Hugs to you floor nurses

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Specializes in medical/telemetry/IR.

I let a patient have it today.

It was the end of my day down in Interventional Radiology. didn't get lunch until 3pm.

this last patient to come down....Oh...its patients like her that made me leave bedside nursing.....:uhoh3:

My Dr explained procedure...she wouldn't give permission for us to do it.

After calling her nurse and explaining.. I took her to holding to go back up...

she kept calling out for things....disturbing the other patients waiting to go up..

so I just took her up...She just kept complaining................you've all met patients like her..

nothing satisfies her....

finally get her in bed, I close the curtain and just tell her off. her nurse smiles at me.

OH that felt sooooooooooooo good:lol2::lol2::lol2:

I :redbeathe bedside nurses

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Oh How I wish I could do that!!!! I feel like im always biting my tongue!

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And you are a nurse...why exactly? You actually seem proud of telling a patient off. You are probably one of those that also complain incessantly of getting no respect and wonder why. Maybe you should try putting as much effort into understanding your patients as you do finding cute little graphics to put in your posts.

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Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

sarjasy.....first, don't automatically make your ONE post on an.com a right to automatically berate someone. We have respect and professionalism here with EVERYONE.

Fran....

What was the patient needing exactly that was making her so needy? blankets, water, food, etc? I understand the frustration....but maybe there was something else underlying it?

I don't agree with the telling the patient off....but you do what you want to do...I wasn't there so I don't judge what you did.

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Specializes in medical/telemetry/IR.

Oh I'm a great nurse!!! I'm great with my patients. I love them. they love me.

but this one today. just spending 5 min with her.....was all it took... I really wasn't that mean to her... I just gave her back what she was giving me...just let her know her comments were inappropriate..

and yes I love smilies:yeah:

In my 18 years as a nurse no one has pushed my buttons like this lady.

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And you are a nurse...why exactly? You actually seem proud of telling a patient off. You are probably one of those that also complain incessantly of getting no respect and wonder why. Maybe you should try putting as much effort into understanding your patients as you do finding cute little graphics to put in your posts.

Wow. Nurses are human just as are patients, sometimes we can only take so much. We need to have sympathy for each other just as much as our patients. Maybe you are having a bad dad Sarjasy, is there something you would like to talk about? :p

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I agree 100% with sarjasy! I do not believe you acted in a professional manner by telling the patient off. Would like it if the situation was reversed?

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Specializes in PCCN.
And you are a nurse...why exactly? You actually seem proud of telling a patient off. You are probably one of those that also complain incessantly of getting no respect and wonder why. Maybe you should try putting as much effort into understanding your patients as you do finding cute little graphics to put in your posts.

are you serious? have you been a floor nurse for any length of time- esp med /surg?? I for one was glad she told that patient off. Im just surprised she didnt get reprimanded for it, but it would have been soo worth it.

sarjasy-really.after a few years of abuse, you'll sing a different tune.

and if we're wrong on the assumption that you havent been abused as a floor nurse for any length of time, I'd like to know what lala land you live in- cause I'd like to move there!

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Seriously! This "the patient is a customer" ideology is BS. Can you imagine if you as a "customer" acted how some of these patients do at another place of business??? Wed have a black eye or be escorted out by security. And before some nurse on her high horse starts talking about the patients are sick and yadda yadda yadda, I understand this, Im talking about the ones who really arent THAT sick and act how they do because they think/know most nurses will not/cant do anything about it and think they are staying at the Hilton and not a hospital. If I ever acted like that, PLEASE tell me off and put me in my place!

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

op: good for you for standing up for your self! telling that patient that she was way out of line is not unprofessional! i think this is what is missed by the others who read your post! they assumed you were cursing her out or treating her poorly. rather then making the correct assumption that you told her she was wrong, she needed to act differently, and that her behaviors were no longer going to be tolerated!

i agree... i give big hugs to med surg nurses too!!! i used to work in med surg and hated it for many reasons to include having to put up with the same poorly acting abusive patients and their abusive families night in and night out for weeks! management does nothing to stop the abuse. customer service overrides a positive and safe working environment for the nurses! well, at least that was what i was taught in med surg! now i am in the ed and i am being taught differently.

the ed is a very dangerous place to work and so any kind of abuse is taken seriously by the nurses and management. i have grown more assertive toward patients then i ever was in med surg since staring in the ed. i learned a great deal from the more experienced nurses and have taken many of my cues from them. i do not allow anyone to talk to me like i am their slave or like they have lost their freak'n minds!

-good ed nurse, soon to be great army trauma nurse!

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are you serious? have you been a floor nurse for any length of time- esp med /surg?? I for one was glad she told that patient off. Im just surprised she didnt get reprimanded for it, but it would have been soo worth it.

If there was nothing wrong with the behavior, why would she get reprimanded for it?

sarjasy-really.after a few years of abuse, you'll sing a different tune.

and if we're wrong on the assumption that you havent been abused as a floor nurse for any length of time, I'd like to know what lala land you live in- cause I'd like to move there!

If you are getting "abused," maybe you should look to work somewhere else. How is it that a patient "mistreating" you is abuse, but a nurse mistreating a patient isn't?

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Specializes in ED, ICU, Education.

I can't begin to describe how many times I have had to bite my tongue regarding the behaviour of a patient. Sometimes, I find that using the phrase, "I'm sorry you feel that way." after they have complained to you tends to leave them speechless for a while. Sometimes these patients just need to be told once you know? "You don't know what you don't know."

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