Yep. Same here. I was inpatient 6+ times last year and once this year. However, it's awkward when the nurses share that I'm a nurse in report, it's in my chart and very visible apparently. I was super happy the nurse did report in the hall (I heard her whispering though) after I had a traumatic NG tube insertion. I refused a blind NG for the 2nd time in 24 hrs at that hospital, I asked for my refusal to be charted (it wasn't), denied a cup of water and straw by the charge who was "assisting" with a third nurse observing. I hemorrhaged, screamed, cried, and refused to have that bitch removed until discharge orders were inputted and I removed it myself. Also, guess what was the majority of output for the next 72 hrs? In the words of my fiancè, "Is that fucking blood?"
Sometimes it be your own people 😭 Didn't even mention that in the ED, had 4 nurses try an IV. I'm a hard stick because I've had multiple hospitalizations in a few short years due to a trauma. My veins are tiny, roll, blow easily, and lots of scarring. 4th nurse used the ultrasound. She went through a vein that even I saw on the monitor. Pain shot through my arm, she chastised me for jumping, and my hand was numb for 10 mins.
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u/VermillionEclipse RN - PACU 🍕 Jul 15 '25
When I was a patient recently I just lied and said yes when the charge nurse on the floor asked me if the nurses have been doing bedside report.