FridayYet! Didn't know that you were a nurse. I are one also, LOL, Happily retired but while you can take the nurse out of the clinic, you can't stop beign a nurse.
LucysDuck11 I agree with you 100%. While like FridayYet said, sometimes misses are inevitable, I once had a nurse fish around for a deep vein for like 10 minutes. I kept pointing out that I had a nice visible vein to tap right on the surface, she kept digging. After more than 15 minutes of her mining for what she thought was gold that I had buried deep in my arm, I looked her straight in the eye and in my best lethal Nurse Rachet voice said 'if you don't remove that needle from my arm now and use that surface vein, I will remove it for you and refuse the draw'. I must have looked like one po'ed red head because she withdrew the needle and went for the surface vein without saying a word. She got the surface vein on the first attempt. I still do not know what she was trying to prove.She said at the time that deep venous blood was better for draws. I'd went through advanced IV training and not once did the instructor ever mention that to us.
So yeah, go get her Lucy. Flex your patient's rights. I heard a joke once about a woman who went to the dentist and when the dentist approached the chair without warning she reached out, grabbed him....where you can guess where she grabbed him.......and twisted. When he yelped, she smiled sweetly at him and said. I'll make you a deal. You don't hurt me, Doc, and I won't hurt you. Deal?
As for the insurance companies. That is a whole nuther story. IMHO round em up and throw them off a cliff. Nothing lost and nobody would care.
LucysDuck11 I agree with you 100%. While like FridayYet said, sometimes misses are inevitable, I once had a nurse fish around for a deep vein for like 10 minutes. I kept pointing out that I had a nice visible vein to tap right on the surface, she kept digging. After more than 15 minutes of her mining for what she thought was gold that I had buried deep in my arm, I looked her straight in the eye and in my best lethal Nurse Rachet voice said 'if you don't remove that needle from my arm now and use that surface vein, I will remove it for you and refuse the draw'. I must have looked like one po'ed red head because she withdrew the needle and went for the surface vein without saying a word. She got the surface vein on the first attempt. I still do not know what she was trying to prove.She said at the time that deep venous blood was better for draws. I'd went through advanced IV training and not once did the instructor ever mention that to us.
So yeah, go get her Lucy. Flex your patient's rights. I heard a joke once about a woman who went to the dentist and when the dentist approached the chair without warning she reached out, grabbed him....where you can guess where she grabbed him.......and twisted. When he yelped, she smiled sweetly at him and said. I'll make you a deal. You don't hurt me, Doc, and I won't hurt you. Deal?
As for the insurance companies. That is a whole nuther story. IMHO round em up and throw them off a cliff. Nothing lost and nobody would care.
Insurance really sucks. When they are in it for profit, they make more money when they don't cover anything. And when people don't have insurance, the show up to the ER anyways and can't pay, then the hospital has to recoup the money somewhere, and all of our prices go up. It's a vicious cycle. Will be interesting to see what the new administration comes up with, since I'm on Obamacare and would rather not lose it until there's a replacement!
