aileenve

What a nerve! Thats why you have caller ID

Shocking!! I worked in hospice for 5 years and mouth care is done on everyone, I would wonder if her LOC was diminished why she was being fed, could be the Mgr did not want to answer questions about her care to family.

My first clinical was a nightmare, I had to wear the nurses hat, have my shoulder length hair off my collar, my hair would never stay up and my hat always slid off, my instructor gave me the impression I would fail and then when it was over, she said "you were one of my best students" whew! I'm glad those days gone. There is no reason for an instructor to act like a drill sargent.

"Cover me up! "

I only cared about Christmas, Easter, not so much the others unless there were special plans... I especially like that it is less hectic at work!

I always ask my patients who may be: over weight, smokers, alcoholics or drug addicts, "are you interested in quitting? or receiving help for this problem? This works much better than childish and hostile name calling which makes the nurse look worse than the patient!

Sorry to hear you're in this situation, the grand-daughter sounds passive-agressive and might not even be a nurse; she sounds like she doesn't have nothing to do in life and gets enjoyment out of hurting others; what you need to do is write down your shift from the time you came on the unit until the end with particular emphasis on your care of this patient, there may be nothing to her complaint....good luck

Thank you for giving your time and compassion to some one who probably has never had a kind word from health care workers, I have seen and heard many nurses say terrible things about "fat, lazy patients" not to mention the ones who get angry if they are assigned to the morbidly obese. This is the one acceptable prejudice...:hug:

Sounds like they want to replace you because you 1) have senority and you are probably making more than the new nurses, 2) Your age, you are not fitting in with the clique, and 3) they want to change the facility. I would update the resume, put out some applications before resigning. Good luck, I know how you feel I am in an almost similar situation, only I am in an acute care hospital.. but they need me too much right now, they have a hard time keeping good staff, I am also a preceptor for a lot of the new nurses so they need me for now.

Its amazing what some people get away with, but don't you try it!

Most people have to work for a living, raise children and cannot be available 24/7 to take care of Mom or Dad, thats the first thing, next, not everyone can be a caregiver, thats how so many home care patients end up in the hospital with a bed sore, dehydrated, underweight, and contracted! I'm not saying all but I have seen enough, especially near the holidays, our busy season is coming:mad:

Sounds like you had a problem from the beginning, I would have went to the administration with other nursing students to evaluate their instructors; it is NOT the responsibility of the hospital staff nurses to be your clinical instructors. The clinical nursing instructor is to supervise the students as they are practicing under his/her license.

I was assaulted by a pt. that did not like what Dr told him, ( I was punched in the eye upon entering the room and asking if he was ready to go to PT) the hospital did nothing about him; I think if you are a &o x3 you should be accountable for your behavior, unfortunately people get ill, have cancer etc..that does not excuse hurting others!

Sounds like one of my pts..an elderly man with bacteremia, dementia, UTI; has daughter and wife (also has dementia) at bedside, the daughter sends the mother to the nurses station with "call the nurse in here, Dad needs the bed pan", turned, checked etc; they stand there until you go, even if you say I will be right in, then the wife will say she needs to go to the bathroom, the daughter will send her out in the hall and expect the staff to direct and watch her! I wonder what happens at home when she is with her mother...since this lady gets lost every time.

What happened to lasix??

VA's in Michigan have 12hr shifts, mostly on in pt. hospital

I am a little confused, a patient with those symptoms should have been assessed by a DR right away, and OR called for stand by...

Congradulations!! :balloons:

"thank you for coming to work"

Death is always hard for nurses especially with young patients, it sounds like she was fortunate to have you assigned to her and that you did all you could; I will keep you in my prayersand know that we understand; this is a part of nursing that the general public cannot comprehend :heartbeat

How sad...this is a case of those who are paper pushers vs those who know the patients!

Congradulations!!:balloons:

This is typical of hospital nursing at any given time, you will have pts and family members who have no respect for anyone and feel verbal abuse and demanding, demeaning attitudes are "what you get paid for"...I once went outside for a break and a famiy member saw me and said "Look at that nurse, she should be taking care of her patients instead of sitting out here!

One thing not mentioned, was that even though we are nurses with some knowlege, we can't be objective when it is our family..its good to be informed and involved, but let the nurses and doctors do their job!

You will learn skills, don't let this keep you out of a hospital! There is orientation when you start and remember new nurses don't always have the opportunity to have trachs, starting IV's, foley's etc..just say I need more experience with some procedures, you have managed more pts than a lot of experienced nurses have.