Nightmares

Yes, I'm hearing about these, and in some respect, I'm living them.

I'm doing paperwork for the nightmare patient. This is the patient who refuses to take responsibility for his/her actions and blames everyone else, including me, for any trials and tribulations on the unit surrounding his/her pleasure. Same patient refuses to elaborate with me on any rehab goals as are needed regularly since he/she is a rehab patient.

I'm really ready to wake up and ask for a different patient. This one sucks. If one more neuropsychologist tells me to use motivational interviewing, I may vomit.

Recently, we had a patient code on the floor. Said patient had lots and lots of problems but the biggest one was with patient's MD. MD just would not listen to the nurses. We voiced concerns about the patient for days. I'm still very angry about this. I went and discussed this with a third party and the help and rationale was sound, but I still have misgivings. Thank goodness the third party didn't gloss over it. All those years of hospital experience are handy!

While I'm happy I CYA'd myself, I'm just not happy that I couldn't do anything about getting said patient the care needed. I feel like a failure. I know it's not my fault. I'm going to spend a lot of time on my days off vegging out, so I can forget what an a*& this MD is.

I will content myself with the fact that said patient told his/her family, who visited rather frequently, that our place was the best..."especially the nurses."