- Oct 11, 1999
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Sigh...
Yesterday:
I was in the middle of my lunch & another nurse brought to my attention that one of her clinic patients had shown up in our waiting area to be seen in the walk in clinic.
I go out to him in the waiting area because she was pretty anxious, look @ the guy, who's there with his wife, and find out he's suddenly unable to walk, his speech is slurred, & half of his face is paralyzed for the last 2 hours.
Knowing that he is @ risk for a stroke, I wheel him to the ER, talk to the physician in charge of the ER & another physician who both readily agree he is in the window to treat an embolic stroke, needs to be in the ER, and to have an urgent cat scan.
I find out who the charge nurse is wheel up to her with the patient & his family in tow, and try to tell her what's going on.
She (fat black female biatch) begins literally screaming @ me that she hasn't had her break & am I an idiot, can't I see she's busy, etc.
I look @ her, seriously embaressed that he patient & his family have to see this crap, and quietly ask if she would designate someone else to take the report that I could talk to them. She does & I do.
As I'm walking out the door, she rants loudly @ how goddamn rude I am...
Today:
I take yet another poor soul who's managed to ahve a seizure in our waiting area to the ER.
A friend pulls me aside & informs me that I was written up by several staff in the ER for being rude.
WTF???
So, I look up the patient from yesterday's computerized notes, find out he's been admitted & has recovered fairly well, thanks in some small part to my not letting him stroke out in my wiating area.
I go up to talk with him, & he agrees to back up my problems with the biatch yesterday & proceeds to write a full page about what happened & how he's so grateful I helped him & took a ration of sh1t along the way to make sure he didn't sit somewhere & die, says not only that I was polite to the biatch, but that I took it like a man & did not react to her. He also volunteers to have his wife & son write up supporting documentation.
I make copies of everything, give a set to my next 2 levels of management...
Waiting for the fireworks:evil:
Yesterday:
I was in the middle of my lunch & another nurse brought to my attention that one of her clinic patients had shown up in our waiting area to be seen in the walk in clinic.
I go out to him in the waiting area because she was pretty anxious, look @ the guy, who's there with his wife, and find out he's suddenly unable to walk, his speech is slurred, & half of his face is paralyzed for the last 2 hours.
Knowing that he is @ risk for a stroke, I wheel him to the ER, talk to the physician in charge of the ER & another physician who both readily agree he is in the window to treat an embolic stroke, needs to be in the ER, and to have an urgent cat scan.
I find out who the charge nurse is wheel up to her with the patient & his family in tow, and try to tell her what's going on.
She (fat black female biatch) begins literally screaming @ me that she hasn't had her break & am I an idiot, can't I see she's busy, etc.
I look @ her, seriously embaressed that he patient & his family have to see this crap, and quietly ask if she would designate someone else to take the report that I could talk to them. She does & I do.
As I'm walking out the door, she rants loudly @ how goddamn rude I am...
Today:
I take yet another poor soul who's managed to ahve a seizure in our waiting area to the ER.
A friend pulls me aside & informs me that I was written up by several staff in the ER for being rude.
WTF???
So, I look up the patient from yesterday's computerized notes, find out he's been admitted & has recovered fairly well, thanks in some small part to my not letting him stroke out in my wiating area.
I go up to talk with him, & he agrees to back up my problems with the biatch yesterday & proceeds to write a full page about what happened & how he's so grateful I helped him & took a ration of sh1t along the way to make sure he didn't sit somewhere & die, says not only that I was polite to the biatch, but that I took it like a man & did not react to her. He also volunteers to have his wife & son write up supporting documentation.
I make copies of everything, give a set to my next 2 levels of management...
Waiting for the fireworks:evil:
:beer:
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