Family complaint? Throw the nurse under the bus!

9 Just a thought. The nurse is licensed and therefore trusted to tell and document the truth. Yet the second some dysfunctional, sociopathic patient or family member complains about something (that nurse killed my baby!), management brings her into the office and asks "why did you kill her baby?"

Of course you're not baby killing. What you're doing is you're not getting them water fast enough when the doctor made them NPO. You can't give them a second dose of Dilaudid because they didn't feel the "hit" from the first one.

Just wondering. No secret to me hospitals complain about a nursing shortage when they treat the nurse so much like an imbecile.
Because alot of facilities think we are imbeciles. I do think things should be investigated but a manager should look at the big picture. I know there are good places to work but the rotten ones outnumber the good ones 10 to 1.. and if you work in LTC like I do forget it . Those type of facilities treat nurses the worst then lie about it... I think that is why there is a nursing shortage also...

You lost me at the concept of a nursing shortage. There isn't one.

Quote from not.done.yetYou lost me at the concept of a nursing shortage. There isn't one.

If there is anywhere in the US with a nursing shortage there are new grads here dying to know where that is.

Pretty Much anywhere in the northwest!!!!! There are very few nursing programs here.

Nurses are at the bottom of the healthcare food chain. All c/o eventually become the nurses' responsibility.

Quote from SkylerWPretty Much anywhere in the northwest!!!!! There are very few nursing programs here.

Quote from JamthenurseJust a thought. The nurse is licensed and therefore trusted to tell and document the truth. Yet the second some dysfunctional, sociopathic patient or family member complains about something (that nurse killed my baby!), management brings her into the office and asks "why did you kill her baby?" Of course you're not baby killing. What you're doing is you're not getting them water fast enough when the doctor made them NPO. You can't give them a second dose of Dilaudid because they didn't feel the "hit" from the first one. Just wondering. No secret to me hospitals complain about a nursing shortage when they treat the nurse so much like an imbecile.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one working at a place with a bunch of crazies. I can't believe how strange and ridiculous some patients/ and or families can be.

They may be crazy, but they're not so crazy that they act like they do with us when they're in the Walmart -- they know they'd get arrested there. But at the hospital, it's just "oh, sugar, what did the mean old nurse do to you, no wonder you hit her...."

Quote from SkylerWPretty Much anywhere in the northwest!!!!! There are very few nursing programs here.

One of my coworkers wants to post a notice:If you can't do it at WalMart, you can't do it here!"Must have shoes, shirts; can't eat food walking in the aisles; can't follow staff into areas where it says Staff Only....