Nurses are paid to make sure your condition is not deteriorating
, not to mother you. I been in nursing and I have seen the other
end where patients are obnoxious and treats us like servants.
Patience also run out in a nurse especially when one is underpaid
and overworked - I remembered because there were not enough nurses
on the night shift that they refused to take over from me because
they said the doctor signed the order for a procedure at 9.20 pm
(while I was finishing hand over to go home) and I had to do it. So
I had to stay up to 1 am to finish up . And I don't even get
overtime pay in Singapore for it but a good scolding on time
management even my patient tried to say it is unfair that I have to
stay back and do the work.
Some nurses do their best to be nice , and some are nasty...some
just do nursing to migrate , some are just very blunt or loud. What
do you expect? Some soft spoken nurse on TV asking if you like some
tea?
Get a life people - nursing is a job and because nursing has this
silly image of being the caring profession - it seems like some
think it is easy to treat nurses like they are maids. Met patients
who can walk and like to complain that we don't fetch them their
water when it is easily within reach on the bedside table.
Oh yeah u would like nurses to sit down and talk to you and be
caring , right? Sure ...after we finish tons of work - paperwork,
appointment making, running after doctors, giving medications,
changing other patients, feeding the patient, checking the drips,
recording down on more paperwork .
I met nurses who sit down and talk to patients reassuring them and
then take over to find out they could not give medications on time
and left other patients in a HUGE mess because "of the poor patient
who is crying" . Want holistic care? Sure after the nurse has
completed her legal obligations to your care . You don't want an
incompetent idiot to sit down and ignore the rest of the world and
other patients who need more medical attention JUST because you
want someone to sayang you poor thing.
This author pisses me off.
