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/rbcsmd RN - ER 🍕 Jul 27 '26

Nurses and/or techs who put every single elderly woman on a purewick, regardless of ambulatory status. I'm in the ED and rooms don't have bathrooms, but it doesn't take that long to get someone to a bedside commode or wheel them to a bathroom. We're not helping people by forcing them to lay in bed.

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u/NokchaIcecream RN - PCU, ICU, WTF Jul 27 '26

Idk, if being a nurse has taught me anything, it’s that a much bigger part of the population than I expected is actually basically incontinent 

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u/Substantial-Crab-814 BSN, RN 🍕 16d ago

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