Why do nurses make the worse patients?

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Is it because we know too much ? Or we have seen worse things in patients? I'm not sure but I know that I make the worse patient. Long story short: My one hour gtt at 28 weeks was 140. My Ob notifies me of my results 5 weeks later and then wants to schedule a 3hr gtt away.

So of course I'm ****** off that it took five weeks for her tell me. Then I'm like well, 140 is not that bad. I can just make some dietary changes and hope for the best.

I know my thinking and rationale is flawed. Part of it may also be laziness. On my only day off I have too sit in a OB office for 3 hours while fasting.

Well. There goes my story. Feel free to share how you as a nurse been non compliant regarding your health.

Oh did I mention I'm a post partum nurse. I have seen the affects of GDM and taken care many antepartums who have had it. Shame on me.

Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

Hope your 3-hour GTT goes ok! My 1-hour (yes, fasting) came back 183 w/ my first baby, but the 3-hour one went ok. I had GD with my last one, but was able to control it w/ diet and he was only 7.0 pounds at 39 weeks + 4 days.

I don't think I make a "bad" pt either though. I did get a tad annoyed at one of my postpartum RNs last time, b/c I'd requested Percocet 4 hours after my last dose (it was q 4 hrs prn). She scanned it, and Epic gave her the message that I may have had > 4 gm of APAP... I said, "Um, each dose has 650 mg of APAP. If I take it on the clock q 4 hrs, that is a total of 3900 mg for 24 hours." Her: "But it says..." I didn't hold it against her though, b/c she called the CNM on call for a one-time dose of oxycodone so I got my pain relief. I did mentally double check her math for the rest of the night though. :roflmao:

llg -- I've gone off on our internet provider's customer service people a few times. Never felt great about it afterwards, but their service is urine poor (staying in an apartment for now, so we're stuck w/ that provider), and with my RN-BSN classes partially online I *need* reliable internet service. When my modem quit working for the third time in two months, I spent a total of one hour on hold in between transfers, and NONE of the people knowing why I was being transferred to them ("Thank you for calling us, how may I help you today?")...I'm probably fortunate I didn't have a stroke. :madface:

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Specializes in Emergency room, Neurosurgery ICU.

hehehe, I guess we just know too much. When I had my hyst and bladder suspension, I kept feeling urge to urinate (I had a foley for nearly 2 days, and a morphine PCA), well, I so lots of po fluids and had IVF @ 120ml/hr.... needless to say, that foley bag got full faster than it got emptied by staff, so, Id get out of bed, empty and measure it, write it on the whiteboard in the room and made sure the RN taking care of me knew it before her shift ended. I am not sure if they loved me or hated me for that! (I think they were ok with it, She even pulled the foley about 6 hours earlier than MD had originally wanted.)

When I had my exploratory lap for ruptured ectopic ( 7 years prior to hyst,) I was pretty low maintenance, vitals, food, leave me alone with the PCA morphine...

after the back surgery it was the same, except that I worked nights for 10 years, and they wanted me to be awake in the AM ("aren't you gonna have breakfast, honey?"..."no, I just fell asleep 3 hours ago, dammit!)

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
Me too. Four surgeries in three years, and I'm not a bad patient, either.

However, BEFORE I got cancer, I may have been a bad patient at times.

https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/stupid-nurse-tricks-73073.html

Allrighty, then! You get the blue ribbon for bad patient. ;)

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Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

I don't consider myself a bad patient.

I just require the NP, MD, or nurse, be able to explain why their recommendations are a better idea than mine.

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Good nurses expect nothing less than the care we give our patients. I have been a patient in a hospital and have experienced bad nursing care. I was too ill to be my own advocate and I had no family to visit me while I was hospitalized. It brings tears to eyes just thinking about it. The bad economy has attracted a group of people who want to be nurses in hope of job security who have no compassion, or altruism. Now that that period is over and I am healthy I do not tolerate poor nursing care. If that makes me a bad patient then so what.

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