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 use to say trachs, until I started taking care of children with them. Its amazing what you can do for a child to help them feel better. Love my babies.

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Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
Putting in IVs. I miss every time and it makes me feel like an incompetent nurse.

For now on, I won't even attempt it. I suck at IVs.

I too suck at IV's. I keep trying but dang!

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Charting. I'm all for the gross stuff, but charting is loooong and booooring.

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Specializes in Cardiology.

TEDS for sure. Transporting immobile patients down to CT/Xray/MRI in the middle of the nights with multiple lines. And filling out the white board, I don't know why it annoys me so much! Probably because it's so menial and you get written up if it's not done. So dumb.

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Specializes in Med-Surg ICU.
Earlobs,ear wax,hearing aides and ear rings....Not going there....NOPE

Ugh, i hate ears too!!

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I dread calling a family member to inform them their loved one has passed. Its hard to find the appropriate words and not sound uncaring.

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I don't like wound care on huge necrotic wounds, also tap water enemas are a big mess especially on patients that can't hold any tap water. But honestly if I had more time and wasn't always working on the next round of meds I definitely enjoy doing the actual nursing skills more.

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I hate this so much, it is the one thing I will gladly delegate away, if I can and if I can catch a free, trustworthy tech. I totally admit it!

I also hate doing fingersticks and hate worrying about insulin and blood sugars. I see a carb count and I cringe.

I have no clue why I hate these things.

I also recall how I hated to give a particular nursing home resident his shower. He was easy enough, but he refused to use a shower chair, was unsteady and liked to use the shower curtain (of all things!) to catch his balance. Made me nervous watching him swing back and forth from the curtain like a monkey! My best friend, however, hated giving bed baths... well, I love to give a good bed bath, so we traded.

Well, wouldn't you know my bed bath resident decided to die (out of freaking nowhere!) on me in the middle of the bath :eek: I rolled her over to wash her back, rolled her back and she was dead! My friend still makes fun of me for it 25 years later... and I learned that trading off seemingly annoying tasks doesn't guarantee you won't find yourself with something even worse.

I laughed way too hard at this!! Yikes...

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There is nothing more horrific than when a patient calls to use the commode during a night shift. I don't know what it is but my rage just hits the roof. And, if the patient takes forever and a day to get up and to pivot and all the rest, I am seething. I smile through the whole ordeal but absolutely hate it.

I also hate..simply hate.. filling out the flow sheet indicating vital signs. Despise it actually. I know it's important, but when I have to stop and mark down the readings.. I resent it because of the heavy heavy workload.

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Taping tele strips into the chart

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I have never done one and I don't think I can because I would never let anyone do that to me as a patient, sorry.

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Charting.
Hands down, the worst.
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