called me a maid

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one of my patients called me a maid this weekend. umph.. the lady was a 40 year old very rich lady who just gave birth to a cute baby boy. i think she had to much epidural. she put on her call light and said to the unit clerk " send my maid in please, i need a lortab" . i went in and explained i was not a maid i was a RN , she said to me " whatever, can i get something for pain?" i float to surgical next week and it will be nice for the change. anyone else ever called something other than your job? lol

Specializes in Surgical Intensive Care.

I can think of worse things to be called than "maid" or "stewardess" and I just think that someday they will TRULY understand what it is to care for another human being... I do hate that high class people treat you like you are something that they stepped in. I think that they treat everyone that way though so... oh well!

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Specializes in ER/EHR Trainer.

Hey you! and Girl! Save me from PIA patients!

Maisy;);)

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
I once had a patient's son come to the desk and ask for the "bedpan specialist.'

I did not leap across the counter and strangle him, mostly because I was pregnant at the time.

When I waddled into the room the poor man had three grown sons standing there watching. I looked around and said "help or get out!"

They got.

NO WAY.....bedpan specialist?????? :angryfire:angryfire

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
Ack. This is why I hate People. Not people, but People.

:angryfire

ditto....:angryfire:devil:

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I once had a patient's son come to the desk and ask for the "bedpan specialist.'

I did not leap across the counter and strangle him, mostly because I was pregnant at the time.

When I waddled into the room the poor man had three grown sons standing there watching. I looked around and said "help or get out!"

They got.

That is HILARIOUS!! I seriously pictured this whole senerio as I read it. Too funny!

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Specializes in Long Term Facilitly.

Indeed, we wear many hats.

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Specializes in Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.

The Girl. I get that a lot; just not to my face ("Put the light on-The Girl will come.)

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Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

That guy, Elvis...(cause of my scrub top), Flaming Moe (simpsons fan-and flames scrub top), the urinal holder(from an older confused patient), the nurse-(even though I'm a CNA right now), and my personal favorite (that one doctor who's the nicest one here!) LOL

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Was I called a maid? Not exactly, but my last night working the call bell went off for my VIP pt... and I answered it "Come in here immediately, we have a lot of problems."

So I go down there.

Nevermind the IV pump for his daughters TPN never beeped once all night long, that she was not woken up when her labs were drawn, or anything of the sort...

"Why wasn't the garbage taken out last night from here?"

I just said "Because housekeeping takes care of it in the morning."

This is the same guy who shoved a bag of popcorn at me demanding that I go pop it for him, bring juice and soda, and refused his daughters 4am vital signs (in the hospital for kidney failure and HUS) because he didn't want to be woken up. Otherwise it wouldn't have been a problem... but with 4 other patients that night... including a burn that took almost 2 hours to do the dressing change...

Also, he was instructed where the parent lounge was for the popcorn and beverages. There are too many way more important things to be concerned with from my perspective. I'm a nurse, not a maid.

AHHHHH, I loved correctional nursing. No family and no call lights! That alone was worth having to get searched every morning.

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Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.
NO WAY.....bedpan specialist?????? :angryfire:angryfire

I thought maybe he'd seen "BSN" on someone's name tag and thought that meant "Bedpan Specialist Nurse!"

That's been so long ago the baby I was pregnant with is now 21, but obviously I'll never forget it.

To top it off, the poor patient ( a perfectly nice man) was fully capable of rolling himself on and off the pan; he just needed someone to put it in place for him and then to move it when he was done.

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I've been called maid as well, which irked me even when I was an aide. Later on I was exposed to all kinds of colorful pseudonyms, one guy at the veteran's hospital told me "well, you're the colonel." I remember working with a nurse named Sun and one of the residents kept calling for "that little girl named moon." One of the ladies wanted to know what kind of name CNA was when she read one the guys' name badge, she said "Tom CNA (pronounced it ceena) that's an unusual name."

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Specializes in Med surg, cardiac, case management.

I don't know whether to laugh or be horrified.

As a future male nurse, I wonder what they'll call me: "Doctor"? "Orderly"? "Janitor"? "Al Gore"?(I kind of resemble him). One can only imagine...

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