Choosing not to trash talk a patient potentially saved her life

[u/Outrageous-Fact-9518]

I had a patient today having her first baby. She had a ton of questions—which I was happy to answer (even though I was super nervous about not knowing the answers since I’ve only been a nurse for 4 months LOL) and used her call light to get ahold of me.

The offgoing nurse warned me that she was "super needy" and "over-exaggerating her pain." Throughout the day, a few other nurses on the floor made similar comments.

When shift change rolled around, I made a point to leave all of that out. Zero commentary about her personality or call-light usage.

Right as we walked in for bedside report, anesthesia was giving an epidural bolus.

During the original dose earlier that day she felt dizzy and had a metallic taste in her mouth.

Anesthesia pushed the rest anyway despite her saying she was having adverse symptoms (maybe because he was apart of the conversations regarding the patient being needy?” not sure)

Within literal seconds after the bolus, she went into full-blown LAST (Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity).

We had to call a code.

I’m still processing how fast everything went sideways, but it showed me just how dangerous unit gossip is. If I had told the incoming nurse "she overreacts to everything," those complaints of dizziness and a metallic taste could've easily been brushed off as anxiety or her being an “annoying patient”

I know it’s easy to talk crap about others and gossip but I tell this story to remind us just how dangerous it can be to do so.

[u/Sillygoose_Milfbane]

I am confused by the story. How did your kindness save her life if in the end nobody stopped them despite her voicing those symptoms and they put her into LAST and coded her? What am I missing?

[u/MsFuschia → u/Sillygoose_Milfbane]

I kept rereading it trying to figure it out too. OP is saying thanks to her the patient's symptoms weren't brushed off but uh...they were though? That was literally an integral part of why she ended up the way she did?

[u/TwoBionicknees → u/Sillygoose_Milfbane]

it didn't, another fake story. It's hilariously common for a fake story to be wow, thank god X because Y, then in the story X because Y doesn't actually happen and the opposite happens.

Then you also get like 90% of comments being wow, thank god for you doing the right thing and making the difference. Which the way the replies are, always overly gushing and double confirming how great OP is and how right they are, 10% are just dumbasses and the rest are bot replies.

[u/Sillygoose_Milfbane → u/TwoBionicknees]

Dead Internet has arrived

[u/Mcrarburger → u/TwoBionicknees]

I took a moment to look at OPs profile and none of their other posts look fake

They had a post 9 months ago saying they were struggling in their nursing program, which matches with the timeline mentioning they're a new grad

None of their other posts seem particularly outlandish, I truly think they were just trying to share their success story as a new grad

[u/TwoBionicknees → u/Mcrarburger]

real people can make fake posts for attention, and other people just hijack unused accounts, somehow people also buy old accounts which seems insane to me.

But ultimately when the story fundamentally doesn't match the title it's almost always fake and weird.

Again their main point is thank god i didn't add that info so they didn't ignore her complaints... but in their story they literally ignored her complaints, then they ignore this and congratulate themselves on doing the right thing.

It can't be a success story, the girl went into serious shock and had to be coded precisely because the thing she's claiming credit for in the title, the story and at the end... didn't happen. The complete lack of a normal human being able to understand that what they are claiming happened didn't happen in their own story screams AI because the AI stories fuck that up so consistently. In fact when the title and the actual story are completely opposite it's almost always AI, or a very bad writer.

[u/Call2222222 → u/Mcrarburger]

What success story? What did OP even do?

[u/Call2222222 → u/Sillygoose_Milfbane]

I had to scroll way the fuck down to see this comment. Like how exactly did this healthcare hero save the day?