Patient Compliant...Taking it Really Hard

Don't be too hard on yourself I had to straight cath a pt and missed so I had to call my former preceptor who told me I was an idiot for missing so it can happen. The funny part about it is that the pt does this herself...I just laughed at it and took it as a learning experience

What I have learned is that no matter what a "horrible" nurse a family may think you are, the next family will make you remember why you are a nurse in the first place. So chin up

he's an example of overconfident Dr. that when they get in a bind that don't ask for help... Just a jrk

Give thanks that this was at the end of your shift and you didn't have to keep dealing with him. That way you didn't have to tell him that it's much harder to hit a swollen, moving target than he might think. Or tell her that if she'd carried on this way nine months ago, she wouldn't be in this situation now. And as for hurting her during the vaginal exam you didn't have to make any comparisons as to the relative size of you slim girlish fingers and his pencil-like equipment.

Some people are never satisfied and this couple was a prime example. Don't let it get to you. Not everyone is going to like you no matter what you do.

It's obvious that this doctor has never put a foley in a laboring patient or he would KNOW how hard it can be to find the urethra. He is showing his own ignorance. Not to mention that having a catheter put in the vagina is not exactly painful so "enduring" it twice is not that big of a deal.

What I have learned is that no matter what a "horrible" nurse a family may think you are, the next family will make you remember why you are a nurse in the first place. So chin up[/quote]

So true! I had a patient tell any of my co-workers who would listen what a "mean, horrible" nurse I was because she showed up as a labor check (and wasn't in labor) and she was sent home. You learn to let stuff like that roll off your back.

Just thank the good Lord above that you don't have to work with her "SI" (significant irritant) on a daily basis! Obviously SI hasn't placed many foleys or he would have known better than to say that! Laboring, post surgical, etc...it's just not that easy sometimes to find the right spot!! You did good...I probably would have went off on him

Part of the SO's problem might have been mom having the type of labor that they had planned..textbooks can sure paint a different picture han the "real deal"...