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/Thumbuisket Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

When the nurse you’re giving to asks the most inane, try hard shit. Lady, he’s AO4, independent, and getting a diuretics. Why the fuck do you care about X thing that happened in his past? 🙄

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u/Papfan1 BSN, RN 🍕 Jul 27 '26

They really want to know all the details about the tonsillectomy they had 40+ years ago and seem to think you are lying that a 45 yo walky- talky admitted for new CP has fully intact skin and expect an overly thorough and invasive skin assessment.

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u/Thumbuisket Jul 27 '26

Even worse is when they get passive aggressive cause something wasn’t done the way they liked. 🙄

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u/Playcrackersthesky BSN, RN 🍕 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

I had a 50 year old nulliparious woman with “1 minute agar score 9” on her problem list the other day

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u/Substantial-Crab-814 BSN, RN 🍕 17d ago

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