OK this question may relate more to peds than anything, but have any of you had this experience where a family member tries to make you out to the patient to be the "bad old meanie nurse"??? It gets on my NERVES!!
For example, in my experience a couple stand out:
"If you don't be quiet, I'm going to get this nurse to give you a SHOT!!" (no lady, that's not QUITE how it works, but I MAY find a way to give YOU a shot!!)
When a pt kept pulling off his O2 mask: "Mommy's putting it back on for you, it's okay. Do you want me to let the nurse do it? She's standing RIGHT THERE, and if you don't settle down I'll give it to HER so behave!!!" (This one doesn't sound so bad written down I guess, it was just the tone, like "Don't worry Mommy won't let the mean nurse near you, unless you keep 'misbehaving'!")
Anyway... just wanted to vent. I am sure you all have experienced things kinda like this too, maybe? :uhoh21:
At the other end of the scale, I had an elderly patient in the ER whose adult daughter yelled, "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO HER NOW?" at anyone who approached.
I always try to look for an opening in the conversation to educate, but sometimes you just gotta do what ya gotta do and leave it at that.
One evening, after a particularly belligerant pt's daughter was leaving for the night, she came up to me and my clinical instructor and said, "Don't manhandle her while I'm gone." Ummm, while tempting, last I checked it was against the law!
girlfromtx
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One evening, after a particularly belligerant pt's daughter was leaving for the night, she came up to me and my clinical instructor and said, "Don't manhandle her while I'm gone." Ummm, while tempting, last I checked it was against the law!