azreddun

Putting in my two cents. One of the frustrations of nursing is being trained in conceptual thinking, data analysis, research process, etc. ( which I was with BSN and later a non-nursing masters) Then being treated like a trained monkey by physicians, patients, administration, etc.

It is awful in the hospital environment. The other support staff are indignant when you don't want to hop in and do their job for them. This is everyone from the housekeepers to the techs, clerks,volunteers, doctors, visitors,dietary,X-ray, IS, pharmacy. The list is literally endless. No one picks up any tasks for the nursing staff. No one ever. If you fell down dead, your patients and families would be ****** off at the inconvenience of it all.

I really hate the mean and nasty ones who are abusive and feel it is their god given right to say anything they want. It is sooo discouraging. I worked my a** off the other day, running, running and had a pt spouse get pissy and tell me he could do my job faster than me if he were wearing a blindfold. The ED gives you a thick skin or you don't survive.

:uhoh21::uhoh21:I'm in triage at our community hospital. It's me and the clerk. The little old lady brings her husband, they are both 83. They have friends who helped to bring them who look in their 70's. The patient fell and hurt his hip, had it xrayed, and no hip fracture as of Friday. Pt has not had BM since then. Pt has dementia, and pain. Anyway, I triage him in 5 minutes and it's not too busy. I get him a wheelchair and I'm pushing him out of triage. First thing is, he wants to go to the toilet. There's only me, if I go to put this guy on the toilet, I get backed up on the patients, he's already constipated, he already has fallen... I ask nicely, please wait for 20 mins to go to back with more staff to help, but no... has to be done now. Bottom line, told them I couldn't do it (dirty looks at me all around, I think) and 70 year old helped the 80 year old onto the toilet. Meantime, I feel guilty and angry. I have developed back problems since coming to the ED from trying to do things by myself, pushing beds upstairs, pushing overweight patients in broken wheelchairs, etc, etc, I'm not trying to be cruel, but whos going to take care of me when I can't work because of pain??? :uhoh21:

Just triaged a patient whose throug hurts with headaid and stift nose who has been taking rubbytossin PTA, cute!!

Yes! yes! I so get what you are saying......grrrr. And then half the time your were running your a** off, the doc was looking up properties on the internet and eating takeout, grrr

Angry staring, glaring, huffy looks and pissed off body language are not going to make me change the way that I'm getting my job done. Believe me, I feel your misery, your desire to broadcast your feelings is working. I know how it feels to not get my way when I want it, but this is not a restaurant, I'm not a waitress, and if your mother or father was dying, you'd want me to take care of them before I got ice chips or blankets or discharge instructions for another patient. Some days I get so sick of the glaring that I could just puke, other days, I can find the humor in all the grumpy stares, it depends on the day. When I have a really bad day, I just can't get over how little some people care about what happens to others, they want their needs met and that's it, bottom line.