NurseMom2016

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1. Two codes in one day, saved one and lost one.

   NurseMom2016 posted a topic in New Nurse

   Fair warning, this is very long winded. This is the first day As a nurse I have driven home and cried over the loss of a patient. So bear with me! And please no criticism. I have criticized myself more than enough I feel. Let me start out with a lit...

2. Depressed and Disappointed in Myself

   NurseMom2016 replied to Samx3's topic in New Nurse

   I was the same way. I was TERRIFIED of even touching patients when I started. I would head in to work, and think "gosh what stupid mistake am I going to make today?" I worked with patients even in an icu setting through nursing school. I was pretty c...

3. Verbally abusive patient, worried I could have handled the situation better

   NurseMom2016 replied to NurseMom2016's topic in General Nursing

   In this situation, our house supervisor issued a cab voucher to take him to the address he provided. Under normal circumstances we absolutely will not provide a voucher for those leaving AMA-but he would have had no way to get anywhere but our curb i...

4. Verbally abusive patient, worried I could have handled the situation better

   NurseMom2016 replied to NurseMom2016's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you. In all the comments, you are the first I think that has looked at it this way. I understand he has rights as a patient, but what I'm getting from a lot of the other comments is that I don't have a right to leave the situation when I'm bein...

5. Verbally abusive patient, worried I could have handled the situation better

   NurseMom2016 replied to NurseMom2016's topic in General Nursing

   In this situation, I charted everything specific that I remembered him doing, including quoting some curse words in there that were said. I chatted one big long note after he left, with a rough timeline. Like: 0815 called to pt room by charge RN, sta...

6. Verbally abusive patient, worried I could have handled the situation better

   NurseMom2016 replied to NurseMom2016's topic in General Nursing

   I have read through each one of your comments. I am very thankful for those of you who are supportive in how I handled the situation, and very thankful of the constructive criticism I have received. However, there is one point I don't think I did eno...

7. Verbally abusive patient, worried I could have handled the situation better

   NurseMom2016 replied to NurseMom2016's topic in General Nursing

   YES lol-it is a female hospitalist and she is sometimes very good at throwing nurses under the bus, others she acts like your best friend.

8. Verbally abusive patient, worried I could have handled the situation better

   NurseMom2016 replied to NurseMom2016's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, giving him the cup of coffee crossed my mind as a possibility. But, in the moment, the way he was treating me and everyone else (including our brand new, nervous little 19 year old tech), made me want to do everything but give him the coffee. I ...

9. Verbally abusive patient, worried I could have handled the situation better

   NurseMom2016 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Let me start out by saying this is a little long winded, but it has been weighing on me and I have to get it off my chest, so bear with me!!! So, my last shift, I had gotten report on a male patient in his 60s, totally A&O, on our floor for anasa...