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Never. I work OR and do pre-op, circulate during surgery, and am also the RR nurse in a private elective surgery center. Patients are always nice and respectful.
I've worked endo for six years as well, also no bad behavior at all from patients or family.
I worked ICU for a decade, and was only treated poorly a handful of times, usually by patients who were really not in control of their emotions or behavior due to their conditions. I had one or two testy family members, but wouldn't go so far as to call them abusive.
Verbal abuse means very little to me, so I'm not counting that. I've gotten beaten on by plenty of confused elderly woman, but I give them a pass too. I can only think of one patient who was abusive in the truest sense of the word. He was a youngish, oriented man with an extensive criminal history. He threw an object at me and was banned from future admissions. It was not the first nurse he'd behaved aggressively towards, apparently.
Does projectile pooping in the isolette qualify as abuse?
Me: You intentionally waited until I pulled your diaper down so that you can spray 3 hrs worth of poop all over the isolette.
Baby: I'm just an innocent baby that has no bowel control.
Me: So it was pure coincidence that you had to poop the exact moment I pulled your diaper down?
Baby: I have no idea what you are talking about. Now clean my butt and clean up this mess. It stinks in here and I want to take a nap.
4RealStudent
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How often are you verbally, physically, or mentally abused as a nurse in a day? Week? or year?