I was on a flight where we were asked to stay in our seats so a sick passenger could disembark first as EMS was waiting for his arrival. Everyone got up to get there bags and blocked the aisles. His daughter was crying. It was disgraceful.

As a nurse this happens regularly. I remember a code, I was running with a cart and a family stopped me “my mom needs to go number 2” yeah sorry I’ll come as soon as I can but right now someone is really unwell.

I heard that jerk come back to the room (next to my coding patient) and say “take your pants off and poo in the bed, since she doesn’t want to do her job, it’s her job to change your sheets too”.

After my emergency, I told her that if her mom had pooped in the bed (she had a diaper on so even if it was not ideal… since we were ACTIVELY saving a life…), I would have made her change the bed and would have called my manager. I wrote a note in the charts.

I might have told other things, not very nice ones. I work in a public hospital and I do my best, but sometimes people are just absolute jerks.

Oh and my coding patient got better. This is the most important thing. And I helped the nice mom with her trip to number 2. Ice, coffee, water… when you’re being nice (and sometimes patient) I get it allll for you.

If you’re a jerk, I will kindly remind you that as the patient’s family you can go get it yourself. There is a coffee machine, tap water and a bonus blanket can wait until I’ve finished something only I can do (you know, as a nurse, like IV stuff and painkillers, etc)

I work at a restaurant. I was the only host at the host stand (temporarily) on a busy Friday night. A man literally collapsed walking out the door and I had a woman upset with me that I called 911 before helping her get a table.

Out of spite, I skipped her 4 times on the wait list 🤷🏽‍♀️

Retired ER/Trauma nurse here 👋 Busy shift, only 3 of us nurses for 11 beds of critical trauma patients. I had just started an IV and drawn labs on a new patient and was rushing to get them sent off to lab when I was stopped by a family member of a stable patient waiting for admission who asked me to get her a cup of coffee. I’m holding tubes filled with someone’s blood, she can see the chaos all around (we had just pronounced someone) and she’s asking me for coffee. I just pointed to my Badge which has in large red letter in the bottom RN and said “I’m a nurse, not a waitress” and kept moving.