I'm seeing a lot of unprofessional posting here related to venting about patients

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jennilynn

84 Posts

The OP should come back after they've been on the floor for a hot minute and let us know if it's all ponies and butterflies.

I was never that disillusioned as a student since I have worked in some capacity in the medical field since I was 15 or so. Thank goodness!

FLmed

159 Posts

Well I guess I can put in my two cents. I do not believe, in any way, that the postings that I have read to this point constitute any unprofessional activity. I have read posts about patients. What may seem like possible identifying information to you isn't. It doesnt appear that you are aware of the scope of this website, hospitals, or healthcare in general. At any given moment, I could tell you a story about my male patient with 13 fingers and a heart of stone. Seems pretty specific, right? Well, its not. I bet there are hundreds of men with 13 fingers and hearts of stone. My point is that the entire soul of the allnurses community seems to be one of helping each other out, treating our colleagues better, and improving our bedisde manners and patient care. We are all, in the end, human. My fear is that without an outlet such as this, we may be much worse off as a profession. So do you know my patient? I don't think so...

I know the exact patient you are talking about. Just an update, he did get 3 of his fingers amputated. It was a glorious day. He also got a heart transplant. So, now, this patient (like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz) has a real heart now.

allnurses Guide

Hygiene Queen

2,232 Posts

I know EXACTLY who you're talking about! Obviously there's only ONE person like that. :)

Yeah!

He comes into my place too!

What a coincidence!

Anybody else know this guy?

Sun0408, ASN, RN

1,761 Posts

Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

Pesky human behaviors and DX are universal.. That does not equal HIPAA violation...

Nuf said :)

Sun0408, ASN, RN

1,761 Posts

Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

Yep yep, he's a frequent flyer,

multi10

180 Posts

OP:

How many millions and millions of patients are hospitalized, in HIPAA facilities and clinics, each year? (Answer: I don't know.)

How many nurses post on this site? (Answer: 676,253.)

Who are you to call anyone unprofessional? If you personally make lapses, that's on you. The rest of us, Professionals, manage to abide by the TOS rules here, on AN, just fine.

Poochiewoochie

178 Posts

Sometimes I wish patients or their family members WOULD see some of the vents on inappropriate behavior they had, and SEE what they do to us, how childish/ridiculous/borderline illegal the things they do and say are! Granted, some of them wouldn't care I'm sure. But maybe, just maybe it would help change something

I'm a patient and I've read these vents. A lot of them are hilarious-especially the demanding patients who come in with hang nails or the families of patients who think that because their LO is sick they too are entitled to be waited on.

From what I can read most nurses are overworked and overstressed. I'd rather they come here and vent then take their frustrations out on some patient who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

OCNRN63, RN

5,978 Posts

Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
Why do nursing students always eat the old nurses? I'm tired of being bullied by students yelling at me for being unprofessional!!!!

I could kiss you for that, you crusty old bat! ;)

netglow, ASN, RN

4,412 Posts

I am being polite Esme. You don't want to hear what I really think!:***:

-CrunchRN

:roflmao:.....you are funny......I was not directing it to you Crunch....((HUGS)) now put the key board down and back away slowly....LOL;) -Esme

You were directing that at me Esme, we all know that :smug:

OCNRN63, RN

5,978 Posts

Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
I have no doubt this little new grad-to-be chicklet will be scared once she gets into the same playing field as the experienced ones. :wideyed: And yes, I mean that with all my heart. But hopefully I will grow from the experience, if and when it happens. :o

As for the OP, I too, barely just joined at the end of last year and I must say, I have learned a lot from the nurses and nursing students alike on this forum. That includes their horror/positive stories from their workplace(/school). And from what I have read, most of it has been pretty general, no HIPPA violations. And if there were any, the mods are pretty good about catching it. I think, instead of making this opinion of yours, public and put the blame on EVERYONE who rants here, I think you should have made your concerns known, privately, to the admin and if there were specific users that were bothering you in particular, point it out that way...

Wrong way to go about things in my opinion..considering...you just pretty much threw yourself to the mercilessness of the wolves.

In the end, if this place gets too 'unprofessional' for you, then RUN, run far, far away to another forum in greener pastures.

It's wrong to say that people here are merciless wolves. We aren't. There's an abundance of people here who are more than willing to extend themselves to new members, offer guidance to new nurses who are struggling, etc.

The OP started a thread that showed little understanding for how members here use this site for support; sometimes there isn't time to talk to co-workers, so it's nice to vent with your other nursing community.

VinoLover2030

428 Posts

Specializes in lots of specialties.

I think its funny how someone will start a firestorm and not return to post. Ah well back to the grind.

Specializes in psychiatric.

Of course they are already people I know. The point I was attempting to get across was that we are not as anonymous as we might like to think, imagine if you are posting a vent about a supervisor and they also post here. That could become problematic.

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