- Addadio- abubakhar Peterson. I don’t know how to say his name, who knows where he’s from.
- “Skateboard Accident” He’s one of those if you know what I mean
- The one the police are always at, with an implying look
It’s important to know who you’re patient is, and weird that the nurse has spent a shift with this guy and doesn’t know his name. More importantly, there’s a lot of implications behind the statement “Who knows where he’s from”. It typically racially charged, and at the end of the day where our patients are from doesn’t matter and shouldn’t bear weight on the quality of care we give.
The nurse doesn’t give the patient credit as an accurate historian. By sharing that mistrust with the nurse in report it will color how we care for the patient the rest of the day. We probably trust our coworkers than we do our patients and their words carry weight with them, especially when they say something negative.
Implying that your patient is a criminal or at least involved with illegal activity is bad. I don’t know how this nurse provided effective nursing care while holding all of these unconfirmed and circumstantial beliefs about her patient.
I would be very suspicious of everything the nurse told me, both subjective and objective information. I can’t just her judgement at this point. I would hope I would have the courage to say something in this scenario. Knowing me it would be something sarcastic that called her out for her statements.
During preceptorship I was on a mental health unit and a patient made a handful of comments regarding her Pakistani neighbors, who she believed were out to get her. She was hypomanic and paranoid. The staff did our best to intervene quickly when we saw the behavior, and redirect. She would the story to a lot of people, staff and patients, so we generally knew when it would be time to step in.
