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?

Soap suds enemas... Guaranteed mess

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Charting. Rather being do patient care than chart! Up to 8 hours of charting everything I ever did or the patient did in a shift... times 4-5 patients a night! Yeah...I hate charting.

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Specializes in TBI and SCI.

The other day I almost stopped breathing because the sacral wound was so gnarly. The wound itself I don't care about, it's the dressing and the smell lol

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Specializes in TBI and SCI.

Lol. You're so cute. Yes I think about things like that too! During care I always worry, "omg the water is on them, they must be cold hurry do and rinse and dry"

Or in trash care and suction I'm like omg they must be about to gag and cough pulling this thing out. I get so worried about them.

Wound care- I worse the tape is burning them when I pull it off.

Injections- yes they are getting heparin every day, but I'm like ahhh this small little needle hurts the most and it's a full syringe, I'm sorry!

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Pills. All of the many pills. And the fact that it takes me 2 minutes to open one little pill packet. I feel like I need a knife just to break them open.

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

Being held as physicians' private secretary of a sort. "Tell Dr. X that I want this and that done, but before that call Dr. Y and ask him to schedule trache if he still wants it done; otherwise, call Dr. Z and let him know that..." and so forth.

Doc, I know that you know what I know, but it doesn't make me responsible for doing YOUR job of communicating!

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

It's been awhile but there was a patient with genital warts, layer upon layer of them, from front to back and really thick around the orifice. Of course he was incontinent and generally immobile. Cleaning him was an ordeal for both of us. Finally found a peri bottle and rinsed him off.

I have a relative who keeps posting on postal media about how gardasil is dangerous and unnecessary and I always want to find a picture to share with her.

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From a nurse who started out this same way.... no way to improve if you don't attempt and practice

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Fall vitals and neuros after a patient falls Q15minx1 hour then Q30minx1 hour then QHx4 hours then 3x a day for 3 days. Too many vitals!!

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Specializes in PACU, Stepdown, Trauma.

Confused patients who move at the speed of light and keep trying to fling themselves out of bed (PLEASE don't fall).

Stool samples and emptying bed pans and commodes with stool in them (even with a chux, it somehow ends up on the pan). C-diff and GI Bleeds.Makes me gag every time. Foot long abdominal dehiscences right next to an ostomy that's leaking stool into the wound... I somehow made it through that dressing change but almost fainted afterwards.

I will happily suction your trachs, do your trach care, clean dentures and put in NGs for you! Mucus and vomit are not a problem at all.

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

Putting on TED hose. Not great with resp stuff like suction. Thank goodness we have no trachs on my unit.

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Crushing up meds for ng or dysphagia pts. After searching the whole floor for the pill crusher, I almost always forget to grab one pill and end up pounding the darn thing with a flashlight in the room... gotten weird looks from many families that way...

And then the patient prefers to take them in chocolate pudding instead of applesauce and. I. Can't. Even.

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