To think this nurse shouldn't have laughed / scoffed at me for asking for a room?

This! And so many going out of their way to criticise the OP! Of course she was likely to deny it when challenged! What is wrong with some of you?!

I had to stay overnight with my ill DC1 in a children's hospital (pneumonia and DC was a toddler). I was 6 months pregnant and couldn't even get a drink of water. I hadn't eaten all day as I'd rushed my child to the GP who sent us straight to A&E. Luckily one nurse took pity on me and brought me toast and Ribena, before DH finally got to us. Sometimes these places are less than ideal.

Single rooms as for infective patients, Covid, flu, c diff, MRSA etc, immunosuppressed patients at high risk, and end of life patients. Yes in that order. So yes that means there very well may be a 80 year old who has worked and paid taxes his whole life dying behind a curtain with no privacy and dignity for him and his family to grieve. Yes if you don’t ask you don’t get but that nurse is probably struggling to find beds for those very patients and yes unprofessionally scoffed at you for asking for one because people are dying on trolleys. It shows a slight disregard for the current situation facing the NHS, their staff and the public. Take your anger to the polls.

I think you're right she should not have laughed (I don't know if it was AT you, or at the state of the NHS however). But I would urge you to let it go. It sounds like the care you got was not putting you or your kid in any danger and that they're observing what is happening and that is helpful.

Sometimes when we are under enormous stress (you/ she) we over-react to things that at other times we might not be so bothered about.

I mean to be honest I would scoff if someone asked me to wait in a room for children because the adult was sick and we were burst full to the rafters and someone had vomited on me and I’d had 6 parents try to attack me because they were thinking how dare we leave them for more than 4 hours (which happens often)that I was just spat on….some guy said he was going to get me outside work and kill me because I hadn’t looked at his bad toe in the last 3 hours because I was dealing with drunk drivers who had killed 2 teenagers and having to explain to their parents how sorry I was that I was unable to save their kids and that I had been crying for the last 4 hours because my own mental health and the way the staff treat each other and the way to drs talk to us or the way the painters thing they should be seen first.

yup. I’d scoff (not laugh because they aren’t always synonymous ) because they’re being pushed to the actual limit right now.

What do you suggest then? Build an extension with individual rooms?

I guess it depends on the hospital though? Our paeds a&e is tiny and they only have two private rooms…. So in this instance it would be for someone like that if they needed to attend the emergency department surely?

ive only been a few times but it’s either been someone who was clearly an emergency case or someone with a very tiny baby who has used those rooms

I don't think there's any harm or entitlement in what you asked- esp since you said you usually are given a room to wait in. My experience with hospital staff and nurses in general has been negative overall and they tend to have an attitude even if you're polite. I do try and empathise as they're all rushed off their feet and under pressure, but I don't really understand how that equates to being rude and disrespectful. Seems like a lot of nasty people decide to work in healthcare which is beyond me!

That makes no difference. And no, you should not have gone if you had been vomiting for 2 nights. Did you ring for an ambulance? Or 111?

Sorry about that but you're wrong, there are many different types of rooms/bays/beds that are utilised and op wasn't asking for the type you are talking about.

@greenpolarbear why is it better than the main waiting room?
Quieter and you can switch the lights off.

I mean

im surprised you’re still thinking of it

you asked. She said no. You were seen. You went home.

shrug.

The child was the patient not you though and he/ she didn’t need a room. Why does anybody ‘need’ a room in A&E?

Yes so like I said, after triage they weren’t needing to be admitted to a ward. So probably were not a priority for a room.

Explain to me like I'm 5 why waiting in a different room is better.

(when you aren't contagious or scaring people because your arm is hanging off or something)

I suspect OP I still aggrieved because she's been polite to this nurse many times before and has been treated with a bit of contempt in a difficult situation when she expected ( quite rightly ) some compassion and was then lied to.

I'm sure if she just apologised and said said it had been a hard night op wouldn't posting here.

Some of you really have awful standards and expectations and think too highly of anyone in a medical setting/uniform.

Friends of mine niece just died of a brain Ty our and spent many months at the jospital

there’s no way she’d be able to even stand at the end and these rooms are usually for people like her.

Yes what is it you seek OP?

Good, they shouldn't be in the job is they're laughing at people in these situations.

If you would never report it, are always so polite and understanding and you addressed it with her there and then they whyyyyyyy are you still het up about it enough to post it on the internet?

@Jadedbuthappy82 the OP said in her first post that her child had breathing difficulties.
Have you never heard of children who have asthma who are regularly in and out of A+E?
Not unusual.

Yep that’s coming through.

She didn’t laugh at a mother, she laughed at someone asking for a room. If there was a room free they would have offered it.

You have a vendetta against this nurse.