We are all supposed to love our jobs and most of us do! But we are all supposed to over look just danged annoying behaviors.
My pet peeve, I do not care for drama patients. You walk out in the hall and they are laughing and having fun with a visitor, they take one look at YOU looking at them and they are hanging on to the walls to help them walk and moaning in pain. I sometimes think my mere presence causes them harm... ;o)
Me: "Great! Your temp is normal!" Patient: "Oh, if it is normal I am SICK! My usual is 72(F).
Me: "Great! Your b/p is 120/70!" Patient: "Oh, if it is normal I am SICK! My usual is 50/10."
I stepped on Legos of all sorts barefooted about a gazillion of times, it is not THAT bad.
The standard description of 10/10, according to pain management textbooks, is either labor "as the Lord made it to be" or amputation of a limb without anything. Nowadays, not so many folks experienced either, but broken bones and burns II degree come pretty close to it.
Well when the patient is sitting there chewing on food, has a drink in the other hand and just got off the phone talking and laughing with someone and they say "10", I'm assuming they have a low pain tolerance anyways (or they're trying to get back faster). I wasn't saying that stepping on a Lego was a "10" on my pain tolerance scale.
How is this thread ok but the one a week ago where the OP complaining about the public who was being burned at the stake not?
Im not saying this one isn't, I liked where both go. Im just curious from the community perspective
My point exactly that I posted on the other thread. It's okay to patient bash but just don't say you hate people in general like the OP did in the other thread. Would be interesting to see how many of the "ranters" in this thread crucified that OP.
How about when the patient calls at 21:00 for their dose of dilaudid that's "due", and when you go to the room they are on their cell phone and look at you like you're an inconvenience when you need to scan their armband and ask name/DOB and pain level?
Patients who lie about something that I can easily look up. Example: BP is 86/40 so I inform the patient that I can't give their dilaudid. Patient pitches a fit, "I am ALWAYS low and the other nurses still give it to me!", but according to their documented vital signs trends they are usually 110/65. Or the patients who claim "my nurse was never in my room tonight and ignored me" but according to the MAR the nurse was in their room frequently.
I hate when I go in to give morning meds and do my assessment and the patients cell phone rings and they answer it and proceed to have a conversation and finally ask me to come back later. I don't know when later will be as I have 5 or 6 other patients all doing the same thing. and then they complain the did bring me my meds on time. I was there I tried you wouldn't get off the phone and I refuse to give narc or any meds to patients I can't assess.
Pain is subjective. What might be a 5 to you might be a 10 to a person with a low pain threshold.
It's too bad you people don't take all this effort from patient bashing and use it say what you do like about your job and patients.
I understand what you're getting at, but when you run into stuff like this all day, every day, you have to unload it, or it will just fester inside.
Besides, sometimes the stuff that makes us crazy is a LOT funnier than the "pooping rainbows and farting confetti" memories. Those have their place, and they're wonderful. But, frankly, I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. THAT'S therapeutic.
Pain is subjective. What might be a 5 to you might be a 10 to a person with a low pain threshold.
It's too bad you people don't take all this effort from patient bashing and use it say what you do like about your job and patients.
I'm aware that pain is subjective. I made a comment regarding a post I found funny, and you decide to get all holier than thou. Really?
I don't know which "you people" you are referring to, as I bashed NO ONE.
When people say that their pain is a 20 on a scale of 1-10 (subjective or not--and any reasonable person in their vicinity would find that to reasonably be an exxageration), I think it's reasonable to comment on that unrealistic assessment.
I fail to see what I said that was so atrocious.
Are you done judging me--and it seems everyone else who ever made a comment--now? Or do you have more wisdom to bestow?
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...and the doc won't give you any more PRNs for sedation/pain. 
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Guess you really should have used THAT vein!