I posted this in another thread as a comment but it got me thinking about all the things that nursing is blamed for. I thought it would make an interesting thread. Hopefully it won't be labeled as "negative"...lots of comments around about being too negative. I'm getting a little paranoid.
Seems as far as nursing is concerned, the buck stops here.
Consent not signed? Nurses fault
Room is dirty? Nurses fault
Patient's family is unhappy? Nurses fault
Hurt your back turning a patient? Nurses fault
Patient didn't get meal tray despite being ordered? Nurses fault
Labs were ordered in the computer, drawn and sent but no result yet? Nurses fault
Pharmacy mislabeled the med and it was given? Nurses fault
Home med sheet not filled out yet? ( because no one knows what mama takes and I have no idea what the "little blue" pill is) Nurses fault
Patient satisfaction scores down? Nurses fault
Crappy channel selection on the tv? Nurses fault
Patients unable to be taken care of properly due to staffing issues? Nurses fault
Patient got a bedsore (even though they weigh 600# and the bigboy bed doesn't have a "rotation or turn" feature and it takes three people to hold up the tremendous panniculus just to apply powder to her abdomen skin fold)? Nurses fault
It's the nurse's job to do everything that everyone else is too lazy or inept to do...or doesn't want to do...or forgot to do...or is too understaffed to do! LOL If anything between the letters A and Z doesn't get done, it's the nurse's fault! Haha. Everything is the nurse's fault on all days ending in Y!
I have had one other job besides nursing where I was responsible for EVERYTHING, with control over very little and blamed for it all. A bad outcome was my fault, a good outcome attributed to someone else and I could not pee or eat without being interrupted.
MD orders PCA morphine....1 mg per push, 10 min timeout, continuous 1 mg/hr. Patient's BP drops after 8 hrs, HR up, urine stops. Patient sent to ICU for oversedation. Nurses fault. (note that pt did ok for the first 7 hrs!)
Newly admitted patient complains of pain for a chronic problem. Nurse organizes admission documents and puts them right next to doc to write orders. Reminds doc when doc finishes phone transcription on another patient. Answers call light of chronic pain patient and let's him know that the doc will be providing orders shortly. Doc walks out without doing the admission. Doc gets a call and is irritated that he wasn't reminded again while on the floor. Patient is ready to go AMA because of lack of pain control.
****** off doc. ****** off patient. Nurse's fault.
Nurse_Wretched
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It's the nurse's job to do everything that everyone else is too lazy or inept to do...or doesn't want to do...or forgot to do...or is too understaffed to do! LOL If anything between the letters A and Z doesn't get done, it's the nurse's fault! Haha. Everything is the nurse's fault on all days ending in Y!