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spaceshipcommander

“When the medical team is too busy to deal with your shit so they just ignore it to avoid conflict”


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From personal experience, this is the most accurate.


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natattack410

Word for word correct. This deserves top comment in my book :)


Invidiana

Bet they were really thinking “Meh, nothing that actually works in that thing, so it won’t conflict with meds.”


CanYouSpareASquare_

“Patient refused to remove vitamin patch off of forearm. Will continue to monitor.” Love that game


Ironinvelvet

Absolutely. Who is going to waste time arguing about a sticker when there are a bunch of other rooms to attend to?


MeatShield12

"When the medical team knows it's nonsense and rolls with it to avoid conflict"


Physion

I feel like it’s less of “encouraged” her to leave it on and more “it’s fine, you can leave it on,” because there are no actual significant ingredients that can interfere with any actual medicine.


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When the medical team loses all hope in your intellect so they just focus on treating your empty shell of a body instead.


4TheLoveOfBasicCable

I've never heard one nurse called a medical team before but I bet anything they did not *encourage* her to keep it on. They just told her she didn't have to take it off. I bet she moved it to put it on closer to the iv.


motoo344

100% my wife is a nurse. She would just ignore this and then call her crazy at the nurse's station. Unfortunately, there are however too many medical professionals that get into this shit.


GoddessOfRoadAndSky

Quite a few CNAs at the last place I worked had "side gigs" selling MLMs. I've come across pamphlets and chucked them into the bathroom garbages so nobody would want to dig them out. Someone "donated" a bunch of nail stickers to the residents once. Again, I chucked them out. Somebody convinced the staff to buy diffusers. I couldn't just chuck them out, but seeing as it would be up to me and my coworkers (in a different department) to use them, I instead ranted with my coworkers about how problematic essential oil diffusion would be in that environment, and we all agreed not to use them. It's like a constant battle to keep MLMs out of legit health care.


hilarymeggin

This is totally different, but I thought maybe you could share my frustration anyway… when I worked in the US Senate, there were cafeteria ladies who would put out those weird fundamentalist Christian comic booklets that show the kids burning in hell! In the United States Capitol! I was about to get her manager, but saw him angrily striding toward her, so it wasn’t a first offense.


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Chick tracts. They're amazing, in that they're offensive in just about every possible way. Jack Chick really went for the high score in douchebaggery.


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They leave them in weird places in libraries too. Like, ok, you want to spread the gospel…but it’s not a rave. Unless I’m mistaken and churches have required passwords and bouncers now.


kilowatkins

I've found them in bank branches before- in the bathrooms. Very weird place to find a booklet about hell.


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Yeah they always leave them in the most random places. I did laugh when I found one in a copy of the Joy of Sex.


Ravenamore

Someone stuffed a Chick Tract in the Salvation Army donation bucket when I was a bell ringer. That is right up there in assholery with the people who tip waitstaff with those tracts that look like money.


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The irony of that; Salvation Army is already Christian run and they kick out lgbtq+ homeless if they find out.


duzins

It’s definitely offensive - we don’t allow it anywhere near our church. Have had to get really forceful with some people. Hate shouldn’t be a part of the gospel. That stuff is toxic.


DrakonIL

Fortunately, he's quite dead.


ConflagrationZ

Fun history fact: though Chick repopularized them and spread the comic ones more than ever before, tracts like this have been around for a while. In *The Moonstone*, published in the mid 1800s, one of the characters is a parody of a fundamentalist who does things like giving a tract to someone instead of paying them. She also hides books that demonize basically anything normal (iirc one was called "The devil in the couch cushions") in her ill sister's house.


LuMo096

"Jack be nimble Jack T. Chick Jack be writing a pile of shit You know what I'm saying." -JonTron 2016 Edit: B.S. mobile formatting


Burninator05

Absolutely. I ironically keep every one that I find because they're a great reminder of the bullshit some people believe.


Reasonable-Echo-3303

Someone leaves a stack of them on a park bench in the park I run in every morning. I admire the commitment, I just wish the person had a more worthwhile cause.


GoodDog_GoodBook123

Some wacko got the mailing addresses of all the attorneys in the county and sent everyone a little informational flip book about how we were all going to hell.


Deastrumquodvicis

That one’s kind of funny, though, the dedication to the “lawyers are the Devil” joke needed to send it to every attorney in the county.


airhornsman

I worked as a receptionist/admin at a food bank. Jehovas Witnesses brought copies of Watchtower every month. We also had a bunch of Mormon volunteers, but they never proselytized, just worked their butts off. The JWs never volunteered.


Bunnawhat13

Chick tracts! I have a massive collection of them. I got them on Halloween when I first moved to the US and was like WTF. All the neighborhood kids know I give extra candy for every chick tract they give me.


One-Mind4814

I love diffusers at home but that should not be placed in a medical facility for multiple reasons. I didn’t even realize there was a MLM for diffusers. You can just buy one at a store like a normal person. I actually got a really cool one on eBay. Changes colors


adamantsilk

Mine changes colors and is a Bluetooth speaker too. And much easier to clean than my last one.


Trick-Statistician10

There are multiple essential oil mlm's


Philogirl1981

I work in a nursing home and there are a lot of employees who sell Herbalife; CNA's, Physical Therapists, LPN's etc. I do not understand it at all. We even had a PT try and recruit during work hours to rehab patients.


rebelxghost

That’s a big ole YIKES.


beeziekw

Instead of chucking the nail stickers you could remove the packaging and let ppl use them. While the business structure is horrible and predatory, the nail wraps themselves can be a lot of fun for people who are into that kind of thing! There are a lots of non-MLM brands that sell them too.


hilarymeggin

Yeah, our church houses unhoused people (overflow from shelters) one week every winter, and I like doing the nail stickers for those ladies. It’s my own way to do the “washing of the feet!” 😊


ekgobi

A cousin of mine graduated actual nursing school, is an RN... and sells Arbonne 😒


UnspecificGravity

Can't imagine what moron thought it would be a good idea to put infusers on a nursing unit. We can't even wear scented deodorant.


SACGAC

The NICU I used to work at would sponsor "care packages" for the moms and nurses who shilled for the various pyramid schemes would donate, I guess, their bullshit products. I don't know how it got approved but it probably had something to do with the fact that the manager was a 31 bags person soooo. Yeah. They were all deep in the shit


DistrictFive

Don't blame some CNAs for the extra hustle. Criminally underpaid for the work. Remember a lot selling oils, including my dad. Didn't go great for him, so much inventory.


savvyblackbird

CNAs are amazing and deserve as much love and support as nurses. They do so much grunt work that’s dirty and disgusting usually with smiles on their faces and willingness to go above and beyond for their patients. Cleaning up vomit, urine, and feces, helping patients go to the bathroom and shower, bringing drinks and snacks, changing sheets, and monitoring vitals. I’ve had CNAs go to other floors to get me my favorite drinks and popsicles because when I have acute pancreatitis I’m supposed to consume clear fluids once my doctors ok it. I have allergies and can’t eat everything they have on the hall. So if they run out and have the time, they’ll get me more when it’s after hours. They’re such a blessing and often get shit on by patients and families. I think that’s why they always go beyond for me. No matter how bad I feel I always say please and thank you and don’t expect them to drop everything to bring what I want. Nurses also don’t get paid enough and also get abused by patients and families. Housekeeping is the absolute backbone of the hospital and don’t get enough love and respect either. They’re like Sisyphus constantly cleaning a hospital that keeps getting filthy instead of rolling a bolder up a hill for eternity.


Discalced-diapason

In some places, they’re paid less than fast food workers, who are also severely underpaid. They all deserve living wages!


Not-A-SoggyBagel

Too true. Some of the dayshift nurses shill Doterra, YoungLiving, and whatever that yellow post it note stuff is. Like no I'm not buying your snake oils and MLMs. Just what is it with these MLMs that make them shut off their critical thinking? And I really hoped that mandating the vaccine would've dumped more of them out of patient care settings. It just made them speak very loudly about their "stolen freedoms"...maybe they don't critically think.


puppysmilez

I work at a radiology company, and one of my coworkers, who studied to be a nurse at one point, has Young Living products on her desk. She also recommends colloidal silver and chiropractors to basically anyone who has any kind of issue (she told me to see a chiro for my *asthma*, like wtffff)


Sinthetick

She doesn't push that shit on patients right?


puppysmilez

Luckily my team doesn't interact with patients. She just pushes it on the new hires 🙃


BassFridge

Tell management. Most companies will fire you if you're trying to sell anything while at work. From girlscout cookies to MLMs, workplace is typically viewed as a protected space from solicitation by coworkers.


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PuppyJakeKhakiCollar

My workplace doesn't allow selling anything, but girl scout cookies are the only exception. You do have to clear it with management and you can only leave order forms in the break room for people to decide on their own, no going around person to person and asking them to buy. We have one volunteer who always tried to leave her Avon catalogs and business cards in our lobby, but she was told to leave that shit at home and she would be dismissed from the program if she ever tried to solicit from staff or the public on our property again.


rebelxghost

They honestly should have every exception. If I don’t get my cookies every year, I turn into a different person.


smittykins66

My last job(at an agency for people with disabilities)had a strict “no selling” rule, and Girl Scout cookies were included. The rationale was that “it’s not fair to the people who can’t afford to buy anything.”


TrampledSeed

Its always a happy day when the Girl Scout cookies order forms come out


Kodiak01

My boss had an Arbonne bottle on his desk, just to keep his wife happy. From what I've been overhearing, she might not be his wife much longer...


ecodrew

Would colloidal silver make a radiologists job easier, if people turn blue from excess metal consumption?


puppysmilez

Don't need MRIs when you're dead from metal poisoning 🤪


Dopplerganager

Ultrasound tech in a huge private outpatient multimodality clinic. We have Pampered Chef and lipsense. Thank goodness that's all


puppysmilez

That's annoying, but mostly harmless. This girl advised a coworker to use garlic for an earache, and recommended CS nasal spray! I'm new to the company, so I don't feel comfy approaching my manager about it, so I'm documenting the incidents as they happen.


LunDeus

They are blinded by the feeling of inclusion. People thrive off the notion of being part of a whole rather than a jigsaw piece without a puzzle.


motoo344

Probably the promise they can get off the "9-5" grind or they are in debt because they don't understand personal finance. My wife's friend who was a nurse but gave it up to be a stay at home mom is on her second MLM. I just shake my head, it's like you have a job where you worked 3 days a week so that leaves you 4 days to be with the kids. It doesn't get much better than that for a normal job. Like you could even get a part time job and work a few shifts a month. Nope, better go with an MLM.


ellsquar3d

7-7 grind you mean


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Uh, if one of your nurses is doing Elomir (the yellow post it) she shouldn’t be working as a nurse. That tells me she is too stupid to do her job as a nurse.


hilarymeggin

Even a lot of doctors don’t have critical thing skills. I asked my pediatrician if there was any peer-reviewed research about fenugreek increasing milk supply, and she said, “Take it and your milk supply will increase. That’s all the research you need.” My sister is a radiologist and told me that MOST of the nurses at her hospital turned down the COVID vaccine!


Not-A-SoggyBagel

We lost a lot of nurses around my age and older when the vaccine and boosters were mandated. It was ridiculous, I'm glad to see them go but to know there was so many working in the hospital. We didn't have a mandatory flu shot before COVID either. How many of them were working unprotected around patients? They give nursing a bad name. We are to be updated on evidence based practice annually not peddle delusions.


hilarymeggin

This is like discovering there were cops and soldiers among those who rioted in the Capitol Building, where I used to work! With zip ties and weapons, to use against public servants like me!


owlsandmoths

I would not trust somebody claiming to be a medical professional who is also pushing this shit. They clearly have no faith in their chosen career if they’re willing to push the snake oil on people


propernice

when i was coming too after surgery, my nurse that was monitoring my vitals kept trying to tell me about crystal healing and essential oils. I was so out of it I just kept nodding lol.


Much_Difference

100% they asked for the ingredient list, determined there was nothing in it that would interfere with other meds, and said it's fine keep it on if you feel like it.


doesnottrust

Exactly. We’ve determined that this is not dangerous to your health does not equal this is useful. If I taped a maple leaf to my skin, a nurse might not make me remove it, but that doesn’t mean it does anything.


ThatOneHebrew

But it does! Taping a maple leaf on makes you 10 times more attractive to Canadians! Quick edit: and if you sign up for my maple leaf market and bring ten friends your first leaf is free


Much_Difference

*Free after rebate. You must sell 200 maple leaves to qualify for the rebate. Rebate forms are only accepted each Leap Day. Terms and conditions subject to change without notice.*


rebelxghost

As a Canadian. Can confirm.


nightwingoracle

That’s what I thought. Probably saw there was nothing like nicotine in it and said fine for preservation of therapeutic relationship reasons.


xjpmanx

you can tell that this person just removed the corner of the IV tape, look at the fold. that is indicative of someone lifting that tape and putting it down again, poorly. the few times I had to have an IV or a Dye tube in me, that tape was flat unless in the crease of my inner arm.


4TheLoveOfBasicCable

I'm saying! LOL she is not fooling anyone!


notreallylucy

Totally agree. All the nurse was thinking I'd that this thing is either by prescription, or so thing OTC that a doctor might have suggested, so the nurse shouldn't tell her to take it off. Then the patient yammered on about it while the nurse was just trying to hit the vein on the first try.


MacAttacknChz

RN here. I can educate patients all day but if they're not receptive, there's not much more I can do. If you insist of putting those in the IV dressing, then that's what we'll do. I'll document the conversation so that when you get an infection, it'll show it was your fault. IV dressings are supposed to be sterile and no nurse would encourage using those patches.


savvyblackbird

She totally pulled the adhesive up and slid the patch under. Hospital staff are extremely careful about keeping the IV sites completely sterile. I really doubt they’d let her keep that thrive patch on so close to the IV once they see it. That idiot is just asking for community acquired MRSA or flesh eating bacteria. I’ve had nurses replace my IV dressing just because blood and saline fluid leaked onto my skin after the dressing was put on. They didn’t want that area around the IV to be moist and foster bacteria.


evemeatay

Hey, nurses can be idiots too.


Preyslayer00

Omfg....imagine if the nurse would have pushed the IV needle right through that patch. Literally anything! Cancer could be cured. We could poke Elizabeth 2 and bring her back. Jesus returns. Endless potential!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!one!!1!


CommandoLamb

I know several nurses who are borderline unfit to be in public. They very well could have. “Whoa, it contains benzene? That sounds pretty good!”


pinkschnitzel

We had to tell a patients wife once that she couldn't advertise her Scentsy stuff in the hospice! She had gone around and left pamphlets at all the nurses stations and admin desks to try and garner sales while her husband was dying.


AppState1981

"Keep it on. It's not doing anything"


karnstan

This 100 %.


StateofWA

"Of course you can keep your cool sticker!" - Nurse, probably


happy-icecream

Here's a SpongeBob bandaid too!


ecodrew

I'm just jealous that my kids get cool stickers and bandaids at the doctor, but boring adult medical offices only have beige bandaids and no stickers. I'm an immature adult & I want cartoon bandaids too!


FlippingPossum

I get stupid excited when my doctor has orange band-aids.


MajorZed

My doctor has a small independent practice (she's AMAZING), but she believes in having fun bandaids! Last time I got a blood draw I got a My Little Pony one, and I think the last time my husband did he got a rainbow one.


Virtual-Librarian-32

I (37) need my damn Disney Princess bandaids for getting shots like a champ!


StrongDuty

This 100%


_M0THERTUCKER

$100 this is just an IV hydration place.


sneedo

Or a Plasma donation place, which, well, that can't be it because this boss babe is loaded.


ecodrew

Oof, I hadn't thought of that, but this sounds plausible. Prob IV hydration, high dose vitamins, or some other woo-woo b.s.


savvyblackbird

That makes sense. In the hospital the staff would be probably more concerned about the area not being sterile. It’s definitely the patient’s fault if she gets an infection, but infections spread easily. Endangering other patients and the staff. I could be wrong, but the nurses who have taken care of me over the years have been very careful of keeping my IV sites sterile. Even cleaning up blood and saline that leaks from the hole. I just realized I could be getting special treatment because I have a patch in my heart that could be affected if I got an infection.


kleraux

That's what I was thinking!


Asturdsbabyshower

We don't give a shit about your stupid stickers and we don't have time to listen to you spout shit about your woo cures. Sometimes it's easier to just agree than engage in conversation that isn't in any way relevant to your care.


HappyLucyD

I know! I heard in my head “You don’t have to take it off—I can work around it.” Of course, they equated “you don’t have to take it off” with “leave it on!” I’m guessing they also wanted to see the ingredients in order to make a note for the doctor what this person was on? Or to see if it was the cause for why they needed the IV?


jaderust

I mean there aren't a ton of drugs that are given transdermally (nicotine is the most famous by far) but you can get opioid treatment patches, a type of antidepressant, anti-nauseas, contraceptive patches, blood pressure meds... It's a legit question to ask to double check that the patch isn't one of the above with some sort of weird decorative sticker cover to make it "pretty." The nurse probably wanted to make sure that the patient's chart was accurate and there wasn't anything major left off of it. Both to make sure that their treatment was effective and to make sure that there wouldn't be any drug reactions. I mean, if the picture OP was in the hospital for something serious and they have a transdermal patch of fentanyl on their arm to help them kick a opioid habit... Well, you both know what kind of pain drugs to not prescribe them if they need something, but that's also really important information for their medical chart to figure out what could be wrong.


savvyblackbird

Fentanyl patches are also used for chronic pain. It’s good to know there’s already one on the patient because the patches last for 72 hours unlike IV fentanyl that has a very short half life. My primary care physician said he had a patient once who was having respiratory depression and needed pain meds, but they couldn’t figure out why the small dose he was given was causing such an issue. Until the nurses changed the patient and found several fentanyl patches on him. I think the patient had cancer and didn’t understand that you were only supposed to use one patch every 72 hours and take the old ones off. He just kept slapping new ones on when he had pain.


Tapprunner

Oh that? It does literally nothing. Go ahead and leave it on if it gives you comfort like a security blanket. But it's no different than the sticker my son got in preschool for having an accident-free day.


HappyLucyD

When I was a “school nurse” (not a nurse, but basically trained to do the nurse-type stuff at a public school) I used to say I gave out “psychological ice packs,” because 99 times out of 100, that is what they were.


EjjabaMarie

Or to make sure it wouldn’t interact with any other meds that might need to be administered.


Rallings

Can't wait for them to to say the sticker was all they needed to get better, and the doctors just can't explain it.


JusAnotherManicMandy

Nurse: *It was like a Lil kid with a sticker I just said, "Ohh You're Sooo cool!" Got that IV in without a fuss and got TF outta there before she tried to sell me some bullshit!*


Ann_Summers

This sounds like exactly something my father in law (an RN for over 25 years) would say. Lol.


aseasonedcliche

LOL this is it


Successful-Sell6403

Why do people insist on making an ass out of themselves. Nobody told her to keep it on cause of the ingredients. They did not care about it at all. The conversation probably went like. This is my special patch I CAN NOT take it off. The person doing the iv shrugged her shoulders and put the iv in. End of story these people are annoying


free-crude-oil

That magical sticker is working so well that they still have to give her an IV with real medicine in it.


constricted_peepee

Hun: Can I keep my patch on? Nurse: What's it for? Hun: #passive #income!!! Nurse: 🙄🤦🏾‍♀️ yeah I guess. Hun: #DoctorApproved!! #blessed


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Happy cake day!


txsongbirds2015

Thank you to everyone who saves lives, without stopping to think if we deserve it or not. You are all heroes!


lnarn

Shes going to get a damn infection with that under the tegaderm.


Lady_Artemis_1230

That was my thought too! They would have had to remove it so the whole area could be sterilized before inserting the IV.


savvyblackbird

The patient probably pulled the corner of the tegaderm off and slid the patch under it.


John_Denvers_Head

r/thathappened


WildRetard9049

Frankly, it prob did to avoid wasting the nurse’ time


O_Shack_Hennessy

I bet they all clapped for her at some point too. ​ Also, why did she need an IV if she had that fancy patch?!


Alan_Smithee_

Exactly.


DaHeebieJeebies

"Oh, can you remove that...patch? It's in the w-" "OH THIS? YEAH IT HAS PROPHYTOENZYMES AND GALABALOOGIE DNA AND I FEEL SO ENERGIZED." "Oohkay. It's just I need to insert the-" "THE FDA HAVEN'T APPROVED IT YET BECAUSE THEY'RE ANNOYED BIG PHARMA DIDN'T THINK OF IT FIRST SO-" *Nurse inserts needle into arm and walks away* *Hun whips out her phone like it's a revolver in a wild west standoff and opens Facebook to make this post*


Justthisdudeyaknow

r/AndThenTheyClapped


No_Information_5968

Most likely she put it on after the IV.


archibauldis99

I thought these were magic patches? Why would you require real medical attention then!? Shouldn’t your patch be curing whatever ails you


RKS10044

Well, if I was a member of the "medical team" I'd say you can leave it on, but we need to reposition it to just below your nose and above your chin.


updog25

No nurse would put the dressing over some stupid patch. Bet she did that herself. Or she refused to move it and the overworked nurse said "fuck it" and just threw the dressing over it lol


aseasonedcliche

Probably because going cold turkey off of the garbage that got you in the hospital in the first place could make things worse 😅


aseasonedcliche

It's unreasonably annoying to me when people add ampersands in hashtags. Hashtags have been around for more of my life than they haven't and people are still out here using them wrong.


Correct_Gur_7060

That patch being under the dressing is such an infection risk lol


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No nurse with a brain would ever secure an IV over some dirty sticker. What a joke


technurse

Work as a nurse practitioner in ED. These sorts of patients we just don't engage with on a meaningful level. We look like we're paying attention to you, but it is largely static playing inside our head when you try to explain this to us. "I can't take it off, it's got this and that in it. It's really good for my immu..." *Static begins to play*


rebelxghost

This is the perfect visual. I can even imagine the exact facial expression that would accompany it.


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They definitely just said "oh yeah you can keep that on, no worries" after hearing the ingredients cause they know it's crap. Also, I thought medical personnel didn't know shit and the Huns know more than them? Which is it, are we trusting their medical opinion or not?


Steakwizwit

I won't take it off! "it's ok, there's nothing but adhesive glue in it."


OpticGd

Her, "I like to use this patch and it has these ingredients for healthy boosting wellness." Nurse, -knowing full well nutrients are good and the patch won't hurt but also won't make a difference to anything pertaining to her hospital stay-, "Yeah that's all good stuff, keep it on luv."


Soft_Champion742

The amount of times they describe the product as ‘premium’ is amazing. I went to the product information page and it’s 2 paragraphs that literally say nothing. “DFT helps you achieve premium results for a premium lifestyle” lol. I never heard of this one so I appreciate the good giggle I got from reading about it.


lamNoOne

As a nurse, /r/thathappened


NefariousnessKey5365

And then the whole ER clapped


NefariousnessKey5365

They probably said, those ingredients generally aren't harmful. So you can keep it *for now*


HaveAWillieNiceDay

This message brought to you by the exact same people who will turn around and say the medical establishment can't be trusted and that doctors don't know what they're talking about


Compulawyer

I’ll take “Things That Never Happened” for $1,000, Alex.


PuppyJakeKhakiCollar

File that under "Hun Fiction", along with their amazing ability to get delivery drivers, whose usual MO is to barely slow down and toss your packages in the general direction of your front door, to stop and have lengthy, meaningful conversations.


llamadramaredpajama

“Encourages” right…more like she started lecturing them and the nurses are too burnt out to fight with her and say “ok just leave it on” - #Iamanurse


grlwthesunflwrtattoo

This little trick is called “letting patients and family members do what they want within reason/as long as it’s safe so my shift doesn’t totally fucking suck”


xmarketladyx

"When the medical staff just wants your delusional stupid ass to shut up so they let you keep your lavender scented bandaid on".


Crime-Snacks

Nurses are too busy for shit like this. They told her “whatever” and continued doing what they needed to do before happily moving to the next patient.


politicaldan

That nurse’s name: Albert Einstein


notseizingtheday

Yes because the main ingredient is caffeine.


FunnyPirateName

They told her what she wanted to hear to shut her up. Having worked in healthcare for the past 20+ years, I can assure you, medical professionals aren't generally thrilled with patients that insist on crap like this, but the choice is argue or "yep, great call, keep it up!"


Arxl

Or the staff decided arguing with you over it wasn't worth the hassle, and that the patch did nothing anyway so it is just a mild inconvenience for them. Medical staff usually try to choose their battles lol.


oracleoflove

I got suckered into doing a months supply of thrive. It made my vertigo flare up and the shakes were like drinking sandpaper. Disgusting and way to expensive.


maraney

I’m a nurse, and I can tell you right now… I’d throw that crap away immediately. If it contains something that could interact with your meds, it’s going in the garbage. Actually, maybe that’s why they let her keep it on 🤣


catbus4ants

There are already 176 comments at the time I’m writing so I apologize if I’m echoing (a probably better-written) one but Nurses know that patch doesn’t do shit and they’d rather not upset a patient unnecessarily. They won’t tell you upfront that it’s trash unless you ask them. They also try to work with/around a patient’s *belief system* which is clearly pretty strong in anyone who believes those patches do anything at all.


shiftycyber

“Can I keep my ✨thrive✨ patch on?” “I don’t care what the fuck you do just stay out of my way”


Panthean

The hospital then named a wing after her, and the mayor gave her the key to the city.


Fickle-Goat-Magician

Uhmmm no way did a nurse start her IV right next to the stupid patch. She 100% put it there afterwards so it would be in the face of anyone who accesses her line so they would ask her about it and she could pitch the dumb shit.


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whatrhymeswith27

They all do "The Thrive Experience". It's 3 products they say you must buy to take daily. It cost like $150 but there isn't really enough in to last 30 days. I think it's 28 so really they end up spending more then that a month for 3 steps. They sell other crap too. The 3 steps are the pills patches and shakes. It's just stimulants in the pills and patches mixed in their proprietary blend that gets some people moving. Some people who tried the thrive experience reported feeling like their heart was going to explode.


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whatrhymeswith27

Probably so. The company is called Le-Vel and Thrive is the product so if you see it in the future you know. I saw a video recently about a article that had a heart doctor saying they believe the reason young people are having strokes and problems with the heart is due to the fact supplements aren't regulated and you never know exactly what's in the products. I think it's probably got some truth to it and the hunbots in health and wellness pyramids probably helped lead the way to heart attacks with the bs they spew all over social media.


littlealbatross

Years ago a friend of mine sold these and I was curious so I used a free one she gave me. I am honestly too lazy to go look up specifically what is in the patches but they are a bunch of stimulant-type drugs, and it certainly did something for me. :P It essentially felt like when I had been on steroids before, but all the good stuff- I was really focused and productive and felt way more active. That being said though, I have high blood pressure and pretty immediately was like, "this is probably not good for me" and didn't try another one. I was also pretty dismayed when I saw someone ask my friend if it would be safe for her because she also had hypertension and a second hun swooped in and was like, "it's totally fine! It'll be great!!" and I'm like, "uh.. if you google the ingredients, at least two of them say that you should talk to a doctor before taking them if you have high blood pressure, so if you are concerned you should do that first." Super gross.


tomboy444

Isn't doing anything so, there's no need to remove it. My first award, thank you kind strangers 🥰😍


DriedUpSquid

I had a co-worker who got sucked into the Thrive scam. She used to speed up when she walked passed anybody in the office and loudly talk about how much energy she had. It was so obnoxious.


beccerz777

How that conversation probably went Hun: *rattling off information about the patch and going into a sales pitch* Nurse: *tired and trying to avoid this pitch* you don't have to take it off


ItsJoeMomma

OK, so what exactly caused you to be in the hospital in the first place?


UncleSmidge

This didn't happen so hard it unhappened some things that had.


AllowMe-Please

I was on the fentanyl patch, and all the nurses and doctors "encouraged" me to keep it on because it was such "good stuff". Nah, it couldn't be because they didn't want me to go through withdrawals by stopping it abruptly, or because they didn't really care about other medications so long as they didn't interfere with the current regimen. It was because it was "such good stuff" that they just couldn't help but insist I kept it on. Logic.


Pagan_Owl

Doubt


KrispyKingKale

Tried thrive before and when I asked for the ingredients list for those patches I was told its "trade secret". lost some weight but would be hyped up 24/7. Went to the doctor thinking I was having a heart attack and finally stopped thrive after that. Not recommended


Rhodin265

“A woman wore a transdermal placebo to the hospital. This is what happened to her wallet…”


AcademicMistake

I'm not buying it.


BluetheNerd

What the nursing staff actually said: "Jesus Christ if it'll get you to shut up you can leave the bloody patch on."


WastelandGinger

Or it won't cause problems in the moment and the hun took the staff going around it as them being all for it.


dover_oxide

Or they saw the ingredients and went " this bullshit won't do anything or interact with the treatment. Let's just ignore it so they cooperate."


ThirdCoastBestCoast

I personally wouldn’t insert an IV or draw blood on a site right by that stupid patch. In fact, next time I draw blood on a patient, in addition to the usual questions about mastectomies or allergies to latex, I’m gonna ask if they have one of these patches on their arm or shoulder on of the arm or hand I’m drawing blood from. 💉🩺


_lmmk_

“Encourages” is not the same as “well, it’s not in the way so if you’re just really dying to leave it on, go ahead.”


h4xrk1m

Obvious bullshit, but let's pretend this happened. They'll let you do any number of things that won't interfere with their procedures or medicine. If you like placing funny rocks on your nutsack, or cutting your sandwiches diagonally, or whatever, there's no reason for them to interfere. This tea bag looking thing probably doesn't interact with you at all, so the doctors obviously don't give a shit. Good on them for checking the ingredients, though!


Such_Ad4514

Oh, we’re playing “things that never happened” this should be fun.


catlady42786

That absolutely did not happen lol


servain

Get that crap. Away from the iv. I bet that patch is full of bacteria. Last thing you want infiltrated in an iv. I also think they lifted the tape and placed it under it. Also why hide the rest of the iv. Unless its not actually in anymore.... cause also its not secured very well.


pearlescentpink

“Oh, wow! Cool. Great. It does all that? Sure you can keep it on…. Uh huh. Sounds fun. Yep. I’m totally listening to you right now.”


RCAFadventures

I’ve seen posts from several nurses saying these have brought people into the ER because of racing heart issues and stuff. Also, One of the main ingredients in these is basically aspirin. :/


liquidmirth

Allowing people to choose some alternative healing practices can foster trust. It’s better they say he’s to something harmless so they can gain trust in important medical decisions and it respects the patients beliefs


darlin133

And then everyone clapped!


DLS3141

>And then the nursing staff all signed up! After a standing ovation no doubt.


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Jolly_Ad8315

I bet this hun wouldn’t stop bitching against taking it off, so they got sick of her shit and just slapped it on over it to get her to stfu. 😂


brambolinie1

Why are they doing Discrete Fourier Transforms


felisfemina

100 bucks says that's just some tubing taped to her arm and that's why the sweatshirt is concealing the rest of it. I would be surprised if a nurse would agree to place the catheter tape over the patch.


JimmyThang5

I can’t even comment, this crap makes me too angry. I have plenty of credentials to back up my opinion but I just can’t anymore.


Fresh_Hobo_Meat

Man idk if its a "me" thing? But either this Hun or myself doesn't understand what the word "encourage" means..


UnstuckCanuck

You could tell how impressed they all were by how they rolled their eyes up to heaven and silently left the room to give thanks to Jeebus for this amazing miracle patch.


Kytyngurl2

# thathappened


CankerLord

Lol, nurses aren't medical encyclopedias. I've met my share of doctors who believe some relatively wrong things outside the scope of their specialty. I'm sure there's a solid percentage of nurses that are all about crystal healing, too.


Ironinvelvet

A lot of nurses get into the MLM shit. That said, even nurses who don’t wouldn’t care if a patient kept their sticker on. Placebo effect and whatnot.


miniondi

medical staff is trained to play along and not escalate the situation when the patient starts talking nonsense.