Its hard to have compassion sometimes.
 

I sometimes have certain patients that I start out doing well with, but 3 or 4 hours into the shift I am sorry I cannot have compassion I may need to have. They are the ones who will ring that damn light off the wall I mean every 3 minutes. They want this and they want that, and at some point I will end up telling them "Your not the only patient on this floor, we have 20 other ones who also need our help."

She wanted orange juice so I took her some, then she rang out and said "I can't get this orange juice open" I told her she could open it there was nothing wrong with her hands to keep her from opening it." She said "I thought you were a nice nurse" i said I try to be. :#

I lose it with these kind of people and only people in the medical field could possible understand what its like. The ones who have never worked in a medical field probably think this is terrible way to be. :banghead:

When you have a middle aged person who wets the bed although they don't do it at home and act like they can't walk to the bathroom to me is just being lazy when there is no diagnosis that says they cannot walk.

Ok I am blowing off some steam and it could go on forever:cuss:

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Th-th-th-that's all folks!

I agree I must be out of my damn mind.:grr:

Surprise, surprise, look whos the first one to speak on my thread.

Me thinks everynight claythan waits for you to post and spanks it to your threads. I mean he's got to have the full on blue veined wobbly throbber for you.

:deevee::deevee:

Please God take that visual out of my mind.:eek:

I would but I lack compassion.

:D

o:-)

But, But, Sometimes I'm good.:D

I think you might be in the wrong line of work. You are always complaining about not getting sleep, having to lift people, scared of catching some disease, and now you lack compassion. Seriously. Why do what you're doing if you're so miserable, and you obviously are. You've also complained about how you don't make much, too. Why not go back to selling cars?

You definitely don't need compassion to sell cars.

I never heard her complain when she did it before. She always said how much she liked her job. She's never said that about this one.

Try this response:

"Let's make a deal: I'll live up to your expectations of me as long as you do the things you're capable of doing on your own."

Then, to show how truly nice you are, treat her to her own private showing of the DVD movie "Misery".

Try this response:

"We're out of clean sheets right now and won't have any for a couple of hours."

Then, to show how truly nice you are, treat them to their own private showing of the DVD movie "Misery"...prefaced by you saying: "Let's see what happens to the patient in this movie who cannot walk."

I'm guessing it's because she wasn't very good at the...ummm...selling part.

Which hospital do you work at. I feel the need to shit myself and have someone else clean it up .

Correct.

Badgranny doesn't sound like nurse material.