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Rant Journal: Nurses...Please Stop and Help
11 years ago
Yeah...really not fond of them in this place right now, though I know many of the nurses out there are nice.
Gramps has been through two different ICU's and the Emergency Room, yet the wing he's in now has some of the worst Nurses I've ever met. Last shift had no bedside manner, and the one after that all ignored the patients call buttons. Literally watched them sit at the desk that's in front of my Gramp's room and the two adjacent rooms, talking about what they were going to do when they got off their shifts.
Meanwhile, lil old lady with tubes all up and down her arms has been asking for a glass of water for 15 minutes, Gramp's has been asking if he can eat since his dinner is already 30 minutes late and it's his first meal that isn't a liquid in five days, and a poor old man who's just been transferred in has been asking for someone to turn the heat up in his room and perhaps an extra blanket for probably the last hour.
These are just a few of the things they've been lacking in the Surgical ICU, and I know that the wing isn't a very happy one since it's basically where people go to either get better or die on the table, but cmon, seriously, these people are still ALIVE! Treat them with some decency. Not all of the nurses have been like this however, but quite a few of them have, and seriously, TELL ME ONE MORE FUCKING TIME THAT YOU WON'T TALK TO ME UNLESS HE HITS THE CALL BUTTON, I FUCKING DARE YOU. I WOULDN'T BE OUT HERE LOOKING FOR YOU IF YOU HAD ANSWERED THE DAMN CALL BUTTON NOW, WOULD I?!
Gramps has been through two different ICU's and the Emergency Room, yet the wing he's in now has some of the worst Nurses I've ever met. Last shift had no bedside manner, and the one after that all ignored the patients call buttons. Literally watched them sit at the desk that's in front of my Gramp's room and the two adjacent rooms, talking about what they were going to do when they got off their shifts.
Meanwhile, lil old lady with tubes all up and down her arms has been asking for a glass of water for 15 minutes, Gramp's has been asking if he can eat since his dinner is already 30 minutes late and it's his first meal that isn't a liquid in five days, and a poor old man who's just been transferred in has been asking for someone to turn the heat up in his room and perhaps an extra blanket for probably the last hour.
These are just a few of the things they've been lacking in the Surgical ICU, and I know that the wing isn't a very happy one since it's basically where people go to either get better or die on the table, but cmon, seriously, these people are still ALIVE! Treat them with some decency. Not all of the nurses have been like this however, but quite a few of them have, and seriously, TELL ME ONE MORE FUCKING TIME THAT YOU WON'T TALK TO ME UNLESS HE HITS THE CALL BUTTON, I FUCKING DARE YOU. I WOULDN'T BE OUT HERE LOOKING FOR YOU IF YOU HAD ANSWERED THE DAMN CALL BUTTON NOW, WOULD I?!
WarHorse573
~warhorse573
See if the hospital has a contact email and/or write SOMEONE at the hospital to complain. I think you can also complain to the state as nurses are licensed, right? Find the Florida Department of Health and tell them that it's a lawsuit waiting to happen when someone dies who didn't need to.
WarHorse573
~warhorse573
Also - one good blowup at those bitches tends to snap them into attention. It worked well at an airport counter when the airline assholes demanded we all "step back! FARTHER!" from their desk when we were all TOLD to line up in front of it so as to get new flights as they cancelled the one we were on. So I said as loud as I could: WOW! WE PAY THEIR SALARY AND THIS IS HOW THEY TREAT US. The two airline assholes jaws dropped - literally - they turned to each other, then got to work and were SUPER SWEET (all B.S., but I got what I wanted) when I went up there, and they didn't yell at anyone after that.
