I am a new nurse who started working in a large teaching hospital on a med/surg floor almost a year ago. It's been hard enough adjusting to being a "real" nurse, but we get a lot of patients that are not exactly, for lack of a better term, "nice."
I am constantly stressed at work because it is very frequent that I feel threatened by one (or more) of my patients. Today I had a woman literally scream at me and lurch toward me while screaming "Ask me that
This just got me thinking how often this happens. I have to deal with so many innapropriate people it is just making me sick. And there is no reasoning with these people because they have no morals/values/conscience. I just don't think I deal with it much longer without going nuts.
Does anyone else have any similar experiences? I could never imagine that as a NURSE I would have to fear for my own safety... that is one reason I chose not to work on psych.
Thanks for letting me vent- this is wearing me out!