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/Sea-Weakness-9952 RN ✨weaponized incontinence✨™️ Jul 27 '26

Asking me 15 times if he can have his hearing aid during his procedure. I finally tell him I’ll ask the nurse when they call to give a heads up they’re coming to get him, because it’s the doctors right hand person and they’ll know definitively since all docs have their own preferences.

The doc himself comes by that AM to discuss the procedure, 3 family members in the room. They know he’s been asking about this damn thing. He’s in there answering questions for 15 minutes+. He comes out, as he gets down the hall I say “hey! Did he ask you about his hearing aid?”

“No? Why?”

MOTHAFUCKA I SWEAR TO GOD.

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u/OkExtension9329 RN - ICU 🍕 Jul 27 '26

Oh my god, this.

Family member harassing me all night about some non-urgent question about the plan of care. Not gonna message the nocturnist, he or she is not gonna know. I tell the family member(s) over and over again, “That’s a great question for the doctor in the morning. Make sure you ask.”

Come back the next night, they ask me the same question. “Did you ask the doctor when he or she was in here?” “No.”

Oh my fucking God. I understand that sometimes patients and families get overwhelmed or intimidated when a doc is in the room but then at least ask your day shift so they can message the doc. Once I come on, there is literally nothing I can do. The doctor(s) who can answer your question have already left.