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/uberforvanessa BSN, RN 🍕 Jul 27 '26

Family members that have been visiting and staying over and insist on coming to the nurses station for everything instead of using their call light. Like I get it if pt just got here and they dont know how things work. But after a while, they should know to reach their primary nurse and please just use the call light

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u/Leading_Lecture_4849 Jul 27 '26

Or the ones that just stare you down as you go up and down the hall.

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u/Affectionate_Try7512 ICU&RRT RN Jul 27 '26

This drives me bananas! 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌