More ungrateful moments.
I add this experience to why no one wants to be a nurse.
Today I was assigned to work at DRMC. The shift started off nice and easy. I got my breaks and will get an admission after I get my lunch. Around 4 pm, I recieved a post op patient who had a large mass removed from the right neck. Understandably a very painful operation as the neck is full of nerves.
I talked to the the family and gave them an update. Next thing I know they started crying. Our conversation was insignificant until one of them started asking me how can I do my job if I don't know anything about the patient. Personally, I can't know a patient after a two minute report from an OR nurse. Second, no one really knows everything unless you have read the chart.
Reading the chart is not an option as my other patient in on a ventilator and was thrashing around. he's an alcoholic and going through withdrawal as this post-op patient was arriving.
Back to the stupid question asked, I gave him a quizzing look that upset him. He accused of rolling my eyballs and wanted me out of the room. Obviously he is not that smartest person in his family as he was trying to kick out his father's nurse. He then started to flame (yup he's a faggot). I tried to stop this creature's endless yacking to know avail. There is no stopping a mad fag. He was doing the shaking and finger and swingging thing that fags do. It was annoying. I left the room and reported the behaviour to the charge nurse.
The director of nursing showed up and served them head to tail. I don't know why she showed up. The family probably made a complaint. The patient's sister (a drop dead gorgeous woman, my god she looked like a model) apologized for her niece's (nephew in reality but what ever...) behavior.
I reassured her that everything will be done to care for him and not to worry about what happened. Yup, they were stressed out but treat the nurse like shit. Bullshit. Shut your mouth and bring us food. That's how you show your thanks, baby, FOOD. hehehe
I'm now concerned that I will be placed on the do not send list. The charge nurse reassured me that I'm not. (That is when they find a nurse incompetent and not to let him/her work in the hospital again). She also told me that I didn't do anything wrong. The director was also reassuring of that and that she found the pain medication order insufficient. I guess the family complained about the pain management is not being addressed. Well, it won't be because the doctor's pain medication order can't be read. This is frustrating as heck. I took a while for this doctor to call back. The pain med order is rarely written in fraction of the dose that the med is made. Example Demerol 50 mg is a common order because Demerol is available in 50mg vials. The order was for example 40 mg. Now that is unusual so I need to make sure that is what the doctor ordered. As I wait for verification, the patient suffers, the family gets mad and reports me to the nursing office.
Telling the family about the doctor verification doesn't help. They want it to happen NOW. Well, I don't have magic. There are policies and protocols to follow.
This is why I want to leave nursing. arrgh. So you wanna buy vitamins, magnets or portraits? I sell them all. hahahaha
I add this experience to why no one wants to be a nurse.
Today I was assigned to work at DRMC. The shift started off nice and easy. I got my breaks and will get an admission after I get my lunch. Around 4 pm, I recieved a post op patient who had a large mass removed from the right neck. Understandably a very painful operation as the neck is full of nerves.
I talked to the the family and gave them an update. Next thing I know they started crying. Our conversation was insignificant until one of them started asking me how can I do my job if I don't know anything about the patient. Personally, I can't know a patient after a two minute report from an OR nurse. Second, no one really knows everything unless you have read the chart.
Reading the chart is not an option as my other patient in on a ventilator and was thrashing around. he's an alcoholic and going through withdrawal as this post-op patient was arriving.
Back to the stupid question asked, I gave him a quizzing look that upset him. He accused of rolling my eyballs and wanted me out of the room. Obviously he is not that smartest person in his family as he was trying to kick out his father's nurse. He then started to flame (yup he's a faggot). I tried to stop this creature's endless yacking to know avail. There is no stopping a mad fag. He was doing the shaking and finger and swingging thing that fags do. It was annoying. I left the room and reported the behaviour to the charge nurse.
The director of nursing showed up and served them head to tail. I don't know why she showed up. The family probably made a complaint. The patient's sister (a drop dead gorgeous woman, my god she looked like a model) apologized for her niece's (nephew in reality but what ever...) behavior.
I reassured her that everything will be done to care for him and not to worry about what happened. Yup, they were stressed out but treat the nurse like shit. Bullshit. Shut your mouth and bring us food. That's how you show your thanks, baby, FOOD. hehehe
I'm now concerned that I will be placed on the do not send list. The charge nurse reassured me that I'm not. (That is when they find a nurse incompetent and not to let him/her work in the hospital again). She also told me that I didn't do anything wrong. The director was also reassuring of that and that she found the pain medication order insufficient. I guess the family complained about the pain management is not being addressed. Well, it won't be because the doctor's pain medication order can't be read. This is frustrating as heck. I took a while for this doctor to call back. The pain med order is rarely written in fraction of the dose that the med is made. Example Demerol 50 mg is a common order because Demerol is available in 50mg vials. The order was for example 40 mg. Now that is unusual so I need to make sure that is what the doctor ordered. As I wait for verification, the patient suffers, the family gets mad and reports me to the nursing office.
Telling the family about the doctor verification doesn't help. They want it to happen NOW. Well, I don't have magic. There are policies and protocols to follow.
This is why I want to leave nursing. arrgh. So you wanna buy vitamins, magnets or portraits? I sell them all. hahahaha
