How Dare You Say That To My Patient!!!

[Calgon-take.me.away]

i am in an absolute rage. i work on a subacute floor in ltc. we have a number of vent, trach patients. the techs that take care of them are contracted out, not our employees...

last evening, one of my patients was in some serious pain. he was calling out, and i had medicated him and made him as comfortable as possible, he had a recent run of hospital stays, the most recent one was a bka.

the resp office is directly up from him, and the tech that was on duty came out of his office and told me to "shut him the **** up or he would. called him a no good worthless garbage pile and said alot of other cruel and senseless remarks.

at the time, i just stood there,,not believing what i had just heard. i was just so :angryfire steaming mad, i just had to walk away.

i am so tempted to call his supervisor, but then retaliation is a problem, but i can not and will not let this unfeeling jerk get away with this.

i plan to go to my don tomorrow and fill her in. but, it is his word against mine,,,,but i will stand up for myself and for my patient......wish me luck!!!!

[litbitblack, ASN, RN]

Sorry I have been told that when management is not available you as charge(or your charge nurse)has the authority to send an employee home. I would not stand for that. Immediate termination...

[BinkieRN, BSN, RN]

If you were in charge could you not have sent this person home?

[TazziRN, RN]

My answer would have been "Go ahead and make him stop, and see how fast you lose your license for assault and battery."

[KarynicaRN]

i had a tech go bazerk(sp) on the evening shift once. i was down in a room hanging iv vancomycin when i see the don pull up in her vehicle. i got finished with what i was doing, set the pump, and told the patient i would be back to check on him periodically. at the nurses station was an lpn fighting with 2 cna's. one cna had thrown a full cup of soda across the nurses station at the lpn. instead of calling me, (i was the charge nurse after all), the lpn involves the don who is trying to attend her sons graduation. boy was i mad. i was the charge nurse and i could have handled the situation if only the lpn didn't think she was the charge. we had never worked together and she wasn't used to an rn on the evening shift. needless to say, the cna was fired on the spot for her attitude. it had been building up for weeks and it was only time before she just let the lpn have it.

some people just go over the line. is it me, or are some cna's just not respecting nurses as their superiors? it really chaps me when a cna thinks they can talk to us like trash.

our patients come first. someone needs to protect them, so it must be us

[iluvivt, BSN, RN]

What a jerk I can understand your rage. About a month ago I was called to start a line in rehab for comfort care. WHEN i got there i observed that she did not have long to live. So in comes the nosey aide to see why I am there." What are you doing here she is dying' i figured that out and she is going to get some Morphine to help her. I really wanted her to leave but she hung around. I prepared my supplies trying to ignore her. Keep in my mind the hospital was full and we had no acute care beds to send this lady to. In a very sarcastic voice she said to me " Can you believe what they sent us yesterday they sent us 6 like this". I invited her to exit the room but I really wanted to say "shall we put her in the street and let her die out there". Of course after finishing the IV I marched over to her manager and she got in trouble Please be aware this was not her first offensive behavior

[iluvivt, BSN, RN]

What a jerk I can understand your rage. About a month ago I was called to start a line in rehab for comfort care. WHEN i got there i observed that she did not have long to live. So in comes the nosy aide to see why I am there." What are you doing here she is dying' i figured that out and she is going to get some Morphine to help her. I really wanted her to leave but she hung around. In prepared my supplies trying to ignore her. Keep in my mind the hospital was full and we had no acute care beds to send this lady to. In a vey sarcastic voice she said to me " Can you believe what they sent us yesterday they sent us 6 like this". I invited her to exit the room but I really wanted to say "shall we put her in the street and let her die out there". Of course after finishing the IV I marched over to her manager and she got in trouble Please be aware this was not her first offensive behavior

[calliesue]

That is abuse if any pt heard it, and is a reportable offense.

I always wonder if someone will talk like that to the nurse then how are they talking to the frail helpless pts when no one else is around to hear them?

If this happened to me I would immediately call my supervisor. Also in the ltc facility where I work I would ask them to leave and call their agency and report them.

I guess things are different in hospitals.

[grandee3]

i had a tech go bazerk(sp) on the evening shift once. i was down in a room hanging iv vancomycin when i see the don pull up in her vehicle. i got finished with what i was doing, set the pump, and told the patient i would be back to check on him periodically. at the nurses station was an lpn fighting with 2 cna's. one cna had thrown a full cup of soda across the nurses station at the lpn. instead of calling me, (i was the charge nurse after all), the lpn involves the don who is trying to attend her sons graduation. boy was i mad. i was the charge nurse and i could have handled the situation if only the lpn didn't think she was the charge. we had never worked together and she wasn't used to an rn on the evening shift. needless to say, the cna was fired on the spot for her attitude. it had been building up for weeks and it was only time before she just let the lpn have it.

some people just go over the line. is it me, or are some cna's just not respecting nurses as their superiors? it really chaps me when a cna thinks they can talk to us like trash.

our patients come first. someone needs to protect them, so it must be us

does it really matter what dicipline the nurse was (lpn or rn)? just asking.

[TazziRN, RN]

Does it really matter what dicipline the nurse was (LPN or RN)? Just asking.

Only because the LPN went over the charge's head

[NurseCurtis]

some people just go over the line. is it me, or are some cna's just not respecting nurses as their superiors? it really chaps me when a cna thinks they can talk to us like trash.

our patients come first. someone needs to protect them, so it must be us

while some cna's are golden, there seem to be an increasing number of just plain mean people entering the field. try to remember, however, that a cna's workload is tremendous, and they are bound to vent once in awhile. all out abusive behaviour is, however, untolerable and if admin wont do anything about it, remember there are many many nursing jobs out there.

the real problem, imho, is lazy admin who turn a blind eye to this behavior. i even had a housekeeper diss me once, and nothing was done. i was agency, and made it clear why i wouldnt return to that place.