First of all, I am a new nurse but an old caregiver. And yes, I am an asshole. But I try not to be an asshole to my patients or my colleagues. I have met a lot of nurses, however, who think that it is somehow their divine right to act like major cunts by virtue of being a nurse. Something about the profession either a) attracts bitter, self-righteous people or b) turns people bitter and self-righteous. Here is a little anecdote to illustrate what I mean.
At the beginning of the year, as a nursing student, I was conscripted into working at the health fair. I didn't have a coat with me, so when they were looking for volunteers to go out and direct traffic, I did not volunteer to do so. I was later called aside by one of the instructors of the program and lectured about my "uncooperative attitude." I became very incensed. I told her that I had done EVERYTHING that she had told me to do, including pissing people off at me by going down the line and asking if they had their receipt of payment, which made me very uncomfortable. She said that she had been told that I "refused" to go out and direct traffic. I said that no-one asked me directly, and if they had I would have politely declined because I DON'T HAVE A COAT WITH ME! I was so furious that I was almost unable to perform any other duties for awhile. I resolved never to volunteer at the health fair again.
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When I was having my daughter she had the cord wrapped around her and wasn't tolerating labor too well. The doctor told me to lie a certain way to ease this situation, but a stupid nurse wouldn't listen when I told her, and forced me to turn over. I am hoping she got chewed out by the doctor.
Also, I believe nurses killed my dad because he was too difficult for then to deal with in the hospital, so they knowingly gave him more dope than his system could handle.
weirsdo
I can't STAND bitter, self-righteous people!
Dr. Minnie Strator
Ahh, Dr. Minnie, you would know best!
Weirdso, your dad and mine must have been cut from the same cloth. My father became very difficult to care for, particularly at the end when he was so demented. He didn't mean to be, but he was very demanding.
The nurse that was there the night before my son was delivered by emergency c-section, and who unfortunately returned the next morning, and whose ugly face I woke up to after I recovered from anesthesia was the most bitter, hateful cunt. I do not use that word lightly. When she gave me magnesium sulfate to prevent potential seizures due to toxemia, I got very sick and she threw the emesis basin at me. I was so frightened at being in the situation that I actually apologized to her. In the morning, however, when my pain was a 20 on the scale of one to ten and I saw her coming in the room, I sat up in the bed and snarled "you get the FUCK out of here!" in a voice like Reagan from the Exorcist. I hope it scared the hell out of her. If I could have gotten out of bed, I would have choked her to death right there.
I know that my father got what amounts to an overdose of drugs while he was in hospice, but everyone was aware that this was going to happen and was in agreement. It was basically an assisted suicide without that label being put on it. He was in tremendous pain. It's not right to do it when the patient and the family aren't in agreement on it. I'm sorry they did that to your father.
I've had patients that I've cared for as a CNA that I've WISHED I could dope into a stupor, but I'd never actually do it. I've dealt with a few that were scary violent, though.
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