So embarrassed, just want to vent.

[Jo Dirt]

My patient I care for in private duty has been in the hospital so I went to another agency to see if they had any jobs I could do.

I feel like I can say this among nurses but I apologize if I gross anyone out. My OB/GYN prescribed a round of hormones to clean out my uterus which is causing occasional episodes of very heavy bleeding. "Just in case" I wear a tampon AND a thick pad.

So, I go in to apply at this agency and they lead me to a back room, sit me down and give me the paperwork to do. As I sit down I feel blood come gushing out so I excuse myself to the bathroom. When I change and come back I notice some blood on the chair and I couldn't find any bleach but I wip the blood off and sit down and get busy on the paperwork (I live over an hour away so I wanted to go ahead and get the application filled out). A different woman than the one who lead me to the back comes in and says "The girls say you are back here bleeding, I'm going to have to ask you to come back another time because that is just so unsanitary. We have children come back here and now I'm going to have to throw that chair away."

Well, I'm so shocked it takes a minute for me to register what is going on. But when it hits me all I can think to ask is "can't you clean the chair with bleach?" She says, "I don't have any bleach." So then I can only think to say, "I'll just not come back, this is so embarrassing." She says "Well...ok."

I get out to the car and remember I left something behind but I'm too humiliated to go back so I send my friend in. She says they were in there making fun of me and carrying that metal chair out to the garbage with gloves on.

I'm so embarrassed. I wish I could get a hysterectomy.

[nurse4theplanet, RN]

Sometimes to overcome embarrassment and others treating you like you are a subhuman freak and they have never experienced moments like that, you must take drastic measures.

It would have been SOOOOO hilarious had you started acting a little out of it, and saying that you don't know why you are bleeding bc you had had a hysterectomy already, then pretend to start gagging and convulsing. Really freak them out! Just to prove that they are completely incompetent of knowing how to handle the situation and have something to laugh about later rather than blush.

I am so sorry you had this experience and it never ceases to amaze me how stupid and immature people can be. I am assuming these were receptionists that have little to no medical training and sit on their butts everyday, purposely degrading nurses out of pure envy!!!!:angryfire

[LydiaNN]

OMG, I feel for you. I have to echo the sentiments of many other posters; you just wouldn't want to work there, anyway. Do they make fun of their patients, too? Isn't the appropriate response when you discover something like this to ask if there is anything you can do to help, before you say "ewwwwwww"?