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Has anybody ever had a bad expierience in a hospital setting that made you never wanna treat someone the way you were treated???Well i was and let me tell ya it was horrible.I was about halfway done with lvn school and i had a car accident that landed me in the er.I just remember waking up in the er not knowing what the hell happened and why i was there.I remembered being on the road and driving but thats all i could remember and next i wake up in the er.Anyways long story short i asked the er nurse what had happened and why was i here?She told me i had had a car accident.I remembered my sister was in the car with me so i asked the nurse where she was and if she was ok.She then proceeded to ignore me and i kept askin her because i mean come on i didnt know if she was alive or dead.She then told me that there were more important people there that were more important than what i wanted.So then i proceeded to ball my eyes out till she told me where she was at.I understand the er is a busy place But wow could it have killed her to take 2 min to go find out where she was at????man that was coldhearted and since that point i vowed to hopefully never ever treat any of my pts like that and i hope i follow through as long as im a nurse.

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Specializes in Home Health CM.

That's horrible! I had a bad experience, too but not as bad as yours. I was in my last semester of nursing school, doing my ICU rotation. My mom was sent to the ICU and I had stayed up with her all night long. I came home to sleep for a few hours because I was sleep deprived from being a student and staying up all night with my mom. I got a couple of hours sleep, woke up and checked my phone for voicemail. There was a message on there from the day shift nurse asking when I was coming up there because she needed me to be with my mom since my mom was disturbing all of the other patients in the ICU. She acted really annoyed about it, too. My mom was scared and confused and kept calling for me. I had to get some sleep too, though. I am not superwoman. I thought that was really rude of her.

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Wow so you were expected to go do her job???lol

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.

Unfortunatly I have as well. My daughter was inpatient in rehab after a head injury. Just 5 days post accident, with continual 9/10 migraines... the aid was yelling at her to get herself up and dressed for PT, that she(daughter) was to do all her own care and get moving:mad:

Well sure, that is exactly what rehab is for.... but until you get a patients pain under better controll, you dang well better understand why they'll just lay there and refuse to get up and go. Geeze.

Yup, we all make boo boo's I just hope that everyone demands better in thier care and the people involved change or get out.

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unfortunatly i have as well. My daughter was inpatient in rehab after a head injury. Just 5 days post accident, with continual 9/10 migraines... The aid was yelling at her to get herself up and dressed for pt, that she(daughter) was to do all her own care and get moving:mad:

Well sure, that is exactly what rehab is for.... But until you get a patients pain under better controll, you dang well better understand why they'll just lay there and refuse to get up and go. Geeze.

Yup, we all make boo boo's i just hope that everyone demands better in thier care and the people involved change or get out.

dang thats horrible some people really have no heart...i had a head injury as well and the way my car looked people say it was a miracle im still here maybe the man above has something nice planned for me=d

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

Being told not to get out of bed without assistance after giving birth to my first child w/ an epidural, then when I hit the call light to go to the bathroom, the nurse snippingly telling me through the intercom that I could go to the bathroom myself.

Same hospital stay, the baby with me in the room, and I was changing his diaper. I guess I didn't read the chapter on the first poop of a kid, and I was freaked out by the sticky, tarry poop. Hit the call light again, and an exasperated nurse through the intercom said, "That's NORMAL." I alternately laugh and get peeved at remembering that.

Relative w/ dementia that I'm responsible for got admitted into the hospital. After settling in her in her room, I had to leave and would come back within an hour. Told the the nurse that she has a tendency to wander when in the hospital, so please keep an eye out until I get back. Came back to find her in a chair next to the nurse's station crying her eyes out, while an annoyed nurse was strapping her into a Posey. The nurse told me that they found her at the nurse's station down in the next unit. I told her I would stay with her if she would remove the Posey. The nurse reluctantly did. For the next 23 hours, all I got were sincere thank you's for staying (yes, I stayed the whole time), but I would have much rather preferred a little patience with my obviously distraught relative.

Recent trip to the ER (afterhours emergency) for same relative d/t rectal bleeding. Told triage nurse, ER nurse, ER doctor that admitting her would be a bad idea and, after we learned there was no active bleeding, is there any way to get what she needed via outpatient or home health? Her Hgb was low, and the ER doc was short with me when I suggested that, but he agreed to calling her primary. I waited about a half hour then went to the nurse's station to tell them that I needed to call my husband from outside d/t bad reception. As I walked up to the station, I overheard the ER doc tell the nurse that my relative's primary had said that my relative goes "berserk" (exact words) in the hospital. They discharged her with outpatient orders within 15 minutes.

I've learned that if you're a reasonable patient or family member, you will be snipped at by healthcare professionals because they all assume that you're a problem. It's sort of sad, but I guess they're entitled because of what they've seen and how busy they are and.... :yawn: I let it roll off my back while I'm there, but I walk away shaking my head. I hope I can retain some discernment on who is really a problem patient/family member and who isn't and act accordingly.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, Education.

Was your sister OK?

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

Yes I have, it's one of the things that drove me to be a nurse because I knew the kind of nurse I would want to be. (90% of the nurses I have had have been great).

But sometimes I really do think that all medical professionals should spend a week in a hospital as a patient. If they never have.

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was your sister ok?

yea she was..she was already out of the er and after the nurse told me i shut up and fell asleep....then i got sent to icu where the next nurse told me i was the easiest patient she ever had...guess she got a little break lol

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yes i have, it's one of the things that drove me to be a nurse because i knew the kind of nurse i would want to be. (90% of the nurses i have had have been great).

But sometimes i really do think that all medical professionals should spend a week in a hospital as a patient. If they never have.

haha i def agree with your last sentence

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Specializes in ICU, ER.

But sometimes I really do think that all medical professionals should spend a week in a hospital as a patient. If they never have.

I've spent several 7-10 day admissions and it has taught me so much about giving good care.

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Specializes in MED/SURG STROKE UNIT, LTC SUPER., IMU.

I am really gentle and slow when it comes to foleys. When I was 19 I had an appendicitis. I went to the ER and was told that it may be about to burst. I though that they were just examing me at the time, but then the ER nurse inserted a DRY foley in about 2 seconds. No preperation. NO explaining what she was about to do. JUST DID IT DRY!!! Needless to say.....they had to peel me off the ceiling!! I will never forget that and am very slow and easy with my pts and use LOTS of lub. :eek:

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