Bloody patients

Nurses General Nursing

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Patients:

Please realize the following.

1. If the order says q 4 hours prn - even if you did not get pain pill #2 until 5 hours after pain pill #1, I cannot give you pill #3 one hour "early." You state pain as 0/10 on every reassessment, so this is not inadequate meds.

2. This is not a personal vendetta against you by me. Please stop ********. Please stop arguing.

3. I am acquiring one hell of a guilt complex and thus dreading my shift tomorrow.

Please go jump in a lake,

Nurse.

Specializes in Adult Critical Care, Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Sounds like one of those nights! Find yourself a nice quiet bar that serves breakfast and bloody marys for some "debriefing" with co-workers in the a.m.!

P.S. Hang in there--it gets easier to blow off these situations!

Specializes in Telemetry, M/S.

Lol....I opened this thread thinking it was going to be full of blood, guts, and glory.

I'm sorry that you had that kind of night/patient though...they are tough to deal with and management always wants you to slap on a happy face and deal with them tenderly and with kid gloves. *sigh*

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