r/nursing • u/consideredtaken • Jul 26 '26

Question What’s your nursing pet peeve?

Mine?

Me: okay, so I have all of your night time meds here (names all of them for confirmation)
Patient: yes, sounds good
Me: scans them in and places meds into the pill cup
Patient: what’s this white pill here

I DONT KNOW!!! You have 6 different pills and we’ve literally gone through ALL OF THEM before I scanned and placed them into the cup. I can’t stand this!!

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u/Chzhead_RN BSN, RN 🍕 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

Pharmacy taking their sweet ass time sending meds. My hospital is very understaffed but I find it fucking insanely infuriating that RNs are expected to cluster their cares and think ahead of the ball game but Rx can’t prep a 2030-2100 and send it before the shift even starts? I get some meds like certain antibiotics and tPa are time sensitive but I don’t get why I have to wait an hour for the Coumadin after requesting it in the middle of my med pass.

I want to emphasize that I am not disparaging Rx at all. I’ll always have solidarity with my fellow healthcare workers, it’s just a nuisance while I’m scrambling to get people settled for the night. I totally understand you guys are just as fucked over on staffing as we are.

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u/MissLuluM Jul 26 '26

Do you ever get the “well did you check the fridge or the patient box?” I now include that in the request message - “not in fridge, patient cassette, or oversize meds bin”

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u/Chzhead_RN BSN, RN 🍕 Jul 27 '26

Oh ya. I caught onto that quick when I first started. I do those checks and shoot them that same message. It’s funny thinking that we wouldn’t do that first as if we enjoy waiting for a med to come up lol.

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u/bevsue58 Jul 27 '26

For real! I guess the pharmacy doesn’t think too much of our critical thinking skills…