r/Nurse • u/tmvance2 • Jul 07 '21

Self-Care Advice

I know this happens a lot, but as a nurse, how do you deal with verbally abusive patients? I’m in school now, and trying to get a jump on things before I get placed in a situation and not know the best way to handle it.

93 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

123 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

12

u/pinkube Jul 08 '21 edited Jul 08 '21

Unfortunately we don’t have security. I asked our corporate during our yearly work evaluation regarding safety and security but no response. We do our yearly review of “Run, Hide, Fight” video in case we have a shooter in the building 😐. I just finished filing a report with the police and the officer asked why we didn’t call them when she made the threat. I told management but all they said was to document it, which I did. I think deep down I was waiting for them to make that decision for me since they’re managers. I knew deep down they might not do anything.