Christian way of dealing with people on a "power trip"?

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My elderly mother is currently in (public) Hospital and while most of the nurses there are kind and very dedicated and do an often thankless job,there are also a few nurses/doctors there that act like on a “power trip”.
For example,some nurses came to take my mums blood pressure but my mum needed to go to the toilet at that exact time.
They tried to command that my mother couldn’t go as they wanted to do her blood pressure reading and my mum got very agitated as she would have peed herself.She is older and doesn’t have the capacity to hold her bladder for the five minutes it would have taken to check her blood pressure.
Also,this was a routine blood pressure check for everyone,my mum is mobile and not in a state of emergency so this can’t be used as their excuse.
If it was a genuine case of that they couldn’t really spare those 3 minutes while she went to the toilet that would be somewhat more understandable but you could tell by their demeanours and facial expressions that denying her to go to the toilet then wasn’t due to a logical reason but was rather due to a “powertrip mentality”-ie:having an expectancy that they can simply order/boss patients around as they used to getting away with this and nobody challenging them/protesting.

What’s a Catholic way to handle this but at the same time not let their bad behaviour go on?
There’s little point complaining to the head of the Ward/Nurse Manager as I’ve heard so many stories from other families when they have tried this avenue,nothing is done.
I need to know a way that I can “challenge” this directly but in a way that is non-confrontational as I’m afraid that if you “make waves” they could retaliate towards my mum by treating her bad.

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Elena
 
The squeeky wheel gets the oil. Your mother has the right to be treated with dignity. I would complain and keep going up the chain, verbally and in writing. Is there a nurse at your parish? A doctor? Maybe they can check up on your mother’s care. We have a retired nurse that makes sure parishioners are treated with dignity. I am so sorry your mum had to experience that, so glad you were there. I would not leave her side.
 
Casilda said:
The squeeky wheel gets the oil. Your mother has the right to be treated with dignity. I would complain and keep going up the chain, verbally and in writing. Is there a nurse at your parish? A doctor? Maybe they can check up on your mother’s care. We have a retired nurse that makes sure parishioners are treated with dignity. I am so sorry your mum had to experience that, so glad you were there. I would not leave her side.
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A sad irony. Now we start to see the repercussions of assisted deaths. We are attempting to appeal to individuals in care professions to recognize the dignity of patients, but then on other occasions put aside this act of conscience in order to assist in terminating life.

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With love, humility and prudence. And that does not mean one should not intervene for ones Moms sake.
 
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