Family complaint? Throw the nurse under the bus!

[Jamthenurse]

Just a thought. The nurse is licensed and therefore trusted to tell and document the truth. Yet the second some dysfunctional, sociopathic patient or family member complains about something (that nurse killed my baby!), management brings her into the office and asks "why did you kill her baby?"

Of course you're not baby killing. What you're doing is you're not getting them water fast enough when the doctor made them NPO. You can't give them a second dose of Dilaudid because they didn't feel the "hit" from the first one.

Just wondering. No secret to me hospitals complain about a nursing shortage when they treat the nurse so much like an imbecile.

[Psychtrish39, BSN, RN]

Because alot of facilities think we are imbeciles. I do think things should be investigated but a manager should look at the big picture. I know there are good places to work but the rotten ones outnumber the good ones 10 to 1.. and if you work in LTC like I do forget it . Those type of facilities treat nurses the worst then lie about it... I think that is why there is a nursing shortage also...

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

You lost me at the concept of a nursing shortage. There isn't one.

[Dazglue, ADN, BSN, MSN, RN]

You lost me at the concept of a nursing shortage. There isn't one.

Depends on where you live....

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

If there is anywhere in the US with a nursing shortage there are new grads here dying to know where that is.

[SkylerW]

Pretty Much anywhere in the northwest!!!!! There are very few nursing programs here.

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Nurses are at the bottom of the healthcare food chain. All c/o eventually become the nurses' responsibility.

[Idaho Murse]

Pretty Much anywhere in the northwest!!!!! There are very few nursing programs here.

Actually there are tons of programs in the NW, and there are surpluses of new grads everywhere.

PS didnt mean to no address the OP just couldnt let that go with out a comment.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Just a thought. The nurse is licensed and therefore trusted to tell and document the truth. Yet the second some dysfunctional, sociopathic patient or family member complains about something (that nurse killed my baby!), management brings her into the office and asks "why did you kill her baby?"

Of course you're not baby killing. What you're doing is you're not getting them water fast enough when the doctor made them NPO. You can't give them a second dose of Dilaudid because they didn't feel the "hit" from the first one.

Just wondering. No secret to me hospitals complain about a nursing shortage when they treat the nurse so much like an imbecile.

There's no shortage. It's a fabricated collection of circumstances that don't really exist (especially in these economic times) to cause a glutton in the market so they ( the hospitals) can do and behave however they wish.......Supply and demand. If there is a steady supply you can't have demands.

[nelpn2rn]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one working at a place with a bunch of crazies. I can't believe how strange and ridiculous some patients/ and or families can be.

[nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN]

They may be crazy, but they're not so crazy that they act like they do with us when they're in the Walmart -- they know they'd get arrested there. But at the hospital, it's just "oh, sugar, what did the mean old nurse do to you, no wonder you hit her...."

[DookieMeisterRN]

Pretty Much anywhere in the northwest!!!!! There are very few nursing programs here.

I don't mean to hijack the thread but...... there isn't a shortage in the NW!

In reply to the OP, I've been blessed with level-headed NM's b/c the few complaints I've had from pts have been recognized as nonsense.