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!
can yall either stop the cardiac debate or take it to another thread? many of us love to read this thread for comic relief. the last thing we want is the thread to get closed due to an off topic debate. TIA!
Why would central access be better? IO is faster, cheaper, easier, and has fewer complications, and is appropriate for all ages.
Virgo
Please just let the situation I posted go...you weren't there, and you don't know the entire scenario, nor my hospital's policies/procedures, nor what is allowed on my floor. I posted on a vent thread about a situation that I wanted to vent about. Don't over analyze the situation. I am ACLS certified, and if he would have lost his pulse, I would have cracked open the crash cart and grabbed the IO drill, but it had not gotten to that point yet so I was following my facility's p/p
Now drop it, ok. You are starting to get on my nerves and ruin a perfectly good vent thread.
I have simply responded to comments posted to me. In posting the above, you have perpetuated the conversation that you are asking me to drop. If you would like me to let it go, I suggest you do the same and ask others to follow suit rather than singling me out. Thank you.
To the sister of my bowel surgery pt today, who demanded that we not give her sister any more pills because "they just sit in her stomach": You are not the doctor. I give medications according to doctor's orders and the patient's condition. Since you are not a doctor, and you are not a nurse, and you don't know what you are talking about, just buzz off! I know how to do my job, thank-you-very-much.
I have simply responded to comments posted to me. In posting the above, you have perpetuated the conversation that you are asking me to drop. If you would like me to let it go, I suggest you do the same and ask others to follow suit rather than singling me out. Thank you.
ok both of you! dont make me pull this car over.....
Dude. I understand you like your privacy when you're in the bathroom, but since you took your oxygen off and you desat whenever you do that and since I have no desire to pick your 300lb @$$ off the floor tonight, just put the stinkin oxygen back on and quit barking at me. You're in the freaking hospital, for crap's sake. You want me to leave you alone when you're in the bathroom? Then go home.
Uh no...you can not have IV Benadryl..the doc has prescribed po. You're itching? Hmmm..what do you do at home for it? Wow, take po Benadryl..you should be all set.
No, you can't have IV Benadryl..I just told you the doc said no. And by the way, you can't have IV Phenergan, Ativan, Norco, and the po Benadryl at the same time. I'm sorry you want a buzz...it's not happening here. The doc said you can't have it all at the same time, quit bugging me about it.
3 hours later: "I'm still itching" as you're weaving in the bed, refusing to take your po Benadryl...for the last time: NO YOU CAN'T HAVE IV BENADRYL!!!! THE DOC SAID NO!
It was a long 3 nights. And every night the same...can I have IV Benadryl?
blueheaven
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