Nurses General Nursing
Published Dec 12, 2007
MichaelFloridaRN
109 Posts
I seldom loose it over my patients. One thing however gets me every time.
When a patient, even more so if they are not old, has no teeth, and mumbles so you can not understand them even after asking them to repeat for something the fifth time, gets all mad at you for not being able to understand them.:trout:
If they are 20 and have no teeth because they did too much meth it makes me loose it even more! I had one little crackhead tell me the other day she lost all her teeth because of bad genes at age 20, funny part was that only the front ones were affected by this genetic defect !
Don't get me wrong, I will take best possible care of anyone, regardless of their bad choices in life, but some things get beyond absurd and make you want to pull your hair out!:angryfire
ohmeowzer RN, RN
2,306 Posts
ugh what drives me crazy is a perfectly oriented pt yells " nurse , nurse " at the top of his lungs and when i can't get up there quick enough he yells louder, i explain i was down the hall and he could of used his call light and he says " i want service" " i want it now" as he tosses his OJ on the floor.... he yells all day and gets louder and louder if you don't get there fast enough... jerk... he drove me crazy for 3 days .. i won't take him next week...
whoops i posted the same thing twice... sorry
leslie :-D
11,191 Posts
the truly evil ones.
i had a pt whose colostomy bag was half-filled w/wretcherous, loose stool, and inflated to the max w/gas.
he asked me to come closer to the bed so he could tell me something.
when i got near the bed, he had pricked the bag, and it exploded everywhere....over my face, hair, top as well as linens, floor and even reached the bathroom door.
i'm glad he died.
leslie
gwenith, BSN, RN
3,755 Posts
Wow Leslie - that beats my story about the patient who asked for assistance to get a tissue out of a box!!!
i'd love to hear it, gwenith.
i still have a look of disgust on my face, remembering the spawn of satan.:)
donsterRN, ASN, BSN
2,558 Posts
the truly evil ones.i had a pt whose colostomy bag was half-filled w/wretcherous, loose stool, and inflated to the max w/gas.he asked me to come closer to the bed so he could tell me something.when i got near the bed, he had pricked the bag, and it exploded everywhere....over my face, hair, top as well as linens, floor and even reached the bathroom door.i'm glad he died.leslie
You're right; that was just evil.
What would make someone do something so nasty?
You're right; that was just evil.What would make someone do something so nasty?
who knows?
he was just a nasty, nasty man.
he grabbed a tech's head, and vomited on it.
he continually spit at the staff.
we stopped all im, iv's w/him, because he would try to jab us.
i know being a hospice pt brings out the worst in some.
but before/when he was admitted, the social worker was hesitant in bringing him in.
he had always been trouble.
hopefully, he went to Heaven, where he could learn to love.
namaste_71
151 Posts
Or else, Leslie, he reincarnated as a nurse who has to care for only patients like himself ...
By any chance do you practice nursing in Palm Beach County? I hear horror stories about wealthy retirees who think the rest of the world should serve them.
littleRNthatcould
81 Posts
Hmmm, let's see, I hate it when you have spent a good 20-30 minutes in a patients room doing education, discussing disease management, explaining what diagnositics mean ect, etc, etc so that when the good doctor comes in and repeats verbatim what I have just said, the patient/family can look surprised and say, "well no one ever told us that!":banghead: