It was a joke Leslie. I still think you're wrong and we have every right to stand up for ourselves and let the patients know that their behavior is not only inappropriate, but will not be tolerated....
There is a small, but very important difference between bullying and intimidation. I jumped into this thread because you started off saying the pt was bullied. I still fail to see where telling a pt...
Of course it was because of his size. As long as the guy said or did nothing intimidating, then he wasn't being intimidating. The patient was probably an obnoxious coward and of course he's not...
So any tall, overweight guy that says anything that isn't flowers and sunshine is "bullying"? If a tiny blonde girl said the same thing to the patient would that be "bullying" as well? "We don't...
At the end of my last semester in school we were required to take and pass the Hesi exam with a score of 850 in order to graduate. This exam and the review course we were required to take cost us...
I meant that it gets out to the other nurses that we have to work with. A nurse just asked a classmate of mine last week what was the real story on the reason the class president (me) skipped...
Exactly! That's the problem, I've said all that to myself already. In the end, it doesn't matter. Buuuuuut. It not only sets a bad precedent, when the word gets out to the community about this...
Yeah, it was great until one day one of the peppy 18 year old girls told me after I'd given her some help with something, "It's nice having you around, you're like the dad of our class." I'm only 34!...