Eeeeevil nurse stories

Butterfliesnroses · Aug 13, 2008

I'm an aide in LTC...My grandmother worked in the same LTC facility as a housekeeper many years ago (more than 20)...I get to hear about how evil the aides are, how they claim they don't have time to stop in the hall and visit with the residents, how aides just make messes for the housekeeper...And for the record...I am not evil, I generally don't have time to stop in the hall and chit chat with the residents...I do make sure to say hi so and so how are you? but to carry on a conversation NO I do make sure to talk to the residents during care, or when I'm observing the dining room, ect. I just use opportunity, but NO I don't have time to sit down and carry on a convo! and if I have time try to do 1:1 with a resident. Also NO I don't make messes for the housekeeping! For one thing I work 2-10 so any mess I make I HAVE to clean anyways because we don't have housekeeping on my shift! For another I'm much too busy to go around making messes for housekeepers!

bekindtokittens · Aug 13, 2008

I gather the woman was you? Sorry if I offended you, and I gather that if this is the case, you did not know he was this way before he did this.
Those women did. How? Those men beat up their best friends, sisters, etc. but oh, no, he wouldn't be that way with me. The clinic director, a 38-year-old divorced woman with a master's degree and three kids (all from different dads; her ex-husband fathered the first), was nicknamed "Cartman's Mom" because she seemed all sweetness, etc. but we all knew she financed her cocaine habit by having sex with any man who was willing. In her case, they were some real scuzzbuckets. There were rumors that she shared her "bounty" with her 14-year-old daughter, who she would pull out of school if she didn't have a babysitter for her toddler. When she finally got child support for her middle son, she used the money for a trip to Cancun and bragged about it. I liked the people who worked in the pharmacy and was disappointed when they decided not to hire me permanently (I was filling in for a pharmacist who had a seriously ill child) but know now that they did me a favor.
A thread on another website was titled "Advice for living" and someone said "Jail is not a dating service." Really? You don't say!
Are the stories I have heard (mostly from earlier decades, but not always) of L&D nurses telling women to shut up and stop whining really true? If they are, :angryfire to them.

Your post was so funny I peed a little. I know people like this too, and it's so frustrating trying to be "politically correct" about it. And I love South Park. :chuckle

I don't get any "evil nurse" stories from my family, and they're all happy I picked this career. OP, I'm sorry you have to listen to that nonsense.

Butterfliesnroses · Aug 13, 2008

And another fave is when someone finds out you are a nurse and hits you with every possible ailment they, their children, parents, distant relatives, etc . have had and are having and want to know what it is. Well, let me look into my crystal ball and tell you.

I've had the same problem as an aide!!! I'll have family describe what is going on with them and ask what it is. Being in school I can sometimes gander a guess, but I generally have no clue! Besides nurses aren't supposed to diagnose. I only tell them if I'm fairly certain.

RN1982 · Aug 13, 2008

I hear ya. I don't complain to every customer service rep, dentist, teacher, etc. the problems I've had with others in similiar positions but for nurses it seems to be very different. I don't get it either.
And another fave is when someone finds out you are a nurse and hits you with every possible ailment they, their children, parents, distant relatives, etc . have had and are having and want to know what it is. Well, let me look into my crystal ball and tell you.

I get that too. One day I was grocery shopping, minding my own business but you know, since I was wearing my scrubs I guess it meant that I was open to handing out medical advice. A lady came up to me and said that her grandson was slow and wanted to know if it was because his father used drugs when the mother became pregnant with the grandson. I just stared at her...mainly because it was 8am and I had just gotten off a 12 hour shift.

Batman24 · Aug 13, 2008

I get that too. One day I was grocery shopping, minding my own business but you know, since I was wearing my scrubs I guess it meant that I was open to handing out medical advice. A lady came up to me and said that her grandson was slow because his father used drugs when the mother became pregnant with the grandson. I just stared at her...mainly because it was 8am and I had just gotten off a 12 hour shift.

I had someone share info about an itch she had and then went on to share she thinks it was bought on by someone who wasn't her spouse. Uhhh...I don't know you. See your gyno and a marriage counselor.

BelleKat, BSN, RN · Aug 13, 2008

I get that too. One day I was grocery shopping, minding my own business but you know, since I was wearing my scrubs I guess it meant that I was open to handing out medical advice. A lady came up to me and said that her grandson was slow and wanted to know if it was because his father used drugs when the mother became pregnant with the grandson. I just stared at her...mainly because it was 8am and I had just gotten off a 12 hour shift.

Oh my,I get that too from family members who think it is just so handy to have someone in healthcare in the family. I've seen places on relatives that only their S/O's should see and maybe not even them. People show me their toes and tell me they have trouble peeing.

I'm at a loss,I want to help my family but I'm a surgical nurse,I don't know about funky rashes and toejam.Sheesh!!

:beercuphe:lol_hitti

Batman24 · Aug 13, 2008

Oh my,I get that too from family members who think it is just so handy to have someone in healthcare in the family. I've seen places on relatives that only their S/O's should see and maybe not even them. People show me their toes and tell me they have trouble peeing.
I'm at a loss,I want to help my family but I'm a surgical nurse,I don't know about funky rashes and toejam.Sheesh!!
:beercuphe:lol_hitti

If someone I know ever tells me about their funky spunk or that of their mate or significant other I think I might give up. :yeah:

RN1982 · Aug 13, 2008

ROFL...funky spunk...that's a fetching term.

nrsang97, BSN, RN · Aug 13, 2008

Seriously I don't want to always listen to someone complain to me about the nurses they had 20 years ago that hurt them starting a IV. I am sorry if I offend someone because I do not want to be assualted with nurse horror stories because someone found out I am a nurse. I really don't tell every dentist I meet about the bad dentist I had, or tell every doctor I meet about every doctor I had and didn't like. Why should it be any different for us? We deserve to be left alone as well.

Batman24 · Aug 13, 2008

ROFL...funky spunk...that's a fetching term.

It's from Sex and The City. One of my fave lines from the show. :bow:

58flyer · Aug 13, 2008

Does this happen to anyone else?
"Oh, you're a nurse? Let me tell you, in great and passionate, not to mention highly improbable detail, all about the horrible nurses I had when I was in the hospital!"
Cheezits, people! I really, really don't need to be assailed with stories about things that happened forty years before I was born, a thousand miles away. What do you want me to say? I'm sorry? Yes, you're right, nurses are really terrible people who like to tell children every night for a month that if they don't move one muscle all night they can go home the next day, but then you moved because you were JUST A CHILD so you couldn't go home and isn't that just the worst thing you ever heard? Oops, you caught us! They DO teach psychological torture techniques in nursing school! Sorry, auntie!
I'm tempted to start doing this back to people. Figure out what they do and come up with some horrendous story about someone in the same profession. "Well, this one time a dog groomer pulled out all my dog's toenails! And then offered them as a sacrifice to the Devil!"
NB: Please note that I am NOT talking about patient/family stories. For those I put on my best therapeutic communication face and am appropriately sympathetic. I'm talking about my own family members, acquaintances, and the odd random stranger.

YES! It does happen to other folks! You are not alone. As a police officer I get it all the time. You would think my profession sucks!

My SIL was an RN and every time she would see a police officer speeding or do a rolling stop at a red light, she would be on the phone to tell me all about it. I would respond with some wicked witch RN story.

We did get some great laughs out of it, usually just agreeing that cops and nurses are just sorry asses.....:chuckle :bugeyes:

(Me:Well Cindy, we are a sorry bunch aren't we? )(She:yes we are flyer)

Misery loves company :cheers:

allnurses Guide · Aug 13, 2008

Does this happen to anyone else?
"Oh, you're a nurse? Let me tell you, in great and passionate, not to mention highly improbable detail, all about the horrible nurses I had when I was in the hospital!"
Cheezits, people! I really, really don't need to be assailed with stories about things that happened forty years before I was born, a thousand miles away. What do you want me to say? I'm sorry? Yes, you're right, nurses are really terrible people who like to tell children every night for a month that if they don't move one muscle all night they can go home the next day, but then you moved because you were JUST A CHILD so you couldn't go home and isn't that just the worst thing you ever heard? Oops, you caught us! They DO teach psychological torture techniques in nursing school! Sorry, auntie!
I'm tempted to start doing this back to people. Figure out what they do and come up with some horrendous story about someone in the same profession. "Well, this one time a dog groomer pulled out all my dog's toenails! And then offered them as a sacrifice to the Devil!"
NB: Please note that I am NOT talking about patient/family stories. For those I put on my best therapeutic communication face and am appropriately sympathetic. I'm talking about my own family members, acquaintances, and the odd random stranger.

Elizabells, I haven't had any nurse horror stories when people find out I'm a nurse I tend to get comments like, oh I could never do that but whilst your there can you just take a look at my...................................... (blister / toe / wound / rash / lump)

I also get stories of the old TB isolation hospital which was a few miles from where I live, of how the children were dropped of and had to wave to parents through the windows.