I absolutely hate it when Recreation takes residents away without telling anyone. I go to toilet them and they're gone. Then they bring them back later and make sure to inform you that the resident is wet or full of BM. Okay thanks for giving me the opportunity to toilet them now that it's too late. Or if someone who normally goes to rec wants to lay down in the afternoon the rec people always come to you with a pained/panicked expression. "Mrs. Smith is laying down?????ohnoesssss!!!" Hmm, well Mrs. Smith is 97 years old and every now and then she decides she wants a nap.
And the volunteers! I swear half our residents are more A&O than some of these people. How many times do you have to tell someone "DO NOT COME IN" before they get it? They'll be transporting someone back from an activity and keep trying to barge in while we've got the roommate up in a lift with her butt hanging out. Can you not wait 5 minutes so this person can poop without an audience? Or better yet, leave the other resident in the hallway and GO AWAY. No, instead they just ignore you and barge in anyway, hitting you with the door and running over your foot with the wheelchair and then they leave with the resident parked ass-backwards in the middle of the room.
LOL, I've found that a response like that generally causes them to stare at you with a blank look on their face for a minute before it finally hits them and they say "OH. Oh, okay, just a minute..."
Mine: People who swing the door WIDE EFFIN OPEN while you're changing someone and ask "whatcha doing" like an oversized five year old...............seriously! What do I say-lost the carkeys, REALLY looking EVERYWHERE??? Sheesh.................
I also have a pet peeve for supervising nurses that ignore/laugh off important information. It's up to them to talk to the doctor not me... I'm the only one with the patient day to day and able to communicate for them at times..
If someone's respirations are normally 14 and the next day they are suddenly 32, I will ASAP tell the nurse and when she ignores it and laughs it off that is a major problem!
Annoying resident at start of shift didn't want to deal with a family that had been d/c during the prior shift and were taking our CSR stuff too literally. Yeah we say take your time leaving but it shouldn't take hours for you to leave the unit. Pt did not have a nurse assigned to them because they had been d/c for hours but wanted to bug the resident with questions they should have asked prior to the d/c process or during the final paperwork. The family just happened to be sharing a room with my pt and the resident wanted to pass the buck to me. I smile sweetly and told them to go speak with the head nurse or page the supervisor. Yeah I know all about that CSR B.S. they shove down our throats but I really DON'T have the time for this and anyway they weren't asking me for anything they were ASKING YOU! Resident follows me around whining but they are still here and blah blah blah after I told them to go to the head nurse. Yeah whatever....nurse gotta be responsible for everything. NOT.
Finally shift is ending two minutes till report and another PITA resident making early morning rounds. Ms. _____ wants to get out of bed and dangle a bit....take care of that. :uhoh3:Yeah it takes you two seconds to give an order and how long to execute it? Again, I smile and say O.K, I'm leaving in two minutes but I'll make sure it happens. They give me a dirty look like I was supposed to jump like a little lap dog. Whatever...I just endorse it to the next shift. Pt won't die from waiting to get out of bed a whole 30-60 minutes once that nurse gets report etc. I'm deathly sick and tired of leaving an hour after my shift for no extra pay due to these last minute requests. I've gotten to sneaking off the unit because I get inundated with all of the but the new nurse hasn't come to see me yet and I/my ______ just need this one thing etc or these MDs who always think it's only one tiny thing they want you to do Ad nauseam to infinity. Can my dehydrated, starving, and needing to pee very badly a** go home already? I sneak out the fire exit, walk down to another floor where they don't know me, and go to the elevator that way.
Nurse in middle of med pass (which by the way is NOT in a hurry because she was texting between meds) comes down the hall to tell me that the person she just gave meds to needs the bedpan....seriously? You had to walk all the way here to ask me that when you could have done it (in about the same length of time to text whoever back AGAIN) and just told me so-and-so was on a bedpan and too check on them?!!?!?
Nurse in middle of med pass (which by the way is NOT in a hurry because she was texting between meds) comes down the hall to tell me that the person she just gave meds to needs the bedpan....seriously? You had to walk all the way here to ask me that when you could have done it (in about the same length of time to text whoever back AGAIN) and just told me so-and-so was on a bedpan and too check on them?!!?!?
???ohnoesssss!!!" Hmm, well Mrs. Smith is 97 years old and every now and then she decides she wants a nap. 
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LOL, I've found that a response like that generally causes them to stare at you with a blank look on their face for a minute before it finally hits them and they say "OH. Oh, okay, just a minute..."
Very satisfying.