All nurses get frustrated, it's the nature of the beast. Nursing is stressful and we all have our pet peeves that drive us crazy. So we asked some of our community members what where some of their biggest frustrations as nurses and here's what they said:
1."Coworkers that consistently come in late and don't even have a good reason."-Brenda Carlson
2."I'm tired of nurses who are constantly on their phone. I don't care what you're doing on it, it's not appropriate for you to have a phone on the floor...period. It looks so unprofessional to the patients and is downright annoying to other nurses."-Renae Benson
3."I hate gum popping, smoking, cursing, tattoos and loud nurses. We work in a professional environment and there is no room for these things."-Francis Grant
4."New nurses who have attitudes and think they know it all. You have a lot to learn and coming in with a bad attitude is not going the make seasoned nurses want to help you. "You can catch more bees with sweet honey."-Lindsey Jenkins
5."Please read the patient's chart and stop asking me dumb questions. It takes long enough to get through report without me having to tell you stuff that you could just as easily look up on your own...So annoying! "-Kelly French
6. Nurses who say they're going to do something and they don't follow through. Say what you mean and mean what you say folks."-Belinda Nores
7. "Expecting the male nurses to lift your patients, just because they're male. Very annoying. I have broken two vertebra in my back lifting patients for others."Ted Brennan
8. "Nurses who think they're better than everyone. Get off your high-horse. You're no better than the rest of us. And please stop brown-nosing with management" -Diane Carson
9. "I don't like nurses who think they've been around so long that they can treat newbies badly. Why do nurses eat their young?"- Harriet Neice
10. 'Being forced to work overtime and being mandated to come in on my day off for inservices and meetings." lynn Grace
11. " Patients that think they can treat you like dirt, because their mom, brother, sister is a nurse and knows much more than you."-Paula Kennedy
12 " I don't like it when managers don't think it's their responsibility to help you in any way. Instead they think they can just hang out in their office and bark orders at you." Tonya Prince
13. "Under-staffing and too many patients. The ratios in our hospital are completely insane! It's unsafe for the patients and the nurses." -Vera Lee
14. Patients and families that think they know more than you do because they read WebMD. So irritating."- Hannah Curtis
15. "I'm tired of nurses who can't come in on time to work and when they do show up at 6:45 am, they think that they can spend 15 minutes goofing off in the locker room, getting coffee and idle chit-chat. I'm waiting to give you report so I can go home. Please be ready for work when you get here." Dana Ryan
16. "Nurse managers who work you to death, but don't wanna work themselves. Nursing is a team effort people." -Linda Harris
17."'Doctors who have "God complex" and treat nurses like dirt."-Cathy Pulaska
18. "Patients who wait till you're back at the nursing station and hit their call bell again. Um, could you please let me know everything you need before I leave your room."-Casey Lyons.
19. "Doctors who drop charts and leave them on the floor for you to pick up. Who do they think they are?"- Nancy Reilly
20. "Physicians who think it's NOT okay for you to page them in the middle of the night and get angry with you when you do. Sorry doctor, you made a decision to become a doctor and that's why you get paid the big bucks!"-Ashley Hone
Do you have a pet-peeve of frustration that really gets your goat? Spill it below in the comment section!
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Nurse Loretta Bledose is employed by Orlando Health and was a nurse for 40 years before she began an administrative role.