I work on a very busy telemetry unit. Most of our patients are hospitalized for a few days or they are made GMF. For the last 10 days we have had an extremely demanding and rude patient on out unit. He has been very inappropriate with our staff. He has made comments about nurses hair and breast. He is refusing male nurses and requested that we wash his testicles. Not an entire bed bath, but specifically his testicles. Today he called me a fat ass and remunded me he was the patient after I would not give him more Klonipin than the MD ordered. He is a 48 year old bed bound nursing home patient who the docs have started on Ritalin due to his manipulative behavior.
So here is my question: is it okay that I suggested that my manager should discuss with him that his actions toward the staff have been inappropriate and that his lack of respect are intolerable.
The staff is starting to avoid him now. As wrong as it is; it is human nature. So he calls the nurses station from his bedside phone.
