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| No. 160 | 
Jul 04, 2009, 10:13 AM
 Re: Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it
If you know so much. What are you doing here? I can't help people that won't help themselves
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Jul 04, 2009, 10:14 AM
 Re: Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it
<P>for Virgo. RN:</P>
<P>Upi sound like my kinda Nurse. You have the most valuable weapon against battle fatigue- a sense of humor!</P>
<P>Good for you.</P>
<P>macspuds</P>
| | No. 162 |
Jul 04, 2009, 11:09 AM
Re: Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it
o the family members/friends of patients who walk out of the patients room and up to the nurses station because they need something : PLEASE use the phone to call me, that is why I put my portable number up on the white board in your room. Ugh.
They are classic for saying Oh I didn't want to bother you. DUH! CALL ME it's my job to be bothered for an IV pump that has been beeping for 45 minutes and you have sat there and pushed the silent button for 45 minutes before deciding I should be bothered? Now the site is bad and I have to stick you again....DONT TOUCH THE PUMPS!
Oh I could go on and on....our hospital has private rooms and allows family to stay over night.
| | No. 163 |
Jul 04, 2009, 11:30 AM
Re: Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it Originally Posted by macspuds  I am beginning to wonder what planet we are on vrs, families of patients/
Some of this stuff surprises me and perhaps it is me that has been on another plante.
Why is it that I cannot seem to remember some of this. Are times changing since I was charge Nurse or have I just had the very best staff ever. I'll bet that it was the later. They might have taken care of it before I had chance to stumble over it for fear of finding bodies strewn all over the unit and the rest put in a room marked families that have overstepped so and sos boundaries.
macspuds Treating this as the serious question I doubt that it was, YES. Things have changed a lot since you were a charge nurse. (How long ago was that, anyway?) I'm assuming that you left your position before Press Gainey gained supremecy, while healthcare was still healthcare and not "customer service" and while we still took care of "patients," not "clients." The idea that we're in customer service rather than healthcare has turned our patients into entitled, suit-happy clients who want to "have it their way" each and every time. And sadly, their families are worse. Far from overstepping so and so's boundaries, they don't seem to HAVE any boundaries any more.
Yes, this thread was intended to be funny, but it was also intended as a vent thread. Because if I don't vent sometimes in a nice safe place like this, I might actually SAY some of those things to some deserving family member!
| | No. 166 |
Jul 04, 2009, 11:46 AM
Re: Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it
and another thing...when I tell you to call for help when your Mother needs to go to the bathroom and you end up taking her out of bed and taking her yourself, DON'T blame me when she falls!
| | No. 168 |
Jul 04, 2009, 03:45 PM
Re: Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it Originally Posted by travel50 There are no visiting hours at our nsg home. So Ms. M's son, who just got out of prison, can show up at 2am, drunk, screaming b/c mom STILL isn't up and walking. I really want to say, "No S____, Sherlock! While you were in prison, mom had a bad car wreck, then a stroke during surgery, and now she is nonresponsive with a trach and a peg tube." But then what do you say after you tell him this (minus the No S___ Sherlock part), and he says, "Well, I'll be back tomorrow nite, and by God, she'd better be up walking, or I'm gonna sue the hell out of you guys." (This said as he is leaning on the wall to avoid falling in the floor) Unfortunately, he is not a drunk who forgets what he said, so the next nite he is back, less drunk, with the same thing.
What in the world do you say to such ignorance?
Thats easy! <pointing at the pathologically antisocial personality disordered relative> That's him officer....
| | No. 169 |
Jul 04, 2009, 05:55 PM
Re: Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it
Ma'am, I'm sorry I cannot give you any information about Mr. So and So....
I understand you love him and you're very worried because he didn't tell you he was having surgery. I understand he's the love of your life.
Why don't you call his wife and find out all of this information?....*click*...dial tone.......
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