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!)
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!
YES!! you have taken the words right out of my mouth! You are my hero.
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.
well theres your answer! We are freezing to death here in the good old US of A and you are in the caribbean!! no wonder you all get along. LOLOL
I think one reason nurses have conflicts among ourselves is that we are all type A personalities, that is what leads us to do what we do. We are all proud of our perspective units and we are all competing to do the best job that we can. It is inherant within the profession, and I think it is a fairly healthy competition, most of the time.
teeituptom, BSN, RN
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I like Lima Beans and cold salsbury steak
and I love Tapioca pudding