Family members and Visitors telling me HOW to do my job!!!

[abbaking]

Have any of you had those pain in the butt family members and visitors TELLING you how to do a dressing change or how to start an IV? The past shift, I had a gentleman telling me and all the other nursing staff how to give PO meds, change the dressings and how to "Properly" use the accu-check. Meanwhile, His tone was that of explaining domething to an idoit ---Talking S-L-O-W-L-Y and annunciting every word......I find this behavior VERY insulting and irritating. I am not a child....I am a trained and educated medical professional - Sometimes with people like this I want to go to there Jobs and do the same thing ----see how much they enjoy it. Its very insulting....it make the patient fell tense cause her or she may think I am imcompetant.....The gentleman proceeded to rip off tape from already fragile skin.......That was the last straw....I said ---(to my co-workers in the room assisting me) "The last thing she needs is a skin tear and yet MORE skin breakdown".

[caliotter3]

I once had a woman disconnect her dad's chest tube so he could get up and go to the bathroom. He was on bedrest and confused, mind you. She was a nursing student and knew "everything." Yeah....that was a really fun day!

Boy, she must be a joy to have in clinicals!

[sharpeimom]

we had a girl in her teens who was a ff on our psych floor. we all tried to be very very consistant with her. she had bpd was was one of the most narcissistic persons i ever had to deal with. she'd be pretty good between visits from mom and grandma, but the day before and visiting day itself...she was absolutely impossible. the kicker was that mom and grandma pampered, petted, fussed, and babied her.

she was soooo sensitive, you know. sensitive, my xxx, she had a good thing going and capitalized on it and would be totally out of control by the end of visiting hours and when staff tried to implement her care plan, mom and/or grandma would either speak right up and say she had read an article in good housekeeping (or reader's digest etc.) and that being stern and firm was exactly the wrong approach.

oh yeah? then why the heck do you just dump her here every few weeks when you, at home, can't put up with her immature, loud, pouty, self centered self any more?

kathy

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