Surely I'm not the only nurse that has experienced this. I had a young 40 yr old male pt today that called me every name in the book. He slammed the door in my face, cussed me out, called me names and was uncooperative. He got mad if you knocked on the door and mad if you didn't, mad when u turned on the light and mad when u didn't. You couldn't make him happy at all. After one of his temper tantrums I went and got his MD at the nurses desk and demanded that the MD go talk to his patient. He did and the patient said he'd behave. Well of course nothing changed. He slammed the door in my face about 10 minutes later. Here I am trying to precept a new nurse and I tried not to lose my cool but I definitely did. My granddad is in the hospital so I have been extremely stressed. This pt made me so mad that I actually started to cry in the break room. Here I am with 6 very sick pts. This guy acting like this and all I can think about is that my granddad is sick and I'm not with him b/c I'm here taking care of this unappreciative jerk!! I probably looked pretty stupid to my orientee....