banditrn

Good heavens, NO!! Altho I have a couple of special Christmas ornaments that were given to me by patients - and food is always appreciated!:)

Ah, beachbum! Bless your heart! Just reading your post makes me SO glad I'm retired and away from all that! Yes, the techs need to communicate with you! You are rightly annoyed! Altho you'll come to depend on the good ones.:) You need to find out, as someone said, who has what kind of skill. Let them know how much you appreciate them, but that they need to keep you informed.

Gosh, it seems like forever since I went thru all that. Good luck, and congratulations.:yeah:

Chart, chart, chart - exactly what they said, what you said, and how they responded!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!:):) It seems to me that it's like 'adults' deciding what's best for the 'children'! I consider a job, my 'work', not my 'life'. When I'm done, I'm outa there - my free time should be just that. For the most part I never socialized with the people I worked with. I saw enough of them at work. Do they really want me to go to some retreat and say to Suzi Sweetums: I don't like you because you're a backstabbing piece of garbage. Now THAT would clear the air! Or how about I just keep my mouth shut, and stay away from Suzi, 'cause Suzi isn't ever going to change?

I know what you mean!! :chuckle I've worked with some women I wished I could clone and pull out of my pocket during frantic or doubtful times. This one gal especially, always knew exactly what to do in ANY emergency, and she knew the best and quickest way to do it. Plus, she was fun to work with! I worshipped the ground she walked on. Imagine my pleasure when I ran into her and another nurse a few years later, she introduced me as 'the smartest nurse she ever knew'!

This reminded me of the time we had a frequent flyer in our psych dept. come in and want a bed. He was generally admitted for ETOH abuse - and for once he wasn't drunk - so they told him they couldn't just admit him whenever he wanted a bed. So he walked across the street - called 911 - told them he was having 'suicidal ideations', got picked up - and got a bed. Do you suppose he'd learned by then how to manipulate the system?

Exactly! I found everything I needed. I even discovered things I would never thought the hospital had. The problem is the lack of staffs' knowledge about where everything is located. It's a bit off the topic, but I found a bladder scanner at one of the units, so I can go there and borrow it when needed. Good for you, Olli! But I still maintain that it shouldn't be the hospitals responsibility to maintain equipment for each and every rare condition that there is. The gentleman that you spoke of - yes, I can see that, and with mine, well maybe some basic stuff, but I think it should still be my responsibility to bring any specilty things I need. By the way, I don't think the Dept. of Justice deals with disibilties - I think they're a criminal branch of the government?

I wouldn't think so, but who knows?

It IS maddening!! I used to work with two of them at noc that used to talk to themselves and I had to learn to tune them out or go nuts. Then when they'd try to talk to me - and I wouldn't answer them, cause I was tuning them out.........

Olli - that's very nice of you, but what you aren't getting is that unless I'm being admitted during some emergency, I should already have those things available and should bring them with me. The hospital should have things available for the commenest set of disabilities, not for every problem ever thought of on earth! For crying out loud, girl, it's not their fault my hands shake, why should they be penalized for it?:stone You are right on in asking someone if they could ask me if I needed help with my food.

Wouldn't that be considered abandonment?? Call social services!!

Olli - I am also now disabiled, and covered under the ADA. I would ideally need special weighted silverware, and special weights around my hands for when I eat. Also a special cup for when I drink hot liquids - do you have those immediately available on your unit? I would expect that at some time during my hospitalization, you might be able to comply with some of my needs, but maybe not all - and certainly not right after admit. Maybe you should volunteer to be in charge of a commitee to procure special devices that a patient might need?:)

I would guess that you don't completely understand addiction then.

And do you simply TELL THEM that you flunked those classes in nursing school, then go about your business? If they 'complained' to me I would.

Well, Jessie, in the little time she had with them, she wasn't going to change their whole outlook, and maybe all she would accomplish would be to be stressed and upset about it if she chose to confront them about it. Maybe the best thing is to recognize it for the ignorance that it is, and say, as someone suggested "It's too bad you feel that way." Then turn around and leave.

Black heads!! I don't want to look at them, touch them, and I certainly won't squeeze them. Other than that, as long as I have gloves on, I'm impervious!

Oh, geez, that's nasty!! :bugeyes:

Ah, leslie, leave it to you to find the song!!:yeah:

Then leslie, what we all have to do is work around it, until it no longer matters! I can think of a couple of black doctors that I know - I would bet in their earlier years they had to put up with a lot of racist attitudes - more so than today. But today they are important men, they can have their pick of patients. They learned that, while life isn't perfect, and conditions aren't always going to be ideal, in the end, they succeeded, and made their lives as they wanted.:)

Leslie - it's the 21st century!! It's time for it to stop. The color of a person's skin is just that - a COLOR! My husband and I both are considered 'white' but his skin is much darker than mine - so what's the deal? A few years some ignorant girl asked one of my son's "Who was that Mexican I saw you with?" My brother, he tells her!! And for those who think we're SO special and 'modern' because we have a black granddaughter - sbbbt to them - she's the special one, have they noticed how pretty she is, or how brilliant she is? All people are different colors and it's an issue because WE keep making it an issue. I consider the values a person holds and the way they conduct their life to be far more important than the shading of their skin. Let me explain this in another way - I took my first serious job in the 60's, a time when it was considered :no:unacceptable:no: for women to wear pants in the workplace. If a woman wasn't a teacher or nurse, she was probably a clerk or secretary - it was rare for a woman to rise above being a low-level executive. Things have changed greatly in the ensuing years - my granddaughter graduated from basic training in the army and is going to training to fly drone aircraft, a specialty that requires a lot of brainpower to get in to. There have been men thru the years that have wanted to hold me back - but I worked around them, and accomplished what I wanted. And I no longer HAVE to deal with sexism as it existed in the 60's. There will ALWAYS be sexists, but THEY DON'T MATTER TO ME. They are unimportant in my world. We need to do the same with racism.

And then Obama has to come in and create a little fire with his comment about the 'typical white person'. WTH?!! Let's just keep this racial BS swirling so that we forget to pay any attention to any of the real issues!

EW, EW, EW!!:bugeyes: Roaches are on my hate list, along with flys and mosquitos!

Oh, Tazzi, I know how awful you must have felt - I blamed myself - I felt like I wasn't finding the right words to explain it to him. After growing up as I did, then watching this son, I felt like the worst kind of failure. I will pray that your chick does get it now.

baglady - I educated ALL my children about their risk of developing an addiction from the time they could walk almost. I did not keep alcohol in my house or drink, yet we still ended up with an alcoholic child who didn't believe anything that I said about it at the time, because he didn't WANT to hear it. It was only after he was going thru withdrawal that it actually occured to him that I wasn't making it all up.