[LPN-n-2005]

this is one reason i'm glad i changed my major to surgical technology. at least most of the time the patients will be a sleep and then we send them on their way still asleep.
no complaints or mutterin there.....

[TweetiePieRN]

Originally posted by Doglover
<<Then her legs were numb, so she couldn't walk. >>

Surely having such serious complications after surgery and being unable to walk are among the worst things that could possibly happen to a human being. This patient needs compassion and emotional support, not such hatred and criticism. It is not "whining" to want one's room temperature adjusted or to dislike hospital food (when a family member was hospitalized last year the food was so terrible that I had to regularly pick up Starbucks coffee and carryout food to bring to their room).

I read this posting several times before replying and for the life of me, I can't see that this patient did anything to deserve such dislike.

This one is too much!! Has anyone else read this person's other posts. Obviously not a nurse....doesn't have a clue. This person goes on and on in other posts about how nurses don't respect Veterans and on and on and on!!! Why are u even visiting allnurses, doglover. Go find a website about canines and get involved in things you actually understand.

[Marie_LPN, RN]

Originally posted by Doglover
<<Then her legs were numb, so she couldn't walk. >>

Surely having such serious complications after surgery and being unable to walk are among the worst things that could possibly happen to a human being. This patient needs compassion and emotional support, not such hatred and criticism. It is not "whining" to want one's room temperature adjusted or to dislike hospital food (when a family member was hospitalized last year the food was so terrible that I had to regularly pick up Starbucks coffee and carryout food to bring to their room).

I read this posting several times before replying and for the life of me, I can't see that this patient did anything to deserve such dislike.

[VivaLasViejas]

Originally posted by 3rdShiftGuy
Marla is a sweetheart. We aren't there to hear to tone of the patient or the looks the patient gave her. If she pushed Marla over the edge, she's probably one of the worst human beings alive. Marla gave her plenty of emotional support and compassion. It was spit back in her face by this miserable human being.

Kudos to you for stopping by Starbucks and bringing in food to the patient. Since the food is so horrible I'm sure you do that for everyone?

As was stated above, with epidural pain control, there can sometimes be the side effect of numbness, nothing to get excited about. We're not talking permanent paralysis here.

Tweety: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! I don't know if this particular patient is one of the worst humans alive, but she had a nurse with 18 years' experience in TEARS yesterday.....I'm sure glad *I* didn't have to deal with her, because I probably would've given her both barrels this time!

Doglover: You would be well advised to try walking a mile (or ten) in a nurse's beat-up Nike Airs before you judge them. We are NOT robots, but flesh-and-blood human beings with feelings just as sensitive as your own, which can be hurt! NOBODY gets paid enough to be abused, disparaged, and treated like dirt---nurses included. Most of us, myself included, work very hard at being nice and accomodating patients' needs and wants, but there are some who totally reject everything we offer them and then behave as if we are their personal enemy. When that happens, there's nothing we can do but give them the required care, and PRAY they never darken our doors again since we are such bumbling, incompetent, lazy, worthless, b*****y nurses!!

Everyone: Thank you for the moral support In 11 years of being in health care, this is the very first patient I've been unable to tolerate.........never before have I refused to care for someone, and being an easygoing sort, I'll probably go another 11 years before I run into another one like her........at least, I hope so!!

[Hellllllo Nurse]

Originally posted by Doglover
<<Then her legs were numb, so she couldn't walk. >>

Surely having such serious complications after surgery and being unable to walk are among the worst things that could possibly happen to a human being. This patient needs compassion and emotional support, not such hatred and criticism. It is not "whining" to want one's room temperature adjusted or to dislike hospital food (when a family member was hospitalized last year the food was so terrible that I had to regularly pick up Starbucks coffee and carryout food to bring to their room).

I read this posting several times before replying and for the life of me, I can't see that this patient did anything to deserve such dislike.

I'm sure, you're not a nurse.

BTW, being in the hospital is about recovering, not how pleasant the food is. Nurses have no control whatsoever over the food. Write a letter to the CEO, troll.

[greeneggsnham]

Sounds to me like this patient is not a patient in a hospital working with the staff to get better, but a spoiled diva (with a doting enourage) thinking that she is in a suite at the Ritz.

[gwenith]

Remember the intent of this thread was a vent about a patient who took someone to the limits of tolerance and patience. We have had the opportunity here to hear the side of the demanding patient.

I doubt this person will come back for it is my sad experience that most people who speak like this do not wish to be enlightened but if they did how can we educate them??

How can we, without flames enlighten them as to the realities of life???

[mittels]

Originally posted by greeneggsnham
Sounds to me like this patient is not a patient in a hospital working with the staff to get better, but a spoiled diva (with a doting enourage) thinking that she is in a suite at the Ritz.

Seen it, heard it, dealt with it.

And if there were not a nurse than what???

[ktwlpn]

Originally posted by Doglover
<<Then her legs were numb, so she couldn't walk. >>

Surely having such serious complications after surgery and being unable to walk are among the worst things that could possibly happen to a human being.

You can't be serious? You must not be a nurse-if you were you would know that that post-op complication is no big deal compared to the awful things that happen to people every day.(darn-I replied to a troll-so sorry,I could not help myself) She could have been told she was full of cancer and dying..

[nekhismom]

Ok, Gwenith, I SO see your point. We do need to educate the people who come here, but........

[size=3]those troll comments sure are FUNNY!!! And appropriate.


Ok, sorry for being childish...*now back to my regular compassionate self*