Difficult Patient

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I was fortunate enough to have went into my patient's room to answer a call light prior to rounding. The patient had many questions and had a pain of 10 on the 0-10 scale. As I went to inform my primary nurse she was just about to go into the patient's room and was shocked to see that a student nurse was placed with this patient. She informed me that I had a, "difficult" patient. Because I was able to already go into the room and meet the patient for myself, what the nurse had said did not really have a large impact on my view of the patient. Then a few minutes later my instructor came and asked if i would like to be reassigned a new patient since she had also heard I had a "difficult" patient. I had compassion for my patient, respected her

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