Your least favorite patient.

[errn7]

Whats your least favorite type of patient to take care of in the ER.....

Mine would have to be the drug over dose....had one on my last shift the treatment is pretty much the same What we normally get are the ones that havent done it right only taken enough to make them sleepy or beligerent so they dont end up intubated......Its pretty standard care....Large bore IV's monitor....foley....narcan/romazicon....charcoal...which always ends up all over the place........lol.....and sometimes NG tubes...they can be a real work out of your nursing skills....iv's, foley's, ng tubes...an of course restraints and the restraint paper work that goes with it.............Give me a lunger or MI any day.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

mine would have to be the etoher or the ivdaer. whether they're actually high right now or now, they still have the personality . . . . and withdrawal is so much fun for everyone!

[UM Review RN, ASN, RN]

I think I said this somewhere before, but psych patients who are off their meds or patients in DTs absolutely give me the willies.

[Rena RN 2003, RN]

my least favorite is the ETOHer brought in by PD in cuffs that is under arrest but decided to bash his/her head on something and now must be treated for a lac. why you say? "i want my attorney! i want your name! i want their names! i have RIGHTS!"

[weetziebat]

For me, it was the folks who have a cold or the flu and act like they are dying, and get pissed cause they don't get instantaneous treatment.

Then they always made a point of insisting they got Vicodin etc.

So many times we'd ask how long they'd been sick and get a response like "Oh, a couple of weeks." But they just had to wait and show up in the middle of the night wanting cough syrup with codeine.

Aaaarrrgh!

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

When i was an aide, and floated to the ED, my least favorite pt. would have to be the affluent one who came in with a cold or the flu, that reminded everyone she had a friend on the hospital board, complained (loudly) when everyone would respond to the non-breathing homeless man that would be rushed through the door" "Hey, I will be treated FIRST i was here FIRST, i have the money to PAY for this and i have INSURANCE".

That was a very bad Saturday night.

[Rena RN 2003, RN]

i also do not like those cold/flu type patients who think i can "cure" them before their visit is over.

or those that was just seen by their primary care doc or ER doc that morning and are back to see the ER doc again that night because __________________ (my throat is still sore, i still cough, i still have the flu, etc. fill in the blank).

[samie]

my least favorite are the one's that come in with their child who has a runny nose and is running all over the waiting room drinking a coke and eating doritos........ after triaging said child mom say's the other child has a cough and want's the other child seen too. after triaging child # 2 mom says she's also had a cough for 2 weeks and "since I'm here" might as well been seen too. aaahhhhh yyesss....... job security :rotfl:

[needsmore$]

I'm with Marie on the "Not -so -sick -important- name -dropper" patient who needs to learn what the definition of 'emergency" is...

Anne

[snowfreeze, BSN, RN]

Mine has to be the UTI obese female with 40 family members entourage along for the free ride. She expects food q1HR and they bring it and interrupt all aspects of the ER in the process. They ask for free bus passes, free lunch tickets, free parking passes even though they didn't drive you gather from the conversation. And she isn't in much pain, but is just a needy pain.

People that work the system in general.

[NYCRN16]

Definitly ETOH/DT patients, Drug overdoses and

GI bleeds!! (oh the smell of bloody poop!! :uhoh21: )

[angel337, MSN, RN]

sunday is the busiest day in our ED for the people who have cold s/s or a sudden ankle sprain and want work notes for monday.