pt complains hospital too much like a hotel

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No, seriously! I had a patient complain the other night that I didn't wake them every hour for vitals (unit standard is Q8 vitals). He actually told my charge nurse, "This place is like a bleepity-bleep hotel, not a hospital!!"

Can't make anybody happy. :x3:

The patient was expecting medical care, by medical professionals, in a medical setting, for an illness.

He or she was not expecting cocktail waitresses and bellhops. Go figure.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Telemetry.

I wish all patients felt that way! :yes:

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Specializes in Hospice.
Some of my shifts are as a rapid response nurse, which involves following up on patients transferred out of the ICU. One of the most common complaints, usually from family, is that they are concerned about the patient's safety because "they just let the patient sleep all night", and by "all night" we're usually just talking about from midnight to 0400.

Some things just don't change. I heard the same complaint from families of former ICU patients who had been transferred to the general floor when I was still doing bedside nursing back in the 90s.

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No, seriously! I had a patient complain the other night that I didn't wake them every hour for vitals (unit standard is Q8 vitals). He actually told my charge nurse, "This place is like a bleepity-bleep hotel, not a hospital!!"

Can't make anybody happy. :x3:

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:. Too funny. Okay, so having a sarcastic sense of humor myself, if the patient was not on any dietary restrictions, I would have a really strong urge to leave a mint on his pillow after making his bed while he was washing up in the bathroom. Of course my better judgement would stop me, but this is the first thought that came to mind.

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