#411: MMM - Got a Difficult Patient?

Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

Straight A Nursing

Education, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Let's start your week strong with a quick tip you can incorporate right away. In this Mo's Monday Minute shortie episode, I'm talking about something that affects all nurses on a pretty regular basis. And that is working with difficult or challenging patients. But with the right mindset and approach, you’d be surprised how often you can turn things around. Listen in for my best tips! ___________________ FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! All Straight A Nursing Resources - Check out everything Straight A Nursing has to offer, including free resources and online courses to help you succeed! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time
0:22.6	put your phone down
0:23.8	Tombollah
0:24.6	Open for fun
0:26.4	Terms apply 18 plus gamblerware
0:28.7	org
0:29.3	We'll have Well, hi there, I'm Dersmo, and welcome to Mo's Monday Minute, a shorty episode of the Straday Nursing
0:46.7	podcast where I share a quick tip you can start using to affect your practice or your habits right away.
0:52.6	For more in-depth topics, check out the episodes
0:55.9	that I release on Thursdays. So today we're talking about how to kind of shift your mindset,
1:03.6	shift your day, shift everything when you are taking on a difficult patient assignment. And I'm not
1:10.3	talking about a heavy assignment where
1:12.5	you've got five patients and they're all very sick. I'm talking about that one patient who's
1:17.9	maybe got a reputation for being difficult to manage as far as a, you know, maybe they're
1:26.8	angry, frustrated, refusing care, you know, all those kinds of things. So, you know, maybe they're angry, frustrated, refusing care, you know, all those
1:30.6	kinds of things.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Straight A Nursing, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Straight A Nursing and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.