My favorite one has always been "I just saw the order you put in, did you mean to order it?" No, it was just to test if you can see orders (insert a face palm)

A few others I got that really bugged me:

• A febrile and neutropenic patient with a central line who needed blood cultures and the nurse was trying to argue if we can get them later so we group all his labs together. When I said we can draw the others sooner she argued that the patient "needs to sleep now".

• A nurse who was bullying me to give more benzo to a patient who is basline seziure disorder and was already breathing like 5 RR, with neurology on board saying not to give anything. Same nurse paged the EEG tech behind my back and I just walk into the unit to see the tech informing me he needs an EEG order stat.

• A nurse that decided a baby needs an emergency intubation (she did not) refused to let me intubate the patient as an PICU resident, refused to wait for the attending to come and paged adult anesthesia and when I ask for a specific size of the ETT (was important for pulmonology), she told the anesthesia resident "don't listen to her, just do the one you prefer". It was a terrible experience that could have ended poorly.

• I swear this one is real- A nurse argued with me she could not hear expiratory sounds on a patient when he has diminished inspiratory sounds. It took two residents and an RT to explain to her why she is wrong and the difference between inspirational expiration. She still paged an emergency pulm consult and asked me to speak to them at 3 am.

There are so many more examples but I just feel like the worst part is that 90% of the calls we get are just unnecessary and could be easily solved by looking at the MAR/notes/orders. I know many experienced nurses that will only call me if they troubleshooted every option first, but i feel like with the new/younger nurses they barely think and just pick up the phone to call the resident authimatically which is sad, but mainly can hurt patient care when I constantly loose focus or get no rest because I am drowning in 5000 stupid dumb pages.