Do nurses talk about their patients when the leave

[Ms. Nurse Assistant]

Okay, this is a very personal issue for me. I have some stretch marks on my arms that I am very self conscious about. Once I went to the dr. for a check up (i had to for employment) and I outright refused to let the nurse take my blood pressure. I have a complex about them and think people notice them and I always wear long sleeves. The nurse had to get someone to come in the room and encourage me to let them take my blood pressure, after some serious coaching I let them do it. I refused another time and the nurse had to take my blood pressure over my clothing.

Whenever I reveal my arms I just feel like the nurse is looking at the stretch marks in disgust and will go tell the other employees in the clinic about them and laugh. I am hoping that nurses are more professional than that. Are stretch marks the least offensive thing RNs/LPNs encounter on their patients?

[island40]

I would like to encourage you to get some counseling to help you to accept who you are. I have worked with burn client, and psychiatric clients and believe me it is not the way that client's look that gets nurses to wagging thier tongues! It is all about they way they behave and refusing a simple, non-invasive procedure such as a BP measurement is bound to cause a stir. We are all working with the materials and circumstances that God gave us and unfortunately we didn't all get the Cindy Crawford package. Get over it and enjoy life!! Take care of you!