What offends you (nursing related)?

[milesims]

Discuss what offends you the most and why it offends you.

Here's a quick poll;

[milesims]

9. Lazy and/or ignorant pain management, especially when it involves labeling a patient as a "drug seeker".

10. Whining

11. Religious proselytizing

12. "Nurses' station character assassination" as my favorite instructor put it.

13. Failure to look out for the nurses who have to follow you (and clean up your mess).

I can completely related with you. You are amazing

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Everything heron said...basically nailed it.

To add:

Nurses who doubt their abilities, and are "stressed" over a particular low stressful task;

Nurses move up in status (ie management) but not in their knowledge base and lack basic competence-I'm a Pat Benner fan.

[heronurse]

Lying patients! I experienced this today. I have a patient that told me he wants to go to the bathroom to pee and said to take him after he eats. 2 minutes later the wife called the nursing station screaming and said why his husband is not being cared of.

[Workitinurfava, BSN, RN]

What offends me is having to hear about a nurses spouse or boyfriends problems at work for most of the 12 hour shift knowing that the person doesn't want help, just wants to complain. The reason I feel this is because if I listen and offer good advice they don't take it and come back to work the next day talking about the same problems.

[Palliative Care, DNP]

People that don't realize coworkers rarely make good friends. Eventually, something occurs and they feel hurt because their "friend" has betrayed them at work. We can be a team without breakfast or trips to the movies.

[NotAllWhoWandeRN, ASN, RN]

1. Nurses who assume some kind of moral superiority because they have a "calling"

But, but, according to this speaker my hospital dragged in from the Studor group, focusing on how nursing is a calling is one of the cures to burnout! (I'm so glad he pointed out that burnout is a problem with the individual and not a result of the system. I'm also not bitter.)

[dream'n, BSN, RN]

Mean, hateful, out-right lying families. Needy, yet very ungrateful patients that have no idea that the world doesn't revolve around them. These patients tend to be the healthiest on the floor, but they pull a significant amount of time from the very sick patients that do need alot of care. Many of these time-consuming fluff patients appear to want to be sick so bad.

Can't stand 'out of touch' administrators, that come up with ridiculous ideas to throw on the nurses backs

[djh123]

Right now? The 2 CNA's I worked with tonight. No, I'm not perfect either, and I don't want to elaborate, but it was a bunch o' stuff...

[amoLucia]

Nurses move up in status (ie management) but not in their knowledge base and lack basic competence-I'm a Pat Benner fan.

Peter Principle?

[calivianya, BSN, RN]

Nurses who doubt their abilities, and are "stressed" over a particular low stressful task

Yes!

And, the reverse, the ones who are totally nonchalant and ignoring life-threatening issues if they're not prompted and need to have their hands held to keep them from killing their patients. "Has your patient's blood pressure been that low long?" "Yeah, do you think I should call the doctor?" "Yeah, I think you should."

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

Nurses move up in status (ie management) but not in their knowledge base and lack basic competence-I'm a Pat Benner fan.

I am also a Benner fan, but I admit I read that as Pat Benetar. Lol. I am clearly in need of more coffee.

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

Peter Principle?

Exactly — people who are promoted to their highest level of incompetence.