I'm a bad nurse!!!

Blee O'Myacin, BSN, RN · Jan 26, 2008

I just went and got my cardiac cath patient fried chicken and fries from the cafeteria.
:jwdrp:
Le sigh. Hope they don't sue me later for trying to ensure job security XD
Taitter

LOL - I just hope the patient remembers your name and bothers to fill out the Press Gainey with a positive "that nurse, Taitter, ensured that I had the meal of my choice after my procedure".

Mr. O'Myacin ate two roast beef sandwiches and drank iced tea while still lying flat with his sandbags on his groin when he had his cath. I guess he wasn't an "aspiration risk"...

Blee

allnurses Guide · Jan 26, 2008

You all would be SO mad at me if I told you what the title of Tait's thread made me think of....

Let's just say, all of you out there who are tired of the "Naughty Nurse" image... the skimpy Halloween costumes and the little nurse outfits that you can buy at adult toy stores... you all would be really :angryfire if I told you what it made me think of.

ANNNNNYWAY... :beercuphe

:mchmrdnc:

ASSEDO · Jan 26, 2008

You must be a Southener by blood. Giving confort food. We eat fried chicken all our lives, it clogs our arteries, we die early, and guess what is served at your Wake? More Fired Chicken. :smokin:

Medic2RN, BSN, RN, EMT-P · Jan 26, 2008

Sounds like one of my recent cath patients. Once he was off of his bedrest, he expressed an extreme desire to walk off the floor and go downstairs for a smoke.

I advised him of all the dangers until I was about blue in the face. He waited for me to go into another patient's room and made a mad dash for it. I know this because the unit secretary called me and told me my patient had just gone into the elevator.

I had a bunch of documentation to do after that!!

He didn't return with a plate of fried chicken though.....

allnurses Guide · Jan 26, 2008

You must be a Southener by blood. Giving confort food. We eat fried chicken all our lives, it clogs our arteries, we die early, and guess what is served at your Wake? More Fired Chicken.

Fired chicken? Is that a comment on where you think they went? :lol2:

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casi, ASN, RN · Jan 26, 2008

You're not a bad nurse, you are just ensuring your jobs security.

leslie :-D · Jan 26, 2008

maybe it was the new & improved, fat-reduced (from 100% down to 90%) chicken, and the mashed potatoes were made w/skimmed milk.

now, that changes the whole picture, right?

leslie

Katie82, RN · Jan 26, 2008

Sorry, have to disagree with almost everyone here. I work with patients who are train wrecks by age 45 because of their lifestyle choices. I spend a lot of time trying to educate and change behaviors, even though I know they are not listening to me. As they kill themselves with fried chicken, they are making informed decisions because I have told them what is happening. But I would be extremely disappointed if I knew the nurses in our local hospital were sneaking to the cafeteria to get a cath patient fried chicken and french fries. Did you leave a cigarette and lighter on the tray? Perhaps there are no smoke detectors in the patient bathrooms. Sorry, we are supposed to be patient advocates, not enablers. Don't let your Manager find out.

leslie :-D · Jan 26, 2008

Sorry, have to disagree with almost everyone here. I work with patients who are train wrecks by age 45 because of their lifestyle choices. I spend a lot of time trying to educate and change behaviors, even though I know they are not listening to me. As they kill themselves with fried chicken, they are making informed decisions because I have told them what is happening. But I would be extremely disappointed if I knew the nurses in our local hospital were sneaking to the cafeteria to get a cath patient fried chicken and french fries. Did you leave a cigarette and lighter on the tray? Perhaps there are no smoke detectors in the patient bathrooms. Sorry, we are supposed to be patient advocates, not enablers. Don't let your Manager find out.

bottom line, ksilty, is of course you're right.

speaking for myself, i've chuckled all along in this thread.

BUT, have acknowledged how blatantly dangerous this is.

i do agree with you.

honest.

leslie

Tait, MSN, RN · Jan 26, 2008

Sorry, have to disagree with almost everyone here. I work with patients who are train wrecks by age 45 because of their lifestyle choices. I spend a lot of time trying to educate and change behaviors, even though I know they are not listening to me. As they kill themselves with fried chicken, they are making informed decisions because I have told them what is happening. But I would be extremely disappointed if I knew the nurses in our local hospital were sneaking to the cafeteria to get a cath patient fried chicken and french fries. Did you leave a cigarette and lighter on the tray? Perhaps there are no smoke detectors in the patient bathrooms. Sorry, we are supposed to be patient advocates, not enablers. Don't let your Manager find out.

I knew someone, at some point would not find the momentary humor in this most blatantly misguided situation. However, I know my patient, I know my situation and no explanation on a web based forum is going to make everyone see what this all looked like from here.

You can either find the slight bit of ironic humor in it, or you can let it **** you off. Either way, there are some patients that we are able to help and others that will never learn.

I never attempt to hide my care, and my manager is fully aware of what happened, as well as the other nurses. If I hadn't gone to get it, he would have screamed at his wife to wake up and go get it for him. I did not enable him because I wanted to make him happy, I did it to give his wife the rest. I grew up with a father like this man, and people don't change because someone slid a wire up their femoral and made them feel better.

You can tout enabler, scream I am a horrible advocate and educator, but what it comes down to, as in all posts here, this is a forum. You know of the situation what I choose to reveal, and in this case I chose to make a anecdotal comment, based on the inability of patients to learn, even after a procedure. Which, I will remark, about 90% of the posters understood.

Tait

leslie :-D · Jan 26, 2008

You can tout enabler, scream I am a horrible advocate and educator, but what it comes down to, as in all posts here, this is a forum. You know of the situation what I choose to reveal, and in this case I chose to make a anecdotal comment, based on the inability of patients to learn, even after a procedure. Which, I will remark, about 90% of the posters understood.
Tait

aw, come on tait.

perhaps you're being just a 'tad' bit defensive?

jeepers, you publicly share a story about feeding a cardiac pt, a high-fat meal...

and out of approx 20+ responses, you receive 1 (!), just one, that states the obvious?

i think you're doing pretty, darned good.

let's face it.

in an ideal world, this is what we don't feed our pts.

and you still chose to share it.

so while many enjoyed the irony and honesty, you should just graciously accept any view(s) that profess the obvious.

i, for one, appreciated your story and courageous honesty.

leslie

Tait, MSN, RN · Jan 26, 2008

aw, come on tait.
perhaps you're being just a 'tad' bit defensive?
jeepers, you publicly share a story about feeding a cardiac pt, a high-fat meal...
and out of approx 20+ responses, you receive 1 (!), just one, that states the obvious?
i think you're doing pretty, darned good.
let's face it.
in an ideal world, this is what we don't feed our pts.
and you still chose to share it.
so while many enjoyed the irony and honesty, you should just graciously accept any view(s) that profess the obvious.
i, for one, appreciated your story and courageous honesty.
leslie

Yeah unfortunately my Achilles heel on the forums is I take too much to heart and then fret over the idea of someone thinking I am a bad person for real. Some days I deal with it better than others, today obviously wasn't one of them