*Easy* things I just hate doing

1 I am venting my pet peeves. I had one of each of these yesterday, 1 patient w/ 3 of these. Share with me yours.

I hate:
1. Giving enemas - I have never not caused a huge mess even before I get the solution INTO the patient.
2. Taking accuchecks - The accucheck needs a calibration or quality check, or has the wrong code card for the strips, or I don't stick the patient hard enough so there's not enough blood and then have to go run for another finger stick thingie because the second one I grabbed is faulty
3. Sitz bath - see #1
4. Simply having a patient in isolation - putting on and taking off the PPE can suck your time, and if the patient has the temp in their room up I get all hot and sweaty within 5 minutes
5. Putting in a foley - this is never as easy as it should be. Either the A&O patient is unhelpful "Please keep your knees up and apart Ms X" or the anatomy is unhelpful.
Not all of those things are easy. I hate doing controls on my accu check meter. I don't know why. I just don't like to do it.

Teaching crutch walking. Just don't like it. Everyone thinks they know how already and doesn't realize 4 weeks on crutches is different from 4 seconds.

I really don't mind doing any of those things. But I hate doing routine vitals. I don't know why, I just do. Mind you, I do them, and most often I do manual BP's because I don't trust our electric cuffs, but even in nursing school it was something that I just didn't like doing.

I'm with you on the isolation. Sometimes a section on my unit will have up to 3 isolated patients, but then we start switching them around so that the primary nurse has no more than 2 out of their 4 or 5 patients. Totally annoying though to have to gown and glove, then de-gown and de-glove (and sweat buckets in the meantime). I tend to cluster as much care/treatment/medication/vitals in one visit so that I don't have to visit as often (sad, but who wants to risk spreading it to everyone else!)

definitely bathing people oh and sticking for blood...especially blood cultures

I hate dealing with isolation! The easiest thing that I really detest though, daily weights! I know it's no big deal but I just hate when I have to do them. It's particulary unpleasant if I have to use the bedscales.

1. accuchecks... a ten second procedure... hate it2. neuro checks every hour with a patient that is cranky3. rectal kayexallate, nasty4. charcol, I'm always wearing it5. being the waitress, crying out loud, give me your list of demands all at ONCE so I can make ONE tripthanks for the vent

Recovering children with laryngeal masks in. I don't regard them as safe for the little ones.

I don't mind doing any of the above, though haven't put in a foley on a live patient (yet) but seen it done a bunch of times.But I DO hate it when u do EVERYTHING u can for the patient, I mean u check everything like do they have their call light, their water, glasses, books/magazines, the overway table is right next to them, remotes for TV etc, given pain meds - whatever, then you ask: 'Is there anything else u need done?', they're like 'No thanks nurse'. You go to the door & then, I can almost guarantee you, they say: 'Oh just one more thing nurse...' U know how it's called the doorknob question by doctors? Yeh that. So I just grit my teeth, smile, turn back and say 'Yes?'I HATE that more than anything!

Frequent neuro checks on someone that you know just slid out of bed or a chair onto their butt, but because the fall was unwitenessed we have to do neuros.

I don't particularly like I&O cathing people, which we do a fair amount of on my floor. It's not really hard, it's just a pain. I also don't like hanging antibiotics on babies. We do it on occasion if baby comes back from NICU still receiving them, or sometimes if baby's blood culture comes back + for GBS (I can count on one hand the number of times the latter has happened). Doing the abx thing isn't hard, it's just time consuming and there are a million little steps that we don't do all the time, so we get out of practice in the wellbaby nursery.

6AM Finger Sticks!!!!