What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

marygirl · Dec 22, 2006

Hmmm, I had a patient the other night who put her call light on as I was at the bedside of her roommate. I wasn't aware it was on, because it doesn't make a sound in the room and I was a fair distance from the desk. She then sighed and said we were probably all out sleeping at the desk. I had been in and out of that room 15 times in the past hour and there is no way I would have had time to nap with 8 patients and most of them were quite needy. When she made that comment I mentioned to her that I was in the room, and what did she need? Her answer, "please open the curtain between me and my roommate so I can talk to her" I did open the curtain between her and the other patient, but I also mentioned that there wasn't a soul sleeping at the desk and as much time as I spent in her room, it was quite offensive to me that she would say something like that. She apologized to me and I shrugged it off, but come on? sleeping at the desk? Most of our patients complain that they think we're too loud all night long or that we're having a party or my favorite, "playing video games" since they hear the beeping alarms of the call light and the telemetry monitors all night long.

Ruby Vee, BSN · Dec 22, 2006

no surprise there. she's nuts and she's making her spawn nuts, too. you should be commended for not yelling back, although i think you should speak up if such insanity happens again with the three stooges.

no chance of that -- i'm on the opposite coast now!

scrmblr · Dec 22, 2006

I wondered that, too.

:trout: Its kinda like the guy with his pants on fire asking you to light his cigarette for him.

Brand new RN · Dec 22, 2006

Someone complained that my smile appeared to be fake.

Ok, so I'm still a wannabe (waiting for the letter for entrance into the local nursing program). However, couldn't resist a reply here. I work at a nursing home as a CNA. I love working with the residents. Recently I was told that I appear too "happy and energetic" around them! Here's the real issue...we have one resident who is a former nurse herself (very young, BTW to be in a nursing home...but her DX demands it). For some reason, she doesn't like me. Of course, I knew immediately who made the complaint. All the rest of the residents love my cheerful attitude and smile. For some reason, this particular resident doesn't like that I'm a happy, content person. How ridiculous. I've since decided that I'm not real happy with what the RNs do at the home (they spend alot of time policing CNA's and calling everyone on the schedule to beg to come in and cover the shift or they're forced to work as aide on the floor themselves). I consider myself now very enlightened. My plan? The master's degree...maybe as a NP or clinical nurse specialist I won't have those particular issues to deal with! LOL

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Dec 22, 2006

i got called into my head nurse's office when i was on an iv team and told that i had been reported for going into a patient's room, pulling down his pj bottoms and then laughing at him! what? she couldn't believe it, but because she had received the write up and incident report about it, she was obligated to follow-up on it. thank goodness the patient described the incident as occurring at a time when there were two other nurses in his room as well and that was an established fact. he was saying this particular thing over and over while in icu postoperatively and saying my name. i had put his iv in him that morning when he was being prepped for surgery and had told him my name. we had had a nice conversation at that time. for some reason, my name just happened to stick in his mind and he was just very disoriented after surgery. we never could figure out where the idea of his pj bottoms being pulled down came from.

SOREFEETEMPTYSTOMACH · Dec 22, 2006

ONE OF MY CO-WORKERS WAS DISCHARGING A PATIENT OF MINE. THIS MAN WAS MORBIDLY OBESE BUT ON ARRIVAL TI HIS BED ON ADMISSION HE TOOK HIS OWN SHOES OFF ETC.

WHILE BEING DISCHARGED THE PATIENT TOLD SHEILA HE FELT BETTER AND EVERYTHING WENT OK BUT "THAT LITTLE NURSE" WOULDN'T PUT MY PECKER IN THE URINAL" SHEILA'S REPLY TO HIM-----ONE WOULD THINK THAT IF YOU CAN HANDLE YOUR SHOES AND SOCKS YOU COULD HANDLE YOUR PECKER, IT'S ONLY HALF AS LOW.

AS AN ASIDE, IN 30 YEARS I'VE PUT PLENTY OF PECKERS IN URINALS. :nono:

ItsyBitsySpider, BSN, RN · Dec 22, 2006

I worked with a male nurse that complained to the NM that I didn't like him because I was jealous that he was more feminine than me. He was right about one thing I didn't like him but only because he was a crappy nurse.

:rotfl: This is one of the best. The absurdity is hilarious.

nursenevaeh · Dec 22, 2006

I haven't had any but my coworker has:

*Pt made a complaint about him not wiping her bottom good enough.

Mind you she came from Home and was to be discharged home and could have physically done it herself.

*Flushing the pt's room Toilet loud during the night.

Did they expect us to not flush that stuff down?

SharonH, RN · Dec 22, 2006

:rotfl: This is one of the best. The absurdity is hilarious.

It is absurd. I am amazed by some of the things I am reading.

HvnSntRN · Dec 22, 2006

I had a patient accuse me of "stealing" her baby, and wrote a complaint for the NM to follow up. Considering that I am the queen of CYA, and had already documented in her chart and in an incident report that I had discovered that the patient had left her baby unsupervised in the room when I went in to assess her, that she was absent from the unit (went outside for 'fresh air') for at least 20 minutes, and that I brought her baby to the Nursery until she came back, and had witnesses to corroborate my documentation, the complaint flew like a lead balloon.

The NM told me that the patient demanded that I be fired for "stealing" her baby... and the NM told her that she should be grateful that her baby was found by me and not some weirdo that could have walked out of the hospital via the fire escape stairway across from her room, or that the baby didn't choke or stop breathing while she was out of the room, and that CPS would be checking up on her.

Agnus · Dec 22, 2006

I instructed a CNA to not get a pt. OOB. A resident who did not know the pt was not able to stand even with assistance let alone walk wrote an order that is pt was to be oob and to "walk alone" to the bathroom.

The pt was > 250 pounds and not able to stand at all. However the CNA felt duty bound to get this pt up and walk her. Even when I had specifically instructed her not to and told her I would address this with the physician.

When I came in the room and found both of them on the floor I asked "what happened?"

The CNA complained that I embarrassed her in front of the patient by asking what happened. HUH?

Agnus · Dec 22, 2006

I remember years ago, sitting in the lounge with a few of my coworkers and we were discussing how long we'd been married or dating. I was single at the time and loved hearing stories about how people met (heck, I still like hearing that).
Anyway, this one nurse was talking about how long she and her hubby had been married and how long they'd been trying to conceive. I asked her how she met her husband and she went ballistic on me. Apparently asking how they met was too personal a question? Almost 25 years later, I still remember that incident when her name comes up.

Makes one wonder where they did meet. Hehe