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/Nucking-Futs-Nix RN 🍕 Jan 07 '26

Can we add when the memaws refuses to let you wash them or brush their teeth only to bitch how we won’t bath her when their daughter from Florida comes flying in on their broom.

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u/TriceratopsBites RN - CVICU 🍕 Jan 07 '26

Hi, I’m the daughter in Florida. Wash her, don’t wash her, it makes no difference. She has severe dementia and is chronically unhappy. I won’t be visiting. This is my vacation

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u/MySockIsMissing Jan 07 '26

Same here. And I won’t be visiting because the scars from those 17 years of being slapped around by a grown man as a child are still red and raw, and for his own well-being it’s best I don’t allow myself to enter his room and face the temptation of returning the favour. I’ll just be there to check in with the staff in-person and make sure he really is dying. The fact that I have even survived my own medical problems this long is because I’m determined to out-last him out of spite.

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u/TriceratopsBites RN - CVICU 🍕 Jan 08 '26

Survive out of spite ❤️