called me a maid

[ohmeowzer RN]

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

[Natkat, BSN, MSN, RN]

I haven't been called a waitress, but I sure get treated like one - every day - all day long. So, why do we have to pass HESI to be able to make coffee?

[Doris Myers]

:angryfireI work in a ICU and often say that I was crossed trained from house keeping. Between the way hosp. are trying to save money and the way pts. treat us sometimes I feel like a house keeper.

I would have done just what you did.

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

I would say, "What are you doing having a kid at 40?" JK. Talk about advanced maternal age!!

Rude much?

While there are good reasons for having children earlier, there may be some very responsible reasons for holding off....like waiting until you have a stable marriage and life. Some people are not lucky enough to do that until later in life. Please do not insult them for it, 40 is not THAT old.

[DeLana_RN, BSN, RN]

Hmm... if pts did call me a maid, I would have to be concerned about a pathological process! Appropriate responses include:

- Do you know who you are?

- What is the date?

- Who is the president?

(And especially:) - Do you know where you are?

Certainly, they must be confused! :trout:

DeLana

[lauftrbstmedicine]

LOL...I've been called a maid...and a waitress....but only laugh it away...the patients and their families with these mentalities I discovered have noone in their family that is involved in a medical career and are often ignorant of the intelligence and hard work we do as nurses. I've been treated like a maid and waitress by my patients and their families countless times and who here hasn't!!! All one can do is the best we can and to those people usually that still isn't good enough.

Plus having waitressed has helped to balance out serving of the meal trays in the DR at the LTC facility where I work...."need coffee....let me get you some water...do you want more sweet-n-low...." or from the residents..."can I please have ________" "would you get me....." and able to get those picky residents meals called out to the cook!!!!!!!LOL! I made great tips waitressing and at the end of my waitressing days as I headed out to be a nurse I thought dealing with food and peoples picky snippity habits had ended...little did I know...LOL.

[Jo Dirt]

I think the stewardess thing is cute.

I did have a patient once--old lady with dementia--refer to the other nurses as my sisters.

[ShelleyERgirl, LPN]

When I worked in a doctor's office, once had a perfectly healthy lady hand me her car keys and describe her car to me so I could " pull it around for her"! After picking myself up off the floor and checking to see if I was actually wearing my valet tag, I was so surprised that I actually did it.:) Never lived that one down. Oh well, what are ya gonna do?

[curlilockz]

When I worked in a doctor's office, once had a perfectly healthy lady hand me her car keys and describe her car to me so I could " pull it around for her"! After picking myself up off the floor and checking to see if I was actually wearing my valet tag, I was so surprised that I actually did it.:) Never lived that one down. Oh well, what are ya gonna do?

haha! Too funny! I can't believe you did it... I would have said some sarcastic remark and got reported....

I had a pt joking with me because I kept bringing him coffee (I'm a PCT), he said he would double my tips for the day... ahh... if only....

[loricatus]

When I worked in a doctor's office, once had a perfectly healthy lady hand me her car keys and describe her car to me so I could " pull it around for her"! After picking myself up off the floor and checking to see if I was actually wearing my valet tag, I was so surprised that I actually did it.:) Never lived that one down. Oh well, what are ya gonna do?

Hope you got a tip :sstrs:

[chowlover]

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

I wonder what she will do when she goes home,& is 'maidless" at 3 a.m. with a screeming newborn.

[ShelleyERgirl, LPN]

Nope, if anything, she was mad because it took me so long because I was in shock that someone actually threw their car keys at me! Don't people amaze you sometimes?

[Jules A, MSN]

Love this thread! I work in pediatric psych so I've been called every name in the book. Nice thing about being on the boys unit is that in 5 minutes its all forgotten, not so with the girlies now they can hold a grudge. :)