Patients and the race card

[CanadaEh]

I am a fairly new nurse and many of my co-workers have run into situations where a patient pulls the race card on them. This has not yet happened to me, but I'm sure with time it will.

Just wondering how others have handled this type of situation and how patients have reacted.

Thanks!

[dinah77, ADN]

I have had this happen- I had a patient in the TCU I work at demand his motorized scooter and yelled "If I was white you know darn well it would have been here a week ago!"

Um no, sorry sir, you are not allowed to have your scooter cuz you are a 90 yr old patient with alzheimers who injured yourself on said scooter, which landed you in this TCU to begin with

One interesting thing though is an African-American patient who I worked with who I was told refuses cares from white or African nurses ( my TCU has quite a few CNAs, LPNs, and RNs from Liberia and Somlia)

This intrigued me....I worked with hime just dandy though, despite being white, and I don't know what about my manner made me different but we got along just fine *shrugs*

[lilypad2424]

Don't hate me because i'm white, hate me for me???? How's that?