I just had to ask b/c I am finding lately that a lot of my patients seem to think they know how to do my job better than I do because they watched a procedure one time or another. What do you all do when this happens?
Just this morning I had a 26y old female whom I had to re-prime her IV line b/c it went partially dry in the tubing. She kept telling me that I didn't need to unhook the tubing from her heplock, I could just run it. Um...OK, whatever. Then she decided to tell me how I should poke the tubing into the new Saline bag. Not even 30 seconds later she's telling me that I put the tubing in the pump wrong because she had less tubing to work with for movement than she had previously. Sorry, but I wanted to throttle her.