11 Things Your Nurse Thinks (But Will Never Tell You)

This is so true! I feel this way so many times, and would love to look at a pt and tell it to their faces!!!

Not to mention the, "There are some people that are alive only because the laundry chute is out of order and I have no place put the body.

i just can't believe people act like that. i've only been in the hospital twice and the last time the nurse that was caring for me even came to my room to say 'good bye' she said that i made things easier for her compared to other patients. i never called or pushed that button. she would actually pop her head in the room to see if i needed something but i was always sleeping. i was being induced to have my first child and i needed all the rest i could get, so i was sleeping the whole time. the nurse even shed a tear or two when she said good bye, i wish i could remember her name, but honestly i was resting up to the time that they said, 'it's time to push'.

Quote from chapisi just can't believe people act like that. i've only been in the hospital twice and the last time the nurse that was caring for me even came to my room to say 'good bye' she said that i made things easier for her compared to other patients. i never called or pushed that button. she would actually pop her head in the room to see if i needed something but i was always sleeping. i was being induced to have my first child and i needed all the rest i could get, so i was sleeping the whole time. the nurse even shed a tear or two when she said good bye, i wish i could remember her name, but honestly i was resting up to the time that they said, 'it's time to push'.

Well this makes me look forward to my career in nursing (:

#12 ) woosahhhhh!!Loves it!

That is great and so true, I love it!!

Another fine list, Marla. As always, you put into words what many of us are thinking. You can tell how long someone has been a nurse by the thickness of the callus she has from biting her tongue.

Marla:A great post, as always. How about, No, I am really not paid to clean up your ****. An actual statement by one really challenging resident.Roxann

HaHa. I have thought and said every single one of these things (and worse). I have to say you were pretty nice about it. Friends and family who aren't nurses think I am evil if I say stuff like that. If they only knew that there are thousands of us that think that way.It is sad because the people who whine and complain the most are in the best shape on the floor. In fact some my favorite patients to take care of are the para/hemiplegics. I won't say which ones are the worst. They often need you the most and ask the least, without complaining (even when they should). Sometimes I just want to bring the whiny patients in the rooms with the worse off patients just to show them that when they get to that point they can whine all they want, then I'll be sympathetic and apologetic and that their complaining are causing us give less care to the ones who need it and deserve us most. Wow. I kind of went off didn't I???

Very well said, hahaha How I wish I can say all those things to those whinning patients straight to their faces...But I better not..............Good thing we nurses had developed the virtue of patience,.........

how deliciously satisfying it would be to say what we are all REALLY thinking sometimes! kudos to you-love it!