Nurse commenting on house

[BellyAching19]

My neighbour had a community nurse around today while I was there. When the nurse walked in she commented on my neighbours photo on the wall of a dog and asked who the dog is/was. Neighbour told her. She then used the bathroom and came out saying it was a beautiful bathroom!! Neighbour thanked her. As she was leaving she commented on a painting on the wall and asked her who had painted it.

AIBU to think healthcare professions shouldn’t comment on people’s houses? What does she say if she walks into a shithole?

YABU

The nurse was obviously just making conversation

When I had post-natal visits from midwives, they often commented on photos (of my children) and the endless flowers we had all over the place (post-birth gifts...beautiful but dealing with them when they all wilted just felt like another chore in my exhausted state!)

I don't think there's anything wrong with it at all, healthcare professionals are all humans, and it just gives a bit of a human touch to the interaction- in my opinion

OP is just being a bit sarcastic
if that was she was trying to do, she failed miserably.

Part of nursing care especially community nursing is taking a holistic approach. So considering emotional and mental health, social inclusion, etc. Making small talk and getting to know patients is a big part of that.

If she had said nothing and just done the task and left people would moan about that.

Of all the tiny things to complain about..

seriously don’t respond to these goady threads

People like this do exist. I one worked somewhere once and a colleague commented to a customers child "aren't you a clever girl" and the parent made a complaint.

I am guessing if she walked in to a shithole she would not mention it... what's wrong with you....she is a person like you and me.....is she not allowed to make small talk?

Really??!!

I think some people just think of things to moan about.
Someone makes pleasant comments and they are in the wrong?

Do you know that some people who have nurses visit them are lonely and have no-one else to talk to? To pass a few minutes in polite conversation may cheer them up.

I think you need to get a life OP and also stop talking about your neighbour on a public forum

She’s making polite conversation. Most people like it when others say nice things.

What did your neighbour make of this supposed crazily inappropriate interaction?

I suspect she was quite chuffed that someone cared to ask her about the photo of her dead dog and the lovely bathroom she had put in when her husband was alive.

Please don’t tell me you took the wind out of her sails by wittering on about how unprofessional it was

Wow

If the nurse had starting interrogating your neighbour about the value of their property or how much they had paid for it, then you'd have a bit of a point!

Nurses are people too you know.... she was just making conversation.

This is where the OP comes back and has a major drip feed where the nurse looked disdainful when asking said question about the dog picture and she scoffed at the painting and proclaimed to have a van Gogh in her own house 😂

Cannot stand people who think they’re ‘above’ others.
She’s a nurse and human too, she was complimentary and did nothing wrong. She makes people feel better for a living and surrounds people with care and compassion during their most vulnerable and often final moments. She does all of that making herself vulnerable to idiots such as yourself. You should be ashamed of yourself op.

The op is a wind up merchant. They’re not coming back.

WTF? Nurse was just being pleasant and making conversation. She was being pleasant and positive and to be honest if your neighbour is listening to you being negative about chit chat she probably needs to hear the positivity.

Yeah I expect it is a goady fucker. But there absolutely are people who think this way.

No I don't think it was inappropriate at all, your neighbour is probably proud of her nice home, it is naive to think all health care professionals don't make a judgement when they visit a home.
Granted if it was a pigsty I might be rude to say, I doubt she'd ask to use the bathroom if it was a pigsty.
I take it as a compliment if they have a cup of tea.

The care agency who come to me have had complaints about carers not talking to service users. You can’t win...

Popehilarious

brilliant! Haha

This is the most moronic thread I've seen in years

Dp was ill and needed a nurse a couple of times per day.

Everyone used the front door apart from one who would insist on walking past the front door (even when you were stood with the door open and telling her this was the way in) and then forcing her hand between the slats to lift the latch on the back gate to go into the back garden and go round to the French windows at the back.

Very odd woman.

Get a fucking life!

Christ. Report her to the NMC, stat!

I think this probably is a wind up thread.

Saying that, I'm a community HCP and if I visit a patient's house and it is a shit hole then it’s part of my job to raise this with them. Those of us who work in people's homes will know the difference between a standard shithole (which requires no comment) and a home environment that is so deeply squalid and neglected that it warrants concern and us talking about it.

Often by raising the issue it gives the person an opportunity to say they are struggling to cope at home and then we are then able to offer support and/or referral to services that can help with this.