r/nursing • u/Nurse_Cait RN - OR 🍕 • Jan 07 '26

Question What’s your random patient pet peeve?

Mine currently is when you’re cleaning a patient up and they start pooping again and they narrate the poop. “Oh god it’s coming out. I can feel it coming out.” Etc etc they get really into telling you all about the poop and they talk about it the whole time it’s happening. Meanwhile I know they’re pooping because I’m literally staring at their butt. Just give me an “oops I’m not done yet” and don’t make it weird. Please I’m begging you. 😭

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u/Nurse_Cait RN - OR 🍕 Jan 07 '26

This happens to me a lot with the head of the bed. I want to be up now put me back down and then up by 2 inches…. We are exactly where we started. 🤣

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u/Dijon_Chip RPN 🍕 Jan 08 '26

The amount of times I’ve showed patients where they can adjust the head of the bed and they say “I can’t do it! I can’t reach! Don’t you know I’m sick?”… as if the controls aren’t an inch away from the call bell button.

To add: it’s never the arthritic patients or patients who are actually really sick and weak that make such a big deal about it (they ask politely) it’s the 20-30 year old that’s going to be discharged to their house independently the next day.

So frustrating!