Now, even your local ER nurses are acting like pricks too! Questioning your abilities, criticizing your assessment, accusing you of negligence...
A clearly delineated, well communicated description of a duck, that walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and smells like a duck, it is a bloody DUCK, not a ZEBRA. Translation; the raging wild out of control incoherent blubbering incontinent of feces AND urine aggressive sweating uncooperative combative PSYCH patient we brought in is sleeping and/or actively choosing to ignore us, NOT dying of an overdose of mysterious pills no one knows about. Her comatose behaviour and sweaty clothes and urine soaked legs are because she was out of control emotionally and we were desperate to get her help but she was desperate NOT TO GO; and not because she's dying of neglect and oversight on my part. I do the best I can, and you have to at least act like like you trust me, or at least be polite. Why be a bitch when you don't have to? We have to work together again, you know. I'm going to be a bee in your ear for quite awhile to come. You didn't SEE the flailing wailing swearing snot and tears combative behaviour on the stairs in her apartment building, so you don't know what's in store if she comes raging back up, handcuffs off this time, ready to punch your face and spit on you for trying to help her. Maybe if you had, you would understand why we were reluctant to agitate her by requiring her to respond.
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it is a fucking duck.
That is ALL I would like to SAY.
Plus perhaps that it is not the job itself but the people I work with and amongst and alongside and despite of, that burns me out.
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Melissa this is horrible.
Ugh. As you know from my previous blog ramblings I have so many stories personally of poor judgement and rudeness towards me with my "health journey", I'm starting to be convinced it happens all the time, to pretty much everyone. People who work in the medical field are SOOOO human. Very capable of making mistakes and being unkind just like the jerks we find everywhere else in life. Why is it that society as a whole views nurses and doctors as KNOWING EVERYING and always acting justly and with kindness. Obviously the real nasty ones not only mistreat patients occationally, but also their co-workers.
Honestly why must people swing their egos around? Why can't people look upon a situation that they don't understand and ask questions rather than make snap judgments about the supposed inadequacy of the people already fully aware of what is really going on. UUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!
P.S. - now I feel like a total jerk for posting how I luv my job today...totally did that before I read this...
Down with bitchy nurses. I'm sorry, Mel! Maybe you could try the direct approach: "Excuse me ma'am, but you are being a bitch right now. Perhaps you need to take a moment, a little time-out, if you will, to mend your attitude, and then we can reconvene here in a few minutes. Thank you."
Down with bitchy nurses. I'm sorry, Mel! Maybe you could try the direct approach: "Excuse me ma'am, but you are being a bitch right now. Perhaps you need to take a moment, a little time-out, if you will, to mend your attitude, and then we can reconvene here in a few minutes. Thank you."
ROFL--duuuuuude, I really need to take this advice! Direct is always best....I do, however, have to work with these people on an ongoing basis.....
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