Miss Thing visitor

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Specializes in Telemetry, Med-Surg, ED, Psych.

Let me begin by saying I am NOT sexist.

That said, almost all the problematic visitors are women - why they have a stick up their GI tract is beyond me.

The other night i was taking care of a younger woman (40's-ish, generally healthy, admitted to rlo IBS or crohns).

While my patient was pleasent and easy to assess, her female visitor (looked 35 max) was hell on wheels from the start.

You know the type - eye rolling, sarcasm, sighing, and arms crossed. Okay, whatever - maybe she has had a bad day.

Cut to 9pm. Miss thing comes charging out of the room at me, yelling "They said she can't eat but she is hungry....get her food NOW"

Me : "She is allowed to eat , she has a regular diet. Its after midnight that she is not allowed to eat because she needs to have an empty stomach for her surgery in the morning".

Miss Thing : "Well nobody bothered to tell me that! (eyes rolling, sarcastic rude comments)

Me : "Okay, so I will order her a regular meal tray from the dietary department. Are you Mrs. _______ next of kin?"

Miss Thing : "This place is full of incompetant idiots and you are one of them. I am not her decision maker but I am her advocate - its the nurses who kill people and i am making sure you dont kill her. All ready I see plenty of mistakes and this is terrible. If anything else happens that i think is inappropriate, I will make your life a misery"

On and on this went for maybe 5 minutes. I had enough after yet more comments about my integrity and my professionalism being attacked, so I told Miss Thing to leave becuase she was disrupting the unit. Long story short, she and all her soap opera drama left.

The patient was apologetic to me - basically she said her friend was a big baby and a drama queen.

No harm done

But, Miss thing isn't going to like me or the hospital again becuase our NM is LIMITING her visitation to her friend because this happened with all the other nurses the patient was assigned to.

Yeah - Karma sucks Miss Thing!

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Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.

Wow. She would make a TON of money as an extra on the Jerry Springer show.

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"why they have a stick up their GI tract is beyond me."

That's refered to as having a broomstick up her butt, FYI (a la witch reference).

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Specializes in OB, Med/Surg, Ortho, ICU.
:rolleyes::rolleyes: Just giving a couple of those back to her.
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Specializes in ED/ICU/TELEMETRY/LTC.

Be very thankful for a NM who has your back.

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Specializes in Gerontology.
Be very thankful for a NM who has your back.

Amen to that! Our NM would tell us to "work with her" and then let her come in before visiting hours and stay late because she is just "advocating for her friend"

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I would have had security escort her out "STAT"

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Miss Thing : "Well nobody bothered to tell me that! (eyes rolling, sarcastic rude comments)

Me : "Okay, so I will order her a regular meal tray from the dietary department. Are you Mrs. _______ next of kin?

"if it was after midnight and she was npo for surgery

I would NOT have ordered her a regular tray to make miss ***** pants happy.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Miss Thing I see you are concerned for your significant other.:rolleyes:...Oh she's not? You seemed so upset....... I just assumed....my bad...:o:smokin:. But I am sorry you feel this way.....you said you were a patient advocate....what hospital do you work....:D? Oh look, visiting hours are over! ;);) I'll let you stay but you have to be quite and stay hidden or security will make you leave......you know how they are they are such sticklers for rules.....:cool:...:smokin:....seconds later In nurses station...."Hey security can you come escort this crazy chick out of here??????"....

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I had some ditz actually change into a hospital gown and crawl into the bed NEXT to her friends' bed..... the EMPTY bed waiting for an ACTUAL patient :eek:

I let the supervisor play with that one :D

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Specializes in ICU Telemetry Med/Surg.

I had a patients girlfriend come one evening unbeknownst to the staff she was nude under her coatshe proceeded to flash and strip for him??? He was in a coma r/t trauma she thought it might stir him up.

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I had a patients girlfriend come one evening unbeknownst to the staff she was nude under her coatshe proceeded to flash and strip for him??? He was in a coma r/t trauma she thought it might stir him up.

Well, that certainly is one way to find out how out of it someone is- patient, or staff :D

:hhmth: :hhmth: :hhmth: :hhmth: :hhmth:

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