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 Trauma, Teaching.

I've been called (in other words): a copulating Caucasion female canine, and in the next breath had it implied I have an Oedipus Rex complex.

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I would say, "What are you doing having a kid at 40?" JK. Talk about advanced maternal age!! Sometimes people with money are so freakin' warped. She probably has no idea exactly how hard working and educated an RN is. Seriously though, off the subject, but my sister in law had her first baby at 42. NOT FOR ME. When I am 40, my daughter will be 20, and my son 17. Hell, I might even be a grandma at 40. Pro's and con's to having kids early and late. But not too late(don't want those eggs getting old and crusty).:lol2:

Some people are not able to have children at 20. Be thankful for your blessings and mind your own business about "advanced maternal age"

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Specializes in ICU.

Haven't been called anything really off the wall myself (yet!) but when I was a PCT, heard one of my nurses called, "a groundhog whore" and another called the "head demon" by two very confused pts. My fave was the "head demon" one. :chuckle Funny thing was, that pt remembered everything he thought was happening and said to us the next day when he was back to normal. Kept apologizing. :D

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

No surprise really if she was wealthy. Although she may have thought she was in a hotel. Go figure

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Specializes in Oncology.

One of my patients kept asking with the "Breath Woman" was coming- aka, the RT for his neb treatment. Makes her sound like a superhero.

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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

Was this patient from a country where nurses are actually called "maids"? If not, I think you could have truthfully told her that you'd send the maid (housekeeper) and gone to hide out for awhile. :devil:Or not. After all, maids do not carry keys to the narcotic cabinet. Or why not ask her why she called you that? What does "maid" mean to her? Did she mean "maiden", as in

"young girl, unmarried, pre-pubescent" or something like that?

Or just tell her straight out that being called a maid is very insulting and ask if she meant to insult you. Yeah, she might be hormonally off, having just had a baby, but she needs to be set straight and needs to be courteous, if not totally sick and out of her mind. This is a battle that I would fight. I did not obtain my nurse job by being a maid. Don't get me wrong - maids are great, maids are essential, maids can come get you when there's need for a nurse, maids do vitally important work, for a pittance and for little glory. But they do not administer pain meds and it's the height of ignorance for a patient who knows how to bring forth a baby to not even realize that she was attended not by maids but by nurses. This little chickadee needs some serious education. :argue:

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

She probably has a live-in housekeeper.

Just wondering - OP, how do you know she was rich?

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

She won't be maidless. Nor baby nurseless, either. They never are.

My grandmother was horrified to find I had no intention of hiring a "baby nurse" for my newborn. Considered it downright uncivilized, LOL....I don't know what happened to my silver spoon; I think the dishwasher ate it! :)

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Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.
I've been called (in other words): a copulating Caucasion female canine, and in the next breath had it implied I have an Oedipus Rex complex.

OMG I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. I wonder how many people don't get the Oedipus complex part. LMAO

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.
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!

IMO, 'lotsa money' doesn't = 'high class'. My poverty-stricken mother has more class than nearly every millionaire I've ever met.

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I was called a fat b**** by a pt who was way fatter than me!

(and she was way b****ier, too)

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OMG I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. I wonder how many people don't get the Oedipus complex part. LMAO

Lmao i got it! Very clever way of putting it, BTW! lmao:clphnds::hhmth:

Luckie

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