What offends you (nursing related)?

[milesims]

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

Here's a quick poll;

[AspiringNurseMW]

I agree with Farawyn. It's refreshing to see a student with your maturity.

(LOL, I inadvertently typed "maternity" instead of "maturity.")

It wasn't an accident per say, how did you know I want to be an L&D nurse?!

[AspiringNurseMW]

Done.

Thank you for wiping my ass in 30 years...

If you are as entertaining as you are now, I will go out of my way to make sure the wipes are warm when I do!

[SleeepyRN]

Awwwww =( Im annoying?

Well, you know, you could just not read it. I think you love me, considering the way you look at all if my posts.

Eh, hem...narcissistic much. No, my dear. You do not have followers that love searching for your posts. When we see troll-ish posts, it prompts many of us to dig a bit and search other posts by that person....to see just how much effort or credit we should lend to that poster.

[quiltynurse56, LPN, LVN]

What offends me the most? Narcissistic CNAs who tell the DON and Administrator that she has to teach the nurses how to do their job? How can someone who is not a nurse teach a nurse how to do their job? She doesn't like it that she can't be in charge though she tries to be.

[milesims]

Eh, hem...narcissistic much. No, my dear. You do not have followers that love searching for your posts. When we see troll-ish posts, it prompts many of us to dig a bit and search other posts by that person....to see just how much effort or credit we should lend to that poster.

You do you, girl

[Pat_Pat RN]

Not much.

[elkpark]

I wouldn't say it's what offends me "most," but it's pretty high up on the list (and I've only encountered it on this site): Nursing students (or, even worse, would-be student nurses) who lecture experienced RNs about how we ought to be doing our jobs, clinically and in nursing education, and how we ought to feel about our jobs.

[needlesmcgeeRN, ASN, RN]

10 minutes makes a huge difference in a busy practice. Have you worked in a primary or specialty office? Yes, 10 minutes can and has thrown the entire schedule off. You don't understand the work flow. And if the person KNOWS it is difficult to make it to their appointments on time, they need to prepare themselves and leave earlier. If that means setting up transportation that has you arriving a half hour earlier, then so be it. I can't fathom how you think it is acceptable for not only the providers and staff to be inconvenienced, but also other patients.

Yes, they should definitely change the way they work to cope with the needs of severely disabled people, I don't find that at all unreasonable. I wasn't suggesting doing it for everyone, maybe reserve the tough love for the irresponsible and tardy able-bodied and minded?

And you can cry me a whole ocean about how hard it is to cope with one late person. I'd still prefer to stay a bit late than to expect severely disabled people to attend bang on time with no quarter given. Or to be that disabled person. My primary priority would be to try to organise a system which doesn't collapse when one person is 10 minutes late.

I also wasn't saying everyone should take no responsibility. I just think there should be a little flexibility. Compassion. Humanity. I don't think many severely disabled people take "no responsibility" for getting to appointments on time. Maybe some do, you could always have a sharp word with those people if you felt that was an appropriate response.

[ShaneTeam]

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

Of course nurses have a calling! The mortgage company, the electric company, etc.

[la_chica_suerte85, BSN, RN]

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.)

Oh no..........

I hope you guys got to fill out a survey after that and you Let. Him. Have. It.

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

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

I, too, spent about 15 seconds trying to figure out how that had anything to do with Pat Benatar before my reading comprehension kicked in.

HA! Thank goodness I'm not the only one!

I did that too. Maybe we are all about the same age? Love Pat Benatar and it is so fun to sing along with her on the radio.

Nurses who eat their young. Bullying coworkers because they are new, instead of helping them.

This ^ annoys me.

[ShaneTeam]

10 minutes makes a huge difference in a busy practice. Have you worked in a primary or specialty office? Yes, 10 minutes can and has thrown the entire schedule off. You don't understand the work flow. And if the person KNOWS it is difficult to make it to their appointments on time, they need to prepare themselves and leave earlier. If that means setting up transportation that has you arriving a half hour earlier, then so be it. I can't fathom how you think it is acceptable for not only the providers and staff to be inconvenienced, but also other patients.

Huh. I have never been late for an appointment, usually 20 min early, and I have never gotten back to the rooms until AT LEAST 30 min AFTER the set appointment time. Then another 30-40 min before seeing the Dr. for 5 min. Doesn't matter if the appointment is in the AM or PM. I say nothing, but it is irritating.

Now, you are saying all those times are because someone else was 10 minutes late, and you guys went into a panic??

How would you ever cope with having an admission in the middle of your shift, but still have to get everything done on time??