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| No. 1440 | 
Nov 02, 2009, 03:09 PM
 Re: Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.
No! your rotten toothed SO may not stay the night.
No!!! you do not need your dilaudid again, you just received it 5 minutes ago.
Yes, I do know that your snaggled tooth SO was here for half the night, another staff member tripped over him trying to get to some equipment.
I do not want to see your big behind uncovered again . . . and really no one else does either!!! Put on your underwear.
You are able to get up and walk, and sit in a chair, you do not need a diaper.
If we have to heave your big body up in this bed one more time, we will all have dislocated shoulders, elbows, and messed up backs. Especially considering the fact, that again you can get up, walk, and sit in a chair.
Do not ever urinate on the floor bed, etc, out of anger again. We don't appreciate it.
I am tired of your whining, I am cutting you off from your dilaudid as soon as I speak with your physician.
I had no idea the Md just decreased your dilaudid dose today, I was at home asleep. I think it may have had something to do with my small conversation earlier regarding you almost falling over, while standing, with eyes closed, and behind uncovered for all the world to see.
I can't take looking at your behind again, where are the blue and pink markers?!!!! I'm not a tattoo artist but, we can try. after all, you won't know, and you've been posing perfectly repeatedly tonight for a bloomer painting on a nice large canvas !!!
(Ummmm, I just vented, thank you for your time)
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Nov 02, 2009, 03:20 PM
Re: Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it. Originally Posted by gentle  No! your rotten toothed SO may not stay the night.
No!!! you do not need your dilaudid again, you just received it 5 minutes ago.
Yes, I do know that your snaggled tooth SO was here for half the night, another staff member tripped over him trying to get to some equipment.
I do not want to see your big behind uncovered again . . . and really no one else does either!!! Put on your underwear.
You are able to get up and walk, and sit in a chair, you do not need a diaper.
If we have to heave your big body up in this bed one more time, we will all have dislocated shoulders, elbows, and messed up backs. Especially considering the fact, that again you can get up, walk, and sit in a chair.
Do not ever urinate on the floor bed, etc, out of anger again. We don't appreciate it.
I am tired of your whining, I am cutting you off from your dilaudid as soon as I speak with your physician.
I had no idea the Md just decreased your dilaudid dose today, I was at home asleep. I think it may have had something to do with my small conversation earlier regarding you almost falling over, while standing, with eyes closed, and behind uncovered for all the world to see.
I can't take looking at your behind again, where are the blue and pink markers?!!!! I'm not a tattoo artist but, we can try. after all, you won't know, and you've been posing perfectly repeatedly tonight for a bloomer painting on a nice large canvas !!!
(Ummmm, I just vented, thank you for your time)
Awwwww you must have had an interesting shift.
| | No. 1442 |
Nov 02, 2009, 03:29 PM
Re: Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it. Originally Posted by pca_85 Awwwww you must have had an interesting shift.
This individuals "visits" regularly. This was the cumulative effect of 1 long hospitalization. Our teams have already met once to figure out whether or not we can get this person into a Board and Care, Assisted Living Facility, or something. I heard the patient has returned again since the above mentioned scenario, which was last month. I get frustrated, but I feel badly for the patient. It is nice to be able to vent here where it is safe.
| | No. 1443 |
Nov 02, 2009, 09:24 PM
Re: Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it. Originally Posted by BabyCatchr Wouldn't those photos have been a good teaching tool to discourage other teens from OD'ing? If I'm wrong, I apologize, but I would think it might bring some sense of reality to his friends.
You're right that it probably would discourage drug use; I have often had that thought myself when I have a particularly sad or tragic OD pt - if only people could see what happens when they abuse drugs! That being said, since the pt couldn't consent to the photo or it's being passed around via texting, I considered it a HIPAA violation (the picture-taker was not a family member, just an acquaintance). Plus, many facilities have a policy about taking photos and what can & can't be included, even those for legal and wound documentation.
More than that, though, I just felt it was in poor taste. It was the latest social gossip, not a learning moment. I wouldn't ever want somebody to take a picture of me like that, and I wasn't going to take a chance that he would be embarassed by having it circulated around to all his friends/acquaintances.  | | No. 1444 |
Nov 02, 2009, 11:35 PM
Re: Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.
If you are so stoned you can't stay conscious long enough to say, "I want Dilaud-z-z-z--z-z-z-z-z-" then you're not getting any.
If you take narcotics from home, you get narcan. And if I could figure out a way to keep a low dose in your IV, I would. You are going to kill yourself from drug abuse. And I'm sick of putting people into body bags where the death certificate should read "stupidity" as the cause of death.
Stop telling me you don't drink or do drugs because you were "saved." I'm getting drunk off the ETOH on your breath, I've seen the drug screen, and I took care of you two weeks ago when you were drunk off your A** just like you are now. If you're saved, brush up on the 10 Commandments, because you keep busting the fool out of "thou shalt not lie."
If you touch that IV pump again, I'm going to rig it with a shock collar.
Stop telling me how to do my job because you're a "nurse." I know nurses, I am a nurse, and I can tell you aren't one the minute you open your mouth.
No, I won't want to have lunch with you after you're discharged. You don't know that we all do a "rock/paper/scissors" to see you gets you each shift, and I lost.  | | No. 1446 |
Nov 17, 2009, 02:26 AM
Re: Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.
no, i won't give you your percocet 1 hour early... you'll live.
stay 5 feet away from my medication cart at ALL TIMES... it's called personal space.
you are not the priority on this floor.
while i'm in the middle of giving out medication to 60 residents, NO i don't give a crap about heating up your tea or getting you a tuna sandwich. ask one of the nurses aides or go home where you can do that all day by yourself.
this is a nursing home, not a hotel.
to those "family members and friends" who visit once a year, the one day that you ARE here, i don't have to waste my time explaining to you what medications i'm giving and what they do. i know more about your "loved one" than you ever will, so don't waste my time. call the doctor if you care that badly. or show up more than once a year.
i can go on forever.
| | No. 1448 |
Nov 17, 2009, 09:09 AM
Re: Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.
Why oh why do you present to the hospital with your problems? It seems as soon as you get here, as soon as we have done even the first set of vitals, you are badgering me to "get you out of here." I mean -- WHYYY?? Why don't you just stay home and take an aspirin, like 95% of the rest of the folks in the world??
Don't you have anything else to do than to come into the ER and admit yourself for your issues? All you want to do is to "go home" ASAP, not five minutes after you've arrived and we spend the rest of our time fighting to get you to stay until the doc even sees you.
Because for me it will involve 3 hours of admitting you, getting your orders, getting report, only to have to page the doc to get you discharged, AGAIN, and you will walk out of here perfectly fine!
I don't get it. Life is nice. Go to the park, clean your house, whatever. Just stay the heck out of this hospital for a change.
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