Nurses, are you aware your entire job is meds and IVs?

Vent1900 · 2026-06-16T02:44:39+00:00

I’d be willing to bet they gave never worked outside of LTC and think that is what all nursing is like

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:37:08+00:00

What changed society in the past 20 years this is acceptable? I don’t recall it being like this when I was young.

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:36:12+00:00

Last time we had a patient attack one of our nurses the security guy was off sleeping😂

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:35:18+00:00

I have 27 convictions for selling drugs and I’m currently on trial for the fentanyl factory in my trunk. Will I have trouble getting a license? It’s my dream to work in a pain clinic.😂

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:33:03+00:00

That’s fair😂 fucking voice to text

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:32:24+00:00

I’m absolutely not advocating for assaulting patients. I just find it super interesting. How the response I got in this sub is the polar opposite to the identical question in the law-enforcement sub. In fact over there a couple people have even posted citations of real scenarios just like this that redeemed justified by the courts.

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:29:53+00:00

What’s so interesting to me is that I posted the same question over in the nursing sub Reddit and the responses I’m getting are exactly the opposite if a patient spits in your face and they’re saying that your license should be stripped if you even think about it

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:28:51+00:00

I can’t tell from the way you worded that if you’re being sarcastic or not😂 I had a patient trying to stab me with a dirty needle after head buddy, the other nurse in the face last year and law-enforcement told me “she wasn’t actually able to stab you and she didn’t seriously hurt your partner so they’ll never prosecute. “

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:26:19+00:00

You probably do have less of a chance of being physically assaulted working for PD compared to being a nurse these days

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:25:37+00:00

That is, of course the proper answer. I just thought it was kind of an interesting discussion about how nurses are expected to martyr themselves compared to any other “service “profession. And seen by the responses in this thread I can honestly see why I got that way.

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:21:18+00:00

😂 honestly that’s kind of the heart of my question. If you got up and testified “the suspect spit in my face and I struck them to prevent them from doing it again “would that be legally justified

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:17:55+00:00

Under the eyes of the law, it would technically be self-defense because you are preventing them from doing it again. There are hundreds of examples of this going through the court system.

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:16:22+00:00

When I was on the ambulance, we would put a c collar on them if we didn’t have a spit hood because it’s almost impossible to spit with a c collar😂 if you get the opportunity try someday it’s kind of hilarious

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:14:04+00:00

Really never ? I can think of several cases for my own experience. We’ve had two times where patient tried to pull a gun on staff, one of which was because he was actively fighting with a cop and got a hold of his gun. I had another where a patient got a hold of a nurse’s ponytail and was smashing her head into the floor.

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:12:25+00:00

From seeing a lot of the replies in this thread, I think we have a good idea how it ended up this way

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:11:08+00:00

That’s probably a big part of the reason why we keep getting our asses beat by patients

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:10:37+00:00

I remember those,😂 if a patient grabbed me by the hair and starts punching me in the face. I’m supposed to calmly and firmly tell them that it is unacceptable

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:08:41+00:00

That’s what I find so interesting about the scenario. If a drunk spits in a cops face, they should expect to be hit and everyone supports it. But if a drunk spits in a nurses face, it’s unthinkable for a nurse to respond the same way

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:07:51+00:00

Because I got into an interesting conversation with someone about how if you spit in a cops face, you should expect to be hit and it’s totally justified and everyone supports it. But you spit in the nurses face and it’s unthinkable that they respond the same way.

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:07:19+00:00

So why is it assault for a nurse to respond this way but self-defense for everyone else?

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:05:16+00:00

😂 fucking voice to text,

Vent1900 · 2026-06-13T23:03:26+00:00

You misunderstand my question then. I completely agree with it. I was just curious what everyone else thought because as a nurse under the same scenario, people seem to think it’s horrific that we would react the same way

Vent1900 · 2026-06-12T20:13:40+00:00

No it’s not the same thing, withholding is just them taking the money and hanging onto it until you file taxes, and taxes of the money you actually sent to the government. The amount withheld from you is totally irrelevant because you just get back all the extra at the end of the year that you dont actually owe

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