I really hate when I'm in triage trying to talk to a patient, when not only is the patient's relative is refusing to let the patient speak for herself but is also loudly shoving potato chips in her maw as fast as she can. And talking on the phone.
Another triage pet peeve is when people walk into the booth when I'm trying to triage someone and keep interrupting me. Like when the PA from fast track wants Motrin from my cabinet or wants me to put my code in the glucometer, and the fact that I'm inspecting a boil on someone's posterior be damned. Or worse, when my loud boss comes in and starts yammering at me about some kind of administrative crap. Or a tech stands outside the door and bitches loudly about her assignment. It's really disrespectful to the patient and it distracts them and makes the triage take longer.
What are some of you pet peeves?
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11 comments:
what i cant stand is when the patient is over the age of 18, understands everything fully, and the doctor talks to the parent, spouse or even the friend !
Triage pet peeve? People asking for a wheelchair who clearly don't need it. Toothache? Sorry, I won't be pushing your ass back for a toothache, you'll be standing up and walking, thanks.
In surgery, residents will keep bugging me to answer their pagers even when they see I've been running around during the case. "There are sick patients on the floor," they tell me. Sometimes I have to remind them that they have a patient open on the table! Duhhhhhhh...
Thinking that the hospital is the Hilton...I know my ass does NOT look like Paris. Sure I'll get you a pop, some crackers, your pain is 10/10, yet you were just laughing your ass off...
Docs who are suturing and get called to the phone, leave the room with their gloved hands in the air (like that's going to keep hall cooties off their gloves), and expect me to hold the phone to their ear. Take the gloves off, hold your own damn phone, and re-glove when you go back in!
They: "I am so worried about my child's fever that s/he's had all afternoon"
Me: "did you give the child any tylenol or advil?"
They: "no, I wanted you to see the fever for yourself".
Another new favorite, people texting while I am trying to triage them.
Oh goodness. Probably the worst are the people that have had the same complaint, without fail something like knee pain or a cough, for weeks, but who complain constantly and get indignant about the wait at the ER. Dude. If it wasn't an emergency last week, it's not one now.
Followed closely by 7 family members crammed into one room who totally enable people who are already needy whiners by asking me for a bunch of needless crap in order to "take care" of their loved one. Ugh.
On a Scale of 1 to.........
"20!!!!!!!!!"
Pisses me off- that's not a choice!
J
"You have all that in my records. Why do you ask that every time I come in here?
The patient that's been there all day, has had 3 or 4 docs in to see him/her...but when I arrive for the night shift....suddenly has a list of things to tell me at 11 pm..."I haven't had a BM in 2 days, I have chronic back pain, my throat is sore, this cough won't go away, etc." Ummmm...did you mention this to any of the docs that came in to see you all day long? "No." Why not? "I didn't want to bother them."
well, I'm an pediatric psych nurse and my pet peeve is when parents voluntarily admit their child (no court ordered commitment) but complain that "I don't know why they are acting like this...they didn't do that at home"
Come on then. Quit being lazy, take your kid home and RAISE them!
John-- OMG that's my #1 pet peeve. A scale of 1-10 means those are the ONLY choices!!
Saying 20/10 only makes me roll my eyes and label you a drama queen!
Or how about when they say "well, I have a really high pain tolerance"
I didn't friggen ASK you that idiot!
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