This week two different instructors told us students stories of when their family was in the hospital and how they acted and what they did. One instructor told us that her dad needed to have bone marrow aspiration done in the sternum and the resident did not offer any analgesic. Then she told her father that he really needs to get some an analgesic because the procedure may be painful. Ofcourse her dad listened, and she was just saying how us nurses need to be a pt. advocate. She is a CRNP. She did not mention her title to the MD however she did go to her dad privately and was his advocate.
The other instructor told us a story regarding her neice and how the nurses treated her neice so badly because it was suspected that the child had mennigitis.She said the nurses were frantic and was wearing PPE even though they was no definite dx yet. She said the doctor did not even wear ppe when doing the spinal tap however the nurses did . She said that she don't like for nurses to know she's a RN until the nurse really ****** her off. She says that once she got irritated by the nurses she started writing down their names and told them that if they keep acting like this she was going to their nursing manager Mrs. X. She also told us that the nursing manager is part of the commitee on the BON and the instructor has sat in on many meetings with this nursing manager, so basically she knows her pretty well. The instructor told us that as soon as she threatned the nurses to talk c- their nursing manager all of the nurses changed their attitude and showed a little more respect. They showed respect once they knew my instructor was a RN and when she stated that she knew their nursing manager pretty well.
My question is: Do nurses make the worse patients or family members ? Should nurses who are family members threaten the other nurses ? How do you handle things when you are not satisfied with a nurse taking care of your family member ? My mother is a nurse and she's always been a advocate for any family member in the hospital. But how far is too far to actually threatned other nurses ?
