I caught a manipulative family member in the act!

[MrsCaseyRN]

We have this pt whose just a royal pain. She refuses tx and tells her daughter shes not being taken care of, so there's a lot of manipulating going on their. But today, I was working a double 7a - 11:30p. Early this moring, the daughter asked the primary nurse how mom was during the night. Nurse told her she didn't get anything significant in report, but when she was done with her meds (we're in LTC) she'd double check. Well, this daughter then came up to me and the other nurse (rudely I might add) and asked the same thing. We told her that while we did not recieve any report on the pt, since she wasn't ours we would check the written report on the floor. The daughter requested we read it word for word. We explained that it was not open for her reveiw, but that we can honestly tell her that the mom had little problems last night. The daughter wanted to read this report, but it has every pt from the floor on there with info on each pt and that we can't show it to her. She really thought we were all hiding something, and we assured her that this wasn't the case.

Well, she left and came back at like 5pm. I was in with another pt. She cornered another (new) nurse and asked her to read from the floor report. (I don't even know how this lady came to find out we have this floor report, I guess from hovering over the nurses station so much) This nurse was flipping through and I walked up as the daughter was commenting on what she wanted to know. The daughter looked at me, and HER LOOK WAS PRICELESS. The shock that I was STILL their from the day shift. At that point she goes, "Oh I forget if I asked" and I couldn't resist, I said "you meant the same question you asked this morning?" :nono:at that point I told the other nurse that we had already been through this earlier today. BTW, this daughter can recall every and any detail, she DID NOT FORGET. She just didn't think I'd be there...:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire

[chenoaspirit, ASN, RN]

Talking about priceless looks...

I walked out of my husband's room at the hospital and walked to the nurse's station to ask if I could get a blanket for my husband and caught the nurse who had just left his room mocking me (I had asked for pain meds for him.)

Initially, I wanted to belt her one, but the look on her face when she turned around and saw I had been standing there was payback enough.

OMG. Thats horrible! Once I had a patients sister come to the nurses station and yell at me "Ms *** needs her pain medicine NOW!" She then walked into the patient's room and told her nephew.."I told that nurse to bring her pain meds NOW!" She turned around and saw me standing there. I heard every word she said about me. Sadly, I had busted my butt all night trying to comfort the patient and the family. The look on her face was priceless. Some people can be so manipulative.