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09-06-2023, 08:41 PM | #1 |
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Nurse hazards
I'm sure Lady Jane can add to this:
My RN daughter called me this morning (as she does almost everyday) and told me that one of her patients slugged her in the eye yesterday as he was coming out of anesthesia. She's had combative patients before, this one was the worst. If that's not enough, her supervisor discouraged her from filing a report! WTF! She filed a report anyway. God Bless our nurses.
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09-06-2023, 10:26 PM | #3 |
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My wife is combative coming out. She isn't that physical, mostly verbal. It's quite comical! On the other hand, my daughter and I are quite boring; we just wake up. I did get a bit panicky when I woke up from my open-heart surgery with the vent tube down my throat. I felt I couldn't breathe and the tube kept filling with fluid, though the nurses were quit good at sucking it out. I NEVER want to go through that again!
My son-in-law is a nurse and he does have some stories from when he was in the hospital. He's an NP now and in an office. |
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Nurses are understaffed and underpaid. Good for your daughter for filing a report! WTF is wrong with her Supervisor? Is the super an RN too?
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09-07-2023, 05:54 AM | #5 |
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More often than not, it's a panic reflex but being told not to write this up? That's a new one on me. You always need a paper trail when it comes to assault. You just never know... It would be interesting to know what was behind the supervisor's motives.
Friday and Saturday nights in the ER is often a battlefield. I've slugged a few on occasion. When the LEOs bring one in handcuffs, the restraints stay on. I might not be able to fix crazies but I sure can sedate them. Last edited by Lady Jane; 09-08-2023 at 04:24 PM.. |
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All nurses need to start wearing sparing gear when on the clock. Or those dog bite training suits police use.
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I’ve had 12 surgeries. When I was younger, I would wake up wanting to fight someone. Younger people, especially young males, are more prone to it.
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2500079-overview Having spent 5 years working as a tech in three large emergency rooms, one of which was attached to a psych hospital, I’ve been in *plenty* of rather severe physical altercations. That’s one of the reasons I decided against emergency medicine. I didn’t want to be doing that crap when I was 60. |
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09-07-2023, 05:36 PM | #11 |
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New-nurse initiation at VA hospitals is to tell them to always wake patients by shaking the side rail - if you gotta touch them, shake a foot.
Waving a larger bore catheter about in a threatening way while describing where it could be going has also been rumored to have a certain 'de-escalation potential'. |
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09-07-2023, 06:21 PM | #12 |
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Isn't it standard practice to restrain people using belts on the bed?
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09-07-2023, 09:04 PM | #13 | |
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My RN daughter is extremely committed to her patients, as she should be. But yet, two recent hire RN's piss and moan because they say no one will help them prepare a room for the next patient. But did they ask anyone for help. No. I've learned a new word in recent years. Projection. I sense that my daughter is burning out. She's a very gifted artist and she's started to ramp that up. I don't blame her one bit. I should also mention that she has her Master's degree in nursing administration, so I think she get's it with staff. She's been on both sides of the fence. After two years as an administrator, she went back to straight nursing saying, "handling a bunch of females on staff isn't much fun." She's always been a straight shooter, so I believe her. But then, we had some buttheads in our all-male shop as well.
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They used that blue tape to restrain me. For some reason my wife told them I get combative; I don't and she should have known that. It was a good thing though as I would have ripped that vent tube right out of my throat!
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Fecal matters, urine, vomit, infectious diseases, violence, physical strains, abuse from patients, doctors and administrators, extra long shift because there's nobody to relieve you and you have needy patients. etc...etc...
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Sorry to hear that - I have no doubt your daughter is both very good at what she does, but also cares too. The caring part is probably what is going to burn her out though, especially if she gets surrounded by mediocrity and nurses who just don't care. There are definitely good nurses out there, but I feel like more and more of the good ones are leaving (and no wonder, they can get paid more by being a traveling nurse than attached to a hospital, so I get it) or getting burnt out because the incoming ones are either dumb as a post or simply don't care. That, coupled with the amount of nurses that are in administrative roles only and are just creating layer upon layer of useless red tape in a hospital setting aren't helping things any either. My wife and another surgeon had to catch a nurse from inserting a needle full of antiseptic into the implant that they were going to put in someone...would have very likely ruined the implant and said nurse had been in the plastics room for 10+ years now...you'd think she would have learned, but no. Whole system up here is broken and the administrative / bureaucratic nightmare that has been created is just burning out the good nurses and doctors too. I know several doctors that have just decided to call it a day because the system just keeps getting worse. For us though, its going to have to fully break before it can be fixed. Case in point, my dad needs a new left knee. His family doc said its going to be close to a year before it can happen and that year only starts after he gets seen by Ortho....which is another long wait in itself. I've got the ball rolling for him though because our neighbours are doctors who can help him jump through the hoops to see ortho a lot quicker than normal, plus they know some ortho guys, so due to that, my dad is going to get seen a lot quicker now than the average Canadian. But anyone else? Good luck. Wish your daughter well and I really hope she's able to take care of herself and stay in it - she's definitely needed! |
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