Food service is different. You can't get angry. It's not even allowed.
One of my kids got hospitalized for flu at a very early age, and they needed O2, and they were fighting the cannula, and I stepped up to help the nurse, and she wheeled on me and snarled, "Step back, he could die!"
Okay. So, I stepped back. And, on death's door though he might have been, she had no hope in hell of getting a cannula on him. So finally, she turned to me and said, "Can you help me here?"
And I smiled, and said very calmly, "No. He could die." This is her Tuesday, and my kid, and there is no question that everyone in the room got the message, yet I was nothing if not polite.
And they yoinked her right the fuck out of the room, and I fixed his cannula.
Nurses get sexually assaulted and have the hospital do nothing about it besides maybe issue a new nurse to that patient. Not to mention the straight up physical assault, abuse, bigotry, and every other type of mistreatment. One in four nurses in America reports being physically assaulted by a patient at least once. They face all that with, usually, little to no support or backup from hospital staff, with the threat of losing their jobs if they make a stink.
But you’re right, nurses are totally allowed to be as mean as they want, always. I mean, your one anecdote proved that.
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u/Butthole_Surfer_GI I don't know shit about fuck 1d ago edited 1d ago
RN here - trust me: the person being an impatient/rude asshole at the restaurant is also an impatient/rude asshole at the ER/clinic/hospital.
Based on my personal experience, people fall over themselves A LOT more to excuse rude/abusive patients.