Things I enjoy about my job:
1. The pay.
2. Yep, that's it.
Things I dislike about my job:
1. Needy patients and their even needier family members.
2. The sense of entitlement most patients have when they enter the hospital. No, we don't have a private room right now. Stop acting like a spoiled child because you can't have one right now. Fucking babies.
3. Being yelled at by doctors for informing them about their patient's needs.
4. Bipolar doctors who are nice one day and mean as hell the next.
5. Giving report to people who ask twelve thousand questions about things they could look up themselves.
5. Being responsible for things not being done by lab, physical therapy, xray, pharmacy, etc.
6. My coworkers
7. The paperwork
8. Working with alcoholics and extremely mean psych patients.
9. Passing medications to people who take forever to take them.
10. Being a narcotic drug pusher. Feeling like all I do all shift is pass pain medications.
11. Lifting overweight people up in the bed who can't seem to comprehend that they should try to assist in some way.
12. Having kids run around on the floor during the entire shift.
13. Family members who insist on remaining on the floor all night and don't seem to understand that they should move out the way when I enter the room. Especially those who block the door with recliners and get irritated when I ask them to move so I can open the fucking door.
14. My manager. Bless her heart.
15. Being called on my days off about stupid shit I can fix when I get to work.
16. Staff meetings that last 2 hours after a long night shift.
17. Working night shift.
18. Patients who ask for stupid things at 3 am in the morning. Example: I haven't had a BM ALL DAY. Suddenly they need a stool softener at 3 in the morning. No, I'm not calling the doctor about that. Sorry.
19. Day shift nurses who miss very important orders all day and claim to have only seen orders such as transfuse 2 units of blood at shift change even though the order was written at 9 am that morning.
20. Feeling anxious about the team of patients I'll have to take care of because I'm not comfortable with most of the comordities on the floor.
21. Feeling like I have no support on the floor most days.
22. Never getting the chance to take a break.
23. How sick to my stomach I get before each shift.
24. Open visiting hours. Yes, please come visit your family member at 2 in the morning. They don't need to sleep. And yes, bring your kids as well.
25. Family who call for updates on their family members at 9 pm. No, I can't give you any information over the phone. Why didn't you just come to the hospital during the day?
26. Being swung at, having ice thrown at me, being called a bitch by patients.
27. Damn. I hate everything...
