I need to learn to not work on Mondays anymore. I go through this every stinking week. I'm not sure if it's really more of a pain or if any day you start your work week is like this, but I'm willing to try something new!
I have a patient today who is one of the resident's wife. Keep in mind we probably have hundreds of residents at this hospital, so that doesn't make you any more special than any of my other patients. There was a whole big issue about how her treatments were ordered every 4 hours but she wanted them every 5 hours and yesterday the RT catered to that. I don't have the time for that today. I explained to her that she could have her treatment at the time I was in the room (which was 4 hours from her last treatment), or I could go do the rest of my first rounds and try to make it back to her afterwards, but I couldn't guarantee her that it would be exactly 5 hours from her last treatment. She wasn't thrilled, but she didn't seem to upset by it (she is obviously one of those girls that are used to getting her way though, she gave me one of those looks like "How can you not be doing exactly what I want you to do???") I get a call later from the head nurse of the unit who is enraged because this patient is saying that she came out of the shower and I walked in the room for her treatment. She asked me if I could wait a minute while she got dressed and I said no and stormed out of the room. It was almost humorous how incredibly falsified her story was.
But it gets better. She then calls her husband, the resident, who is in surgery at the time. He leaves surgery and goes to my department to speak with my supervisor. Seriously? Luckily, without even knowing my side of the story they backed me up but the patient did request that I not be allowed in her room again. Fine by me. I don't think I could have handled seeing her again. It did make me feel horrible though that someone else had to take her and deal with her for the rest of the day.
On a lighter note, we picked out the nursery furniture yesterday! Here's the link if you want to check it out, it's the second set, the Isabella.
I had narrowed it down to about 5 sets and we went back to finalize the decision and this set had been put on clearance because it was discontinued. Made that decision much easier!
I'm going to go back to work and try to survive the next hour. Actually, I'm just going to sit back and feel Alice playing around and get lost in my own little world :-)
2 comments:
LOVE the furniture!!! Doesn't that make it so much more real! Have you gotten it yet?
Glad you're doing ok in the midst of selfish patients! Keep enjoying those kicks... there is NOTHING like it!!!
Thanks Bev! It does make it seem more real! We have all the furniture home now, but it's still in boxes in the garage. The nursery was the room that we've just thrown stuff in since we moved in. It's only been a year, but somehow the room is packed with junk. I'm starting to go through it all today and make room for the furniture.
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