mcdonald's is not us

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it's true, if you feed them not only will they return.....they will tell every homeless person within a 100 mile radius to make up whatever illness, and they can get a free meal at "meals r us er" I've actually heard one charge nurse say to a member of this class of society....."sir.....if you can go outside this er and look up at the sign, and it says Mcdonald's, I'll get you a free meal."

I had an elderly man with bs of 49 in the er last night. We got him a sandwich, juice, and the obligatory jello. I also rustled up a sandwich for a lady with chest pain that had been there all day, awaiting a tele admit. THEN, I had a 26 year old female, in with I',m not sure...........hysterical syndrome? brought in by FD, whose mom decided that she needed a sandwich too. Lady had four huge bottles of ativan, percocet, xanax, klonipin in her purse, and an etoh of 245 to boot. Mom said she needed a bagel with cream cheese. Well lady, if I HAD a bagel with cream cheese, I would eat it myself, since I hadn't had time for dinner. As for your rude daughter..............she can wait. nasty patient. unrealistic, naive mom. may they rest in peace. (BUT NOT in my ER!)

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oops, meant this as an add on to the er restaurant theme.

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Let them eat lima beans....brussels sprouts and cold salsbury steak! With tapioca pudding!

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Yep, some patients are like stray cats you feed them once and they keep on comin' back. Had an ICU nurse "over hear", (more like eavesdrop) a conversation myself and another ER coworker were having and said "I would not want to be in your ER, the way you talk about your pts" well sorry Miss Hoity-Toity, until you have been kicked in the chest, vomited on, had people hand you their stool in a baggy at triage, get on all fours and say "look at the size of that hemorrhoid", have a drunk try to land a punch in your face, have a drunk deliberately pee on your feet, have a pt undress in triage and say "can you tell me what this is" and point to their nether region, perform rape kits on teenagers, seen too many abused children and put up with tyrannical doctors you do not have the right to judge how I blow off some much needed steam!

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Originally posted by huggietoes

Yep, some patients are like stray cats you feed them once and they keep on comin' back. Had an ICU nurse "over hear", (more like eavesdrop) a conversation myself and another ER coworker were having and said "I would not want to be in your ER, the way you talk about your pts" well sorry Miss Hoity-Toity, until you have been kicked in the chest, vomited on, had people hand you their stool in a baggy at triage, get on all fours and say "look at the size of that hemorrhoid", have a drunk try to land a punch in your face, have a drunk deliberately pee on your feet, have a pt undress in triage and say "can you tell me what this is" and point to their nether region, perform rape kits on teenagers, seen too many abused children and put up with tyrannical doctors you do not have the right to judge how I blow off some much needed steam!

amen my friend...amen

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Specializes in Emergency/Critical Care Transport.
Originally posted by huggietoes

Yep, some patients are like stray cats you feed them once and they keep on comin' back. Had an ICU nurse "over hear", (more like eavesdrop) a conversation myself and another ER coworker were having and said "I would not want to be in your ER, the way you talk about your pts" well sorry Miss Hoity-Toity, until you have been kicked in the chest, vomited on, had people hand you their stool in a baggy at triage, get on all fours and say "look at the size of that hemorrhoid", have a drunk try to land a punch in your face, have a drunk deliberately pee on your feet, have a pt undress in triage and say "can you tell me what this is" and point to their nether region, perform rape kits on teenagers, seen too many abused children and put up with tyrannical doctors you do not have the right to judge how I blow off some much needed steam!

Sing it girl! The truth shall set us free! And if those tighta** ICU or too tenderhearted Nurse Purists out there don"t understand. Tough!

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Specializes in ER, PACU.

Unlike the ICU nurse, our patients aren't intubated and sedated! Let some of our winners loose in the ICU and let the ICU nurses with that attitude (I know most of them dont have that attitude) them come back an say something then!

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Currently being an ICU nurse I take offense to those statements directed our way. Let me tell you. I have been cracked over the

head with an IV pole, hit with foley bags, spit on, kicked in the chest not only in the unit (but in CT as well), dealt with unrealistic family members and doc's for a 12hr shift. Shall I continue? The beauty of the ES is that you get these nasty pt's for a short period of time in relationship to there hospital stay. We get to play with these beauties for days or weeks. So lets not be so nasty to the ICU nurses- we get beat-up and spit on and treated like dirt just like you. You don't honestly think that these pt's become angels when they get to the floors or the units do you?

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I have done ICU and an currently doing ED, so, though there shouldn't be the attitude of "which nurse has the roughest time", this is a forum where ED nurses are here to vent. I am not disagreeing with Richard's post, but as both an ICU and an ED nurse, I have seen both places can be real s****y!!! but PLEASE let us ED nurses have a place where we can complain without being subjected to another poster telling us how politically incorrect we are. Thank you;)

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Originally posted by Medic946RN

Sing it girl! The truth shall set us free! And if those tighta** ICU or too tenderhearted Nurse Purists out there don"t understand. Tough!

well, history shows us what happened to the puratins!

hang us not for we shall not be hung!

the er shall set us free! i love my job. you can't make fun of people and situations when everyone is tubed and paralyzed!:devil:

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Can't we all just get along? Just kidding. I am new to this site and this is my first reply. There is always a rift it seems between units. Sure wish it would go away. Gotta say, down here in the Caribbean, in my current job, I don't have those problems.

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Originally posted by vgnurse

Can't we all just get along? Just kidding. I am new to this site and this is my first reply. There is always a rift it seems between units. Sure wish it would go away. Gotta say, down here in the Caribbean, in my current job, I don't have those problems.

Can I just ask...where do I sign up?? The Carribean?!!?

:eek: :eek: :eek:

I could put up with any ridiculous ICU nurse who thinks her day is tough...let me just say yet again in my hospital-they take 2 pts...yes 2...that's it...2!!!!!

Now, before I get linched yet AGAIN on this BB...just check out some of the other threads...

I KNOW that you ICU-Types work hard...but PLEASE allow me the moment to vent my frustration when before you all find a spot for my pt...I have stabilized him and my other ICU pt. And let's not forget my drunk from a rollover who is ripping off his c-collar and my kidney stone who is writhing and screaming in pain and of course my 2 year old who got into grandma's toprol! Not to mention the 25 or so pts waiting in triage.

The ICU does have it's limits...the ER NEVER does...we just do it.

But I think I could do it muchhhhh better in the Carribean!!

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