oh my gosh… today was a trip at work. i had 2 different lady patients today, and my oh my were they needy. it was like they were completely inept to do anything and wanted me to do everything.

 the first patient was 91 years old, so i give her some credit to being needy but still. she really just made me laugh. i would come into her room and she would start bossing me around. “oh ma’am could you get me something else besides eggs,” “ma’am could you raise me up higher in bed, oh ma’am that is hurtin’ me something fierce, ma’am lay me back down, ma’am i have a hitch in my back and can you make it better, ma’am i know you must be busy you don’t have time to mess with me, you can come back later and i’ll tell you some more of my worries ma’am”…this was constant all day long. it was comical at times because she was occasionally funny about how demanding she knew she was, but overall it was just mindlessly exhausting.

 then i got a new patient to the floor that nothing in the world was right about her care. she seriously refused every medication i tried to give her saying she wanted to call her primary doctor (who did not practice at the hospital mind you) and ask if it was okay to take those meds. then she said she wanted to take each pill spread out with bites of food in between. come on! are you kidding me! i try to spoil my patients but no! i told her that was fine for her to do that at home but at the hospital the nurses don’t have that kind of time to come back every 10-20min with her next pill. i seriously had to get her hospital doctor to tell her to take all her meds when the nurse gave them to her. she did end up taking all of them but of course there was a lecture later how they made her drowsy and slightly sick to her stomach (which neither of these were a side effect). oh and then at dinner she called me into her room, trapped me, and spent 15min telling me how bad her food was, and she couldn’t eat, and what could i do about it. i told her to call nutrition 7 different times in that conversation to try to get out of the room and pass it off onto someone else. it just DIDN’T WORK with this lady. aghhhh…what a day! my patience was definetly stretched to the max today. hope i float somewhere else tomorrow for sure! ha!