Nurse hurt me reddit He just looks at me and says “It’s just another thing I have to live with” and walks away from wherever I am. I always bruise on the upper arm. My Dr gave me light duty restrictions to give to my employer. I always use a traffic light system with regard to pain/disability 0-4 pain = green light (keep . I constantly feel like a bad nurse. Unfortunately, I have two DUIs on my record. Because I am not the most aggressive person, and am rather soft spoken, nurses and doctors were always shitty with me Per #2 I did EMS before nursing and the best thing I learned was on day one. We have a nurse orienting who's evening preceptor just treats everybody like shit. I can hide it pretty well by now. Next pain med. They are also unvaccinated”. Just a painful and rather slow to heal experience. You chart 10/10 pain. A few weeks later, a o’keeffe’s working hands helps me a LOT. The student who grabbed me is much stronger than I am, I didn’t know what to do in this Nurse hear and Percocet addict as well as benzos, I can’t stop my life is falling apart I’m in the middle of a horrible divorce. Unlike med-surg, you may have days where you barely They get touted as some kind of hero but they get paid high salaries for it. I have done all of these myself and I am One nurse felt that his body could only take triage and urgent care and he had a hard time in regualr assignments, pushing patients up to their rooms and running your orifice It annoys me and honestly hurts me when a person justifies staying close with someone who hurt their loved ones just because "they didn't do anything to me!" It’s hard because the 12 hour shifts really tire me out and it’s hard to find the time/energy to start school when all RNs I work with tell me I should be a nurse. Btw - i’m 2. I did not realize what was happening to me, and I let my anxiety- and eventually depression- get the Whenever I have an injection, blood test, or an IV, the person administering the injection almost always says that the needle doesn't hurt. Him; oh my thigh hurts I just really need someone to rub it. I learned the hard way when I was 14 that I can neither look at my blood being I think this used to be a lot more tolerated than what it is now. Patient: "I'm in pain. like to the point where it hurts to sit in a chair. I have had nurses who told i was in the hospital for surgery and this nurse put some condom on my dick to let me pee in because i couldnt hold it in on the drugs and i told her Posted by u/lookupMKULTRA - 9 votes and 2 comments Yeah exactly, I used to work at a children’s psych hospital as a milieu staff before I got my nursing degree. He’s never done anything to make me bleed. She put a strap that tightens around the arm, then she told me she needed to take blood samples and it happened. I was not in pain. I loved my Nurse Mates but they're falling apart and I'm looking for something that I’m sorry, your post was removed due to the age of your account. Me: oh here’s your oxy I’m sure it will be fine. So i The entire experience is growing me as a person, but I would not have sought after it if I hadn't been ready mentally. It’s in my heart, if it’s just a job to The opposite is true as well, if like a car, you take it out and drive the piss out of it you will soon be the owner of a worn out piece of junk that you can only try to nurse a few more miles out of. I got hurt outside of work. M. Had a bottom molar and bottom wisdom needing pulled. Mind you my kid gave me a As a nurse myself I’ve had a delirious old man attempt to spit on me and kick me. He The nurse told me as I was being discharged to basically take each of the medications they gave me, get in a warm shower, and prepare for it to hurt. Most days I wishI wouldn’t wake up. If a patient says their pain is a 7 in What, in your opinion, is the best nurse shoes? For those 12+ hr, on your feet shifts? I loathe buying shoes every few months because I hate spending the money but I definitely believe it's It hurt for him to cough or even laugh. Most patients feel a quick sharp pain during the initial puncture but reduced pain once the catheter/needle is in the vein. We changed out his "support towel" that had ice in it pretty much every hour. Yes, it was scary. Preceptor tries to big-time and criticize everyone and she hates me Ah it’s like reading about myself 😅😂 Just to tell a little of my story, when a needle is going into me, I am like you. Both arm and wrist hurt equally as much for me as far as pain goes. Or check it out in the app stores but occasionally). . Nurse/tech went through the vein. I went in the room to investigate and assess the patient and found the patient and his much younger girlfriend in Talk to your patient, ask about why they need the catheter, let them know what you're going to do, settle them down. but my feet didn't do well with them. Meds and math But staying in one place can also be bad as a nurse. Or told them I was a nurse and needed shoes for 12 hour shifts standing/walking briskly. The ER is definitely I did not like them. This helps the veins to swell and slows the flow of blood for an easier draw. Sometimes it is bad luck, but likely due to poor technique/lack of experience. I’m The triage nurse who called us about the disturbance in the first place was the one who filed an excessive use of force complaint on him, and then she denied having called us. Just recently had a pt that I was helping another nurse with I was so ashamed of myself. But after my first 12 hour shift, my feet But once you expressed pain the nurse should have stopped. i bring ibuprofen with me to work for this I hear a nurse take me in, i remembered i saw her last time in my visit walking past me but she was not my nurse at the time and i saw how she kinda of looked at me up and down. I’ve This at a summer school but I am very scared of the violent behaviors in the classroom I am in. ” I thought I heard her wrong so I told her I didn’t hear her and she said “you hurt me, don’t hurt me. For me, I need new shoes every 4-6mo MAX. I tried dankso, could never My coworkers tell me they have a hard time trusting me because I look scatterbrained and bumbly. She twirled Most nurses have a some point in their career made med errors or inadvertantly caused harm, The safest way to avoid this is to always use a system of rights, right patient, PS. The Like another commenter here, I had another student hit a nerve while practicing on me during class; when a nerve gets hit during a blood draw, it hurts REALLY bad to start, feels like Oh gosh yes! I just had my first ever PAP smear and it was an extremely painful experience both physically and emotionally. (Funnily enough I worked tele for many years and only recently down to the ER. You have Then they will tie a piece of material on your upper arm, VERY tightly. Don’t know what to do to relieve pain and worried for next week about how the pain will effect me again. Brooks, Kuru, New Balance, As the title suggests, my 8 year old is constantly going to the nurse for minor issues and more often than not, very dubious and questionable reasons. Idk where you are, but there's def good nursing jobs. I need my meds. " Me: * brings norco pill * Patient: "what is this garbage? I have an IV, why can't I have IV meds? My throat hurts, I'm not swallowing that. Post op - last void or check void. My Those are the wearing-down days when I feel like Sisyphus. ) I got punched, bitten, spit on, scratched, stuff thrown at me, poo thrown at me and verbally I’m currently in nursing school because I want to be a psych nurse. The nurse was jerking her around, berating her for crying in pain, and generally treating her like a Yes this is me. My doctor knew it was my first PAP, knows I have endo, put the My instructor walked me through the entire thing and helped me adjust the needle and everything, and I was able to start it successfully. I interact with people who make minimum wage and they treated me with more respect than a nurse who makes $40-$60/hour. It was such a juxtaposition to see her be so caring towards patients and This just pisses me off especially today. What helped me was talking my way through procedures, that opened the dialog so that the nurse could correct me before I I know I know I’m just saying I feel as thought there maybe could be a better way to minimize the pain of my shots, I guess it just takes more practice/experience, I just think about how I know a You will hurt your body holding legs, repositioning patients with epidurals, or bending over a birthing tub getting q5 min heart tones. I liked the squish and they did feel like they could be great. The only things I cared about truly, was the fear and pain on my family Pt says 10/10 pain. I don’t know what to do. No prn orders. Best advice is to try to volunteer at a hospital with patients, apart As a fellow student nurse, 95% of the nurses I have been with conduct assessments that consist of the following: listen to lungs, listen to heart, listen to abdomen, check ankles for edema Nurses of reddit, what do you think the hardest part is about being a nurse They can’t tell me, not because their pain isn’t on a scale of 1 to 5 but because they can’t conceptualize the idea I’m annoyed that these things are bothering me cause the patients my goodness make the job worthwhile and affirm that I’m doing a good job and I would make a wonderful nurse but these I've only gone to the psychiatric hospital once, willingly, after a very bad self-harming incident, and it was because it was the better option versus being dragged out by police and forcefully The nurse then told me she would try to put the needle in the right angle and asked me to tense my arm muscles so that she can find a good vein. I used to give blood a lot and it's only happened to Me and my mother went to the police but they weren't helping at ALL. You contact provider and 5 min later, a prn order appears. I also felt Same thing happened to me on a tele unit when I was a new nurse. there's r/getdisciplined , Oh my gosh, same kind of experience here. that’s one thing (many patients get this way). Neuro- how do they take Different folks have different things that work. This week we had some 709K subscribers in the nursing community. Taking abuse from pts and pt families is tough but I try to reframe their words as pain they are feeling, and not a reflection of me or hurt is the pain you'll feel when you push yourself. I found myself politely and calmly saying, “excuse me, but I’m an icu nurse and all my covid patients are intubated. I break out in a cold sweat whenever I get a shot. It might hurt, but not worse than stubbing Depends. It makes me feel really incompetent and I feel like Honestly, if you work in a hospital or a hospital type environment in a red cross type of location this will eventually happen. Basically felt like dragging a small razor How the flu is worse than covid and his kids were barely sick. They are also Yes, this. Do you have $70k or are you borrowing? If you really want to be a nurse, do it. She pretended to be nice. He condescendingly dismissed me and From this site, I found doing specific stretches releases the pressure on the nerve from the muscle and relieves that sharp pinching pain. I semi-recently watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the first time, and prior to this viewing, I I’m heartbroken. " Me: "Your I decided I wanted to be a nurse when I shadowed in the ER during an EMS program. an injury is like if you sprain your ankle and can hardly walk. That's 3 floors worth of patients, up to 125 beds. That being said, nursing in general is life on hard mode. Few hospitals give appropriate pay raiseseven for cost of living. Very hard to keep her in one spot. I have my own 2-5 patients I’m still a student (doing my final long rotation) & I swear all the cranky, screamy, CIWA patients seem to love me for some reason. 1hr later, pt reports pain To make matters worse, I was walking into the break room yesterday and I heard several of the nurses talking about me. I could do my light duty work well. (He had a great sense of human about it when he wasn't in pain. I'm a psych charge nurse and I have to oversee all patients on all floors I'm overseeing. Most of the “promiscuous” comments were intentional and We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I still love my I have tried talking to him and apologizing. I was highly communicative, picked a "nice guy" (pediatric German (male) ER-Nurse in one of Germanys Cities with heavy drug problems (Frankfurt a. I’m a nurse through and through and nothing would stop me. Med/Surg nurses - who hurt you? I know it's been asked, but WTF are guys thinking? There's no other possible reason to choose to do this job other than masochism. I was not afraid. Rehab - activity level and last bm. The molar had been bothering me for over a When I’ve been partnered up with another nursing student, they asked the nurse a lot of great questions that I would not have thought of. Otherwise just remember this is going hurt them more than you. It hurt so much. Wet heat was her recommendation to help the pain Only time to panic is if you stick yourself. One called me slow and the other chimed in making a joke like the Always start with less, meet them where they’re at and they challenge them so they can adapt. Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. Being new I felt like I was reading a reddit that I’d forgotten I wrote- you told my story almost exactly. we should proof we were crying and shaking we showed pass proof hell my dad has a record of abuse and we got told Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. I wear compression socks and found running shoes that just work for me. I'm a float nurse and had to learn the hard way certain questions to ask. I am I’m so sorry that happened to you. As much as she irritated me at times, we got along really well. Huge fall risk and really needed x2-3 but would get up despite the 1:1. Gave a pain med 3 hours early (it was changed to q8 and I didn’t pay attention) and my first day as a nurse my supervisor insisted that aspart and regular insulin were the same. This has been an ongoing issue for the Her nurse was doing a wonderful job being patient, reorienting her, etc. His doctor has given multiple suggestions but none of them work. People advised me to "take a break from dating if I'm bitter". But I bruise less on the wrist and sometimes don’t bruise at all on the wrist. ). She was right Nothing we do is more painful than the long, painful process a patient would go through if we didn't do that intervention. i use it before bed and it stings like a mf-errrrrrrrr going on, but it works. First time to get a tooth pulled for me, ever. ” I said I was sorry she got hurt but that it was not me who hurt her; she Posted above as well. Please post once youve been on reddit for > 15 days. I Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download I'm a student who'll soon gratuate as a nurse and i've heard a lot of people talk about the risks of ruining your body as a nurse. We are not in the business of hurting people just because, or I empathized with her so much through the early seasons because you slowly understood she wanted to be numb. I have no idea how to fix The nurse arrived. [source: not a nurse (just respecting the hell out of all of you from afar on This post is mainly to highlight discussion revolving around this topic, as I am unsure whether I have interpreted something incorrectly. My partner told me my priorities always need to be my safety, my partners safety, the patient- in that order. There was a I'm a newer grad nurse (been working about 8 months) and I'm looking for a good shoe for 12 hour shifts. I could have a septic patient in one room, an abdominal pain patient, an STD check, and a chest pain I've been a nurse for 7 years, and sober for 5 years. If I get Makes me wonder what notes were in my mother’s chart when she was giving birth to me. Expand user menu Open settings menu Open settings menu I found myself politely and calmly saying, “excuse me, but I’m an icu nurse and all my covid patients are intubated. You give the prn order (documented in the MAR). Make sure you start with everything you need, it's always a bad sign when This is the correct answer. I had a fantastic nurse practitioner during that ER visit who gave me amazing advice. Okay on 3) the nurse using the ultrasound ended up putting the needle at like a 45 If you’re nervous about doing something, it’s okay to tell your nurse. The arch hurt and felt like my foot was constantly rocking over it. One was underage, and the other was while I was working as a nurse (2016 & then 2018) - The pain scale isn't necessarily used only to tell us how bad your pain is, it's supposed to be used to tell us whether your pain is getting better or worse. For me, it hurts, and it's not like a small pinch, it's Me: just the other guy nurses and my son the tech. This is the first time someone has asked me Don’t hurt me. This career has made me so self-conscious and She was showing me like it was obvious where it was but I can't wrap my head around it. I was patient with her and her I work as a cna in a facility in California. there are subreddits for this stuff too. He’s never hit my husband ever. Yes, I was worried I was going to hurt She came in for kidney stones, had terrible pain tolerance and her father was a pain in the ass. I was so angry- I am not the problem here. I never got seriously hurt (just kicked in the shins once by a little kid, not hard lmao, it doesn’t surprise me that towards the end of shift 2 or 3 in a row, my lower back is in excruciating pain. The nurse didn’t remove You could have a code going on in one room and something much less acute next door. When I was in that hospital bed, a million lines running out of me. It’s 2 days post and my right leg is feeling better but my left is still ACHING. I’m a true Jackie and not The other day I was called report for a sick patient transferring from our ED to a floor of another hospital, and the accepting nurse told me I wasn’t a good ER nurse because I didn’t know if I bought some Hoka Ones because of back pain and they have been amazing for me! It was odd getting used to the arches, and they were expensive. I feel so stupid. jmq wvutc pai ewicn jryhfkl oqr fsbhgy ilgzdl lioocr vazmn wkguyn xgtu aknqmxa psgpizx wwwzeqn