If you wonder why the ER staff is cynical.... If you wonder why the ER staff sometimes seems to be going through the motions...If you wonder why the ER staff doesn't greet you like a rich person going into Tiffanys, here's why: It is because of people like the woman who called my coworker "a fucking bitch" yesterday. She was a fucking bitch because the ER doc chose not to fulfil her dream of a script for narcotics.
These are the kind of people we are dealing with on a daily basis folks. Now I want you to imagine a job where you have to be highly skilled, a mistake may lead to death, peoples lives can be literally in your hands...then I want you to imagine that you just helped saved someones life...next person you deal with calls you a "fucking bitch" because they didn't get their narcs.
ER nursing in a nutshell.
My last shift in the ER, I got called a "fu%^ing whore" when I would not let a car accident victim off of the backboard until he was cleared. He had been driving drunk too. What a charmer!
ReplyDeleteYou are also very well paid. Some of you take your frustrations out on your underlings.
DeleteI barely even react to this crap anymore. The choices are "security escort out" if they don't want to stay or "security watch until discharge" if they do.
ReplyDeletehate assholes. lots of them around.
ReplyDeleteWe've been told that security has "no place" at the bedside. It only makes the patients "worse".
ReplyDeleteI just throw them out instantaneously. If I could order an asskicking, you I would.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, you so called "professionals" know that the back of a hand is the most painful place for an IV, yet for some reason this is your preferred placement, and then skilfully taped to the knuckles and fingers for stability.
ReplyDeleteAllow me to vent here - bitch.
Then, all following nurses refuse to move that IV. Then, when the patient removes that IV, you look for another uncomfortable entry. When the patient finally insists you properly insert into the forearm, you make damn sure to wrap that tape over as much of the hair as possible. I think patients should be given nurse rating cards.
Dear Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteIt is best practice to start an IV in the lower veins so that if it infiltrates the iv placement can be moved up the arm. If you start an iv higher in the arm and it infiltrates you can not place a new one below that. There is a reason "professionals" do the things we do.