I need a job thats why, theres not much out there these days.

No matter how I feel sometimes, I am good to my patients and they receive excellent patient care from me. I have star cards to prove it.

Every medical professional, including the Drs. I talk to feel this way and if any medical profession says they don't think this way about patients that are a pain i the ass is a damn liar.

Don't get me wrong, there are some patients I would bend over backward for, the ones who are elderly or really sick, I would do anything in the world for, but you don't know about the drug seekers who come in and complain more than the very sick ones.

I have cried with families also, you people don't seem to get it, I feel for the sick patients, but its those who are here for drugs, or in one case to get away from here kids for a while that bugs me. Beleive me I am a very caring and compassionate person for the ones who need me.

How are you able to differentiate between the patients who "need" you and those that do not?

Should you be making these types of evaluations? Isn't your job to attend to all patients?

I would assume if they're under the care of the hospital (or wherever you work), someone has deemed that they "need" care. Just saying...

Oh another thing, I am in fact cut out for this job, I am cut out for ICU, PEDS, burn unit, where I know without a doubt these people are very sick and need my help, I hate feeling useless, I like to feel like I have really done something at that has helped someone at the end of the day. I wish I was off the floor cause thats where you get everything from constipation to whatever. I loved it when I worked in CCU and felt like I was doing something for the patients. Oh well, those of you have never done it you will never understand.

example....boy who is 25 years old has been in here twice, he is on 80 mg. oxycontin and delaudid alternating every 2 hours. He sets his cell phone for the alarm and he will walk up to find his nurse to get his meds. He then walks off the floor to smoke. He is in here now, he was in here for 6 weeks a couple of weeks ago and in here for over a month back in december. He comes here to get his drugs, thats it....just saying.

It takes special ppl to work with the public especially in the medical field. I would have to stay in prayer all day.

Well I guess everyone has a case of the ass with their job from time to time. That said you work for some of the most over compensated people on earth. They are in bed with the pharmaceutical cartels that deal drugs legally in this country. Let me see some elitist asshole showed up and had his lacky perform the work...a thousand five hundred plus, oh thats right I did take a asprin...fifty bucks, What was the price to sleep here tonight? :rolleyes: yeah you are right how ****ing dare I push the help me button!

The medical field is just as screwed up as the rest of this country.

most on the tax payers dime it seems.

Once again if they need help I don't mind.

Really? of course what other response would I expect from a arrogant worker from your world. I can only speak from the huge bills I have paid in my life for my kids, myself, my wife and my parents. But heck you are talking about the the broke people so hey **** them!

I think, generally speaking, the words judgmental and nurse don't work well together.

I have a great deal of respect for the profession, but it's not the place of the nurse to decide which patients need or deserve help and which are merely malingerers.

Open the *#_((: orange juice!!!
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