What advice do you have for people that encounter a rude nurse?

Try to remember that nurses have bad days too. Be firm with the nurse in your questions and needs, if need be, request that another nurse take care of you.





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Things have gotten a lot more demanding for nurses, especially in places like Emergency Departments %26amp; Surgical areas. It takes a special kind of person to handle those stressors. It could be the nurse is always that way, or it could be that he/she is having that one really, really bad day. Remember they deal with life and death on a regular basis, it wears on a person.


(I've worked for a hospital for 12 years)What advice do you have for people that encounter a rude nurse?
dont be rude back they will only poke u harder with the needle.... instead let the office manager of the drs office or dr knowWhat advice do you have for people that encounter a rude nurse?
conyact the supervisor
My father had that problem in the hospital. And then the next Hospital and then the next. I finally stayed to watch when he didn't know. Turns out he was the problem not the nurses or the lady that gave him his food or the person who brought the pill cart around . He was horrible the way he talked to them. He said he was kidding but the nurses didn't take it that way. He would touch them inappropriately when they were helping him up . Racial jokes are a favorite of his, of coarse he was only joking. No wonder no one wanted to deal with him. I am just saying make sure the nurse is the problem.
Ask to speak to thier Supervisor or tell them you want someone else.They work FOR you.
I tell the Dr., the time I went there nurse was nice,


nurse are people too, they have the good day and bad days
Don't take their crap. dish it right back and ask for someone else.
Write a letter to the supervisor. They say a letter packs more punch than just a verbal complaint.
I would say try to be understanding, but if the situation is really bad, write a letter to the hospital.
Let them know they're being rude. But wait til they're done with you though. You don't want them coming at you with a hyperdermic if you've ticked them off.
Report her to her superior.
Don't loose your cool, because you're not the one who's working the graveyard shif.
Ask for a sponge bath, and then get rude back...
be understanding-nurses take alot of abuse from doctors, from other patients, from other nurses.


everyone has bad days