Ever feel like..."STOP COMPLAINING"..

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Ok. I am understanding. I have medical knowledge. STOP WHINING!

It seems like EVERYONE around me is DYING of something. My dear husband made the coment that someone has to be full of tubes and machines in order for me to feel bad for them. I'm sorry. It just seems like everybody I know has some MAJOR health issue. I want to bring them to work, so they can see a 23 yr oldCF patient admitted once again, or a 13 yr old SCD kid crying because of yet another pain crisis. Am I supposed to feel bad because you need back surgery to finish the final touches on your lawsuit, or discover another illness while surfing the net.????

Am I the only person who can see you are exaggerating, or I am so heartless I don't see your disease process as real.?

Please tell me if I need to get out of nursing or if it's a fashionable trend to be sick.:confused:

Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.

How about the 90 year old women with a litlle bit of shoulder pain and a very minor rash that states she is worse off then anyone else in the nursing home. What was I thinking of not getting her that needed box of kleenex instead I'm just doing nothing by helping another nurse suction a resident that is basically drowning in his own fluids? Shame on me.

Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.
Originally posted by canoehead

If I ever lose those last 5 lbs you can just let me die because I will accomplished all I ever wanted to in this life.:D

LOL:D

Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
Originally posted by woundnurse

Guilty of the RN mom syndrone. When my son cut off the "tip" of his thumb during work (construction) my initial comment was --no big deal , it was just the tip. Fortunately he knows me and understood...and it is now healed and is a great conversation item.:kiss

What's a great conversation item-the tip of the thumb IN A JAR? LOL! You don't...do you?
Originally posted by RN2B2005

My mother (who gets queasy at a papercut) always complains that my grandmother and I (retired nurse and prospective nurse, respectively) aren't sympathetic enough.

The best story she has is that when I was nine years old, my dad did an auto-amputation of his right thumb with a table saw. While my mother was retching, I went downstairs and retrieved the thumb, wrapping it in a washcloth, handed it to my mother, and watched as she promptly passed out. Needless to say, a neighbour drove my dad to the hospital.

That's funny!! Sounds like something my kids would do!! (Hopefully I wouldn't pass out. DH might though!)

Over the summer I went to the ER because of nausea, vomiting and diarreah and severe abdominal pain.I literally stumbled into the ER and the registration person asked what was wrong so I told her I was having severe abdominal pain and the ***** actually ROLLED HER EYES at me and said to the security guard, " I told you you shouldn't have opened the door," I didn't like being judged, nor did I like not being taken seriously. As it turned out I did have a potentially serious problem that needed immediate medical attention. With exception to the true hypochondriacs(like my mother), I try my best to listen to other people's aches and pains regardless of whether or not they are life-threatening or trivial because I don't like it when people don't listen to mine. (Incidentally, some of the biggest complainers I know are NURSES:>D)

As far as people asking for medical advice. I have a good one from a stranger. I was at a mini-mart this summer and apparently a woman noticed that I have personalized lisence plates that say "RN2B." Well, she procedes to get out of her dirty, filthy car, and pulls out her dirty, filthy daughter and her daughter's dirty, filthy child. This kid was so dirty, she looked like she had just been dug out of a dirt pile!~ Feet were BLACK. Anyway, she asks me to diagnose her kid's rash!!! Not sure what it was actually. I assumed it was some type of dermatitis but they wanted to know if I would recommend going to the ER. I thought, "sure, waste our tax dollars on that." I know I shouldent' generalize but judging by the tooth-to-tatoo ratio, I have to assume some type of public assistance. When they got out of the car, trash was falling out everywhere. It was disgusting.

Specializes in Corrections, Psych, Med-Surg.

robynrn--Well you had your chance to provide (illegally) a medical diagnosis, so that these people could later have sued you (tracking you down from your license plate), thus helping pull themselves up from their present economic status. But you blew it--fortunately for you!

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

Now sjoe, these people might not even know what an attorney was for 1, and also would not have known that anything is wrong.

What a relief it is to hear other people talk about this issue. I find that some of the most difficult people I have to deal with are fellow nurses. They complain that you are a few minutes late hanging that piggy back, or changing the bed. I always want to tell them that they must be wonder nurse if they are able to do everything exactly right on time. And these are the people who complain over the stupidest little details and make a big fuss over nothing.

What's worse though is my friend who is a nurse. This woman thinks that every little sniffle she or one of her children get is a life threatining illness. I have never known anyone to complain so much. One time my husband was over at her house helping her husband fix her car. They had been working for hours. She called me at like 11:00 PM to tell me that she had taken my husbands blood pressure for no real reason, and that it was elevated to 160/80. She felt this was too high for a man his age and she wanted him to consider going to ER. She wondered what I thought. By this time my husband was so mad at her he could barely talk. I told her just to let him come home and I would check it myself. He was asymptomatic at this point. He came home and I took it myself. It was normal. She acutally called me at midnight to make sure he was ok and to ask again if I thought he needed to go to ER. She is lucky I love her.

Whatta freak!

Originally posted by 3rdShiftGuy

When you work with the majorly sick, it is difficult to deal with the minor sick.

Also, I have touble with family members of our patients. They scream at me because I'm ten minutes late bringing dad a blanket. I want to scream back "WE SAVED HIS FREAKIN' LIFE. STOP B*TCHING!" [/quote

OH-- And ALWAYS put some moisturizer on their lips or the family will ask in a nasty tone "isn't there something you can put on their lips?" That chaps my hide every time!

[OH-- And ALWAYS put some moisturizer on their lips or the family will ask in a nasty tone "isn't there something you can put on their lips?" That chaps my hide every time! [/b]

I always put moisture on everyone's lips now if they need it or not. Got so damn sick of hearing about the lips! Twicee this week I had pts families ask "What is all that white stuff on his/her lips?" in a rather digusted tone.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!! :( :( :( :( :( :(

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