Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

[FireStarterRN]

Good grief, some patients want to revert back to being 9 month old infants!!! They also like to ask requests one at a time. Then, after you wait on them hand and foot all shift with the patience of a saint, they turn on you in an instant when their latest trivial request is not immediately granted due to the fact that there is someone circling the drain in the room next door.

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Ooooo, HIPAA violation. Good on you.

Who cares - they deserved it!

[aeauooo]

Who cares - they deserved it!

I figure some people who read that are going to think it was funny, others offensive. I make no apologies for it.

It was not premeditated. I was about to begin a task that I felt was more important than dropping what I was doing to go fetch a cup of water (there were sinks in the room, after all). I neglected to close the curtain behind me, but it being night shift, didn't think anyone other than staff would look in the room.

In retrospect, yes, it was not the right thing to do, but as Stevie Wonder said,

"You grow up and learn that kinda thing aint right

But while you were doinit-it sure felt outta sight"

[jessiern, BSN, RN]

Do the patient complain while you are opening their spenda packet that it is not real sugar?!?!

[leslie :-D]

i once had a pt who would spit on the floor: (basin in front of her)

blow her nose and throw the tissues on the floor;

and use her call light for "her nurse" to pour her a drink, even though the carafe was right in front of her on the overhead table.

(she was not immobilized.)

after a few polite 1:1's, she blew me off and continued w/her offensive demeanor.

although i had provided her with a sm trash bag taped to her table, she continued to huck and spit on the floor, as well as throwing her snotty tissues there.

i got a little tougher with her, w/firm limit-setting.

when i had to change her and was cleaning her bottom, she 'let one loose', with my face only inches from the source.

and then she snickered.

mean, mean lady.

leslie

[aeauooo]

i once had a pt who would spit on the floor: (basin in front of her)

blow her nose and throw the tissues on the floor

That reminds me of an old guy I took care of years ago. The first time I set foot in his room he let loose a stream of profanity. I responded with my newly-developed limit-setting skills, told him "You can't speak to me that way," and walked out of the room. After a series of similar experiences, I realized that this was a form of aphasia and that he couldn't speak without using profanity.

After that, we became buddies. It was hard for other nurses to deal with him - so no one minded that I would volunteer to take care of him. I had long conversations with him and documented his concerns about his care. People would read my notes and wonder how I got all of the information I did out of him. I learned to listen through the profanity and heard what he was trying to say.

Anyway, the reason your story reminded my of him was that he had difficulty using a urinal and would pee on the floor. I figured it was easier to throw a towel on the floor than to have to change his bed linens every time he voided.

[FireStarterRN, BSN, RN]

Sometimes I long for the days when nurses ruled the wards, and we didn't have constantly cater to patients and their demanding families like a waitress hoping for a tip.

The public has gotten so demanding! Yes, like someone mentioned, this patient called me in the room to push the button to raise the head of the bed. , even though she's been a patient multiple times.

It's so wearing dealing with a wheedling manipulator.

[imanedrn]

I've had docs complain that I wasn't doing my job because I didn't make coffee or load paper into a printer.

"Sorry, I wasn't taught how to do that in nursing school."

I had a doc yell at me because the pulse ox on our vitals machine was too slow. He was wondering why his patient was so sleepy. Everything was FINE with the guy, except for the fact that HE gave HIS patient Ambien the night before - first time ever. Seen this happen with SO many older patients. (It's not text book for a reason!) As soon as he was dialyzed, he woke right up.

[Diary/Dairy, RN]

i once had a pt who would spit on the floor: (basin in front of her)

blow her nose and throw the tissues on the floor;

and use her call light for "her nurse" to pour her a drink, even though the carafe was right in front of her on the overhead table.

(she was not immobilized.)

after a few polite 1:1's, she blew me off and continued w/her offensive demeanor.

although i had provided her with a sm trash bag taped to her table, she continued to huck and spit on the floor, as well as throwing her snotty tissues there.

i got a little tougher with her, w/firm limit-setting.

when i had to change her and was cleaning her bottom, she 'let one loose', with my face only inches from the source.

and then she snickered.

mean, mean lady.

leslie

I bet it was hard to control your temper on that one! Why do people act so hatefully???

[Lorie P.]

I can't stand the family members that walk right out side the door and say mom, dad, needs a cup, 5 mins later, mom needs more water or whatever ,it is ALWAYS something every few minutes then get really peed off when you can't get there fast enough.

I want so much to say " this ain't Buger King and you get it my way or no way"

[FireStarterRN, BSN, RN]

You know what really galls me about this patient who couldn't open her splenda, couldn't put her HOB up, couldn't open her juice?

She had somehow managed to expertly put her eyeliner on!

:banghead:

[leslie :-D]

You know what really galls me about this patient who couldn't open her splenda, couldn't put her HOB up, couldn't open her juice?

She had somehow managed to expertly put her eyeliner on!

:banghead:

ha!

there ya go.

very telling.

esp re who's in control.

leslie

[RN1982]

1. Had a patient hand me the phone and ask me to dial the number for him even though he was not incapable of doing it himself.

2. Had FIVE family members sitting in the room with a patient who needed assistance with meals and NONE of them wanted to help their relative. "why can't you do it?"..."because there's five of you sitting there and I have three other patients to see"....Got called into the manager's office for that one, but flat out told my manager that I didn't care and wasn't sorry. I was busy.