Called Out

Yesterday at the nursing home i was cleaning the nurse station. We wear hospital scrubs cut off just above the elbow. The nurse spots my tracks. She ask what's that?. i have a scar too from staph in the crease of my arm. I told her the scars from staph "from the hospital" when i broke my leg. My tracks i tell her i use to donate blood "i don't call it tracks i say that line". She is just a snob anyhow. Later that day she makes a comment to another nurse saying "she don't take pain meds because she don't want to be a junkie". She looks my way with that comment. It bugs the hell outta me. I only make 8 dollars a hour i gotta take adult diapers to the dumpster smell poop all day this nurse has to calls me out on scars fromYEARS AGO! it's just crappy time to break out the long sleeves again.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SHE DIIIIIIIIIIIID NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This means war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do I make this font bigger and how do I get to where you work?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ZG, let me tell ya, honey see that RN? Is she an RN??? Is she?????????????????????????? This is why YOU WILL GO TO NURSING SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tread lightly lady RN cause I'm gonna dig up some statistics for her smart arsed lil snide self.

Here goes you stepping up, moving ahead, making better of yourself. Here goes one of the most inteligent people I know. On line anyway. Your vocabulary can blow that b*otch out the water. Your human kindness could put her to shame. Your compassion which you swear ya don't have would make her look like some war machine monger and she says that to you?

WORSE! She says something to someone else????????????????????????

Guess what? Maybe that rotten creep got something to hide. Why else would another human being dare say such a thing?

O.K. I gotta cool down and think. Too late to have a barage of insults to hurl at her. As in "This is from when I was in the Sudan with Angelina Jolie helping save the world and I caught a bug ya never knew existed. It's a strain would bring ya to your knees. Then when they went to give me IV antibiotics they missed like 500 times".

You don't be even thinking about leaving, quitting, or kicking her butt.

You were NOT CALLED OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You were assaulted. You were reamed. You were made the pawn or prawn as Maddy would say for some triffling nothing who has to bring up other people's business to make her feel better about herself.

This ain't over. You weren't called out. That's something that the Nun does in fifth grade to ya. Called out.

I'm calling out her. Oh I'd be right finding out her weakest point. I'd find out her personal stuff and BAM hit her where it hurts when she least expects it. Is she aware that Nurses and Doctors and Dentists go to rehab??????????????????

Right now I'm betting she's been in that cart herself for herself.

WAIT IGNORE THIS POST I AM IN THERAPY JUST SMILE KINDLY AT HER AND LET IT BE PFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTT, I JEST MY LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!
Why would she make that comment to another nurse about herself not taking pain meds cause she don't wanna be a junkie?

Hmmmmm, interesting.

It's always the people pointing stuff out are the guilty party.

Girl, I got wicked respect for ya.
Hrere she can maybe read this......I wonder if she would question another nurse?





http://www.nurseweek.com/news/featu...01-03/sober.asp
my first reation too was to get mad and say screw the B-she must be a lonesome louse with no life and a bad outlook on life--when i know someone has been through hard times and i see them working hard i always think i sure would like to get to know them and learn froim them--steer clear and remember who you are and how great it is that you have empahty and the ability to treat others with kindness--let it roll baby girl
Thanks Amity and Bryn feels good to have someone to understand. The whole nursing home is just chatty they gossip like old hens. 80ish % of the workers there are WOMEN. It's just hell far as gossip. It's mostly older women. 1st week i was there they had going around i had a baby & i was pregnant again "NOT TRUE". You hear everything about everyone. I don't try to be friends with anyone and they talk talk talk about pointless crap. They try to ask personal questions i never give them stright answers. Yeah she was a RN she's snotty. She's mean to the old people too. My mother in law works at the same nursing home diffrent floor..... She stays out the gossip. I know why she said the junkie thing we have a lady "i'll call her G" that always ask for pain pills the nurse was telling the LPN about that lady "G" who always wants meds and saying she don't take pain pills she don't want to be a junkie BUT she was looking my way and earlier that day she pointed out my tracks. I think it was said for my ears to hear. I was somewhat offended but, i did let it roll it takes a tad more then that to hurt me. It mostly buged me that she was also implying "G" was a junkie. It was just rude..... they chat to much about the residents at the nurse station aint NOTHING privite at that place. The nurses do all talk down to housekeep laundry and kitchen people. LoL BRYN you crack me up. I happen to really like "G" she's one of my favorite there "birds of a feather huh?"
Phuque her, ZG. My first thought was the same as Bryn's - she doth protest too much, something to hide. Just some mean people out there. I have found that putting them on the spot works - "It always surprises me when supposedly professional and educated people ask personal questions in the workplace." Or, "Wow, and here I always thought of nurses as caring and compassionate - unusual career choice for someone like you." Her second remark borders on harrassment.

So much for confidentiality, eh? I'll keep that in mind next time I'm in a healthcare setting. And don't you worry about long sleeves - this is her problem, don't let her make it yours.

Peace~MomNMore
If it were me- I would have looked her in the eye & said as sarcasticly as possible - "Oh ,those scars, that's when I used to shoot heroin & smiled.

8 freakin dollars an hour - are you kidding me. That lady needs to check her smart azz comments at the help desk. That was uncalled for & just plain acusatory

I wouldn't break out the long sleeves unless its too cold in there.

best regards,
jack
This is why I adore you all.............look at these responses........do we run the gamut or what?

M&M's best post EVER............LOL..........cracking me up........and she is intelligent and very educated...........and Jack, intelligent and educated.....and look, ZG...........ya can go either way with them two responses.


Of course this isn't ALL Registered Nurses......but I'll tell ya lil sumptin.

Yeah, yeah Bryn got herself some credits.........so ain't I in Microbiology with these Nursing students...........and mind ya the entire time my sis-in-law is telling me I might as well go to Nursing school cause the Medical Lab Tech courses got me these credits.............I say "No way".........ya know why?

Because I'm sticking this poor elderly woman and her window is wide open in winter............smell the death one of the Nurses asks me........ummm, no, but I see you're killing her quicker...........lucky her............no disrespect to all the very good Nurses out there.

Anyway, the woman thinks I am Ann..........."Oh Ann I knew you would come for me".............I say "I told ya I would"..........well Ann is her daughter they tell me............and I gotta stick a dying woman for WHAT?????????????????????
So she asks me "Oh Ann I am so thirsty, please, please can I have some water?"...............Look I so know that they are helping her die but the way I see it if you're only lasting on this earth another day or so ya at least can have a sip of water or a dang ice chip.

So's Ann (me) gets some ice chips and a tiny, tiny bit of water........."Just to wet my whistle, kid" the lady says.............I'm putting the ice on her lips when the Eva Braun of all Nurses comes in and freaks the heck out.........she's like going off on me that this lady can not have any water or ice and she is dying.

Don't ya think she knows this already for cripes sake.............AND she writes me up...............BIG WHOOP...........write me up to the phlebotomy cops.....like I give a care..........so I couldn't be no Nurse.

AND the women I was in calsses with........all talking about thier AIDS patients in their clinical.............and "Oh, Fred got the full blown AIDS and his partner stayed in the room all day and I thought no wonder he got HIV".

Oh they went on and on about the way to get HIV............how the junkies got their own strain..........and the gays are evil.............and got their own strain........and how they spread it to the community.........and this was before I ever did drugs, but let me just say I was like:

"Ya know what course you ALL NEED? A da*n Florence Nightingale course, because why does it matter how the person contacted HIV? Aren't you all supposed to just have compassion and help people regardless of race or socio economic background or sexual preference?"

DUH................DUH.....................DUH.............all just look at me and I was like "If I ever get sick I hope none of you take care of me".........I wonder where them chicks are all at now...........gossips and judgmental bunch.

Again, this is not all Nurses..........and trust me there's plenty of them hitting them bags in places where some poor soul can't tell they ain't getting their drugs..............so there.

Oh see what ya started, Zero Girl..........I need my fish oil....and somebody best get me ice chips if I am dying, K?
Thanks momnmore your right. Jackofhartzz i just smiled "big" i could imagine the gossip if i let that cat out the bag. You know I KNOW nurses are at a high % to abuse drugs "speed" mostly they work long shifts. I KNOW THEM OLD PEOPLE don't know if they get all their meds. I found a ativan on the floor yesterday. This nurse is a older black lady like in her 60's i'ld bet she don't do nothing.

it's crappy i hope i die old at home. I see many sad things everyday with the elderly. The residents at work are there to die thou it's not a hospice center. People do die there and when they do HOUSEKEEP has to pack all their clothes strip the bed wipe out the dressers. So you see a person 3 times a day "am garabage, clean room, leaving shift garbage" you talk to them know their family. Then they go you gotta pack up their room.
"G" makes getting 8 dollars a hour more worth putting up with there crap. I know i could go anywhere and get 8 but, we do get a raise of 30-50 cents after 90 days. We get 6 PAID sick days 1 week paid vacation after 1 year 2 weeks after 2 years and MEDICAL coverage.
Anyhow that water strory is sad i see things like that go on at my nursing home.
"G" is this tiny old lady like 4foot 5 inches. Her mind is so gone she's super sweet always smiles. Funny i like her best she don't even remember me from day to day. EVERYDAY i have to tell her who i am. I tell her i'm the housekeeper she says "i did not know i had a housekeeper".
She can never find her shoes. She tries to change the tv with her cordless phone. She gets PATCHES for pain she ask me last week "what did i do to my shoulder?" she say's i have a bandage on it TAKE IT OFF! I see it's a patch "cold sweet". I tell her it's a pain patch god that was tempting. I like her to much to put her in pain. I could have took that patch SHE WOULD NOT even know who took it. rights not always easy but, it's always right huh. The nurses dismiss "g" they know half the time she don't remember where she is. They talk about her because she ask for meds right after she already got them they say she's a addict it gets me pretty mad even my mother in law says "G" is a pill head "sigh"
Thanks, ZG I really needed to get depressed even more today.

My grammy she got every bit of her mind............like my mom always says:
"We don't get this in our family or we don't get that in our family".
Well, apparently we keep the faculties before our heads blow off.

Anyway, when my grammy fell off the step ladder and the ambulance people asked what meds she took she goes "My BACK PILLS"

I know I told this before on here cause her BACK PILLS are DILAUDID!!!!!!!!!
So they finally get that she takes dilaudid and the EMT is like "Ma'am your back pills are the strongest thing out there except for HERE ON"! She tells me this and asks what medicine is called "HERE ON".

I'm like gram if ya took it from HERE ON you'll be sick, addicted, and desolate and plain screwed. My gram is a riot. She's like "Oh well I'll tell them not to give me any of that".

WAIT, I can go score ya some, gram!!!!!!!!!!!! Naw, I'm kidding.

I love G now too, ZG. You're related. She's a G too. Maybe you should look into working in the perfume department at the dpeartment store. Ya know spray pretty people in the face with horrific smelling products.

I'm proud of ya though, girl. You're going strong. Thinking of your mom too and brother.
Since we're talking about nursing homes I got a little story for you. My YiaYia (Greek for grandmother) was in a home for 18 years - yep, 18 years, most patients don't go 18 months before they die. Anyway, I used to take my babies to visit her with my mom, at least 2 Sundays a month though she had long ago forgotten who I was (thought I was her cousin Sophie from the old country!). One day we go up to get her on the third floor, tough floor, really far gone folks, and as we are wheeling her to the elevator my daughter starts grabbing at me saying, "I think that lady's hurt mom, she's yelling." Well, you know how some of the old folks just yell, no reason we can see, something goning on inside them. I brush my girl off once, twice, telling her how they sometimes yell, but it doesn't men anything, but she's persistent at maybe 8 years old. Finally she says, "She's not okay mom!" I sigh and let her lead me down the hall. Don't you know there's a woman who's fallen out of her wheelchair in the sunroom, lying on the floor in a 10 foot puddle of blood, all leaking out of her head! How long had this poor thing been lying there with no one but a kid to hear her calls? A dozen nurses on the floor and at the station...

I will say those folks mostly took real good care of my Yiayia, kept her clean, talked to her, no disrespect that I ever saw. But yeesh, I always listened to my kids after that. My girl saved that woman's life. She made me call later to make sure she was okay and I was afraid to find out that maybe she hadn't made it, but she did. Never forgot that...never will.

One more...when I was hospitalized in 1996, real sick and had to drink that horrid Go-Lightly to clean me out before my surgery, I was so ill, so scared, so tired. Had been in 5 days already and they didn't know what they were going to find going in. I spent the night on a commode, shivering, sick, sweating, and this nurse comes in and turns my heat down. I tell her I am freezing could she please leave it up. First she just ignored - like I wasn't even speaking, then - "NO! You have a roommate now so it's not all about you anymore." *smirk* My roommate was post-surgical and unconscious - she wasn't complaining. I cried and asked again, but all she did was throw a blanket at me as I sat there demoraliized. Didn't even drape it over me- threw it. At 3AM my night-duty male nurse came on and immediately turned the heat up, saw I was crying and unable to get up off the commode by myself, got me back into bed and comforted me. Every other nurse I had was wonderful - but this one...I wrote a long letter to the hospital all about my tale of woe and praising my other nurses. Think they canned her cause I heard back from the president of the hospital, can't recall now.

Some good, some bad, just like all jobs. But teachers, doctors, and nurses can't be like that - too much at stake.

Peace~MomNMore
..ZG..
..Theres always sumone in the workplace who try to mentally bully and make sarcastic remarks towards other workers..aswell as stick their noses in where it should be kept out..same thing happened to davey with all the whispers n s***..she sounds like the office gossip so to speak..Nosey Bastards we call em :)..they have their little clics at work and talk n gossip about everyone..but i wonder wot kinda skeletons these peeps have in their closet ??..its hard to not take notice of their bulls*** i know..but you know who you are and thats all that counts..take care..Robbie..
I say each and everyone of us go to nursing school and have our own wing.......we'll call it the "We care wing"............yes we will.

Compassion is so important.

Everyone is right ZG..........and poor M&M........I'dda came there and beat her senseless and took jail time for her turning that heat down as ya suffered.

PLUS see your little girl........at that time.......she is attuned.......she KNEW something was wrong.........and she did save that poor lady.

Please, Lord let me die a young death.......PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!