Your Pet Peeves in Nursing..

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I absolutely totally detest being called, "Honey" or whatever other terms of endearment catches the person's fancy. Please stick to professionalism- I have a name, please use it. Tried to put myself in other's shoes and use the term and it was so foreign and unnatural to me.

This peeve, irks me to no end:uhoh3:.

Specializes in Med-Surg, ICU.

We gave a med on the floor the other night (well, the doctor did) that is supposed to be given ONLY in ICU, not even IMCU normally gives that med, as it is a neuromuscular blocker and can cause respiratory arrest.

The doctor gave a paralytic to a patient that wasn't vented?? Yikes. :confused:

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Specializes in cardiac/medical.

The lab tech that comes barrelling down the hall at warp speed with her rickety cart (thump, thump, thump), waking each and every patient whose room she passes.

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Trash bags!!! When you take a trash bag out of the trash can put another one back in. This really erks me

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Specializes in OB/GYN, Peds, School Nurse, DD.

I'm a school nurse and my biggest pet peeve is having to beg for basic supplies because the principal has not set aside one red cent for the clinic. My next biggest pet peeve is teachers who think they know my job. I have kids bouncing down the hall, grinning from ear to ear, who show up and say "My teacher says I'm not myself today and I need to go home." :mad: The most bizarre thing I ever saw happened last week when a teacher and a parapro tried to strong-arm me into sending my 6yo diabetic to the gym to get her school pictures made instead of waiting for me to finish counting her carbs and give her insulin. :uhoh3: "But they're WAITING for her~" D'oh!

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Specializes in behavioral health.

Cattiness among staff. Some nurses act like they can do no wrong. Sometimes, I think that they are just so insecure themselves. Of course, this is not just nurses, I have noticed it among counselors and techs as well.

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Specializes in Med Surg-Geriatrics.

Giving/Getting report,counting narcs...

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Having had a horribly difficult, demanding, and rotten dayshift, only to have a very snotty night shift nurse come

in and give me a hard time. Happened tonight -- and it was one of my managers. I am really ****** about

it and almost ready to just leave. Not just because of this -- but it sure is one of those straws that breaks

my back sort of thing.

Why/how can people be so rude and insensitive?? Dont' they get you are stressed, rushed, and doing your

Best???

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The lab tech that comes barrelling down the hall at warp speed with her rickety cart (thump, thump, thump), waking each and every patient whose room she passes.

I think you should speak to her about the disturbance- she may not even be aware.

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Noisy carts in general. My med cart rattles and squeaks, dietary carts sound like they're about to fall apart (plus all the dishes and silverware inside clank around), and the bladder scanner wakes up residents in the next county. The only quiet cart is the snack cart--it'd be nice if it made some noise, then I wouldn't get asked, "when are snacks coming?" 27 times each evening.

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Specializes in Medic, ER, Flight, ICU, Onc.

Putterers - people who work all the time, but never seem to be able to get anything done. Obsessors - people who make the job 50 times harder than necessary for themselves and all the rest of us if given a chance. If one form will work, they create three for us to fill out. And they always seem to be the ones on all the committees.

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Specializes in neurology, cardiology, ED.
Pts who don't ask docs any questions, then ask me all the quesitons after the doc has left. And docs who spend 30 seconds with a patient and don't take time to answer their questions!"

How about family members who finish having a 30 minute telephone conversation with the doc, and then call the nurse's station to have us explain what the doc just said? Have sat there and listened to the doc go over the step-by-step treatment plan for the patient with a family member, only to have said family member call and say "I need to know what's going on with (Mom, grandpa, husband, etc...) because the doctor hasn't told me anything." I then call them on it and say: "I just heard Dr. XXX on the phone with you for a half hour. What in particular didn't she explain?" Family member: "Well, she said alot, but I didn't really understand it, but didn't want to waste her time with questions, so I figured I'd call you back." Oh, so you'd rather waste my time! Thanks for that!!!

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My pet peeves are nurses who demand detailed report from you and will quiz you about every detail on the patient or if this or that was done (am fine with this because I give good report anyways) but they in turn give you shoddy report and get aggravated when you ask them questions....not cool:rolleyes:

Another is when a patient came in primarily because some acute pain (migraines or abdominal pain or tooth abscess) and has no pain medicine ordered and has not received any medication other than in the ER. I come in the patient is crying in pain and has been asking for pain medicine and nothing was done to address it and the previous nurse acts like everything is fine...the primary reason the patient came to the hospital was pain!!!:mad:

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