Nurse talking rude or just different dialogue?

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I accompanied my grandmother to a nurse appointment today. Before nurse started she said “can you excuse me for a minute, I must nip to the bog”. I know it’s not exactly swearing but I was a little taken back by it. She had a student nurse in the room with her and the student started the appointment whilst the nurse was out of the room. When she came back in the student said “another one?” And the nurse replied “yep, that’s 3 today now, my arse feels like it’s on fire”. They both laughed. My grandmother laughed too and the nurse looked at her and said “god I’m so sorry, ignore my potty mouth” and they started joking about the nurses swear jar (actually set up near the computer!!)

Obviously I’m not looking at complaining or anything daft like that but is this really acceptable now? I remember thinking the other day watching nurses on tv covered in tattoos and piercings with bright pink/blue hair - at uni we were told stuff like this would never be allowed. Assuming times have changed?

Yeah that would put me off. Not professional.

I'd be worried she had something contagious!

Couldn’t care less about tattoos and hair colour but the swearing would annoy me

Not professional at all, but probably not worth complaining about.

Awful plus she shouldn't be seeing patients if she's got the runs.

It wouldn't bother me as such, but on the other hand I wouldn't behave that way in a professional setting either.

Yeah I’m not bothered about tattoos and hair colour either, it just seems like a massive change to what we were told at university years ago

Gross!! I would complain tbh. Joke between your colleagues if you like and know they share your humour but patients dot really want to be hearing about their nurse’s shit they’ve just had.

Christ! That’s really inappropriate and very unprofessional!

No, not right at all.

Pink hair and tattoos are another thing and accepted nowadays I believe.

Just the thought of a qualified professional nurse with bright pink hair and tattoos all over the shop breaking bad news sensitively to myself or my family makes me twitch a bit tbh but I am an old gimmer so probably offending about 500000 people and will get hammered here now for my comments.
Meh.

Piercings and tattoos are one thing, I'm in a senior professional role and have both (albeit they are covered when required).

However, swearing in front of patients is a bit off, especially an elderly lady. I guess it boils down to professionalism and confidence and there's a time and a place.

Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable as I would be worried it could be misconstrued as a sign of disrespect. I'm a 30 year old woman and I've never so much as uttered "fuck" in front of my nan because I know she doesn't like it.

I’m a nurse. Unprofessional and bad manners. Asking you to excuse her for just a moment would have been quite sufficient. And considering her symptoms, I’d be asking whether she should have been at work at all. Complaining is not daft, you are entitled to do so if you wish. Hope your Grandmother is ok.💐

That’s disgusting, I would never dream of speaking like that at all and certainly not in a work environment! Plus I’d be worried she had some kind of bug. Yuck.

Oh no we got the full run down - she was banging on about a dodgy curry she’d reheated for her breakfast 😳

Completely unprofessional on all counts- 'bog' and 'arse on fire' plus, she shouldn't have been at work at all with diarrhoea! I personally would write a letter of concern to the practice manager.

Im not bothered by the “swearing” but it’s unprofessional to be in work with diarrhea.

Unprofessional in that setting, though I don’t think it would prompt me to complain.

It is the sort of language I use frequently at home. I am more careful if I am elsewhere.

I can well believe it. An ambulance was called for my elderly mum because she had taken ill, the female paramedic was fiddling with her clothes & said to my mum, “don’t mind me Elsie, my knickers have got stuck up my bum crack”.
My mum had dementia so had no idea what she was saying but it was very unprofessional.

The language doesn't bother me (tbh it had never occurred to me that "bog" might be construed as swearing, and I think "arse" is very mild), but I don't think a nurse should be working when she's got the squits.

Florence Shiteing-Tale.

That's awful, surely the word is 'crapper' and she have said it feels like "I've got a Dragon's Nostril"?

It wasn't very professional. She could have just said, "Could you please excuse me a moment?" - No explanation required.

Retired nurse here. Totally inappropriate behaviour IMO. Nurses have worked long and hard to be viewed as professionals and this is deeply unprofessional behaviour.
Please complain, especially as this is someone who had a student nurse with her.
This is not appropriate training for the next generation of nurses.