are you for real??

nrsang97, BSN, RN · Aug 2, 2012

So I got a call from the bed manager asking me to take an Ortho patient post op as there was no ortho beds left. I agreed as we are part of the trauma service.
So the pt went from ED to theatre. The family arrived to the ward, fine. Explained that I didn't know what was going on as I had not heard from the surgeons or PACU
10 min later back in same questions. Rinse and repeat x 4.
THEN the father of the pt states to me "I had a stroke 4 days ago, just been discharged from hospital. Can you give me some Valium?" Uh, no. Nonononononono. doesn't matter how many of your bogan children ask me the answer is still NO! If you feel like you are having another stroke go to ED.
Honestly, the cheek!

I had a pt family member ask me for vicodin for his migraine. I told him to go to the ER. People amaze me sometimes.

allnurses Guide · Aug 2, 2012

I am constantly stunned how many family members feel the need to tell me how sick they themselves are while they deal with the loved one under my care and how many of them request medication. It is as if they have fallen from the spotlight and are trying to get back in.

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Aug 2, 2012

I had a young adult male who was involved in an auto accident. He was an in-patient. His Mom was treated and released, as she had been in the car with him. She had trouble walking so wanted me to fetch and carry for her. I finally had to tell her I could not be her nurse. They both were angry but I did not want to accept the liability or responsibility of another patient who was supposed to be a visitor.

Always_Learning, BSN, RN · Aug 2, 2012

Yes, because Valium is the treatment of choice for a CVA....sheesh! :uhoh3:

allnurses Guide · Aug 2, 2012

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I had a young adult male who was involved in an auto accident. He was an in-patient. His Mom was treated and released, as she had been in the car with him. She had trouble walking so wanted me to fetch and carry for her. I finally had to tell her I could not be her nurse. They both were angry but I did not want to accept the liability or responsibility of another patient who was supposed to be a visitor.

I had one of those too. The whole family was in a car accident. The kids were hospitalized elsewhere. Their mother was my patient. The husband was treated for a day and released. He chose to stay at the hospital with his wife. He kept on about how bad he still felt and what should he do about this, that and the other and how he needed more pain medicine. I finally had to tell him if he felt bad he needed to go back to the ER for evaluation, that I didn't have enough of his history or legal standing to advise him and that I could not give him a Tylenol let alone more Norco.

uRNmyway, ASN, RN · Aug 2, 2012

Lol, yeah, I guess they don't realize that as nurses, we can't just CHOOSE to give them medication if we feel like it.

"Oh, you want some Morphine for your sore thumb, and some Xanax because the pain is stressing you out? Sure, let me hop over to the narcotics cabinet and pop that out for you. We can just keep it between the two of us" LMBO....Come on now...Insert eye roll.