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Look, RN's in the comments, especially ones with prominent links to their business web pages in their bios, all you're really doing is cementing my opinion of your profession rather than convincing me that you aren't overeducated underachievers.
"I'm an RN," followed by a statement of how long you've been one and then saying something to the effect that I'm in error and missing that what I've been saying is what I've observed with my own, direct, senses.
What you are doing is called "argument from authority" and saying that I shouldn't believe what I've observed because you... dislike it? Don't believe it?
But one thing I'm not doing here is lying.
Something you're not doing is convincing me I am mistaken.
You're almost literally using the "no true Scotsman" defense of your profession.
Actually, you sound a lot like cops claiming there are no bad apples...
PS: The one commenter whom I know works medicine who's not being prick about it is Aesop! Good on him!
PPS: Harvey corrects that she was both a CNA and a CMA and is laughing at the RN's in the comments as they are being deleted. She might even have a guest post in the near future to tell stories about how wrong the RN commenters are.
The last couple times my wife went into the hospital I brought all her meds with her, as the hospital staff couldn't seem to understand that she was on pain management and had a dead thyroid and had diabetes and other stuff. There were days that she never got the hospital-issued immediate release pain med and I gave her the slow-release meds from her prescriptions.
ReplyDeleteI also started, around 2002, to carrying 2 bottles of rubbing alcohol when she was in admitting so I could run up to her room and wipe down all the surfaces that weren't clean, like all of them and change out the linen pack for one created for people with really bad allergies. And sweep up the floor, then wash it down with alcohol. Because the nursing staff could never manage to do that between patients (and don't give me the "It's not the RN's responsibility" because it is the RN's responsibility to ensure the room is clean.)
I also have brought food from home to feed her because the slop the hospitals serve her is worse than prison chow (what an ex-inmate told me.)
I'm the one who handles bed baths, who handles cleaning other parts, who has to get an RN to dump the catheter bag because it's about to overflow, who has to make sure all the injection and IV sites are clean, and clean up all the trash that the RNs drop on the friggin floor.
I'm the one that has to rat out the staff to our family doctor when he comes on morning rounds to check up on his patients. I'm the one who has to kick doctors off of treating her because what they're doing is killing her (including firing one respiratory doctor who was trying to 'let her go quietly because she's suffered so much' and did so loudly and with great force in front of the nurse's station in ICU.
We've given sheets with medications and allergies to everyone when she's getting surgery and listing that she is highly allergic to steri-strips, only to find out in post-op that there are steri-strips holding her wounds closed. And I've done the Donald Southerland 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' thing while pointing at said steri-strips and telling the exact same staff we've told them pre-op that she was allergic.
So, no, RNs. I pretty much have no respect for the profession. Especially when being told that wife and I are grossly overweight and the RNs telling us are ball-shaped sacks of suet. And that we need to eat better while they're visiting the gedunk machine on the hour every hour.
Yeah.
One of my happiest moments in a bad history was when wife went to the ER by ambulance because she was showing all the signs of a stroke and the ER nurse and doctor said it was a blood sugar problem (because physical trauma like a stroke raises blood sugar.) The happy moment was when she projectile vomited all over the ER nurses' desk because the deep brain bleed was squishing her brain.
There was the time that the admitting nurse just ignored her for 8 hours while she was in the lobby with a gall bladder that was about to burst. It only took 6 days for the septic infection to die down so she could get surgery.
Again, no respect for most RNs.
I agree with you Beans, nurses, doctors, techs are absolute shits. I am a retired nurse and I don't put up with their crap and lack of education and common sense. I am very quick to jump in their shit at the first hint of stupid, or disobeying my directive and suggestions. All those nurses and doctors should be brought up on ethics and malpractice complaints! I preform chart audits for a large law firm and I hand out my contact's business card at the firm who is also a doctor and a lawyer, when I have a problem with a doctor or a medical facility, it works wonders...
DeleteI worked for a while at the Texas Board of Nursing so I am pretty familiar with nurse licensing issues and my comment is that I find no fault with your analysis.
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