is true.

After one particularly difficult disimpaction the patient shuddered and proclaimed, "I feel so giddy!" I was thinking they do not pay me enough for that kind of service..

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I swear the following is true.

After one particularly difficult disimpaction the patient shuddered and proclaimed, "I feel so giddy!" I was thinking they do not pay me enough for that kind of service..

Psssst...WKShadow! One finger ONLY next time.

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Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.
Psssst...WKShadow! One finger ONLY next time.

Bwahaha!!

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I hate feet flakes! Oh and chunky vomit! Aaaahhhh!

I also hate watching other people put in IVs where they can't get the vein and the catheter is sliding in and out... in and out... I swear I get faint watching that. Lol!

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See now, I can place a bedpan with the best of them...it's the taking it out that I have trouble with. Inevitably there is urine (and most often something else floating around) and when I go to take it out from under them, it's super glued to one butt cheek.

Splash splash.

Jo's having a bad day.

Uh, yes! I had a woman who had just delivered using the bed pan and when I went to get the thing out, I came so close to being splashed with bloody urine that I yelped! I always have trouble with that. God forbid, one day it's going to happen. I'm going to start wearing mask and goggles when I take them off. LOL!

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Specializes in ED.

Accessing ports. I haaaate it and will pawn that task off ASAP if possible. I've no idea why, I guess because I am so used to peripheral IV access that it's foreign to me. I will actually try to do a peripheral stick on a pt with a port before I try to access the port. I would take a fecal disinpaction before I would a port, and that is saying A LOT.

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Specializes in Progressive Care.

Responding to family members' questions 10 mins after change of shift when I hardly know anything about the patient and haven't even done my assessment. And of course most of the questions are not even within my scope of practice to answer.

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Charting with a 20 year old computer system and not having any organization in the hospital for finding resources.

Also - feet are so gross.

Trying to teach patients that I know will be noncompliant the minute they leave the hospital.

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Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.

Medication reconciliation. I will do your gross things if you will do that. If no one is available of course I'll do it but it is so tedious. Especially when I get a 5 page med list from the nursing home.

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Surgical baths x2 on those frail little old people, with a broken hip/femur. It just seems like torture!

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Specializes in Critical care and home health.

Oral care and suctioning!!!!

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

Scrubbing, scraping, chiseling, prying, dentures until the **** things come clean.

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