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!
Bathing your newly born baby will NOT diminish her sense of smell, which if she is normal will have already developed by the time she is born. She will be able to smell you even after her bath.
When your husband frantically bangs on the ambulance bay doors yelling that you are having a major stroke and we run out there to find you stuffing a whole cheeseburger in our mouth, don't be offended when we tell you to stop. After you tell us to wait while you suck down half a coke, please don't be short with us when we ask you to stop once again. No, I will not pick you up out of the car to the wheelchair. You can move yourself.
And I'd appreciate it tremendously if you didn't fling the pickles that fell out of your cheeseburger and stuck to the front of your shirt onto my shoes. I consider that bad manners.
I'm going to guess that you already passed your stroke swallow screen.
When your husband frantically bangs on the ambulance bay doors yelling that you are having a major stroke and we run out there to find you stuffing a whole cheeseburger in our mouth, don't be offended when we tell you to stop. After you tell us to wait while you suck down half a coke, please don't be short with us when we ask you to stop once again. No, I will not pick you up out of the car to the wheelchair. You can move yourself.
And I'd appreciate it tremendously if you didn't fling the pickles that fell out of your cheeseburger and stuck to the front of your shirt onto my shoes. I consider that bad manners.
I'm going to guess that you already passed your stroke swallow screen.
I am sorry, this one just made me HOWL! ROFLOLOLOL:lol2:
My personal opinion on this thread is that you people would rather attack people on the thread than your patients. This is not good, everyone has their own opinion and thats ok. I say, Deal with it.
sigh. you've read the posts, become offended, reprimanded the posters, been corrected, continued to reprimand the posters, been corrected by a moderator, and still continue the cycle if read-be upset-flame-be corrected.
really, WHY DO YOU KEEP READING THE THREAD IF IT JUST UPSETS YOU? you must know you're not going to change the opinions of everyone here, so really, you're either reading it still because you're actually enjoying it, or you're reading it because you enjoy getting all worked up.
either way, you've been politely (and, to be honest, a bit rudely) informed of the nature and content that can be expected in a vent thread, so please, as the Aussie bogans are always shouting (between riots) 'if you don't love it, leave'. (alternatively, 'eff off we're full' is also popular).
sorry, I realise there's about seventy-odd pages of water under the bridge since this particular post was made, but having read through from page one, I've been getting progressively more annoyed by sanctimonious and over-sensitive comments, and funnily enough, I needed to vent!!
I just thought of a third option. is there something in your life that is incredibly frustrating that you can't vent about, so you're taking your frustration out on those who are able to vent?
if so, I'm really sorry that you're in a situation like that, however it's still not appropriate.
I've been chipping away at this thread for a few days now, and to celebrate, I'm posting my own 'what I wish I could tell my patient'..
-lady, I work in theatre with your surgeon every day, and if I needed an operation and had to choose between him and a pizza boy, well, you just call me pepperoni.
on the (very very popular) subject of bell overuse, I actually managed to cure someone of it by being so naive that I just didn't realize they were doing it on purpose. i had someone on the bell all day, and at one point I answered their bell, and they rang it again before I'd even left the room. innocent me assumed it was a mistake, threw my arms in the air in mock surrender and cried 'what now?? I know I'm awesome, but just think how much better I'd be if I occasionally got to leave this room to do things!'. it wasn't until later when someone was complaining about him that I realised: a) he was doing it on purpose, and b) I hadn't heard a peep from him since!
I'd also like to say "look, everyone here thinks your surgeon is a jerk, and studies have shown a correlation between tension in the theatre and poor patient outcomes. just thought you should know what you're getting yourself in for."
I just want to say "SHUT UP!!!" to some of my patients. The talkers...oh the talkers. They talk for hours on end about things that really aren't relevant to their care. A little talk here and there is okay, but don't hold me for 30+ minutes just to shoot the breeze. I am at work and I do have...you know...work to do.
Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.
Pt on Versed prior to surgery: "You know, you suuuuurrree are purdy! Wanna crawl into this bed with me so I can get me some hitch in my geddy-up?"
Me: "Oh, but of COURSE! I would love to get in the stretcher with you and give you a nice well placed kick so you can have some hitch in your getty-up! You won't remember anyway since you are on Versed!"
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Bathing your newly born baby will NOT diminish her sense of smell, which if she is normal will have already developed by the time she is born. She will be able to smell you even after her bath.