Feeling like a servant

[nurseywifeymommy1]

Do you guys ever feel like the families and sometimes patients treat you like u are the waitress? Or like they are ur only patient? It really irritated me today.

[Skayda]

Why are Nurses and CNA's responsible for providing refreshments to family members?, if they are well enough to be a visitor then they should get it themselves. I'm disabled and in a wheelchair I wouldn't ask a nurse to get me food or drinks, I would get it myself. They are too busy trying provide care and I have so much respect for nurses and CNA's to not do that.

I wish all my clients and everyone I've ever worked for, will work for, thought like you! Too much of the time CNAs and Nurses are treated like servants and housekeepers.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

We have long been registered waitresses. Some studies report 20% of our duties are classified as handmaiden.

The current corporate culture is surely encouraged THAT viewpoint.

I have a "fond" memory of readmitting a patient who remembered me with " aren't you the one that waited on me last time?"

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

I had a visitor say once, "We should get the nurses to give massages." I looked at her and said, "I think the nurses need the massages. Sorry, I'm not trained for that."

Had a patient ask for a back massage recently...

God help me.. I burst out laughing.