Have you ever taken care of a famous pt?

[Foxfour]

Have you ever been assigned to take care of a movie star, singer, etc? I never have, but I know there has to be at least one of us here who has.

[Lisa CCU RN, RN]

No, but I took care of a famous movie star's grandmother.

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

I have taken care of movie stars, even a few of the really top ones. At least from the old days. A lot of politicians, a lot of sports figures. Even a fair number of journalists, and let me tell you journalists are cruel, mean, nasty, attempt to be intimidating. Now I can't be intimidated, which is why I get sent in to take care of them, when they come in.They rate at the low end of human life forces. They are at the bottom with lawyers. Lawyers and journalists are all despicable people.

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

Lawyers don't bother me. You'll almost never hear them make a stupid comment like "I'm going to sue you." I can't recall one that I would say I absolutely didn't like.

I should probably mention that one patient who was the scariest though was a very famous movie star. No one wanted to go into this person's room. They were very contrary and difficult. Was known to throw things at people when upset. Had their own private duty nurses who would come out of the patient's room periodically and you could see them breathe a sigh of relief to be out of there. I think these private nurses took a lot of verbal abuse from this person. Maybe I'm just too much of an idealist, but I used to think that a lot of it came from the chronic illness the patient had that many people of the public were probably not aware of. Then, again, you have to wonder how some of these older stars got to the top of the heap and stayed there. For some of them, I guess it took being nasty and aggressive. Add a lot of accumulated wealth to that and just one celebrity like this can give the rest a bad reputation. By and large, most all the movie stars and famous people were nice and really not much different from anyone else. The difference was really in my mind, I suppose, not theirs.

[spankie]

Lawyers don't bother me. You'll almost never hear them make a stupid comment like "I'm going to sue you." I can't recall one that I would say I absolutely didn't like.

This is my first post but I had to share. We had a (lawyer) pt who loved to inimidate the staff. He was a real jerk and no one would take care of him two days in a row. It was to be my (first) time being his nurse and I had to restart his IV.

Me: Hi Mr XXX. I have to restart your IV.

Pt (looking down and grumbling): You better be good at this.

Me: I usually get it in one try. I don't attempt it unless I'm sure.

I tie the tourniquet on pt an proceed to look for the best vein.

Pt: You better know what you are doing. I'm a lawyer, you know, and I could sue you.

Me (never looking even looking up): True, but I'm a nurse and could kill you...that doesn't mean I would.

**TOTAL silence until I'm done****

Pt: You know, I never had anyone have a reply to that. I like you.

From that moment on I was his nurse until discharge and we got along great.

[daisey_may]

I sat with a confused patient who is the daughter of a major league baseball player. He must have played before the 1960's, though, because she was considerably older and it was no one that I recognized. I thought my confused lady was just saying things until her family came up and told me, too. It was kind of neat...we spent most of the time watching baseball games and she told me stories!

[MySimplePlan]

I'm currently in my pediatric rotation at a downtown children's hospital. During oreintation, our instructor warned us 'not to interact with celebrities/sports figures who may be here to see the children'.

Ha! I was mildly insulted. THEY had better not interact with ME!!!!!!