:oornt: AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Guys I'm sorry this is so long, but...OK I left the hospitals for a clinic to be able to spend more time with my kids and come on lets face it because I thought the patients or parents would be easier to deal with. As you all know I am a Pediatric nurse and have come to a point where I am sick and tired of some of these parents/guardians stupidity. Parents now a days seem to be so clueless about the simplest of things to care for their child. I'm thinking of writing a book titled "Call Your Momma for that Advise", where I will list all of the things that you really shouldn't bother your Pediatricians office with. Then you have the idiots that think that you have to take what ever crap they throw at you and continue to see them as if nothing ever happen. Especially those people that have their children on Medicaid. Now I'm not saying that all people that are on Medicaid are off the wall, there was a time that even I had to ask for help from the state for my child's health insurance. But is it me or are the Medicaid patients the worst? We really don't get paid JACK for the visits , but are expected by the parents to drop everything to do as they need or want.
For example when we have a kid that we haven't seen for a year and all of a sudden the mother calls hysterically demanding an appt for a WCC within the next two weeks or there Medicaid gets cut off........... excuse me you sat on your a**, decided that even though the well visits and dental visits are totally free you just didn't want to bring them in. And don't even give me the my car is broken down or I just don't have the money for gas excuse..... FOR A YEAR..... and anyway Medicaid pays for free transportation as well. So DO NOT sit on the phone and curse me out because you don't give a damn about your kids health and vaccines. Sorry too bad won't schedule you and you now get a formal discharge letter from our practice (which includes all the other doctors within our same health system).
What set me off the edge was today I got a call from my super asking me to fax him whatever documentation I had in a patients chart the we discharge earlier this year because the grandmother decided she was gonna be stupid and put in a formal complaint to Medicaid about being discharged without reason. She called our after hours PA and went on a rant rage about how my Doctor didn't know what she was doing and would never return to us again, so then again we just made official and discharged her.
Am I just evil or should I really try to get back to the good nurse that loved a challenge like an ignorant parent and thow myself into teaching? Don't get me wrong folks I love what I do, but some of the parents that are not willing to follow instructions or question everything that the doctor says really get to me sometimes. I even caught myself telling one dad once, "so you saw the doctor and don't agree with her diagnosis of a "cold", so now your calling to request antibiotics because you diagnosed your child as having an ear/throat infection... really and where did you get your medical doctors degree from... where did you do your Pediatric Internship?" LOL I was lucky that the dad fell so dumb after seeing the patient again and it still being a cold that he didn't complain. I haven't let my mouth run like that again!
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
A good nurse who has nothing but good intentions, as I assume the OP to be, can make mistakes. Is it my job to identify and point out others' mistakes? No, it isn't, and I know that. But if I was being hurtful and didn't know it then I would want someone to tell me.
The purpose of her post was to blow off steam, because she was frustrated with certain very irresponsible things parents do sometimes, which generally can be attributed to not taking care of things when they should have and then expecting the office to attend to their issue ASAP, without thought of how their behavior impacts other people who are playing by the rules. It's an opinion. So the idea of it being a "mistake" has nothing to do with this discussion.
I'm sorry that you have felt that people are shaming you because you were on Medicaid. However, I think that you are being over-sensitive. The nurse who sighed when you told her you didn't have a thermometer at home shouldn't have done that if her intention really was to imply that you are a terrible parent. I wasn't there, but I think it's possible it meant something else, especially since you found the OP's post personally hurtful to you as well.
In the very first paragraph of her post, she said that not all Medicaid parents are like this. MY kids were on Medicaid for a while some years back, too!! But I'm not reading anything into the OP's comments. I know she wasn't talking about me!!Best wishes to you, nobody here is pointing fingers at you. Honest.
nursel56
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The purpose of her post was to blow off steam, because she was frustrated with certain very irresponsible things parents do sometimes, which generally can be attributed to not taking care of things when they should have and then expecting the office to attend to their issue ASAP, without thought of how their behavior impacts other people who are playing by the rules. It's an opinion. So the idea of it being a "mistake" has nothing to do with this discussion.
I'm sorry that you have felt that people are shaming you because you were on Medicaid. However, I think that you are being over-sensitive. The nurse who sighed when you told her you didn't have a thermometer at home shouldn't have done that if her intention really was to imply that you are a terrible parent. I wasn't there, but I think it's possible it meant something else, especially since you found the OP's post personally hurtful to you as well.
In the very first paragraph of her post, she said that not all Medicaid parents are like this. MY kids were on Medicaid for a while some years back, too!! But I'm not reading anything into the OP's comments. I know she wasn't talking about me!!Best wishes to you, nobody here is pointing fingers at you. Honest.