TheFloorisCold

I hate to say it but we actually have a resident/patient who actually in most sense is a bully to the nurses especially the RN's. Everyday this lady writes everything we do (she has even accused us of not giving her medications even though its documented), constantly yells at us because we can't pay attention to her, and EVERY morning tells us we need to give her the emergency oxygen tank (we use it for when patients are in distress) so she can go outside to smoke. The last time someone denied her the oxygen tank she called the ombudsman office and the state came down on us. A lot of the staff are afraid to stand up to her because if we speak out some of the workers are not under the protection of the union. Honestly, a lot of the residents are so demanding in the wrong sense and we can't speak up due to fear of being fired. I want to leave this facility but its the only job I have and I don't have enough experience to go anywhere else. The verbal abuse is horrible and some of the residents feel so damn entitled even though they have no insurance and do not pay a dime to stay there. What can I do to stop these kind of residents? Honestly our facility is the one where if someone gets kicked out of their place, they come to us.

Ok thank you folks for your input. I wish I could lock this thread so it doesn't get too argumentative. I think we can all agree on that 1. People can be rude 2. People can be prejudiced 3. People can be a bit too sensitive

I asked my aunt about it since she's an seasoned veteran of the floor and she said to ignore it because that's just how some people just are. One of my classmates said it was sorta wrong I got singled out like that but she gave me advice to be thick skinned in nursing in order to survive, and I plan to adhere to it.

Oh, the lady just came in with an attitude about that and a lot of other things not relevant to the topic I'm posting about.

I'm a fairly new nurse (almost a year) and accepted a FT position at a rehab facility three months ago. This is my first job and the place is seems pretty heavy in terms of workload. At orientation I was the only Filipino in the class, the rest were African Americans of different ethnicities (sp?) and one Peruvian woman. We get a speech from one of the managers saying that the place is hard and you need to work just as hard, I understand that. Then we have this lady which was on the administrative end and she comes in with a chip on her shoulder. She basically talks about how the places adheres to certain policies like foreign languages are forbidden when working (I understand the need for this) but then she looks and points to me and asks "Are you a Filipino?" I nod yes and she goes talking about how the Filipino nurses keep speaking "Filipino" during work hours, mind you she only said this to me and not the other people. Then another day I was in a dining room eating lunch and there were a group of Filipinos talking sorta loud in Tagalog and in the elevator after eating one of the nurses I was talking to just mentioned, "Oh man Filipinos are so loud in the dining room". I've also heard side talk about how Filipinos only take care of their own and won't care if their other colleagues are written up. The staffing there is about slightly below 60% Filipinos but they are around my parent's generation's age and have some positions in middle management so maybe thats why there is some ire. Am I and others being discriminated or am I just too thin skinned?