Yesterday, I was that nurse. That nurse that your patient will one day complain to you about. That nurse who wouldn't give her pain meds even though she "really needed them." That nurse that was an example of everything that a good nurse isn't.
Well, that nurse heard the patient say things like "I want pain meds so I can sleep" and also "You must not care about me because you won't give me pain meds." That nurse also paged the doctor and related all these things to her as well as the patient's repeated requests for narcotics. That nurse offered alternative pain relief measures all of which the patient refused.
Next time you hear a patient complain about "that horrible nurse", believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
Hangin'On, I hope this doesn't go to my supervisor! I love her but everything is so much about patient satisfaction these days! I did document so hopefully if it becomes an issue she will look at that.
It is emotionally draining to go to work everyday and try your best just to have people undermine you and make it seem like you don't care.
I wasn't in her body so I only know what she told me about her pain and the body language. I know she was not prescribed narcotics at home, she had a history of presenting to various ED's with complaints of pain, she told me she wanted the narcotic so she could sleep even though just about everyone time I came in the room she was already sleeping, the doctor did not want to give her narcotics, and when she realized she wasn't getting them she flipped a switch and became very hostile and saying things to make me feel as though I did not care about her or advocate for her. I did and at the end of the day she didn't get her narcotics and she wasn't happy. It's frustrating and I am glad you have shared your own frustrations and know where I am coming from.
I think most would agree it is therapuetic to vent.
Hangin'On, I hope this doesn't go to my supervisor! I love her but everything is so much about patient satisfaction these days! I did document so hopefully if it becomes an issue she will look at that.
Yeah, hopefully not, but I wouldn't worry about that. You're right about patient satisfaction. If my experience had happened even three years ago instead of over a decade ago, then it may have went down differently.
What's with the underscore/low dash between your words? It lends a slighly robotic style to your communication. Are you experiencing some kind of technical difficulties?
Anyhow.. No, reading comprehension is not all that's required. My reading comprehension is according to several tests I've taken, just fine.
I have previously pointed out that OP is actually asking that we act in a certain way, based solely on and as a direct result of reading her/his post. From the original post:
Why can't you see that that logically means that posters may well want to ask further questions for clarification to be able to decide if they find that the story OP has told warrants incorporating OP's deduction into their own belief system? OP actively encouraged us, the readers of this post, to draw the same conclusion of her/his experience, as s/he her/himself has. S/he is asking us to agree with her/him. I know that I'm being very literal now, but that is what that last paragraph of the OP implies.
Now, I don't tend to change the way I view patients (or anyone else) based on an anonymous post on the internet so this kind of is a moot point, but you bet that I will reserve the right to ask questions if I think that there was information missing in the story the anonymous poster told.
But what it all boils down to is it is a thread on the Internet. No one can control what others will think or post. You may not like it but that's what it is.
Have I gotten comments I didn't agree with on my thread? Yes. But is there anything I can do about it? No.
It lends a slighly robotic style to your communication. Are you experiencing some kind of technical difficulties?
EaglesWings21, ASN, RN
380 Posts
Hangin'On, I hope this doesn't go to my supervisor! I love her but everything is so much about patient satisfaction these days! I did document so hopefully if it becomes an issue she will look at that.
It is emotionally draining to go to work everyday and try your best just to have people undermine you and make it seem like you don't care.
I wasn't in her body so I only know what she told me about her pain and the body language. I know she was not prescribed narcotics at home, she had a history of presenting to various ED's with complaints of pain, she told me she wanted the narcotic so she could sleep even though just about everyone time I came in the room she was already sleeping, the doctor did not want to give her narcotics, and when she realized she wasn't getting them she flipped a switch and became very hostile and saying things to make me feel as though I did not care about her or advocate for her. I did and at the end of the day she didn't get her narcotics and she wasn't happy. It's frustrating and I am glad you have shared your own frustrations and know where I am coming from.
I think most would agree it is therapuetic to vent.