HELP Resident calling baby "stupid" What to do!!!??

[WittleOnesRN]

:cry:Ok. So we had a super sick baby and the blonde tomboy female resident called the baby "stupid"!!! OMG I was shocked!!!!!!!!

The other night she said "F-ing(F-word) baby"!

OMG I just cant believe it!!!!!!!!

How would you guys handle this. I need to say something but I new in the dept. Apparently, she does it all the time. AND I am not going to let her get away with this!

[Scrubby]

HealingBalm-I'm truly sorry to hear about your loss

[HealingBalm]

HealingBalm-I'm truly sorry to hear about your loss

I appreciate your kind words more than you will ever know. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. HB:redbeathe

[Miss Chybil RN, BSN, RN]

Please go back through this thread and see the only response I wrote to the OP. I wrote it on October 30, and advised her not to write up the event in the patient's chart (a previous responder had advised she should chart it). Then I told her to put her complaint in writing to her higher-ups and restrict it to facts only. I have said nothing more to the OP, and I don't believe that I showed lack of compassion or unwillingness to understand where she was coming from. You must not have been unhappy with my response, as you gave me kudos for it.

And of course, that being the case, I don't understand why you cited that analogy for my benefit.

I didn't give you Kudos for the post below and this is the one my analogy referred to. I guess I didn't realize you weren't speaking to the OP, but whoever you were speaking to it wasn't a very compassionate response. That's what I was saying.

Well then, as you are a healthcare worker who is evidently charged with compassion for all people, shouldn't you be trying to understand and empathize with the feelings and motives of the resident who made the remark? Because if you're not doing so, then you must include yourself in the tally of the hypocritical, pompous and insufferable.

[DaFreak71]

give me a break about the Estrogen comments - not all female nurses are filled with so much drama - there are many who are laid back, just maybe not at your facility. Perhaps those laid back, estrogen free nurses stay away from the drama, and if you're in close vicinity to that... well, then...... I avoid those drama nurses, male and female alike. Now, what I wish would change is for the male nurses would be as attention-detailed as the females. Ah, not nice to generalize, is it?

And for the record, doesn't matter if you're male or female - I couldn't tell your gender from your remarks, but I realize when I read sexist comments. Give me a break, really. [/quote

If most nurses are women, and there is an ongoing issue with "nurses eating their young"....I'm just sayin....could be the estrogen thing. It's a relatively common phenomenon for women in close living/long working environments to have their cycles synchronized.

Curious about my gender? Female.

[freefalr]

(((HealingBalm))):heartbeat

[pennyaline]

I didn't give you Kudos for the post below and this is the one my analogy referred to. I guess I didn't realize you weren't speaking to the OP, but whoever you were speaking to it wasn't a very compassionate response. That's what I was saying.

The response you disliked detailed the hypocritical lack of compassion which that particular health care worker was showing toward the resident. The irony of it was utterly lost on a lot of people here.

(But not on everyone :) )

[kessadawn, BSN, RN]

Re: "It makes me sad that some of you take care of our most vulnerable patients"

In that case, let me urge you never to walk through a NICU in the middle of night when all the parents are gone, or you'll hear plenty of horrifying discussions of which babies are annoying, or ugly, or are probably going to die, or have funny-looking memberes.

And while babies may be vulnerable to infection or hypothermia or dehydration, they're not vulnerable to being called stupid, because it doesn't mean anything to them.

I wonder what the NICU nurses said about my precious little girl, what with her having a syndrome and all...

this is just not right.

[nursel56]

I wonder what the NICU nurses said about my precious little girl, what with her having a syndrome and all...

this is just not right.

That quote does make it sound like NICU nurses are callous and detached, but I don't believe for one second it is representative of the way most of them feel about taking care of newborns, whatever their problems at birth. If your baby was in the NICU, you probably know first hand how much they DO care. Best to you and your little girl. :heartbeat