Rude nurses during report
This is the first time in a long time I actually wanted to cry after report.
It was a busy shift—understaffed, busy group, etc etc. I had a pleasantly confused patient who kept removing his purewick. Suddenly at around 6 AM, an hour before shift change, he decides to yank out his IV and tele leads. Mind you, he paid no attention to them the whole night; he knew the IV and leads were there, but didn’t touch them until that time. I attempted to insert a new IV, but was unsuccessful. I asked my coworkers who weren’t busy if they can try/take a look, but no luck. Also, resource nurse was busy.
7 AM hits and I see who I’m giving report to… It’s one of the nurses who is a pain in the ass and dread giving report to (I.e. comes in, reads the charts to the point where she doesn’t need to write anything down during report, and quizzes you). I told her about the IV, purewick, and leads and she started spitballing a bunch of questions “well did you let the doctor know? So he doesn’t have an IV? Did you tell the resource nurse? Does he have anything to calm him down? Why didn’t you restrain him?” Blah blah blah *she proceeds to roll her eyes, calls their resource RN to start an IV, and starts mumbling to the resource RN about god knows what*
She’s acting as if I intentionally left the patient without an IV for 12 hours. Normally when a nurse is rude during report, I let it slide because it’s whatever but something about this day just made me so overwhelmed and tired to the point I wanted to lash out at her.
Man, why do patients always start acting up before shift change and why do some nurses have to be so b*tchy?
EDIT: I’m back again tonight. I kid you not guys the patient just pulled out his IV during shift change and me being the better person did not get mad at day shift nurse. See how easy that was? 😌