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?

I am on a kick right now so please bare with me.

I LOATHE nurses talking $h*t about CNAs. I LOATHE nurses and administrators acting as if the job of the aide is ignorant, monkey work. I LOATHE that they are still being called nursing assitance. Lets take a stand for our CO-WORKERS. Reform, reform, reform. Start 1st with title change. I like Patient Care Technician. Or maybe Nurse Technician. Opinions?

I'm not sure how a title change will make a difference... you'll still be doing the same thing and still will be viewed the same way by ignorant people.

What's wrong with being an assistant to the nurse? After all, what you are doing is actually the most basic of the nurse's job. CNA's save the facility money and free up the nurse for duties not just anyone can do. CNA's assist the nurse. No shame in that.

"Nurse Technician" is not a good term. Around here it is already reserved for nursing students working in a hospital setting. It is a special role for students. Also, "Nurse Technician" implies that the tech is a nurse... which they are not.

I've only ever saw one nurse treat the aides badly and she didn't last too long. Just for a visual, I still remember her stupid little pointy cap on her oddly small head, which was attached to an enormous pear-shaped body. She behaved as ridiculously as she looked. When she delegated, she'd throw a condescending smirk with a swift cock of her head and actually point to her cap!!! Anyway, I didn't let her make me feel like a monkey because the problem was her's-- not mine.

I will be bold enough to question if you exude a cocky or negative attitude that you are having such a hard time with the nurses. I seem to being seeing more and more ignorance on what the role of the CNA actually is. I hope they are stressing in CNA class that aides are actually doing part of the nurse's job and are expected to do that job with out having to be begged to do so... as with any job.

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Specializes in Medical-Surgial, Cardiac, Pediatrics.

Changing central line dressings. Or really, anything that requires sterile technique. I'm really clumsy, I'm not a Type A personality, so the tedious and specific focus that sterile technique requires really just irritates me mentally. Which is while I'll never work in the OR, haha.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Don't know what happened to the quote from HygieneQueen that I tried to post here.It was about the small-headed, pointy-capped, pear-shaped nurse who pointed directions with the tip of her pointy cap.

:roflmao:Bbbbwwwwaaaaahahahhhhaaaaaaaaaaaa!:roflmao:

I feel like I have worked with a clone of this nurse! Absolutely love your description!

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Did an AWESOME ear irrigation today. It was the muddiest I've had in a while.

What did you think of the ear lobes? Or were they your own?

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.

I loveeeee doing central line dressing changes, and I'll even do your trach care and changes without complains (as long as the patient is under 20kg), but just somebody please trade me and feed my patients for me? Whether its bottle fed or here-comes-the-airplane with a spoon, if it takes you longer than about 5 minutes to eat I am losing my mind thinking of all the other stuff I need to be getting done.

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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.

Ugh this is so annoying. They always call at 7:30 and want a full update on what grandma did all day. Geez give me a bit of time to actually see everyone.

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Orthostatic bp. Hate it. Charting the same thing over and over in different places, waking patients up at 6am to give them their protonix or whatever stupid med can't wait till 9am med pass. Wearing tb masks, I can't ever breath in them. Gross stuff doesn't usually bother me too much though.

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I have nothing significant to add to this thread other than I highly appreciate it! I AM bracing myself for trachs. I can already tell that will be my weak point. Down with mucus! :yuck:

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Specializes in Long Term Acute Care, TCU.

Snowflake Preceptor

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Taking off antiembolic stockings and seeing a cloud of dry skin flakes float into the air. So disgusting!!!

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Specializes in Oncology.

Sometimes when the patient care technicians are too busy I help out and give my patient his or her bedpan. The part I have trouble with is actually rinsing out the bedpan using the faucet/spigot piece of the toilet. I can't seem to angle the bedpan in such a way as to prevent water (or dirty water for that matter) from splashing everywhere. I'm sure microscopic amounts of bedpan excrement are flying everywhere spraying towards me!

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Specializes in ICU.
Sometimes when the patient care technicians are too busy I help out and give my patient his or her bedpan. The part I have trouble with is actually rinsing out the bedpan using the faucet/spigot piece of the toilet. I can't seem to angle the bedpan in such a way as to prevent water (or dirty water for that matter) from splashing everywhere. I'm sure microscopic amounts of bedpan excrement are flying everywhere spraying towards me!

Put a chux in the bedpan if the patient has to have a bowel movement. Then the bedpan itself stays clean and you just ball up and throw away the poopy chux.

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