Every time I log on here see such a thread. Well let me see. My hospital has recently decided to hire only new grads or people who were new grads and worked in nursing homes etc. I have been amazed at the attitudes. Some signed contracts and got sent to an area that's apparently low rent. Med/Surg is not sexy enough apparently. Just this months some of the fun the "nasty nurses" have to fix. The heparin drip that gets shut off because the patient wanted a shower. The nurse who called the doc several times overnight for a patient with a low bp, bolused fluids and gave 40 mg of lisinopril at 6am "because its was ordered". The patient with an NG tube clamped, who spent 12 hours pucking and it didn't occur to them the hook him up to suction. The trach pt gurgling, in distress, because the nurse didn't know she was supposed to suction him and then criticized the day nurse for her technique in suctioning. Holding IV antibiotics because the pt was NPO, but continuing the PEG tube feed, so surgery was delayed and I had to explain to the surgeon. OK we all had to learn but really? We have the new grads coming up stating they don't have time and you have to start their IV, pass their meds, you have to do it. Meanwhile holding their lunch they had time to go get on the other side of the hospital at 11am and leaving at 7.30pm while your there till 9.30. It's a if they are still students and the other nurses are their assistants. You go to help and never get so much as a thank you. Just complaints if you so much as try and point out what they need to do to take care of the patients. The word Entitled comes to kind. Not all of them we have some new grads that are willing to learn, grateful for the information. And then this this whole new breed. Is it me? I remember my new nurse days, the crusty nurses who were hard on me but to whom I owe so much. I became a much better nurse because of it. Yes it was hard at the time, but I would never have behaved the way I am seeing now. Generational thing no doubt. But as the as one who is cleaning up the mess, enough. This job is hard enough.
I had a little old lady call 911 to report the male night nurse raped her. The cops came and the poor night nurse had to stay and do paperwork al day. Little old lady later recanted and said she was jealous because Bed 1 was being CODED all night and she wanted some ATTENTION. Oh, and Bed 1 died.
Good grief.
OMG if I were that poor nurse, or his wife, I'd demand she be arrested and charged for making a false report. In the current climate, even a hint of such an accusation can utterly destroy a man's life!
OMG if I were that poor nurse, or his wife, I'd demand she be arrested and charged for making a false report. In the current climate, even a hint of such an accusation can utterly destroy a man's life!
She was confused, which the cops saw once they got there. Plus the room was right outside the nurse's station and between that and the Code Team he had plenty of witness attesting that he did not, in fact, pop behind the curtain and rape her.
OMG if I were that poor nurse, or his wife, I'd demand she be arrested and charged for making a false report. In the current climate, even a hint of such an accusation can utterly destroy a man's life!
Actually happened to me once. I was furious. So glad that I happened to have a CNA with me every time I went into the lady's room who was able to back me up. Charges were dropped immediately since this particular patient had dementia and had developed a track record of making such claims. My hospital's administration had a hard time convincing me not to press charges of my own. Still makes me mad.
"Let's frame the nurses/aides for petty theft" is a very real hobby amongst some of the more alert LTC residents. They hide their wad of singles somewhere and then convince their children we're robbing them blind. It's bad enough when it's the demented residents who don't know better. It's the lucid ones with behavior issues that grind my gears.
I had one guy who would pretend to fall asleep while counting his money (hundreds of dollars) a few nights a week in the hopes that he could "catch" an aide red-handed. He was always so disappointed that no one ever fell for it and tried to steal the money.....
Nah, "joe" is totally on the mark: older nurses DO defecate all over people, as a means to demonstrate the power they have....apparently, to defecate on people.
I have found throughout my career that the most effective means of demonstrating authority is by pooping on nearby personnel. Totally makes them recognize my value as a superior being. Totally.:
I find humping their leg is more effective and less messy. Snort!
Being held in the basement reminds me, I have a patient that I've known from the past when I had her husband as well as running into her in the local grocery store (small town). Sweet SWEET lady. Well she was very ill and had confusion with hallucinations while inpatient, along the lines of being held captive. She can remember some of them and to hear her talk about it while coherent and knowing her previously, it was very real and terrifying to her at the time and you couldn't help but feel for her. She does remember the nurses trying to calm and reassure her.I 'm glad she has that memory as well.
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OMG if I were that poor nurse, or his wife, I'd demand she be arrested and charged for making a false report. In the current climate, even a hint of such an accusation can utterly destroy a man's life!