Hi, my name is AngelfireRN, I'll be your nurse tonight.
I am not a waitress, nor am I your slave.
Yelling and hurling obscenities at me will not get you your pain meds any sooner than they are ordered. Nor will having your family member or entourage do the same.
Threatening lawsuits and having umpteen family members camp out in the halls or hold up the nurse's station will not get you preferential treatment.
Physically grabbing me as I go down the hall is NOT a good idea.
I do not give the orders, but I do have to follow/enforce them. This is something that you should take up with your doctor.
No, I will not call him again to ask him for more pain medicine. He has been called twice and has said no both times.
No, I will not give you his number so you can "straighten him out".
No, you are not my only patient, and I highly doubt that you are single-handedly paying my salary. On the off chance that you are, let's talk about a raise.
NO, NO, NO, I most empahatically will NOT come get you when it is time for your next pain shot while you are having a smoke break. I also will not bring it to you in the smoking room. (Have actually said that, I am allergic to cigarettes. I did it once, had an asthma attack, desatted to 83, and turned blue, according to the patient and my charge nurse, after the patient had to help me back to the floor).
No, I don't really care if your family has not eaten all day, they drove here by themselves, they are not sick, and no, I will not call for 6 guest trays. (This of course, is if the patient in question does not need all 6 family members present, and is not at death's door).
No, you may not have 3 six-packs of soda from the kitchen, there are other people that would like a snack, too.
No, they will not open up the kitchen up just for you, at 1 in the morning, because you don't like the snacks we have on the floor.
I could think of hundreds, but those will do for a start. I know it sounds mean, but this is why I got out of bedside nursing. When a hospital becomes the Hilton, I'm gone!
many of us do. stress -- including the stress of hospitalization -- turns the bowels to water!
if you read my reply properly i said with no gastrointestinal issues from stress or other! i am talking about the bowel obsessed people who just decide at 3am they would like to do a poo! hey, this is my thing i would like to tell others anyway
" I'm very sorry that you left your "butt wiper stick" at home. No, I will not wipe for you. I would, however, be more than happy to fashion a new "butt wiper stick" for you."
You'd think that would be a wakeup call, that you need an extension to wipe your butt. I'm no skinny minnie, but the moment I notice that wiping becomes an issue, off to Weight Watchers I go!
sorry to nitpick, cardiac nurse here.....you wouldn't pace vt, and amiodarone hangs out forever (half life up to 13 days), so stopping the gtt just for a minute isn't likely to result in a recurrence of vt.
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dude- i still wouldn't want to draw blood from the only site this guy has...and lose it...and then start negotiating about getting another one in. i think i'd tell him we'd start another site, pull the blood from the fresh site so we don't have to risk the only line, and we have a second one if needed.
but most of all, if your heart isn't working, you can plan on seeing a few needles in your future. suck it up
"Your complaints about 'the service' I am giving you aren't going to get you anywhere because I CAN'T HELP IT. There are 2 of us and 30 of you! Here I am rushing around like crazy- you see me flying up and down the hall- and you, an alert, continent, and fairly able-bodied person, have the nerve to make whiny little passive-aggressive comments about how long you've been waiting for 'service.' All because I put your roommate to bed before you, and now you're jealous... you pathetic little twit. What's with the talk about service anyway? This isn't a spa, it's a nursing home. You know how you can tell the difference? A spa would have waaaaaaay more staff."
dude- i still wouldn't want to draw blood from the only site this guy has...and lose it...and then start negotiating about getting another one in. i think i'd tell him we'd start another site, pull the blood from the fresh site so we don't have to risk the only line, and we have a second one if needed.
but most of all, if your heart isn't working, you can plan on seeing a few needles in your future. suck it up
dude- if he's that hard of a stick, you'll probably be going io anyway.
To the ER nurse, calling with our umpteenth admission of the night tonite (d'oh) and talking to the CNA watching the desk/phone, wanting to get a room number for said admission and when the CNA told him I (the charge nurse) was on the phone (which I was, dealing with another issue), replied, "aw, come on, can't we just be friends??"
Dude~I WAS ON THE PHONE. I could not interrupt that call to talk to you. I don't know how much clearer of English you required to understand that to prevent whining. It didn't take more than a few minutes for me to get back to you. I wasn't standing behind that CNA laughing and going, "tell him I'm on the phone, hahahaha!" When we get 5 admissions in a shift, chances are, I'm gonna be busy dealing with ONE of them at any given time.
To the adult son of the LOL who just rolled onto the unit a little while ago....why no, there isn't a phone in this room, which I hadn't noticed because I've been too busy making sure your mother's pacemaker is capturing, that her incisions are WNL, that her VS are stable, that her pain is controlled, and that I can hear breath sounds on both sides. Sorry you were calling and calling and nobody was picking up...I guess I should get my priorities straight, huh?
To the person complaining that her father said I shut a door in his face. Heck yeah I did, and I would do it again. He was looking in other pt's room's, and I was administering some OTHER PT her med's, and he had no right to try go up and down the halls staring into other peoples rooms. He's alert and oriented, he knows how to use the call light, and he has no right to go into other pt's rooms.
She accused me of making him feeling like a peeping tom..
Dude- if he's that hard of a stick, you'll probably be going IO anyway.
actually he still had some decent veins...he was in his early 40's, good physique...he was just one of those guys who would scream and whimper if you pulled the tape of his hairless arm.
To the person complaining that her father said I shut a door in his face. Heck yeah I did, and I would do it again. He was looking in other pt's room's, and I was administering some OTHER PT her med's, and he had no right to try go up and down the halls staring into other peoples rooms. He's alert and oriented, he knows how to use the call light, and he has no right to go into other pt's rooms.
She accused me of making him feeling like a peeping tom..
THAT'S BECAUSE HE IS ONE!!!!
That is very disturbing; he could have been a threat to other patients or looking for valuables to steal. Here's a hug, you were protecting your other patients...
To the patient who pukes after taking her 14 morning pills without eating anything, then wonders why in the world she has nausea every morning and why am I not doing anything about it......Eat a *******' cracker (or maybe even 2), for crying out loud, before you suck down the pills. Or do you LIKE to toss your cookies every dang morning????
I have REPEATEDLY told her, her family, her pets, everyone that she needs to eat something first. Especially since she is diabetic and takes pre-meal insulin on a sliding scale. But it's my fault that she's nauseated every morning....argh.
Tulip28
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if you read my reply properly i said with no gastrointestinal issues from stress or other! i am talking about the bowel obsessed people who just decide at 3am they would like to do a poo! hey, this is my thing i would like to tell others anyway