Ever had this happen?

mom and nurse · Oct 23, 2005

No, but I've heard of these kind of things happening while at work. Usually after working all day with 7 or 8 patients I probably don't smell too good and my hair is probably all over my head....I only go through drive in windows to get something to eat so I don't frighten folks or carry anything that might have clung to my shoes into restaurants.

But at work. Yes I've heard of these kind of things happening but it's usually rare since many of our patients are so sick.....and fortunately if a patient does act like this, the patient will probably only be there 2 or 3 weeks (at rehab hospitals the patients stay longer.... I ignore it when it happens to me.....mostly because I'm too busy to deal with it.... :)

Gogetter · Oct 23, 2005

I have to say I am starting to get tired of this happening...
I am finishing up my first year of nursing school, and on many occassions my nsg buddies and I will go out during and after clinical to get a bite to eat (so of course we are still in our uniforms). 9 times out of 10 we are hit on, sometimes really obnoxiously, by dirty old men, whistled at by construction workers, honked at by passersby...
Finally, the other day we were being googled at while waiting in line at taco bell. I even heard one of the guys say "helllloooooooo nurse, mmmm," under his breath as we walked in. He came up to us and asked us to nurse one of his friends back to health, and I just looked at him like he was an idiot and told him to get lost!:angryfire
I can understand things like this happening if we had been dressed up or looked like hoochy mammas!!! But we were in scrubs and I had been wiping butts all day! How sexy is that!
It just makes me mad and I was wondering if anyone else experiences this as often?

Don" worry be Happy:) We are special kind of people . The kind that can ignore people of lesser value. Hold your head up high and let them gloat. Stand your ground and move forward away from such riff raff and smile because you've made a difference!

fergus51 · Oct 23, 2005

Best way to avoid it is to bring a change of clothes with you to clinical and change before you go out. There are a lot of rude freaks out there.

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Oct 23, 2005

It seems a little odd to me that this is happening 9 times out of 10. I wouldn't be going back to any of those eating establishments since these men are not acting very civilized. There are a lot nicer men in the world that would never talk to women that way. Aren't you a little scared when men talk to you and your friends that way? Telling one of these kooks to get lost might set him off to harass you further or assault you. It's very bold and brash and not at all gentlemanly. Go to a nice part of town so you won't have to run into creeps like this. Why don't you guys go to a nice little restaurant where you can sit down, rest your feet, relax and talk among you? It is highly unlikely that you will be bothered in that situation. And, if you were, you just complain to the manager.

nurse4theplanet, RN · Oct 23, 2005

It seems a little odd to me that this is happening 9 times out of 10. I wouldn't be going back to any of those eating establishments since these men are not acting very civilized. There are a lot nicer men in the world that would never talk to women that way. Aren't you a little scared when men talk to you and your friends that way? Telling one of these kooks to get lost might set him off to harass you further or assault you. It's very bold and brash and not at all gentlemanly. Go to a nice part of town so you won't have to run into creeps like this. Why don't you guys go to a nice little restaurant where you can sit down, rest your feet, relax and talk among you? It is highly unlikely that you will be bothered in that situation. And, if you were, you just complain to the manager.

This was a very prominent part of town. It has also happened at smaller, nicer resturaunts and such where we try and sit down quietly to eat. We are all quite young in our early twenties, so maybe they assume that we won't do or say anything. Sometimes it is not practical to change out of scrubs when you have a thirty minute lunch break.

Yes it can be scary, but what do you do? Take it? I told this guy to get lost in the middle of taco bell with plenty of people around. By the way, this guy was dressed in a suit and tie with about seven or eight other business men with him!!! Ugh, it just drives me insane.

LeesieBug · Oct 23, 2005

Doesn't happen to us....we look waaaayyy to geeky in our school outfits. I think they could be sold as birth control. :lol2: Or, it might be because I am not twenty anymore.....I PREFER to blame it on the uniform.

I agree that the best thing to do is change clothes after clinical, or throw a sweatshirt or something over your uniform if you are in the middle of clinicals leaving for lunch (wish we were allowed to go out DURING...we aren't allowed to leave the facility... I am jealous!). It is ridiculous that people have to be such pigs, but theres always going to be a few out there.

LeesieBug · Oct 23, 2005

P.S. If some dude in a suit said something like that to me I'd probably tell him, "Wow, you dress very classy, too bad your personality/behavior doesn't match your outfit" Then I would ignore him. If someone got nasty with me after I told him off, I would get out the pepper spray while dialing the cops on the cell to tell them I was being harrassed by a moron. Of course, I tend to have a BRING IT ON IDIOT kind of attitude.

(Now, if I was alone somewhere in a non-populated area it would be a different story. That would be ingore him, get our the peppersprayif available, and advance quickly to where there were other people.)

babynurselsa, RN · Oct 23, 2005

I have frequently been requested to perform mouth to mouth. My response is usually to smile sweetly and tell them "Sorry I am off the clock, but I will be happy to dial 911 for you. Firemen do mouth to mouth very competently."

MS._Jen_RN, ASN, RN · Oct 23, 2005

I have frequently been requested to perform mouth to mouth.

Same here. In the past my response has been. "Well, you have to be dead, or almost, for that to happen. But, that could probably be arranged. . . "

:)

Jen

nurse4theplanet, RN · Oct 23, 2005

I have frequently been requested to perform mouth to mouth. My response is usually to smile sweetly and tell them "Sorry I am off the clock, but I will be happy to dial 911 for you. Firemen do mouth to mouth very competently."

:rotfl:

Love your answer. I will have to use this one! For a minute there, I was beginning to think I was the only one this was happening to...:uhoh21: